wizardbeard

I get the idea, but you gotta get one big enough to stretch out in. Back and muscle stiffness from having to curl up to fit aren't fun. Definitely isn't helpful for any sort of sexy time, pet play, or even just general day to day existence.

I've slept in small spaces before without much between me and the floor, and plenty of awkward "just grab the space you can and make the best of it". No cage, but a pile of pillows and blankets on the floor in a hotel room when I missed the last train back to my accomodations at a convention, another time at a con when the hotel let us book a room with a pull out couch but then didn't actually have one in our room (and was booked solid so there wasn't anywhere to put me), many nights crashing on friends' couches or the floor when the couch was already taken, one night in a beanbag chair when about 20 people crammed into a 2 bed apartment before a huge camping trip, air matresses, crappy 20 year old pull out couches, cots, cramped overfilled tents... you get the picture.

The biggest and most consistent thing for comfort I've found was getting enough space that I didn't have to crunch myself tight and keep myself in a specific position the whole night.

Space > temperature > surface for your head > whatever is under your body, at least imo.

Thanks, I'm disgusted and vaguely aroused.

What would you even call those? Pop titties? Popudder?

Whatever you were going to do, don't.

Can baby chickens fit through half block gaps? Do you have any one block gaps in that structure? Hard to tell with connected textures on and that all being glass.

Long long ago I got killed because I didn't know zombie children were a thing and one got through a one block gap.

Arguably if the speed was increased it might get results, but I think it'd just be more likely that they'd burn some of their stupid amounts of money on more security and stuff like popemobile booths.

At the end of the day the US populace can't provide meaningful resistance to the full might of our military industrial complex, if things were to ever get that far. And I don't think that our currenr administration would have any issues misusing our military for protection of these assholes.

So we have to organize. If we truly want to overwhelm the military, we'd need to overwhelm them with literal piles of bodies.

If we want to attempt less bloodshed and lives lost, which I would hope most people would want, than we still need to organize and put up a strong front while turning their "allies on the ground" to our side. That means that yes, we need to start doing more concentrated effort to turn our asshole republican neighbors instead of just shunning them. Start sharing techniques and talking points for slowly turning folks, build up your tolerance so you can spend time in their presence slowly dropping the seeds because changing people's minds takes time.

On the other end, start pulling normal people currently just voting Democrat into more action like showing up to city council votes, into community service and support organizations, and make sure that we're broadcasting these public goods well and with good branding. Increase engagement across the board.

Do like the "best" Christian groups do and just do unimpeachable good loudly while quietly wearing the affiliation on your sleeve to draw people in, then turn them when they already see you as a good person doing good things.

None of these techniques are new, especially in the Christian church. We just need to fight the feelings of hopelessness, isolation, and the "well your idea of better isn't my exact idea of better" purity test bullshit you see from people online who for example won't be satisfied until the end of capitalism entirely... so that we present a united front as a force for general good.

You think the issues with your health insurance is Obamacare? Whatever brother we're here to help. Eventually down the line we'll start steering you right once we've built that relationship. You're homeschooling your kids to avoid the woke, but need assistance in a subject you can't teach them? We're here to help. Eventually we'll start steering you right.

It's exhausting, time consuming work. But it does work for changing hearts and minds.

Organize. Lone vigilantes carrying out incredibly sporadic assassinations against poor target choices isn't going to make things better.

The Nepalese didn't overthrow their government by a couple of folks shooting a couple of folks spread out over months.

He cancelled one event? Holy shit the world is healed!

You aren't wrong that these people are cowards.

But Luigi didn't change health insurance. It pushed one bad move from a former United Healthcare exec back but didn't stop it, and now there's proposed kickbacks for AI companies whenever their AI denies medicare or medicaid coverage.

There is so damn much broken and I understand the sheer desperation, but lone vigilantes carrying out sporadic and infrequent assassinations with poor target choices are not going to cause long term positive change.

Yeah, that's a holdover from the original original game from the 90s where a big part of the early game was simply struggling to detect alien activity to stop them in the firat place while they stealthily tried to infiltrate the world governments to cut your limited funding.

You weren't the best and last line of defense, you were just the people crazy enough to believe aliens were a threat, with tenuous connections to get funds from governments to try and fund the fight. There's plenty of in game data about how all your starting equipment is military hand me downs and whatever mothballed prototype designs your team could snatch up on the cheap and retrofit. You can also field squads of up to 14 soldiers from the start, which helps because things are far more of a meat grinder and less of a "just keep enough squads to rotate folks out". Up through mid game, losing two soldiers a mission isn't unusual.

The initial scrappiness and meat grinder aspects were significantly lessened in the more recent XCOM reboot from 2012, which tends to be a more fun experience overall, but does lead to a little bit of dissonance.

Considering they said they admin multiple Linux servers, I highly doubt they're unaware of LibreOffice.

Having used both, Calc is severely lacking in the ease of use department once you start trying to use it seriously with formulas and such. Some of that is familiarity, but it goes deeper than that.

I significantly doubt killing Charlie Kirk of all people is going to effect change. At least, it's not going to be positive change.

The right is emboldened greatly by every situation like this. Yes, they've just been looking for an excuse and would be horrible anyway, but this accelerates things by giving them more definitive cover.

They're already making shit up about evidence of "trans and leftist stuff" carved into the bullets or casings (tabloids and the WSJ have run with this) when there's no actual proof.

Turning Point USA will stumble for a bit while they find a new talking head capable of carrying their bullshit platform, but there's a glut of right wing influencers (and people willing to play one for money) that will fill the gap.

Also, he was shot in front of his kids. They're already fucked up enough having him as a dad without seeing him catch a bullet in front of them and die.

Look, I've got no tears to shed for this balloon headed ass. But this is not a victory. Even if you support the idea of using violence to achieve change, this was a piss poor target.

I would add "communicating on social media without a VPN outside of your country's allied reach" as well. But proper social media hygiene is too big of a concept to fit in a nice snappy clip or quick statement like this.

Anyway, the shit some of y'all (social media users across all platforms) are posting in the wake of Charlie Kirk losing the gun control debate is screaming "add me to another watchlist and correlate to my real identity please!"

Best part is when system level prompts leak and they're at least 50% this.

It astounds me that the controls for these systems largely amount to just the same interface they give the end users, but just inserted before we get to interact with it. What a clown show.