Uriel238 [all pronouns] @ uriel238 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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In 2027 2017 Trump had to replace all of his principals, either due to scandal or because they disagreed with him.

It sounds like Hegseth is going to get ousted due to sheer incompetence.

Unless highlighting Hegseth's diminished capacity might draw attention to Trump's.

Depends on what they expected. Savoir faire? Je ne sais quoi? Bling? A hunger for the flesh of mortals?

Vampires come in the range of most demographics. I am a goblin-mode reclusive vampire, allergic to the sun, and I appreciate clearly defined thresholds and social boundaries.

I also do math.

Note that ownership-class vampires empathize more with their ownership-class fellows (dead, mortal or otherwise) than with working-class vampires.

The same is true with liberal media and liberal politicians.

Good looks are temporary. Vampires like character, both the ethical kind and the fascinating kind.

The adult stuff goes deeper.

There are furries.

Deeper than that, there are bronies and non-bronie MLP (FIM) enthusiasts.

And below that, there are furries who like animal genitalia.

And at this point, a few miles down into the abyss, there are lolis.

ETA What should be under lolis but isn't is CECOT. That is, is appears family friendly enough for VISA, also very real and sponsored and used by the US.

I hope he gets messaged every hour about how his name might draw the wrong crowd.

Also that he needs to take pills for a bigger penis.

ETA: And that he might be able to profit from Nigerian princes needing some money laundered through the United States.

Also he should try EA's FIFA offerings... okay, I'm getting carried away. No one deserves that.

Years ago, I played Homefront: The Revolution which was a ridiculous premise (North Korea magically invents and develops microcircuits in the 20th century instead of the US, and invades the US) but had solid weapons and a really great remote-control car bomb.

Its version of the flying cameras from Half Life 2 that actually identifies you and calls for reinforcements also was spot on.

It also had a pretty cool pause-screen song.

Then it had trouble working with computer upgrades, and I moved on to other things.

Giving the benefit of the doubt, it's illustrating a process for near-readymade art.

Terraria currently. Satisfactory and DRG before.

This is a much cooler (and much more 3D) bone than the two nodules at each end flat bone.

I get that they flattened it to make it cheaper to stamp, but still. I'm counting at least three peaks at the top.

This is what I assumed. Assuming its non-injurious, the marble will sting a lot more, on the other hand, I'd be under a bowling ball (or holding it.)

If its at a significantly injurious amount of momentum, there is no right answer.

BECAUSE OF COURSE THEY ARE!

Not because they're Japanese, but because the world has billionaires enough that all questionable developments are on the table, And Japan is no stranger to defenestration of ethics or principals.

We (the medical sector) have been experimenting with using live mice and rats to grow cloned human body parts for transplants, since donations are scarce and rejection risk is high. Being a successful transplant patient, as it is, as a terminal illness, just less terminal than someone with a failing organ (or on a treatment regimen to keep them alive. So if this is all they're talking about it's not really news, but progress may have been made (e.g. a successful transplant of a cloned organ)

We've already had people clone dogs and an oligarch who tried to clone an heir in the 1990s when we were failing at cloning sheep. Human-animal concubines, garden hermits and courtiers are the natural next step.

This raises a valid point. Why is the default bone shape an elliptic cylinder with two symmetrical nodules at each end. Even as a kid (in the 1980s) I noticed this was weird, since no bone we take meat off of or have in our body looks like that.

Money absolutely does buy happiness until you're in middle class and in a fulfilling job. (If you're rich but in a shit job, it means you might have the option to work less or look for a better position.)

Money does not buy you happiness applies to people who are already rich and are looking for money to fulfill needs way high on the Maslow hierarchy. In fact, much of the tyranny and cruelty within stratified social systems comes from miserable rich people believing they should be happy due to their vast wealth and power yet are not. And our capitalist society has messages everywhere that promise that a new car, (yacht, vacation, lover, religion, etc.) will totally fulfill them and they don't.

I mean we've had three billionaires shoot themselves into space. If that's not an obvious plead to the gods or the cosmos for a taste of nirvana I don't know what is.

Curiously, this is a thing that Jesus (and every other divine-ish wise guy) knew about: If we give away our vast fortune and live simply with that experience and wisdom, fulfillment comes. But it means overcoming greed for wealth and power, which is quicker, easier, more seductive.

ETA: For those of us outside the ownership class, though, money improves our base Maslow hierarchy (better housing, HVAC, better water, better food) and gets us out of precarity (or worse, scarcity) which make us desperate and miserable (which accounts completely for elevated crime in poor neighborhoods). Money buys us out of that hell hole. The only thing better than not being there is to also have the perspective of not being there, which can lead to maybe helping others behind you out... Unless you're Clarence Thomas. (He's a very special case.)

There will be a lot of prodigal kids raised in conservative families who stay conservative. But then there will be a lot of kids who will be taught conservative values yet find as they grow up that those values don't include them or friends, and they end up going through an identity crisis.

Adult children of conservative families grow up liberal or even radical left as they do conservative kids. There are enough unhappy childhoods to assure that's the case.

We're seeing this play out in Japan, which not only informs their population implosion, but also their significant rise of demographics like herbivore men who realize they've been culled out of the salaryman positions and are not going to be able to follow the path their parents set for them, so they stay single, and live on their own terms, even if meagerly. There is also a strong and rising feminist movement that's emerged from a majority conservative population.

My mom could kick my ass at tennis ( ...in her prime, she's in her eighties now), I don't need to ask Ms. Williams to do it.

Mom was, in fact, a tennis enthusiast when I was a kid and played weekly, and even at my best I had a crap backhand.

Serena Williams would demolish me.

It's a good era in which to not have children. Expect a lot of forsaken children.

Also expect some coerced birthing programs such as the Leibensborn program (which was also an excuse to recruit young women as sex slaves for the Schutzstaffel ) and the offspring were supported by the state and raised by the single mothers.

This is the program that inspired the Handmaid program in Margaret Atwood's Gilead, in A Handmaid's Tale

And J. D. Vance is super thirsty for it, as is countless other Freedom caucus and MAGA Republican officials.

ETA That said, it might be a good time to get sterilized and commit to not having kids. (That doesn't mean you won't have chances to parent)

You're not alone. Karel Čurda turned in Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš for assassinating Reinhard Heydrich (The naziest nazi of all the nazis, also the chief implementer of the Holocaust. Also the only assassination effort implemented by the Allies). Čurda got the reward of one million Reichmarks for betraying his own sabotage team.

Čurda would then be hanged for high treason in 1947.

Diffusion of Responsibility

It's a Wikipedia day, today.

The last I checked, the stats are like this:

Range: ~70 miles

Accuracy: Likely to hit Paris

Effect: About a city block or too (1/10 mile radius)

So its a terror weapon.