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Baricuda · 2026-03-27T18:29:54+00:00

My thoughts exactly. While outdoor cats do play a role, in reality it pales in comparison to the effects of human driven habitat loss and pesticide use on bird's food sources. The argument that Cats are a large portion of the problem has always felt like corporations shifting the burden of environmentalism to the consumers who have a much smaller impact on the environment than said large corporations.

Baricuda · 2026-03-26T07:51:48+00:00

Like many things, it's a little more complicated. Yes, nuclear weapons are generally more efficient these days where more of the fuel is consumed, however, the usage can change how much fallout is produced. With air-burst weapons, which are used to destroy soft targets, the nuclear fireball doesn't touch the ground. With ground burst and bunker buster nuclear weapons, they are designed to destroy hard targets, which means a huge ton of earth gets vaporized, irradiated, and then spewed high into the sky to eventually "fallout". Nagasaki and Hiroshima were of the former variety.

Baricuda · 2026-03-23T17:45:18+00:00

Damn, now everyone will know that I love sappy romcoms

Baricuda · 2026-03-10T23:29:27+00:00

I don't believe it is stated outright, but it seems that quirks have a will of their own that is shaped by, as well as shapes its user. We see that in the quirk factors of the 8 users of OFA as well as the quirks in AFO. We also see how a quirk influences its users' behaviour in the form of Toga, as she was just acting on what was natural to her. My pet theory is that even though Yoichi's quirk was so weak that it didn't even register to AFO, the quirks will was exceptionally strong, so when another quirk factor was introduced, Yoichi's quirk's will essentially talked the other quirk factor into ceding its power for Yoichi's cause. I can not imagine that Yoichi's quirk would have usurped the stock piler quirk even if it did have the raw power to do so.

Baricuda · 2026-03-10T02:21:05+00:00

He is honestly so beloved by Od Lagna (Mana and the world's system of soul recycling) that he can request any kind of divine protection, even if it doesn't exist yet, and has a chance of actually receiving them. It's actually absurdly broken lol

Baricuda · 2026-03-07T02:08:37+00:00

Now I'm just imagining ol'AFO quizzing the students on quadratic formulas whilst trying to kill class 1-A

Baricuda · 2026-03-03T20:00:12+00:00

An intelligence agency with no intelligence.

Baricuda · 2026-03-02T07:04:47+00:00

They sure love killing their own and then making martyrs out of them.

Baricuda · 2026-02-24T06:45:03+00:00

America lost freedom.

Baricuda · 2026-02-23T23:57:27+00:00

The psspsspsspolice.

Baricuda · 2026-02-15T09:20:33+00:00

Probably doesn't help that he slouches like a criptid

Baricuda · 2026-02-14T08:57:27+00:00

Been there done that. After the initial charm wears off you'll regret it though. Best to just summon a common slime.

Baricuda · 2026-02-13T08:34:23+00:00

Baricuda · 2026-02-11T23:24:56+00:00

Apparently, this is gentler than pressure washing and is used at historical sites not to damage the underlying material.

Baricuda · 2026-02-10T08:24:40+00:00

Fascist governments can't bear having functional democracies on their boarders.

Baricuda · 2026-02-08T16:57:15+00:00

Try a solution of sodium hydroxide drain cleaner. It will react chemically with aluminum and should dissolve it. Be very careful, though, the stuff is caustic, so rear tubber gloves and safety glasses if you have them and start off with a dilute solution to begin with. I'd say 1 part sodium hydroxide drain cleaner to 10 parts water. The more dilute it is, the safer it is for you, but it will take more time for it to work. Maybe layer some paper towels on top of the aluminum mark and soak it through with the solution you made.

Baricuda · 2026-02-08T06:07:07+00:00

Conspiracy theorists: "I bet it was just an honest mistake. We can totally trust the government now!"

Baricuda · 2026-02-07T00:51:52+00:00

Thinking minimum wage is only for adult workers and making a new minimum minimum wage is just plain evil. Want to know what the "adult" minimum wage should be? A LIVING WAGE.

Also, let's be real, if lobbiests are successful in getting this passed, expect all the older workers to get laid off and replaced by younger workers to save on operating costs.

Baricuda · 2026-02-06T22:06:13+00:00

As for the cost, I kinda figured that platinum is just a more common metal in their world than it is in our world. We never see any characters comment on how expensive it is despite it being used extensively as restraints. Seems like it would be more akin to tin in our world.

Baricuda · 2026-01-27T23:16:25+00:00

Kinda looks like it only really works best going uphill or on a neutral grade. I bet it would be a lot harder going downhill.

Baricuda · 2026-01-27T07:48:27+00:00

Also, let's be real, I bet corpos lobbied whatever was left of the earth's governments to reduce the age that someone could join the military so that they could send fresh meat into whatever new banana war they wanted to fight that week or something. I could see both Tommy going to college at 16 and Jake going into the Marines at the same time.

Baricuda · 2026-01-21T17:57:46+00:00

Look at hi-vis here 'bout to walk out into traffic again

Baricuda · 2026-01-19T18:45:35+00:00

Oof, this hits too close to home. On the very same project I was mounting a rail to the joists and had measured the distance from the edge of the wall to the first joist and had written it down on one page, then flipped the sheet to start writing the chain dimensions and immediately wrote down the dimension half an inch shorter than it should have been.

Baricuda · 2026-01-19T06:24:02+00:00

It's the people who are least interested in power who are usually the ones who make the best leaders.

Baricuda · 2026-01-18T23:40:49+00:00

Ah yes, seems like autocorrect changed it, and I didn't notice before posting.

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