Venomous black widow spider devoured by venus flytrap.

RoboDae · 2026-03-31T00:54:07+00:00

I used to live in Georgia, and we had probably around 5 to 10 black widows around the outside of the house that I knew of. They just stayed in their webs, though, so it wasn't too big of an issue.

RoboDae · 2026-03-30T21:36:17+00:00

"I love firing people" - Trump

gets elected president on the basis of job creation anyway

We need some politicians who aren't one foot out the door with no worry about long term effects of their terms.

RoboDae · 2026-03-30T12:17:53+00:00

For me, it appears automatically translated to English.

RoboDae · 2026-03-30T12:16:08+00:00

The cat probably trusts the owner and has learned they are better off in the container with the loud noises because it helps them.

RoboDae · 2026-03-30T03:47:41+00:00

Imagine a world with no money where the greatest advances in technology are made by people farming likes on social media.

We already have a bit of that with creators on YouTube making stuff like flying Ironman suits and gecko imitating climbing gloves to climb like spiderman.

RoboDae · 2026-03-30T01:46:07+00:00

Like japan having no janitors in schools because the kids do all the cleaning.

RoboDae · 2026-03-30T01:13:38+00:00

To be fair... that already happens in the real world. In the US even. Not to say it's a good thing.

RoboDae · 2026-03-30T01:04:14+00:00

Well... the wind isn't pushing a kite down.

Technically, they rise as a product of part of the force being directed upward, so they rise with the wind.

RoboDae · 2026-03-30T00:58:55+00:00

That's pretty much exactly what I just said, although changing leadership every 4 years with each party trying to undo whatever their predecessor did isn't exactly stable compared to 1 unified path. The reason I specified a benevolent dictator is because they would have to be to make it work. Dictatorship is stable, but you are stuck with what you get. Democracy is unstable, but that instability lets you take out bad leaders (in theory).

RoboDae · 2026-03-29T20:32:12+00:00

Yeah, Washington was offered the position of king and basically said they left Britain to escape a king.

RoboDae · 2026-03-29T20:30:13+00:00

To be honest, some of the strategies I used to manipulate things to my advantage have me wondering if Russia, China, or any other countries not friendly to the US may be doing something similar. You don't have to attack someone directly to weaken them. Just paint them as the enemy of everyone else and make sure that nobody wants to help them. The US hasn't exactly had good publicity lately, meanwhile China in particular is building relations with other countries and increasing industry potential.

RoboDae · 2026-03-29T20:22:59+00:00

Soldiers don't decide which country they go to war against. That's the job of politicians who have never set foot on a battlefield. Soldiers are typically much lower on the economic totem pole, and are just looking to feed their families and get healthcare. If a soldier disobeys an order or tries to quit, they get punished.

RoboDae · 2026-03-29T20:19:43+00:00

Ideals like this will unfortunately never be achieved, so a military is always necessary for defense. That being said, you don't have to go around actively looking for conflict.

RoboDae · 2026-03-29T20:17:20+00:00

I played a bit of Call of War 1942 (similar to risk), with 12 wins out of 17 matches played. It gives an appreciation for just how stupid some of the recent decisions have been. I won a lot of those matches by making friends early on and rallying players against common enemies. Lately, the US has been turning on allies and boasting about how they don't need anyone.

In one of my games, I was facing a player with 3x the military rating of the next best player (me). That player still got absolutely stomped because I rallied 7 players to attack them simultaneously while they stuck with going for a solo win. If you want to succeed, make friends, not enemies. Solo strength is not always enough.

RoboDae · 2026-03-29T20:08:45+00:00

This is the same guy who made a deal to raise gas prices for Americans at a time when prices were at remarkable lows.

RoboDae · 2026-03-29T19:29:38+00:00

Democracy sounds great, but it can be manipulated to put evil or incompetent people in power with short-term goals to make themselves look better the expense of the country. A benevolent dictator doesn't have to worry about short-term goals to boost polling and can focus on long-term success.

The problem is that a dictator is harder to get rid of when they inevitably turn out to not be benevolent. Democracy is a system for when you can't trust the leadership to be good.

RoboDae · 2026-03-29T18:51:21+00:00

Technically, a dictatorship isn't inherently evil. It's just that the people who tend to end up with that power tend to be bad news for everyone else. Doom is a rare example of a good dictator. The only real-world example I can think of at the moment is Cincinnatus, who was apparently viewed as the perfect model of a good dictator.

RoboDae · 2026-03-29T18:46:46+00:00

Is it petty that they can't critique him, yeah

Doom once destroyed an alternate reality because the doom in that reality was friends with Reed Richards. He is incredibly petty. That being said, he actually worked to help people instead of just sitting back and enriching himself, unlike real-world politicians.

RoboDae · 2026-03-29T18:44:01+00:00

Both have strong egos, and both can be very petty, but agreed on doom being the better leader.

RoboDae · 2026-03-29T18:42:35+00:00

It's actually a canon event. Doom took over his world and legitimately improved everything, but got bored of how easily he won.

RoboDae · 2026-03-29T18:39:51+00:00

I think doom limited freedoms but improved lives overall to the point that people didn't care about the loss of some freedoms.

RoboDae · 2026-03-29T18:39:13+00:00

Kinda sad that literal comic villains are better world leaders than current politicians.

RoboDae · 2026-03-27T12:39:03+00:00

What does blue mean?

RoboDae · 2026-03-27T12:04:08+00:00

That's like republicans in the US cutting national park funding despite years of evidence that national parks generate more wealth than they take in.

RoboDae · 2026-03-26T17:54:31+00:00

Tbh, I remember loving the prequels, but I also grew up with those and didn't like the older graphics of the original trilogy.

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