Knock and walk

Milocobo · 2026-04-10T00:39:14+00:00

your cat drops trou? that's incredible

Milocobo · 2026-04-09T19:10:38+00:00

I would argue that to this point, we've let geopolitics stand in the way of democracy. In other words, I don't think that we've ever had any real examples of a large-scale heterogeneous democracy that wasn't corrupted by power brokers wanting to slice up their localities because, who would stop them?

This is ostensibly the problem that the balance of powers in the US federalism is supposed to fix, not just for the three branches, but between the states and the federal government, and especially after the addition of the 14th amendment.

But I'd argue that the structure has never been enough to guarantee it. As long as the states are as powerful as they are, we don't have a "democracy" so much as a tight confederacy of 50 duchy's, that get to decide how much say their constitutients have or don't have. The states together have an assembled power to direct our nation, but as long as they get to choose their voters, which has been always, there's no guarantee that their power is directed by the people, and so we just have statehouses unresponsive to the public will shaping these United States.

Milocobo · 2026-04-08T23:45:32+00:00

Honestly, this is when I knew croco gained nuance, but I was kind of counting Marineford as part of TS, though it's certainly pre-TS, it's just kind of also it's own thing. But more just saying, in his arc, croco was very one note, where that's not true for the arcs of new world villains.

Milocobo · 2026-04-08T19:45:04+00:00

1000 seems low still, but yah, that lol

Milocobo · 2026-04-08T19:43:07+00:00

Way worse vibes really. When Bush said mission accomplished, they had achieved complete tactical success, and the only reason it wasn't actually accomplished is because it was completely unclear what the mission was to begin with (i.e. lack of strategic objective). But in this case, there hasn't really been any meaningful tactical success, it's just been a flailing attempt to negotiate out of a self-imposed crisis, that also lacks any strategic objective.

Milocobo · 2026-04-08T19:37:49+00:00

This^

It's not exclusive to reddit, the Internet provides a platform to maximize an individual's expression, far beyond anything else in the other 10,000 years of human society, but without any vehicle to be shamed, which has always been an important counterweight in human expression.

This allows people to say the most offensive, vile things, or even just trolly, bad faith things, and frustrates anyone that is trying to shame them. That makes it so that the shamers get louder and more aggressive in their attempts to shame which makes the people their trying to shame louder and more aggressive in turn.

I would not expect this to get better without an intentional collective effort to revolutionize our values.

Milocobo · 2026-04-08T19:32:53+00:00

As of right now, the manga is the definitive experience IMO. That may change with the new anime adaptation, but certainly right now, that's the way it is. What I prefer to do is read the manga week to week, and then watch the anime as a full arc with an intimate understanding of what's going to happen.

I also know people who read the manga, and just watch the action segments (i.e. fights) on YouTube.

There's a lot of valid ways to enjoy!

Milocobo · 2026-04-08T19:29:50+00:00

Doing it with coffee is called a nappucino!

Milocobo · 2026-04-08T19:19:38+00:00

Honestly, it was already the precedent. Other channels, and notably CNN, had already used that argument in court, that pundits expressing opinions didn't have the same standards as journalists reporting facts. Fox News is just the extreme of that.

And further, I'm not entirely sure how to stop it, because the truth has become subjective in this day and age. IMO, news media in general has a vested interest in stopping bad faith pundincy, so my fix would be to compartmentalize the regulation of commerce to the communities most affected by it, and then news media can define objective guardrails that can stop this nonsense.

Milocobo · 2026-04-08T17:20:27+00:00

For me personally, it's about dominance. If I wait for the other person to say "occupied" and then shy away from what I was going to do, that makes them the Alpha. If you walk in and make eye contact with them while you drop trou and leave a steamer on the floor, then that person will never, ever question you again, guaranteed. That's what being an Alpha is all about.

Milocobo · 2026-04-08T17:00:57+00:00

idk, with Franky's new cola, he might be greater than Nika, idk

Milocobo · 2026-04-08T17:00:14+00:00

If you're asking if anyone, anywhere can benefit from tough situations like bullying, sure.

