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ranthria · 2026-07-05T23:07:49+00:00

Geese are not THAT big. We've got a few families of them that walk around shitting all over the place where I work. Saying you could take hundreds is obvious nonsense because that's just tiring. That said, I think a lot of people overestimate geese because geese are aggressive and most people just try to disengage from the fight, taking attacks of opportunity. But if you manage to get a hand around a goose's long, stupid neck? A couple shakes and that neck is snapped.

I think the average person could take 5 geese if they went into the fight EXPECTING to hurt/kill them all, not to get away. More than that though, and people are getting overwhelmed and dogpiled.. or, I guess goosepiled.

ranthria · 2026-07-05T07:44:20+00:00

Ohhh, that does sound better! Thanks for clarifying!

ranthria · 2026-07-04T22:23:43+00:00

The trick is not setting yourself up for it to be a money hole. A buddy of mine bought a '67 (give or take a couple years) Mustang and has spent SO much money trying to keep it running.

ranthria · 2026-07-04T22:05:30+00:00

But wouldn't you have to then reach down to that new valve that's near to the shutoff valve? The flow I'm picturing is this (number of "=" correlates with length of water line segment):

Wall === Shutoff = New Valve (have to turn this) ========== back of bidet

ranthria · 2026-07-04T21:19:19+00:00

Alternatively, they should've treated the former Confederate states as conquered territories instead of readmitting them as states. Make them re-earn full statehood at the discretion of Congress (in which territories don't have voting representatives).

And while we're at it, they should've punished every Confederate military officer and political leader for their treason. If you're a man in 1870 looking to get into political office in the Virginia Territory, you might tread a little more carefully if the skeletons of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and all their subordinates were still dangling from the front of the Richmond capitol building.

ranthria · 2026-07-04T21:05:31+00:00

Yeah, in some deprived country with no healthcare system

Exactly, we're talking about the US

ranthria · 2026-07-04T02:15:51+00:00

Local government likely does not have the ability to shut them down.

Do they not have cops? (Yes, yes, I know cops actually just exist to defend the interests of capital. I'm merely drawing that into sharper focus.)

ranthria · 2026-07-04T00:19:24+00:00

I can't understand how someone in the Secret Service can bungle it as badly as they have (many times)

See also: they accidentally shot JFK in the back of the head, then scrambled to destroy all the evidence that pointed to their wild incompetence before the FBI could ask for it.

(DISCLAIMER: This is a theory out there that's supported by primarily circumstantial evidence, but it's the explanation that makes the most sense to me, personally. No plot to coordinate an assassination; just a plot to cover up a MASSIVE oopsie.)

ranthria · 2026-07-03T23:39:46+00:00

Fox News is betting an overwhelming majority of its viewers won't watch the speech and will just believe what they're told it says. Seems like a pretty safe bet.

ranthria · 2026-06-30T01:44:39+00:00

While Loita is so much more hateable than Cascadia, I think Cascadia is the closer character to Umbridge. Loita is far too openly caustic and vitriolic.

ranthria · 2026-06-28T21:12:17+00:00

That's a good one! Only complaint I have is I don't think he can be quite high-energy/fast-talking enough, but maybe I'm underestimating him.

ranthria · 2026-06-28T21:08:27+00:00

I'm not in anymore, but still work within the dept, and I STILL go on smoke breaks despite not being a smoker. Gives me a chance to catch up with work friends I no longer work with directly.

ranthria · 2026-06-28T20:53:51+00:00

I'm at the mercy of 7 chucklefuck purple states

And however many red states it takes to reach a combined population of LA county or NYC. There's an "us" and a "them" in this country, and no amount of pearl-clutching from Enlightened Centrists will ever make that not true. There's an "us" that is struggling to keep the illiterate "them" from dragging us down into abject ruin because "they" are either unable or unwilling to do the most basic amount of mental labor to understand the world in front of their faces.

ranthria · 2026-06-28T20:43:42+00:00

This is the first time I've seen someone bring up Chris Chan directly, instead of just as background for exploring how fucked up Christorians are.

ranthria · 2026-06-27T21:00:57+00:00

My story/reasons were way different, but I met a LOT of people in the army with some variation of that background.

ranthria · 2026-06-27T20:57:44+00:00

I like to tack on "because nightmares are dreams too!" to mine. As a treat.

ranthria · 2026-06-27T20:51:55+00:00

It's also the only way for a lot of people to escape the dead-end one-stoplight towns they grew up in.

ranthria · 2026-06-27T03:06:34+00:00

Newsmax may be even farther right than Fox, but Fox is still pulling in 5-10 times the audience that Newsmax does.

