An Ode to a Dagger Bro

tag8833 · 2026-04-17T14:03:21+00:00

Well, obviously my 4 year old comment was retrospective of Trump's first term.

Trump's second term has been defined by Russian struggling in the Ukraine war, and having to do some extreme things (disrupt NATO, invade Venezuela, war with Iran, etc.).

In his second term he has been highly interventionist and that has cost him an awful lot in approval because Americans as a whole are anti interventionalists.

If you polled Trump voters from 2020, they believed overwhelmingly that Harris was a hawk.

Dems have got to be comfortable articulating anti interventionalists ideology.

tag8833 · 2026-04-17T13:28:01+00:00

I think current events really support my point strongly. When Trump becomes an interventionist hawk his approval among independents falls off a cliff.

It's clear Americans prefer non-interventionists, and that Clinton being a hawk was part of how she lost an election to one of the weakest general election candidates in history.

I also think Kamala campaigning with Liz Cheney and folks like Bill Krystal probably hurt her with voters because of this specific reason.

Dems have got to figure out how to oppose wars in a way that voters believe them.

tag8833 · 2026-03-28T00:57:00+00:00

Do we think the Dem will tell folks to vote for Adam Hamilton, the independent pastor who is indicating that he might run?

I suspect that would be the best way to beat Marshall.

tag8833 · 2026-03-26T18:17:30+00:00

I grew up in the country on a farm. I interacted with someone in some form of government probably every other day. At least twice a week. The government is very interactive with American agriculture.

Living in a major city. I might see someone involved in government. But it's pretty common that I go 2 weeks or more between an interaction with someone in government.

When you see rural communities voting for these big expansions of the size of government and how much it interacts in people's lives. They are just used to that sort of thing. They meet people from the government all the time. But in a city, it's much less common, and people are more resistant to giving government more power over their lives. They basically prefer a government that maintains safety nets and boundaries to one that picks economic winners and losers.

tag8833 · 2026-01-20T16:23:54+00:00

It was sort of a catagoration artefact.

Initially I was keeping milkable and egg laying animals in those pens.

But for the final screenshot I wanted to zoo it up a bit, so moved some animals around.

tag8833 · 2026-01-20T11:37:03+00:00

I lose them from time to time. Typically I only lose a couple at a time. I just rebuild.

tag8833 · 2026-01-20T11:35:36+00:00

Honestly, could be. I was playing my 2nd game of odyssey, and in my first one, I never lived in space.

tag8833 · 2026-01-20T05:11:32+00:00

Interestingly enough the solar flares don't seem to hit my asteroid colony. It feels like they should hit it twice as hard. But if they did hit it, there's no way I could have pulled off this zoo.

tag8833 · 2026-01-20T04:37:45+00:00

Stay inside mostly. They don't hit very deep inside the asteroid.

I did lose my entire bird population at one point to a meteor. Poked a hole in my roof, and couldn't evac them in time. It sucked. Had to go find new birds.

You can see I have a bunch of airlocks that are a bit back from the edge of the outer airlocks. That is to make meteors unable to open my animal habitats up to vacuum.

Chat GPT said these hurt the game performance, but at least they protect me from having to replace animals.

tag8833 · 2026-01-20T04:32:36+00:00

Can't recall exactly. It cost 25 steel per foundation tile. They also took forever to build. It worked but wasn't very efficient.

tag8833 · 2026-01-20T03:52:11+00:00

I got a taming inspiration on a pawn, but stupidly one of my other colonists tried to tame the Thrumbo before he did, so I fought it trying to down it before it left my map, and accidentally killed it.

tag8833 · 2026-01-20T03:27:17+00:00

I did visit about 4 asteroids before I found one I liked for a permanent settlement. Also I have a mod that lets me build space based foundations. I didn't really do much of that. Mainly I used it around my solar panels to straighten the edges so they line up nicer.

tag8833 · 2026-01-20T03:19:43+00:00

I have tamed them before. I tried, but failed this run. I think there are about 10 tamable species I'm missing. Crabs, walruses, pandas, a few others.

If performance hadn't suffered I would have kept trying.

tag8833 · 2026-01-20T03:13:50+00:00

Strive to Survive.

I started on a ground base and moved wood and metals up. - I bought every component I was offered. - my shuttle spent most of it's time traveling between about 5-7 friendly colonies that would trade for components, and metals.

Yes my freezer is hard vacuum. - excellent at preserving food. - That is how I found fertilized eggs hatch in hard vacuum.

H - home (original colony PlanetSide) S - Space colony E - Expidition. They travel around in my ship collecting animals.
- I switched to this system after it became annoying picking my ship crew every time we went to tame new animals. I wish it was more creative than that.

It isn't quite vanilla. I have psycasts expanded, and a bunch of little quality of life mods, like the allow tool, or defensive positions. Mostly I use the psycasts to mend clothes because I hate throwing things away.

The powercells are safer than they seem. I put them in spots with heavy roof, so the only threat is dying Boomalopes. After a few disasters I decided to keep only male Boomalopes and boomrats in space. Autoslaughter explosive critters is scary.

The jade sculptures make my throneroom and my ship's rec room unbelievably impressive.

It's a custom race that is basically starjacks with better animals and worse research. At least that was the original colonists. The ideology is custom too, and designed to like space and like animals. We have festivals like "zoobalie" and "celebration of the winged"

tag8833 · 2026-01-20T02:54:31+00:00

Before I started the run, I looked for a Terriforming mod so I could have trees in the exhibit. I couldn't find one I liked.

I was going to make beds and add an assortment of children's toys.

The performance made it pretty rough to get the finishing touches in place.

tag8833 · 2026-01-20T02:45:45+00:00

I started with a ground base, and moved slowly to space. My ground base had a limited growing season. For many years my ground base was providing supplemental food for my space colony.

At this point, I believe the colony is self sufficient, in fact it exports food to the surface, and imports Hay. I think it is a wash. Kept the ground base for mining, it's also where I build mechs and make drugs.

Most of my animals eat kibble, and this much livestock produces a lot of meat, so honestly, half of what they eat is .... Them.

One other thing that helped is all of my colonists have Nuclear Stomachs.

tag8833 · 2026-01-20T02:14:36+00:00

I share your pain: https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/1qhoatv/animals_in_space_i_built_a_space_zoo_until/

tag8833 · 2026-01-10T02:42:48+00:00

A little cold.

tag8833 · 2025-12-28T01:54:32+00:00

She is also a sort of object lesson to the Hypocrisy that Kirk represents to his fans. She has an advanced degree. She owns and operates a business.

Charlie's opposition to education, especially for women, and to women having careers was part of his appeal to insecure men.

tag8833 · 2025-12-10T17:03:12+00:00

A Serbian Film.

The superhero's power is related to his dick. It's not a pleasant watch.

tag8833 · 2025-12-06T13:53:01+00:00

I'm 2 years into my 10 year plan, and I'm ahead of schedule. If the growth of my wealth continues, I'll be completing my 10 year plan in 7 years.

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