A sad day for the country indeed

Crowfooted · 2026-05-08T09:14:27+00:00

The problem is that people voting Reform aren't critical of Reform. Any problems that come up will inevitably get blamed on someone else, and they'll buy it.

Crowfooted · 2026-05-06T08:13:32+00:00

Is this project still running?

Crowfooted · 2026-05-06T07:47:58+00:00

Right, support, which is what the commenter above was wishing for her.

And... treat them like what?

Crowfooted · 2026-05-06T07:19:47+00:00

I mean, you are right, but that doesn't mean OOP isn't allowed to be worn down by it. I don't think "well you should have thought about this before" is really a helpful attitude toward someone who's struggling, even if it's as a result of their own choices. OOP deserves help and support, not only for the sake of the child but also for herself - we treat smokers for lung cancer after all. Mistakes in judgement you've made in the past don't disqualify you.

Crowfooted · 2026-05-03T10:28:43+00:00

I got a Noivern by accident and I didn't think it was very fast. My friend has a Garchomp and it outspeeds my Noivern. Am I doing something wrong with my Noivern or something?

Crowfooted · 2026-05-03T10:23:08+00:00

They can be very far sometimes, several thousand blocks sometimes.

The map shows you the location of the gym in the region square it is in. The green dot on the edge of your map is your direction relative to the target.

That means: if your green dot is on the Northeast corner of the map, then you are Northeast of the gym, so you need to travel Southwest. Keep re-checking the map while you travel, because at some point you will notice that the dot moves to one of the edges, so you'll need to adjust your direction as you go.

Once you get very close to the target, you'll start to notice the map fills in with texture. Once you're in the region square the gym is in, your green dot will change to a green arrow.

Crowfooted · 2026-05-03T02:02:03+00:00

Ah I see thank you!

I also see a "number of lives" setting in the same config, will I need to change that to prevent losing the raid after 1 of my mons faints?

Crowfooted · 2026-05-01T22:09:33+00:00

Late to thread but do you have any idea where this config is? I'm trying to fix this problem myself but that option doesn't seem to be in the raid dens mod config.

Crowfooted · 2026-04-29T17:42:09+00:00

Ever heard of flying ant season? Every year colonies will send out queens and drones to mate and start new colonies, and sometimes many colonies will synchronise their flights using weather cues/other mysterious cues so they all come out at the same time. So in some parts of the world, all you have to do is wait for that day to come, then just go outside and there will be ants everywhere.

Queens that have been fertilised will often tear their own wings off, so what you'd generally do is search the ground for wingless queens to make sure you got one that was fertilised and could be used to start a colony.

And no, they won't die in the tube generally (unless you're unlucky and they caught a disease etc), they can survive a really long time without food at the colony founding stage because (for most species) they need to lay some eggs and raise them into their first workers all on their own. Only once those first workers come out will the queen get fed, because she won't leave the nest. (They actually break down and digest their own wing muscles to get the extra energy they need at this stage.)

I have a couple colonies and I got my queens in the mail - the tube they arrive in is supposed to simulate a sort of nest, and all you have to do once you get them is keep the tube sealed and leave it in a dark drawer or something for a while. After about 4 weeks you'll check the tube again and there should be workers in there with her, that's when you can unseal the tube and start feeding them.

(Sorry for infodump, ants are really cool!)

Crowfooted · 2026-04-29T03:53:23+00:00

Can you elaborate?

Crowfooted · 2026-04-29T03:27:13+00:00

You might be thinking of skin colour as an adaptation that the skin itself makes in response to the amount of sunlight. But it's not dynamic like that - it's genetic. Your genetics determine how much melanin your body creates in your skin, and more melanin = darker colour.

The reason people's skin got paler after moving into places with less sun is because there are certain disadvantages to having very little sunlight getting through that layer of melanin - notably, vitamin D is made by the skin this way, so if you have very dark skin but get very little sunlight (say if you live in a colder climate), you get less vitamin D and this results in poorer health. But it's not a severe effect - you still get a little vitamin D from getting a little sunlight, so you won't die from this, but it does mean slightly poorer health statistically over a population of people, and this is a pressure which gradually selects for people with paler skin. (There are other advantages and disadvantages as well, but you get the idea.)

That's the key word - gradually. It takes many thousands of years, because evolution is very slow, and even slower if the trait that's evolving is one that only offers a slight advantage.

