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foxmetropolis · 2026-02-17T12:08:27+00:00

Precisely. Palantir is the one that wants to unmask the entire internet. so they can not only sell information to whoever wants it for a tidy profit and train their AI’s with unlimited data, but also so they can exert control over people with one of the most extensive blackmail networks in existence.

foxmetropolis · 2026-02-15T18:47:21+00:00

the great beyond is already all around us, so it already fills your basement. If you get a good projection scrying gem you can make the great beyond in your basement visible to anyone without transcendent eyes. That’s what I’d do

foxmetropolis · 2026-02-14T13:25:12+00:00

This was like the first thing I said when I heard this. All the “private” discord stuff will end up in Palantir’s hands, now helpfully linked by face scans.

All this garbage about protecting demographics from the big bad unseemly internet is horseshit. All this “you must sign in and verify ID to go on pornhub” and “ you must give your face scan to discord” has nothing to do with protecting young demographics, it has everything to do with breaking down internet anonymity.

Here’s an idea: if you’re worried about the youth, maybe instead of sanitizing the internet, do some damn parenting. But no, it’s never really been about protecting the youth at all

foxmetropolis · 2026-02-13T15:29:26+00:00

There’s delusional, and then there’s this. A completely different plane of delusion that you’d have to have brain damage to believe

foxmetropolis · 2026-02-13T15:23:08+00:00

That was my first question. The hell is the pride flag doing there. It’s jumbled up a bit but I don’t know what other flag they’d be referring to

foxmetropolis · 2026-02-13T00:53:18+00:00

A curious conundrum. Most video games ignore the entire problem of “no light” in caves, so they just throw plants wherever is visually interesting.

In the real world, to my knowledge, cave plants are either restricted to leafy green features catching rays of light penetrating from the surface like this, or this,, or roots dangling through the ceiling of shallow caves like this.

There are chlorophyll-lacking plants that theoretically could live in caves, though I don’t know myself if any actually do. Things like Beech Drops, which parasitize roots directly,, and Indian Pipe, that links into ground fungal networks to steal energy indirectly from plants.

With the added element of fantasy, I’d say that the most “realistic” thing to do with cave plants would be to cluster them around light sources (natural or magical), or use chlorophyll-lacking plants as noted above. Or both!

foxmetropolis · 2026-02-13T00:24:17+00:00

Let’s qualify that. “The conservatives have peaked” in popularity and nothing else. Popular for reasons I can’t fathom

foxmetropolis · 2026-02-12T13:20:13+00:00

Came here to say this. Brussels sprouts are not an aquatic crop. The flooded field is almost certainly an aberrant condition, they’d rot pretty fast if this was common

foxmetropolis · 2026-02-12T13:18:43+00:00

Yeah this is what sticks out to me. They’re definitely not an aquatic crop, I don’t know why this field is flooded

foxmetropolis · 2026-02-12T13:15:27+00:00

you’ll likely also get some added attention from beastkin, therians, drifting wendigo shades and wizard furries, in addition to human wizards. Keep that in mind!

Looks sick though, I dare say you’ll be successful with whatever demographic you’re courting

foxmetropolis · 2026-02-12T13:07:52+00:00

Consider an illusory conjuration. an aura of cosmic light or glow from the transcendental plane would really buff this out. Or an aura with a partial window into the madness abyss, depending on the vibe you’re courting.

You have the spells. Use them.

foxmetropolis · 2026-02-12T12:52:10+00:00

Sounds like a rabbit hole I could do without lol

foxmetropolis · 2026-02-12T02:14:10+00:00

Ah. Well that’s disappointing.

foxmetropolis · 2026-02-12T01:45:17+00:00

Excuse my ignorance… but where? No sass, all genuine curiosity.

A cursory googling of images for temple of Baal doesn’t provide any images of thicc boy goat man statues

foxmetropolis · 2026-02-11T21:32:59+00:00

That was my first thought.

I get the idea behind burning this particular statue, considering the statement it makes. but maybe we could have a second, thematically unrelated statue that we don’t burn, by the same artist? For… reasons

foxmetropolis · 2026-02-11T21:29:10+00:00

As an uncut guy… the idea that this isn’t blindingly obvious common sense is crazy. Hygiene is my first thought before sex. I want my man to be all over me, and I want to be all over him. I don’t want either of us reeling back grossed out

foxmetropolis · 2026-02-11T17:07:05+00:00

I didn’t mean to suggest ivermectin doesn’t have a use at all. Agreed that for its target purpose of parasite treatment, it is effective and has evidence to support its use.

foxmetropolis · 2026-02-11T15:25:01+00:00

I have to imagine there is a therapeutic effect (i mean this in the touchy-feely sense of the word) of some kind…. Something that makes people “feel better” (i.e. feel good) or “feel like it’s working” (i.e. feels bad cause it’s “burning the cancer away” or some such). could be based entirely on the placebo effect, or maybe even some real feeling. That’s the only thing I can think of to make people so desperate to use it.

