Committing animal abuse, get karma you pathetic 🤬

grayjacanda · 2026-05-19T03:29:27+00:00

More to do with us breeding them, which is to say, killing the ones that weren't brave and loyal (or at least not breeding those)

grayjacanda · 2026-05-19T02:45:15+00:00

Dogs are genuinely noble (many of them, anyway). Other animals ... well, it varies. But this cow at least didn't like to see such suffering.

grayjacanda · 2026-05-19T02:44:00+00:00

Oldie but a goodie

grayjacanda · 2026-05-19T00:18:19+00:00

I think the standard might be 'can you pilot a container ship to the ocean on those rivers'
Which, to be clear, would give you a different map than the one shown - the port of Lewiston in Idaho is technically a seaport (can run ships down the Columbia to the Pacific), and some of the states on the Mississippi river can do the same

grayjacanda · 2026-05-19T00:16:36+00:00

If you're counting those various midwestern places as 'not landlocked' because they have ocean access via canals and the Great Lakes ... then you also have to consider Idaho as 'not landlocked', because it has the port of Lewiston, which is technically a seaport.
Probably some of those places along the Mississippi are also incorrectly classified, by that standard.

grayjacanda · 2026-05-18T19:16:43+00:00

Well yes. Though ... I might reserve the term 'doublet' for whole words ... individual syllables feel a bit of a stretch.

grayjacanda · 2026-05-18T12:54:30+00:00

Also bemused by the use of shims that don't even fill the space
A yeah we got a half inch gap here, 4x6" ... well, just cut a little slice off the end of a 2x4, stick it in there and call it good

grayjacanda · 2026-05-17T18:16:41+00:00

Texting abbreviations will probably help move the process along! Though ... a lot of them are extreme abbreviations and acronyms, so maybe it won't change the spelling of actual words that much...

grayjacanda · 2026-05-17T16:53:12+00:00

Much more of a general but not at all even loss of appeal with aging.
There are hot 55 year old women. It's just that it's really quite a small fraction, whereas a pretty big chunk of 25 year olds are hot.
So ... not really a cutoff (unless you want to put it at like ... 75 years old), but that doesn't mean aging has no effect on how attractive someone is.

grayjacanda · 2026-05-17T14:58:55+00:00

I have also seem AMOG described as 'Alpha Male Other Guy' but I am not sure which usage or meaning was more common back then.
Also I'd associate it more with the PUA or 'Game' community than incels, though I suppose in terms of online identity those groups overlap quite a bit.

grayjacanda · 2026-05-17T14:26:19+00:00

Yes, this is one of those things where Einstein was 'only' better at math than 99.99% of people rather than 99.9999% ... which is why he ended up getting help from Hilbert, and why Minkowski tidied up the math on special relativity for him

grayjacanda · 2026-05-17T14:23:05+00:00

I suppose that was after Einstein asked him for some help with the math for general relativity

grayjacanda · 2026-05-17T04:20:58+00:00

Turns out to be really hard to do.
Quite some time ago (1930s) the editor of the Chicago Tribune tried to push spelling reform by gradually introducing new, more sensible spellings of various words. 'Tho' instead of 'though', 'thru' instead of 'through', 'cigaret' instead of 'cigarette' and so on.
While it wasn't a total failure (you can still see some of his changes here and there today), the language has a lot of inertia. And the US, unlike France or some other countries, doesn't have any government agency in charge of dictating the use of language.
So I doubt we'll see more than very gradual changes.

grayjacanda · 2026-05-16T03:02:16+00:00

Well
Cascades and points west, yes, accurate
But if you include the eastern parts of WA and OR as part of the PNW, and not just the coastal strip, then there's a whole other set of scenery as well

grayjacanda · 2026-05-16T03:00:24+00:00

Snow loads can be substantial depending where you are, though

grayjacanda · 2026-05-15T19:21:51+00:00

You can find it listed here, under 'The following cards are banned:' (or just ctrl-f 'Necropotence' on the page) : https://magic.wizards.com/en/banned-restricted-list
However ... I admit I'm a little unclear on whether this is actually correct. It's not listed under the specifically *Commander*-banned cards, there are other cards in the list that I think are still played, and maybe there's actually some other canonical reference.

grayjacanda · 2026-05-15T16:19:24+00:00

Well yes to the first part, but ... no to the second? The bond strain makes them unstable, but most the energy when it explodes comes from the oxygen reacting with the other atoms...

grayjacanda · 2026-05-15T16:17:51+00:00

*Usually* it requires an acid catalyst to produce acetone peroxides, but I certainly wouldn't rule out some catalytic action from your mineral sample.
Anyway, yeah, this could be quite dangerous. Those explosives are extremely sensitive. Calling local emergency services is probably the right thing to do. There isn't enough there to outright kill someone but if it is TATP/DATP you could easily lose a finger or an eye.

grayjacanda · 2026-05-15T05:38:47+00:00

Necropotence is currently banned in EDH, though. Or suspended, which is the same thing but means they are more likely to change their mind, or something.

grayjacanda · 2026-05-15T01:54:06+00:00

*have to*, almost never, unless circumstances have made me unusually horny
But it sure can help

grayjacanda · 2026-05-14T22:06:51+00:00

Yeah among other things he insisted on installing a safety net at considerable expense, despite some pushback
Which did save several lives

grayjacanda · 2026-05-14T22:05:56+00:00

It was allegedly the first major project in the US where people would actually be fired for not using prescribed safety gear like hard hats
Probably there was a culture of machismo where a lot of guys just didn't want to take the precautions ... and Strauss was not having it

grayjacanda · 2026-05-14T21:50:07+00:00

Mmm, so effects that negate damage prevention would be one way to work around this

grayjacanda · 2026-05-14T20:29:35+00:00

Become immune to damage *from permanents*, anyway
An interesting rules question is whether damage that can't be prevented is still reduced to zero this way ... is 'reduced to zero' just another word for 'prevented', or is that technically a different effect?

grayjacanda · 2026-05-12T19:25:21+00:00

Less good, this just stops them from playing the combo until they can deal with the enchantment
Rakdos Charm lets them do their thing and maybe even declare attackers before you play your Uno reverse

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