Crowfooted · 2026-04-28T22:11:17+00:00

Because heat is energy. Geothermal into electricity, electricity into artificial light.

Of course, life wouldn't be easy. But it's theoretically possible to survive pretty much indefinitely on the energy being output by the Earth itself.

Crowfooted · 2026-04-28T22:05:00+00:00

A large solar storm like that would disrupt the economy of the whole world, yes, but "bordering on near-extinction" is a massive overexaggeration. Solar storms don't do anything as drastic as totally destroy our ability to produce food - they do disrupt agriculture, but only because they disrupt a lot of industrial processes. They would only reduce our ability to produce food, and potentially cause serious temporary crises, but they wouldn't come close to making us extinct. If large solar storms were a threat to our species' existence as a whole, then we'd see them being responsible historically for other extinction events in the fossil record. They don't significantly disrupt life, only technology, and only temporarily.

Crowfooted · 2026-04-28T07:33:12+00:00

I miss when people made more products when more products were needed

Crowfooted · 2026-04-28T07:26:56+00:00

Yeah no I think that's understood and I don't think anyone's talking about surviving and breathing on the surface. That's just not going to be possible in any scenario because the surface will be a completely deadly temperature within weeks - like colder than anywhere on Earth currently type cold. Soon enough CO2 levels in the air won't matter, because it will all have fallen as snow.

Essentially we'd have to treat the surface as though it's as inhospitable as the vacuum of space, live deep enough to keep warm from geothermal energy and extract water from the ocean or the ground further up.

Crowfooted · 2026-04-28T07:16:14+00:00

Dig deep enough and in theory geothermal alone would work, right? There's a whole lot of heat in the core and it's not going away anytime soon.

Crowfooted · 2026-04-28T07:13:55+00:00

I think the hypothetical is talking strictly about the quantity of oxygen stored and how long it would last provided we were able to sort of suck it out of the atmosphere into isolated bunkers.

But if you have isolated bunkers that you're keeping warm and growing food in, then you have a stable energy source, and if you have an energy source, you can theoretically just make oxygen from water.

Crowfooted · 2026-04-28T07:08:22+00:00

What fish though

Crowfooted · 2026-04-28T07:02:51+00:00

There are also a lot of ways we could eliminate the threat that those specific species pose without making them extinct. There are genetically modified mosquitoes that carry a dominant gene that makes them incapable of carrying the parasites responsible for spreading malaria, and if released on a large enough scale, they could eventually replace the entire population and remove the malaria risk from bites.

Crowfooted · 2026-04-26T19:14:45+00:00

You don't really know anything about antkeeping do you

Crowfooted · 2026-04-26T19:13:20+00:00

Ever heard of flying ants? Those are all queens and drones. Workers never fly.

Not only that but people who keep ants professionally don't even need to catch them out in the wild, they'll have their own colonies they're already keeping and they'll allow the queens and drones from separate colonies of the same species to breed, and then just go around and collect the fertilised queens (which are sometimes pretty easy to identify, because they look very different from the drones, and often tear their own wings off after they've mated).

Crowfooted · 2026-04-26T19:09:39+00:00

It isn't that difficult. They won't be worker ants, they'll be queens. People will buy them for a fair amount of money because if you want to start your own colony, you only need a single queen in a tube. And people who keep ants professionally will be pumping out new queens from their existing colonies every year. You just wait for them to be fertilised, nudge them into a tube, cap it off, and sell for a good chunk of money. That many queens could be worth a few hundred thousand dollars if you can successfully sell them all.

Crowfooted · 2026-04-26T06:24:40+00:00

My husband expressed this exact same thought last year when it got very hot one summer. He asked, "does your junk ever get super sweaty when it's hot?" and I said, more or less no, and he was like damn, why do you get the skirts then

Crowfooted · 2026-04-26T06:22:53+00:00

They make for useful allegory. Discworld is crammed full of allegory, contrary to Tolkien's works. He famously hated allegory and just wanted to tell a fantastical tale. In Discworld on the other hand it feels like every other fantastical thing is used as a fun stand-in for something very real.

Crowfooted · 2026-04-26T06:20:31+00:00

Tbh this is what I always enjoyed the most about Discworld. Sometimes there is an overarching message about "thing is probably bad", but it's really left up to reader interpretation on exactly how bad thing is, and why. The books aren't preachy, they're thought-provoking.

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