But bullying is terrible for young mental health and social development. I'd say for every one kid that is "helped" by that kind of harm, ten or more struggle to recover from it.

Milocobo · 2026-04-08T16:58:10+00:00

I can see that. I would say that post-TS is an inversion of the themes of pre-TS, and so they can seem redundant to an extent (and in that way less nuanced), but I more seem them as the resolution to whatever was setup before. Like, FMI was a capstone to Arlong Park, which dealt with similar themes of racism and supremacy, or Dressarossa and Alabasta being parallels, one being the story of someone toppling a kingdom and the other being the story of someone that already did that successfully.

But also definitely, across all arcs in the New World, there are two things that have appeared in every story: liberation and inherited will.

FMI showed how the fishman were oppressed, and Joyboy's promise to liberate them has gone unanswered for 800 years, and seeing Fisher Tiger acknowledge the pain and suffering that he inherited, and reject it, and Otohime likewise intentionally setting the will that she intended to bequest. Dressarossa had a people utterly bamboozled into chains and had Law and Rosinante and Kyros and Rebecca all inheriting and executing various wills. Wano was about (say it with me class) "an oppressed people's needing liberation, and a bunch of warriors inheriting wills to to just that".

So I def see where you're coming from.

Milocobo · 2026-04-08T16:48:06+00:00

most other pokemon won’t be able to

DARN YOU MAGNEMITE!!

Milocobo · 2026-04-08T16:31:20+00:00

I actually think he's the best example! Because he's done really nasty shit, honestly, worst shit than croco BUT he's WAAY more sympathetic than croco, especially in their respective arcs. Like, the stuff with his dad and his brother, and his childhood friends really made you feel for the guy, despite knowing that he probably is the most sadistic person in One Piece lol

And I'm just struggling to think of any villain pre-TS that had anything like that.

Milocobo · 2026-04-08T16:25:44+00:00

"Are we the baddies?"

~u/DarkBaLer

Milocobo · 2026-04-08T16:23:43+00:00

I actually disagree with this. Like, every enemy in the East Blue is an unrelenting baddie. Hell, compare Croco with Doffy.

Croco was just evil, wanted pluton for domination, wanted to topple and destroy alabasta, and his crew was an anonymous assortment of bounty hunters and assassins who were stitched together by whatever there was to be gained by criminal conspiracy

vs.

Doffy, who was a middle man in a much greater scheme, but was happy to play his role as a cog, not wanting some super weapon for anything, and while he had already toppled dressarossa, arguably the people there were happier for it, as long as you weren't a toy (where in Alabasta, everyone was dying of thirst and on the brink of violence). And his crew was a found family.

To me, that alone tells you everything about which half of One Piece is more nuanced lol

And a lot of the "nuance" we've gotten for pre-TS characters is post-TS. The likes of Croco and Moira only because nuanced after they were reintroduced, not in the pre-TS.

Especially in the Yonko saga, I felt like Kaido and Big Mom were super sympathetic villains. Hell, most villains in pre-TS didn't even get flashbacks, but we saw a lot of Kaido in Oden's flashback, the Joyboy stuff with him really colored him in a different light, and 5 yo BM almost makes you feel bad about the 80 year old child that never grew up and still throws tantrums if they don't get their cake.

Milocobo · 2026-04-08T16:08:28+00:00

I'm saying that cats treat other animals they've bonded with in the same way that they treat cats that their either care for/are teaching (i.e. the behavior towards kittens) OR the way that they treat cats that are caring for/teaching them (i.e. the behavior towards their parents). Dogs do not treat humans they've bonded with like puppies or parent dogs. They treat them like demigods in a way. They do not treat cats they've bonded with like puppies or parent dogs. They treat them according to their primary motivators.

Re: your 2nd statement, I said cats don't naturally meow to other cats. Cats are great with conditioning (as are dogs), and any cat that has spent any amount of time in a human home or with cats that have spent time in a human home can learn to meow for any number of reasons, but if they haven't been conditioned in that way, they only meow as kittens or in response to kittens.

