Did someone say neutralizing civilian disobedience with artillery and mechanized armored cavalry?! :D

Tankies love this one simple trick!

~(lengthly disclaimer: i am sarcastically referencing the literal historical situations where governments have done this and I DO NOT make a habit of calling any actual person a ‘tankie’ under any circumstance, let alone for the flimsy pretense of “they’re a leftist but in a way I don’t like”. The only real tankies are the ones who use tanks to murder civilians, period.)~

Rice is especially great because it’s one of those dry goods that i can keep for basically indefinite quantities of time.

Well, there certainly are “”““people””“” (Nationalist Christians, aka Nat-Cs) who think I am skilled and experienced at eating babies, so… I guess???

I only buy packages, containers, or cartons that will sit within my nutritional budget to eat all of in a single sitting. One, maybe two of those = one meal. Especially those wonderful single-course entrees I can buy at ALDI for like six bucks a pop. That’s actually a day’s worth of food. Especially because I tend to eat one meal a day (when i am behaving).

Costco rotisserie chickens rock my fucking world too. Those things can be more than one meal!

I will also buy packages of “salad mix”–mixed greens with a few other veggies in it,
and then I’ll add a nice dash of salt, and either a splash of apple cider vinegar or a liberal dusting of Parmesan cheese and a sprinkle of red pepper flakes, then shake it all up and just GO TO TOWN on the whole container.

The only perishables I buy are things of this sort that I will most certainly eat RIGHT AWAY.

Everything else is either
a: canned goods where i’ll use the whole can at once adding to one of the above items
or,
b: non-perishable usually dry goods with which i can augment other things with pinches and dashes at a time (there are some things like vinegar or certain hot sauces that age and develop more flavor over time).

If a government wants to vaporize a civilian population, all they have to do is pretend there are enemy combatants hiding amongst them “using them as human shields” and “we can’t let them think that works or they’ll do it more”. Funny how they always keep doing it anyway though. It’s almost as if it doesn’t matter whether it’s actually happening or not and brutal fascist regimes will pulp children and parents alike into chunky salsa irrespective of their claims’ validity. Huh. Really makes ya think.

ywwahi

… china is looking better and better all the time :\

here in the 'states, people always reflexively bark “but you can criticize the government here without being thrown in jail or executed” and yet that statement is becoming shakier and shakier by the DAY. The US government has detained and attempted to disappear legal residents for criticizing the regime, and It’s starting to look terrifyingly possible that they’ll soon do that to full-fledged CITIZENS TOO.

Man. We are fucking cooked.

it’s a shame that when scum fights scum there are so many innocent civilians who will suffer. there are no good guys in this. A little bully with rich parents picked a fight with a big bully and everything that can come out of this will suck.

This is why compartmentalization and dissociation have become skills ._.

But some friends of mine have described it as a higher stakes form of LARPing.

Who you are at work is your character. Your character can believe things that you never would.
Such as, being a half-elf dual-class ranger/sorcerer and knowing how to fight with two swords while hurling magic missiles.
Alternatively, being a “libertarian conservative” who believes guns deserve more rights than people >_<

Other friends of mine in the furry fandom frame it like their various collections of furry critters – just another 'sona.
Not a fursona, but a WORK-SONA.

Close, but more like radioactive family.

The fact that we can choose to enhance the permissions beyond their default scope on a case by case basis is powerful.

Oh absolutely 💜 if they’re passionate about a subject I can listen to someone talk about practically Anything! Enthusiasm is infectious in the best possible ways… I wish I had more opportunities to encourage people to let loose about the stuff they love.

… feels kinda like someone saying “period full stop”

it’s like they’re doing a mic drop >_>

“Come on over!”

“Come on WHAT? Over.”

I like what he said about the tree of liberty.

that tree’s lookin mighty fuckin thirsty lately.

On impulse my subconscious cognitive stack attempted to run this check on myself before I even finished reading it and it was kind of a pleasant surprise to find myself spoiled for choice o_o

(if i had to narrow it down just five: 1. my best friend who i met through a niche fandom in 2012, 2. the friend i’ve had the longest since we were in middle school in the late '90s, 3. my partner, 4. the person who owns the discord server i consider my home, and 5. someone i used to date but we’ve kinda been DM penpals for years because of overlapping interests and i looove the fiction she writes online ^^)

glad i’m not the kind of dipshit who would try to gatekeep someone for their interests, although i fear i might run afoul of it by accident because i’ll see someone wearing a Dream Theater shirt and be SO excited that they’re into a band I used to be crazy about back in the day that I blurt out dumb superlative questions in a hamfisted attempt to socialize x_x;

OH WOW WHATS YOUR FAVORITE SONG gosh i havent listened to them in way too long i used to listen to six degrees of inner turbulence on like a daily basis and they’ll mistake my eagerness for aggression ;~;

i fucking hate being amab…

Part of why i knew so-called “digital rights management” was fucking bullshit was because very little software ever came out that empowered me to manage MY OWN rights in the digital space.

I need there to be FOSS applications that allow me to root-level BLOCK applications from perceiving what I’m doing, to just fucking SANDBOX ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING BY DEFAULT and let me whitelist what specific things are allowed to directly access the hardware.

Sadly I am not as tech savvy as I used to think I was. I might’ve been technologically clever twenty years ago but I hadn’t managed to keep up… I think what I’ve described might be referred to as a “hypervisor”? And I’m told it’s an overbearing, clumsy, heavy-handed overkill measure that would be difficult to implement and make everything a pain in the ass to do. So … shit, man, I dunno… i’m just so damn tired of my hardware being bossed around by people I didn’t authorize.