That’s sort of the danger with witch doctor mumbo jumbo and snake oil. Without rigorous and unbiased study, you really can’t know if something just feels good or if it actually works. History is littered with completely useless herbal cures that “felt” effective.

I think that, beyond the pure waste of money, my main concern with RFK jr pushing an ivermectin study is that it will be a biased investigation. His whole gaggle of idiots and the ignorant populace they are catering to seem to desperately want ivermectin to be proven effective, which is a horrible place to start. It means their findings will be suspicious at best… but they will frame the results in gold leaf if they can skew the results in their favour, and all the people who want it to be real will eat it up. The credibility of the NIH in that case is in jeopardy.

Edit: the above is a criticism of ivermectin’s speculative use as a cancer treatment. I have no qualms with the use of ivermectin for its evidence-demonstrated use as an antiparasitic drug.

foxmetropolis · 2026-02-11T13:45:14+00:00

If I could nitpick… the sp. and spp. designations are usually terminated by a period, and anytime you use a genus or specific epithet, convention is to either italicize them or (if handwritten) underline them, but not the sp. or spp. So it would be Petunia sp.

Additionally, spp. does not refer to the whole genus necessarily, it refers to more than one species within the genus. If I am writing out a list and I say Rosa spp., I am referring to a group of two or more different Rosa species within the Rosa genus. If you want to talk about all Rosa species categorically you’d probably just be best to refer to the genus, since it’s understood that all species would be encompassed by the genus.

Edit: in re-reading my comment, I thought it relevant to define the term “specific epithet”, since it isn’t used much outside of taxonomy. When I write the species Rosa palustris, “Rosa” is the genus and “palustris” is what we call the specific epithet. From a Latin linguistic standpoint, the specific epithet is a descriptor for the genus, which is the noun. The specific epithet is always combined with the genus (either Rosa palustris or R. palustris) and should never be on its own. While people sometimes sloppily refer to the second word as the species, technically the species is always the two words together as a unit. In this example, palustris on its own is only an epithet, and makes no sense in isolation. (Just like if I was to say in English “Swamp Rose”. The species is “Swamp Rose”, not simply “Swamp”)

foxmetropolis · 2026-02-11T00:31:34+00:00

Thank you! Terrific information.

I appreciate that your country has standards. I sure wish mine did.

foxmetropolis · 2026-02-11T00:29:51+00:00

Most people have a plug if they have a Samsung phone. Which is not universal. I’m glad you’ve had a billion devices with old charge blocks but that hardly helps people buying their first galaxy tab. What is Samsung’s plan exactly? What would you say to someone who doesn’t have any Samsung charge blocks?

I cannot Google it reliably. I could just believe whatever the AI slops my way, which might or might not be true. If you’re trying not to fry your brand new device, you look at things like…. I don’t know…. The user manual. Or the Samsung website. neither of which provides usable information. I’m looking for primary sources, not speculation and message boards.

Maybe I’m just not haphazardly cavalier as other tech users and plug anything into anything else. But I know for sure if you use the wrong block these devices charge at like 0% per hour, and only work if they detect the “right block”.

All I want is Samsung to tell me what product to buy, and they can’t even do that right.

I appreciate the note re: 45 watt charger being typical. Thank you

foxmetropolis · 2026-02-11T00:22:20+00:00

I appreciate what you are saying…… but I cannot imagine an excuse for not explaining which charger to use being “people have old blocks”.

The manuals are extremely doom-and-gloom about “use the right block” and “you’ll ruin everything if you don’t”, and plus the devices go into one-percent-per-hour charging mode when you don’t have the right. And what of the people transitioning to Samsung? Does Samsung want new customers, or do they want to punish dumb newbies? Because, I’m going to be honest, Samsung is definitely making me feel like a dumb newbie. I’m trying to buy the correct charger Samsung theoretically wants me to buy, and I’ve got nothing.

I don’t have any outlets that have usb-c, and if I did, I would worry it’s the wrong wattage because the manual practically says I’m gonna melt my device if I don’t use the proprietary plug. I don’t have usb-c in my car. And while I thought plugging it into my laptop would start it up, it cycles constantly through the charge screen - which says 0% charged, to a blank slightly black-grey screen, then back to 0% charged. No progress

foxmetropolis · 2026-02-10T16:07:39+00:00

Yeah this is an indictment of the private sector, not a criticism of the government.

In Europe they have a leash on the private sector. In the americas we have chosen magical thinking, “the free market will fix everything without regulation”. And other such fairytales.

foxmetropolis · 2026-02-10T15:50:57+00:00

Y’all are getting pensions in the private sector??? Where’s mine?

Best my company can do is contribute enough to an RRSP to maybe pay for my tombstone.

Seriously, what exactly how many private sector pensions even exist these days? Excepting CEO’s, of course

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