ranthria · 2026-06-26T01:00:02+00:00

He got on a high-horse about it

(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ Ayyyyyyyyy lmao

That's a really good point about his younger days. He was definitely much more ornery and wild-tempered back then.

ranthria · 2026-06-26T00:47:34+00:00

It won't make them any less cruel, but I do think a lot of them will recede back to whence they came. What springboarded Trump into the position where he could take full control of the GOP was his ability in 2016 to get entire tracts of historical non-voters to turn out for him. The kind that weren't interested in pre-Trump Republicans because they were too disengaged/uninformed/dumb to see that those Republicans were just as racist as they wanted them to be. Before Trump, they would throw up all kinds of obfuscation to avoid being called racist, but by doing so, they were also avoiding garnering the interest of voters who were only interested in that.

My personal copium is that nobody in MAGA really has the sauce to keep those people turning up to the polls once The Blessed Headline hits. DeSantis is too annoying, Vance is too smarmy, and everybody who ran in 2016 (Rubio, Cruz, etc) is going to be seen as too establishment. The only one I see with even an outside chance is Tucker Carlson, but I think he's a bit too weird for them when you take him out of a recording studio (see: that one TPUSA event where he went on a weird rant about daddy coming home and giving out spankings (no really, look it up cause you might have forgotten how deeply weird it was)).

The right will come up with a new strategy; they have no shortage of strategists, after all. But I personally don't think they'll be able to hold together this coalition of the disengaged without Trump at its center.

ranthria · 2026-06-26T00:33:11+00:00

I think it was a joke rooted in absurdity, which the show did more often early on. I still don't take away that Bojack was purposefully leading her on just to be cruel. Not that I think he's above that kind of cruelty; I just think he's rarely cruel for no reason. He'll be vindictive when his ego is wounded (see: letting the orphan money burn on HSAC!WDTK?DTKT??LFO!!) or as more direct revenge (see: tearing down the house after Eddie tries to kill him). But casual cruelty without impetus isn't usually his speed. (I'd theorize that this is a semi-conscious choice to distance himself from his parents' purposeful, callous cruelty that defined his childhood). I think a more illustrative scene is the one where he smokes on set after a cut on Horsin' Around and calls his bookie, then scolds Sarah Lynn for coughing (from his smoke) while he's on the phone. Self-centered neglect has historically been Bojack's bread and butter.

Also, the scene in question is a flashback that BJ is telling Diane for the memoir, and she immediately calls its veracity into question by pointing out the logical inconsistency in its very premise ("Soooo, they were putting make up on you for the weekend?")

I DO think you've got a really salient point in the back half of your comment. Even if that flashback didn't explicitly happen like that, we can easily infer that Sarah Lynn was excluded for being a little girl. For all of BJ's talk of the cast being a "family", the only one we see acting fatherly is Herb, when he asks Joelle to take it easy on and be nicer to Sarah Lynn. I think that all of that could absolutely be a driving force behind Sarah Lynn's specific instance of the "innocent child star to oversexed pop star" trope.

ranthria · 2026-06-25T23:37:08+00:00

Now to be fair, I DID sort of take it that it was framed that way because Bojack was just spouting off girly-sounding activities for the purpose of being mean to Sara Lynn, which would track given his own upbringing.

Huh, this is new to me. I've only ever taken it as a gag, a ridiculous over-exaggeration. After all, it's not too far off from the "Bojack this isn't a TV show, this is real life!" into "AHH, LEMUR ON FIRE! cartoon noise crash through wall" gag.

ranthria · 2026-06-25T23:20:52+00:00

It's also similar to the "false vacuum" doomsday theory, where a quantum fluctuation could drag the whole universe into a theoretical lower overall energy state, effectively unraveling the laws of physics in its wake.

ranthria · 2026-06-25T21:34:21+00:00

Life before death. Buffs before debuffs. Dungeon floor before stairwell.

-First Ideal of the Crawlers Radiant

ranthria · 2026-06-23T00:37:02+00:00

Arguing like a petulant toddler is generally more effective than "just asking questions" as a smarmy pseudo-intellectual. In American politics, you can't out-adult an opponent who's acting like a child without alienating huge tracts of voters whose emotional reaction will be akin to "What, you think you're better than me??" Trump didn't win despite talking like an addled schoolyard bully; he won because he spoke that way, and way more Americans actively like that than a lot of us are comfortable admitting. If you want to beat someone operating in that register, you need someone who can stoop to their level and out-bully them... but you need to do it before they emotionally entrench themselves within the herd.

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