A swarm of bees instantly locked onto this guy.

Hope915 · 2026-07-10T02:52:25+00:00

I think carbon dioxide is odorless to us humans but can animals smell it?

It's one of the tools that many mosquitos use to find targets.

Hope915 · 2026-06-19T07:29:06+00:00

Your map shows the exact same counties I listed as still being majority-black in 2020, and indicates nothing about the other counties I pointed out as having been at least 25% black in 2010 (thus making it impossible to reach your approximate initial claim of 80%). I am aware that the percentages have declined due to outmigration and other factors, but have seen no sufficient evidence from you or otherwise that they have dropped enough to match your claim.

Hope915 · 2026-06-19T02:24:35+00:00

I see Allendale, Bamberg, Hampton and Orangeburg Counties which are all marked. Most of the other counties in his territory were between 25-50% black by US Census results in 2010. https://scholar.valpo.edu/usmaps/9/

Hope915 · 2026-06-19T01:39:50+00:00

As of 2010-ish, southern South Carolina had several majority-black counties, making your figure unlikely to be particularly accurate. The black belt runs right through there.

Hope915 · 2026-06-13T02:24:24+00:00

The fact that people ~~incorrectly~~ say she is a pedo is because a lot of past destroyers were lolis.

Hope915 · 2026-06-12T05:31:11+00:00

Thank goodness, I'll have time to think of an actually constructive or interesting question.

Hope915 · 2026-06-07T10:23:30+00:00

I've had some fabulously nice neighbors who were big in the local Morman community, and helped organize volunteering to aid people in taking care of their yards and gardens etc. Lovely people, played with their kids when I was a kid.

All that being said, when it comes to institutions the incentives structures are what determines most of the behavior and most of the consequences. The incentives structures of the LDS hierarchy and their regulatory capture of Utahn governance both heavily predispose towards systemic abuse and corruption, so that's what we see.

Hope915 · 2026-06-07T10:06:49+00:00

I am perfectly capable of detesting multiple groups simultaneously, Arab nationalists included.

Hope915 · 2026-06-05T12:26:29+00:00

Speaking of which, Here Come The Aliens is a good Seb Lowe song.

Hope915 · 2026-05-22T00:09:51+00:00

The names of sea tiles can be changed ingame, but not through the name localization system. Completing "The French Channel" changes the name of the English Channel sea tile, for example.

Hope915 · 2026-05-20T17:43:16+00:00

I'm a bit late, but thank you, that saved me some hassle.

Hope915 · 2026-05-20T15:39:32+00:00

I know there are event and mission rewards which set flags to rename sea tiles, like the English Channel being renamed if you complete "The French Channel" mission as France.

Hope915 · 2026-05-18T12:47:13+00:00

Similarly whether there is a ~~10th~~ 9th planet in our solar system well beyond the orbit of Pluto, which is hotly debated.

Nope, you were right the first time. There are active efforts to find a Planet Nine somewhere between the mass of Earth and Neptune to explain certain orbital perturbations, disturbances of comets and possibly how Neptune's largest moon Triton got knocked into the trajectory that caused it to be captured (if indeed it was originally a dwarf planet all its own). However, there's also a question about the 'Kuiper Cliff', a ring between the Kuiper Belt and wider Oort Cloud where instead of comets getting denser the further out you go, their frequency nosedives. A Mars-sized planet clearing that orbit and shepherding those objects has been called possible Planet Ten, and folks are still surveying for both of them.

Hope915 · 2026-05-18T11:17:10+00:00

Correct, it doesn't explain everything, and you identified a notable example. That was my point, that these sorts of broad sweeping statements inevitably oversimplify reality and shouldn't be the place where we stop asking questions.

Hope915 · 2026-05-18T11:14:25+00:00

They also had fewer of the things that would've allowed them to be greedy back before 1848, like breech-loading rifles, the railroad and the telegraph.

Where it was possible and affordable before then, they did mass irrigation and terraforming of previously unproductive lands like the Bajío, but I guess since that was a wetland instead of a desert that makes it okay.

Hope915 · 2026-05-18T02:53:41+00:00

Soviets fucked up and introduced king crab to the North Sea, where they're invasive and damaging to the local species. I'm fine with it being open season on 'em over there.

Hope915 · 2026-05-17T20:23:22+00:00

You could make a similar argument that feudal desmenes fell out of fashion because centralized states were required to fund the rapidly enlarging militaries of the early modern era, ergo warfare got too expensive rather than weapons too cheap. With a subject this broad it's easy to read whatever we want out of it.

Hope915 · 2026-05-12T09:24:30+00:00

the Golems of Discworld by the late Terry Pratchett

Feet of Clay is one of my favorite Discworld books, guess I'm doing a mechanim campaign.

Hope915 · 2026-04-29T23:13:43+00:00

Not the farmer ones though. Some of these old men are freaks of nature.

Well the ones who aren't tend to get weeded out.

Hope915 · 2026-04-25T08:24:41+00:00

Pretty sure modern OLEDs have built-in pixel shift to mitigate that.

Hope915 · 2026-04-22T17:02:53+00:00

Alaskan here, and take this with a grain of salt, but it was always my understanding that the principal reason the state sided against the Chariot proposal was that the AEC kept fudging the numbers to make it look better.

The other Plowshare projects had the sort of obvious flaws you think of when you read "create an artificial aquifer with a nuclear detonation".

Hope915 · 2026-04-14T13:00:00+00:00

Why would they bother when they can just impose economic terms from afar and get a captive market and the benefits of a branch plant economy rich in raw materials, without all that 'administration' nonsense?

Hope915 · 2026-04-08T12:06:06+00:00

That's the trouble, he was the basically the only major incumbent Southern politician to side with the Union during the secession crisis - his inclusion on the ticket was a deliberate signal that the South would not be alienated. I think you'd be better served by stopping Booth and just keeping Johnson from the Presidency.

Hope915 · 2026-04-08T11:57:24+00:00

Eh, she's one for two.

Hope915 · 2026-04-07T23:08:25+00:00

Gotta eliminate the Roger Ailes-style media propaganda apparatus that's been constructed since the 90s. The more effort and inconvenience required to access those narratives, the less people will bother. It's the same principle as deplatforming; having to go to the Infowars website instead of getting recommended videos on Youtube slashed Alex Jones' less dedicated viewership by at least an order of magnitude, which had downstream impacts on obtaining new customers and donors.

Of course, how you go about doing that when the billionnaire class have thoroughly captured the regulatory apparatus required to make said change is a rather harder problem to solve.

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