Wasn’t that why he loves fast food? It’s easier to target the White House supply chain for a precision poisoning than to try to hit every McDonald’s in a 50km radius and hope to get lucky.

Yeah. They don’t tell you at all what to do with the 3rd sword.

I thought the two states were Donetsk and Lukhansk.

I put out one of those big plastic storage units with like 30 little drawers recently, figuring although 2 were missing, someone could still use it. I stood it next to the dustbin, on trash day where it would be optimally visible for anyone who wanted to scrounge it.

The bloody HOA took a picture and sent a nastygram.

Check a local coin dealer/show.

Silver ounce rounds come in infinitely many designs, and there are a lot of right-wingers in those interest groups.

I’m pretty sure I’ve seen them done up with his ugly maw on. I think sometines as copper too.

I think 3D printing has potential because it can close the gap between hobbyist crafts and commercial grade manufacturing. Print the item for a run of 25, then you can move up to a real mould for 25,000.

It also leans into repairability-- replacement parts that might not be feasible to whittle one at a time from wood can be reliably made in a plastic comparable of strength to the original, and tge designs shared widely

“Us versus them” politics are asking for a complete washout on the international stage.

In the end, when the shit hits the fan, are you going to align yourself with the country that makes All the Things, or the one that can’t even pass a budget? COVID proved that it wasn’t just good-times, low-stakes gridlock: even existential crises weren’t enough to get America to cooperate and discipline herself.

If real life were a survival movie, we’d be getting to the scene where the secondary characters decide whether to follow Grandpa Sticky, who’s in the midst of full-blown dementia and was at best a vaguely racist philosophy professor when lucid, or the 22-year-old trained soldier with a fully stocked supply line. And we’d be throwing popcorn at the screen and deriding how terrible the writing is.

If there’s such a fear of third parties cleaving off votes from the Democrats, why have they never tried to mobilize similar forces on the right?

We had the Libertarians right there, before they imploded.

You think Trump knew him as anything but “the face on the $20 note”?

If he had gotten office in 1914, he’d have put Grover Cleveland’s portrait up for the same reason.

Can we get the politicians to shift from illegal aliens to Sasquatch? Build a wall across Washington state and make Canada pay for it?

Y’know thry always make a big media event about the polls opening at midnight in some podunk New England town that does a symbolic “first ballot of the nation”. Might be fun to make a similar scene for the ISS.

“The off-planet vote is breaking strongly for Harris despite RFK’s residence far outside Earth’s gravitational pull.”

I guess Fairy Tail… now if only using Grey Fullbuster as a fitness inspiration, instead of just a “why bother with clothes” inspiration, worked.

Still friend shaped. <3

I want to feed him treats and scritch under his neck.

Don’t mind me, I’m just the crazy reptile person on a good day.

I always figured this was a very effective way to deal with the wealthy who would scream about appropriation in the early phases of a social realignment.

They’ve done experimental communities for dementia patients set up to look like normal towns, but the shopkeepers are all staff, and the busses loop back at the end of the run, so there’s the tools to constantly monitor the patients and make sure they don’t wander away, while they feel like they have the dignity of independent living instead of an obvious rest home.

Do the same, but also make sure they’re on a captive network where they can pull up fibbed bank and brokerage statistics that tell them everything went up 15% per year, and staged broadcasts that says everyone is properly turning to face Wall Street and pray to the Line eight times a day. They’d never need to realize their assets had been nationalized years ago, they just think it’s permanent springtime in Jackson Hole or whatever.

After things take over, and they no longer hold influence or aspirational leverage, you release them back into general population. “Sorry, Elon, those numbers were faked, here’s 200 roubles and your assignment in the cobalt mines.”

On a less deranged take, there’s definitely potential to mend the Sino-Soviet split. Their interests and capabilities dovetail quite a bit, but I suspect unification is wildly impractical for any number of cultural and historic reasons. OTOH, if they presented a Warsaw Pact-style alliance, perhaps using the cudgel of mutually assured economic destruction instead of nuclear destruction, that’s a hell of an act for the West to try to follow.

I thought Creamsicle was a whale.

I haven’t seen much from (his person) lately. Hope they’re okay.

The mafia has infested law enforcement too.

I accidentally took the wrong streetcar when visiting San Francisco and ended up in the Castro.

They put a boot on my gender and had it towed. Apparently I have to pay $450 plus $85 per day storage to get it out of impound. I said “forget it” and they crushed it into a cube.

Needs a sheet of rub-on tattoos with vaguely “I didn’t serve in the military but really want to imply I did” to “outright white supremacist” themes.

My favourite is that “Three Percenter” design that effectively coopts the design of one of America’s least-successful coins. I sort of want to talk one of their ears off about numismatics and watch their brain smoulder.

I sort of wonder why the Dells and HPs of the world outlasted the second-tier manufacturers like Tiny.

They seem to do a lot more custom engineering (custom cases, bespoke mainboards and PSUs, weird designs to skimp on cooling or power delivery), but even at the “we’re ordering an entire shipping container of boards” level is that really cheaper overall than just taking an off-the-shelf mainboard or case and outting your own sticker on it?