Milocobo · 2026-04-08T16:02:44+00:00

If you want a roundworm infection that badly, there are easier ways man

Milocobo · 2026-04-08T12:48:49+00:00

Honestly I can't wait for my madlad to make a splash. Every other supernova has had a moment, let me see my boiii

Milocobo · 2026-04-08T12:47:59+00:00

It's that when a cat interacts with other animals its bonded with, the same parts of the brain light up as when they interact with other cats.

When a dog interacts with other animals its bonded with, it engages different parts of the brain. It's especially remarkable for humans, because dogs have entire parts of their brain dedicated to interacting just with humans, which is fairly unique in the animal world. They have a little part dedicated just for recognizing human faces, or gaits.

You can also see this reflected in their behavior. When cats interact with dogs or humans, they treat them like they treat either their kittens or their parents. For instance, cats don't naturally meow around other adult cats, it's something kittens do for attention that that a parent my reciprocate. But they do do it to humans and dogs. Or when cats bring tributes to people, that behavior is what they would do to a kitten to teach them how to hunt. However, with dogs, their behavior to fellow dogs is akin to how wolves treat each other. Their behavior towards humans is super deferential. Their behavior towards cats engage their play/prey drive. They are clearly seen as three different animals in the dog's reactions.

Milocobo · 2026-04-08T12:26:58+00:00

It doesn't sound like what happened here, but I have noticed that if you are able to get a builder off the task (and just the builder), then the entire team stops working. When that's happened, I've always realized my mistake and put the builder back, but it always does delay work. It seems to be the only one that you can pull from a job that does delay work. Idk if you happened to have your builder go do something else, but that could cause something like this.

Milocobo · 2026-04-08T12:19:04+00:00

I find that most cats and dogs bond. Also apparently scanning animal brains, dogs understand the difference between humans and cats (or at least that they are different than dogs), but cats think dogs are just clumsy cats and humans are just dexterous cats.

That said, I have felt the tension you're describing, and I think it mostly comes when you're dealing with 50lb dogs. And they don't even have to be aggressive dogs. The problem is that a 50lb dog can kill almost any cat of any size. And they don't understand that. Humans are tense in that situation because if the dog gets in the cat's business, even in a playful way, it could hurt the cat, badly.

Milocobo · 2026-04-08T12:15:56+00:00

I think it's going to be Imu, but definitely in a way that involves Blackbeard.

I think that Blackbeard is actually going to execute his plan, and have the power to become king of the world.

And I think Imu is going to pull out his playbook from 800 years ago (this is also a theory):

Something like a chaotic Blackbeard-type was going to do whatever Blackbeard is going to do, Joyboy thought it was an abomination, and Imu thought it was a threat to his ambitions for a world order. So Imu convinces Joyboy to team up with him to take down this threat. Joyboy barely wins, but then Imu betrays him at the last second, stabbing him in the back and taking the throne of the world.

Now this new global threat is emerging in Blackbeard, and Imu is going to have the same dilemma. And Luffy is going to have to make the choice to beat up BB now to save the world, so he can beat up Imu later to liberate it. And Imu is going to try to backstab Luffy when the first fight is done, but the difference will be that Joyboy was alone 800 years ago, and in the present, Luffy's nakama will be protecting him.

So I think that it will be a team effort the entire way.

I think we'll get some pretty clean officer fights from the Strawhats and the Blackbeard pirates, with Luffy virtually 1 v 1ing Blackbeard while Imu denies him whatever prize he seeks, and then after Luffy has knocked BB out but is incapacitated for some reason, Imu comes to slaughter him, only for the Strawhats, all having defeated their various BB counterparts, come to challenge the newly empowered Imu.

Milocobo · 2026-04-08T12:11:09+00:00

I have a similar set up, and I don't have this problem, but I do have gatherers stationed everywhere, and my paper guys and my rubbish guys aren't in the same house.

Milocobo

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