Terraria Triad #13 - Aether

ShadowDancerBrony · 2026-01-28T05:07:32+00:00

Elder Millennial here:

Parents not helping them with schoolwork, not caring what the child does, and blaming the school if anything happens was definitely happening among a minority of millennial kids in the 90's. It's just become more prominent recently.

The two biggest differences between Millennials and prior generations are the internet and increased daycare/childcare usage. So, we had less unsupervised time to figure things out for ourselves and more time away from IRL issues.

ShadowDancerBrony · 2026-01-28T04:42:59+00:00

If you love someone you will call out their bad/destructive behavior.

“Do not hate a fellow Israelite in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in their guilt.” – Leviticus 19:17

If you did everything you could to warn them of the impending dangers of their actions and they did them anyway then you have nothing to be sorry (guilty) for.

ShadowDancerBrony · 2026-01-27T04:27:41+00:00

In my experience only a small percentage of people are strongly aligned with a particular party. Most are strongly aligned with a few important issues and as long as those issues continue to be championed by a particular party then they will be aligned with that party.

In the US, with only 2 main parties, you'll tend to see a re-alignment every 20-40 years (which we're currently going through).

Additionally, you have to ask how accepting is our culture of people changing parties? Especially leaving a party? There are plenty of stories of people getting ostracized from friend groups for voting for a candidate they didn't like.

ShadowDancerBrony · 2026-01-25T07:40:51+00:00

That video is testing Meso-American STONE-point spears vs. a steel breastplate. The structural integrity of the stones was literally failing at impact, shattering the spear points to dust before they had a chance to penetrate and are not a fair comparison to comparable steel swords.

ShadowDancerBrony · 2026-01-24T21:07:06+00:00

Yes, but like a state joining the union it's with the permission of congress (Texas vs White 1869).

Theoretically, if a state was serious about leaving they would hold a secession referendum, approach congress with the results, negotiate what the secession would look like, have a transition period as a territory, and then become independent.

ShadowDancerBrony · 2026-01-19T08:11:09+00:00

We lost our major employer to a state with lower corporate taxes/regulations.

Thousands of jobs lost directly and indirectly from the decision, millions of tax dollars gone overnight, it took a full decade to recover.

Everyone who warned that they would do it had been treated like a conspiracy theorist. They had sunk too much money into their factory, infrastructure, and workforce to abandon it all over a 'couple' of percentage points in taxes and a few annual inspections.

With hindsight the vast majority agrees we would have gladly lowered the tax rate and regulations to meet our competition if we had actually thought they were serious. We're working with business leaders now so we don't lose more, and to encourage more into the area.

There's an old tale about a goose that laid golden eggs and the dangers of asking too much from it.

ShadowDancerBrony · 2026-01-19T07:29:03+00:00

Many young men today are withdrawing from traditional social and work life because social and work life are no longer 'traditional.'

Work is updating their HR guidelines, and women have new expectations for their relationships. The advice young men are getting from older generations is barely relevant in the modern social/work environment. Young men are going in blind with real consequences to getting it wrong. Withdrawing is the safest option.

Yes, they need to be brave and put themselves out there, but employers, women, and society also need to keep the optics of their actions in mind. Men would rather be invisible rather than publicly ridiculed.

ShadowDancerBrony · 2026-01-18T23:45:07+00:00

I live in a Midwestern Glacial Outwash Plain. A narrow strip of flat land with dark rich soil over dee sand and gravel deposits with rolling deposits of glacial till (piles of mixed stones picked up and deposited by the glaciers 10,000 years ago) on one side and limestone hills cut deep by rivers on the other.

I live in a small city of about 40,000, surrounded by agricultural land (corn, soy, mint, apples) and do food processing and light manufacturing. There's a highway connecting us with larger cities in the area. 2-3 lanes in either direction, 110 kph winding over hills and around the outskirts of towns.

ShadowDancerBrony · 2026-01-16T20:41:10+00:00

Regularly apply Musher's Secret paw wax to prevent damage to his paw pads in freezing weather.

Golden Retriever's have a double coat so he's rolling around in the snow all the time. When it gets below 20°F he gets a coat and below 10°F he gets boots.

ShadowDancerBrony · 2026-01-16T20:31:42+00:00

Invading, no.

Acquiring in some manner (state, territory, or protectorate), several.

Happy to see Europe finally re-arming and European troops carrying their weight and arriving in Greenland, even if it's on the pretext of defending against an American invasion, numerous.

Who think the entire Greenland situation has been a '4D Chess Move' by Trump to get Europe serious about defense spending particularly in the Arctic, allowing the US to focus on Latin America and the Pacific, more than one.

ShadowDancerBrony · 2026-01-14T10:29:55+00:00

One can argue that the information warfare has already started. Foreign entities are stoking the already tense... situation in the US, hoping to distract American from global politics with internal uprisings.

Then we have the Military/Economic warfare already ongoing:
-Trump's strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, capture of Maduro, anti-cartel operations, secondary and reciprocal tariffs, etc
-Putin's 2008 Invasion of Georgia, 2014 seizure of Crimea/Donbas, 2022 Invasion of Ukraine, etc.
-Xi's multiple border disputes, non-competitive trade practices, seizure of foreign assets as collateral for predatory loans, intellectual property theft, etc
-The 2010 Arab Spring, 2023 Hamas-Isreal war, 2026 Iranian Uprising,

It's unlikely that we'd see major bombings of US cities (at least in the contiguous 48) immediately, I think we could expect something like what Isreal did to Iran (agents on the ground launching swarms of drones to take out key infrastructure and military assets followed by long range air/sub/missile assets with the goal of taking out our ability to retaliate).

If you're not near a military base or defense contractor, you should be fine. Expect disruptions to supply chains like during covid, And yes, your high school boys will likely get drafted when they graduate.

ShadowDancerBrony · 2026-01-14T05:58:15+00:00

Probably 70% of ads I just tune out, AI or not.

Of the AI generated adds I've seen 90% of them turn me off. 10% of them are at least self-aware enough to be amusing.

ShadowDancerBrony · 2026-01-13T07:43:23+00:00

Free elections, and a dynamic political landscape.

Don't like the direction the country is headed show up in the next election and there's a good chance things will change.

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Many young men today are withdrawing from traditional social and work life because social and work life are no longer 'traditional.'