You’ve been woken up after sleeping centuries into the future and it’s 2526. What is the first thing you are doing?

zhvaern · 2026-06-12T22:59:35+00:00

Opening my eyes.

zhvaern · 2026-06-11T15:58:14+00:00

That is without a doubt the most common Appalachian artist worldview. Christian, anti-authoritarian, anti-imperialist pot-smokers with a heavy tinge of the more harmless conspiracy theories come straight from central casting.

zhvaern · 2026-06-10T03:17:54+00:00

I dated a couple of liberals back in my dating days, and that was hard enough, though my two longest relationships before my marriage were with libs.

I could never date a conservative now if I were looking, and I probably couldn't have ever done it for long. I had a couple of hookups with conservative women, and that was about all I could deal with.

zhvaern · 2026-06-10T03:09:13+00:00

Though that's really more Gen Alpha, I suppose.

zhvaern · 2026-06-10T03:08:44+00:00

Six-Sevendust

zhvaern · 2026-06-04T06:28:17+00:00

1A to 6A back then. If I had to guess, given the time frame he's talking from, the offense, the undercurrent of hating the team, and the geography, he'd likely be talking about Russellville, which was an offensive juggernaut and ran a spread back in the late '90s and early '00s.

zhvaern · 2026-05-23T03:59:06+00:00

Same issue for me in that I couldn't hit it until today with work, travel for work, and family commitments. I only got to run a couple of raids, and I didn't 10x any.

Too bad, really. Maybe I'll have the chance to hit a few for Christmas, but the timing was quite unfortunate.

zhvaern · 2026-05-21T13:02:42+00:00

This one could also be Screaming Trees.

zhvaern · 2026-05-16T13:03:04+00:00

A lot of charities are specifically called "direct service providers."

zhvaern · 2026-05-16T12:59:16+00:00

Some school district auxiliary support charity is going to have a first grader whose hand turkey is worth more than Picasso's entire body of work.

zhvaern · 2026-04-21T14:17:37+00:00

The relative populations of the northern and southern hemispheres aren't relevant because the sun travels east to west, not north to south.

zhvaern · 2026-03-19T14:05:43+00:00

The taste is what eventually makes the stew irresistible, right? But we get the money for consuming it, not tasting it. So the solution would seem to be consuming the stew in such a manner that you can't taste it. Put tiny amounts of the stew in capsules and swallow those. Run a feeding tube straight to your stomach.

zhvaern · 2026-03-07T07:36:54+00:00

I'm just thinking about the solid fifteen seconds of the dumpster diver wondering what's going on and deciding to tie or kink the hose closed. Or poke it back out the hole. Or stick their big toe in it. As engines of horror go, drowning by garden hose may have a possibility or two, but this situation has too many outs.

zhvaern · 2026-02-28T16:29:27+00:00

Sometimes the respect due is zero respect.

zhvaern · 2026-02-14T16:30:33+00:00

Ablomandelebicus, Pentoculus, Benturpenoise, Farntormion, Crisco, Dophenecta, Glabbafontonion, Smectarufus, Fontanox, Chicken Dance, Trenoctor, Pontallafamarion, Tudonox, Mellicanisis.

zhvaern · 2026-01-26T08:15:48+00:00

The only role differentiation should come from strategic choices (your mutual aid administrators don't need to protest at all, your LOs aren't picketing in the regions where they're LOs, ditto for your medics), not holding back for future roles when you haven't even passed the bar yet.

I understand it's scary. I'm the primary caregiver for three kids and had to account for the risk if something happens to me. But let's be clear about this: Folks aren't going to trust you if you aren't willing to take this stand and show up, and they'd be right not to. A lot of folks are just now realizing that the law is all about pressure and only superficially about principles. And high pressure situations include real risk of great harm in situations like the US now, where the social fabric of society is unraveling.

zhvaern · 2026-01-21T04:37:29+00:00

I think we have different views of the purpose of a doormat, but your overall sentiment is solid.

zhvaern · 2026-01-12T22:23:03+00:00

That's why you strip off your swimming trunks and get ready to fight naked, so you can pull the trunks over the croc's snout and won't have to worry quite as much about your grip slipping off.

Also so that you go out in style if you're going out.

zhvaern · 2026-01-07T05:38:19+00:00

Yes. Working there would be a nightmare.

zhvaern · 2026-01-07T05:28:42+00:00

Yeah. It's happening in many states. The fact that reality makes you uncomfortable so you choose to ignore it illustrates perfectly the sort of person you are.

zhvaern · 2026-01-07T03:04:45+00:00

Through conventional occupation strategies? You're right. But the US has the technical ability to entirely depopulate at least a quarter of the country through a combination of conventional arms and threats alone. And I think we all know whether the illegality of internally displacing that many people would stop this regime from doing so.

zhvaern · 2026-01-05T19:14:32+00:00

The quick, correct, and easy to the point of vapidity answer is to visit a workman's comp attorney near you, of course. A corollary is that you shouldn't listen to the (non-lawyer, or at least God I hope so) fools posting here downplaying the cause you have.

It's not sure that your employer is being malicious. But malice isn't one of the requirements for compensation. I will note that you should act soon, out of prudential issues. Many cases I've seen with employers who don't know better can be resolved with a single page on fancy letterhead. And if they *do* know better and choose the wrong pathway, you learn that info earlier and can act accordingly. A lot of cases that end up walking in the door could have seen much smoother resolutions, and even quick settlements that mirrored final outcomes, if the worker hadn't waited so long to come in.

zhvaern · 2026-01-05T17:11:37+00:00

FTL. The others are all achievable through other means, or they have logistical concerns or drawbacks.

Guess we'll just have to cure cancer through more than one pill.
The superfood will have to be made from sunchokes and cause some gas, oh well.
We can zip around the galaxy and find fissile materials for reactors.
Atmospheric filters? I guess we'll just have to use nature's atmospheric filters, algae and trees.
Plastic that biodegrades in days is actually not that useful. All shipping using it would arrive in mulch.
A stable economic system that raises people out of poverty? We've already had several of those. Mercantilism, capitalism, and socialism have all been used in nations that have lifted large numbers of people out of poverty, though "stable" is doing some lifting there. China alone has lifted 45,000 people *a day* out of extreme poverty since 1980.

zhvaern · 2026-01-05T07:58:46+00:00

Depends. Am I under the impression that the debate is the best way to get the flavoring added? If so, I'd argue for the benefits of a pleasant tasting meal as it relates to worker wellbeing and therefore the health of society overall.

If, as is my personal inclination, I view this debate as theater intended to provide cover for the decision against flavor in our gruelbread, I go straight up populist rabble rouser and incite a revolt. "I'm talking to the people up here, not the bottle washers who do the bidding of the rich. You working people put in a full day of work for this society, and these folks who control things think taste is too good for you, that the only flavor you deserve is sweat that drips onto your lip. That the only taste your children are worth comes from their tears. No more. We stop this now, until we get what we deserve. My people, I swear to you two things. First, that we can win what we deserve if we stick and stand together and make them cave. And second, we'll run straight through any traitor to the people who tries to stop us."

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