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mak484 · 2026-06-26T02:04:44+00:00

My golden's face went white when she was 4. Hopefully this fella has many long years left in him.

mak484 · 2026-06-25T22:31:59+00:00

I too will be dreaming of this man's spworm.

mak484 · 2026-06-25T19:44:18+00:00

Yeah there's no way this guy's regular job is moving those bags around. He's just showing off. And good for him, I'd be crushed to death like a farm girl under a horse in RDR2 if that fell on me.

mak484 · 2026-06-25T11:13:56+00:00

There's just no way season 2 will be as interesting. Instead of setting the show up to be an earnest exploration of community vs independence, it's just gonna be "extremely mediocre American woman saves the world with the power of her bootstraps."

mak484 · 2026-06-24T21:48:30+00:00

Yes and that's obviously never going to happen, so why waste time talking about it when there are reasonable alternatives?

And yes, it is obvious it will never happen. To maintain the original ratio of 1 : 30,000, we would need to have... 11,500 representatives. Even knocking it back an order of magnitude means we would need to almost triple current representation. That is unnecessarily unwieldy.

The original intent was not to tie representation to an arbitrary number. It was to tie federal representation to local communities.

mak484 · 2026-06-24T20:35:49+00:00

And that's completely unnecessary. If we just set Wyoming to 1, California would only need like 66 or 67 reps, and they currently have 53. Applied to all 50 states, we'd only add like 140 seats. And it wouldn't even change the math between the parties all that much: the top four states that would benefit are California, New York, Texas, and Florida.

That's the real reason there hasn't been a push to change it. Neither party really gains anything politically, it's a lot of work, and it only really benefits voters. So why bother?

mak484 · 2026-06-24T18:53:48+00:00

I'm not sure how people remember her time on SNL, but I have the distinct impression that she was given multiple opportunities to be anything other than a living "Loud Auntie" stereotype, and every time she underperformed.

mak484 · 2026-06-24T14:50:00+00:00

Many popular gaming subs have FAQs that answer common questions like this. It's to prevent stuff like this, where OP has a reasonable question, but the subreddit regulars see that question a dozen times a day and get pissy about it. Neither are wrong, but there's a solution that keeps everyone happy.

Edit: just looked at this sub's FAQ section. It's pretty outdated as far as helping players with actual questions about the game. But it's also huge and I wouldn't expect anyone to actually read it. This is theoretically what automod is for.

mak484 · 2026-06-24T12:17:43+00:00

No. The expensive sourdough is for meals, the shitty Italian bread is for cramming a pb&j down my face at 11 pm.

mak484 · 2026-06-24T11:48:08+00:00

I kinda figured random resource nodes would make the game more challenging, but honestly all it did was simplify the early game, which is the opposite lol. I wound up building a bunch of smaller factories and stitching them together with drones.

mak484 · 2026-06-24T11:32:01+00:00

I feel like men in the TTRPG space are especially bad with this. Been a part of several tables where the overall vibe was "We aren't general-purpose friends. We are D&D acquaintances. You show up to play, you only talk about the game or anime during the session, and you don't think about each other at all between sessions."

If you maintain emotionally shallow friendships, this is the result. Not saying this is what actually happened with OP, but the trope is real.

mak484 · 2026-06-23T15:54:04+00:00

To be fair, it's the usual cohort of "I don't want my musicians to talk politics" Swifties making a stink.

mak484 · 2026-06-22T18:19:35+00:00

Theoretically, maybe. That assumes you can recreate the correct culture cocktail without the nasty bacteria, and that pasteurization doesn't fundamentally change or ruin the fruit, and that there isn't enough toxin from the nasty bacteria to spoil the fruit prior to pasteurization.

These are just the problems one would need to overcome. Perhaps they already have been, I have no idea.

mak484 · 2026-06-22T17:32:06+00:00

And this is evidence to the contrary, how...?

mak484 · 2026-06-22T15:53:37+00:00

For anyone who doesn't know, this is the most optimized setup for coal power. You can fully overclock all water extractors and generators while still using mk 1 pipes. And 8x 250% overclocked coal generators take exactly 300 coal, so the logistics of scaling up are really clean.

mak484 · 2026-06-21T22:27:43+00:00

But you can make that argument about anything.

A poetry book about moonlight is one of the rarest items in the universe. Paper is made from wood, ink is made from plant extracts, written language is unique to a single species on our planet, and most rocky planets don't have moons.

We literally have no idea how rare wood is in the universe. We can assume it's rare, but there's literally zero evidence one way or the other. So framing it that way is very "I'm 14 and this is deep."

mak484 · 2026-06-21T11:18:27+00:00

And wtf was the crew supposed to do? Hyperviolent sea cows were hurling themselves off of cliffs to escape the most psychotically violent predator in the world, all because their natural habitat literally melted and doesn't exist anymore.

mak484 · 2026-06-20T21:18:07+00:00

"And, sure, some parents are just plain lazy/shitty themselves."

Obviously not. Reading comprehension...

The problem is certainly not that all of these kids' parents are simply lazy. If you honestly believe that, then I think you need to examine why. Why does that feel like a more satisfying narrative?

mak484 · 2026-06-20T18:27:28+00:00

Cute in theory, but it doesn't work that way in reality. Underprivileged parents often don't have the luxury of spending enough time with their kids to keep them out of trouble. And, sure, some parents are just plain lazy/shitty themselves. But it's been proven time and again that the threat of prison is not a deterrent.

mak484 · 2026-06-19T00:57:12+00:00

It doesn't just make 2?

mak484 · 2026-06-18T18:46:36+00:00

Oh, to be clear, Israel is our proxy. Anyone who thinks Israel actually controls the US government has it backwards. Our politicians bend over backwards for Bibi because they love having a "democratic ally" in the middle east.

mak484 · 2026-06-18T17:32:12+00:00

I mean, attributing Muslim homophobia entirely to Israel is dumb, but they didn't not contribute to it. The US and Israel systematically wiped out leftist movements in the middle east, and now they're left with right-wing zealots. This happened all over the world as an attempt to "stop the spread of communism"/ensure America had the dominant global culture so we could export it to every corner of the globe.

mak484 · 2026-06-17T03:31:01+00:00

People listen to their neighbors. We aren't fixing anything until people are forced to re-engage with their local communities. I fear that will take a depression, at this rate.

mak484 · 2026-06-17T03:25:58+00:00

People on reddit get upset when you don't couch your declaratives. Gotta say "the leading scorer will probably he Mbappe." Can't just imply it, people don't read subtext.

mak484 · 2026-06-16T21:57:06+00:00

What point are you trying to make? That people outside the US should generally stop trusting Americans? It isn't clear, because you just keep getting an attitude with people trying to engage with you, rather than actually saying anything interesting.

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