PolarKraken @ PolarKraken @sh.itjust.works Posts 0Comments 30Joined 1 wk. ago
I mean, say what ya want (and what we deserve in most cases), but the US has a ton of diverse wildlife. A crazy amount. And even more fun, it's super regional, including lots of pockets supporting healthy amounts of big and diverse fauna, including large predators. Many species of deer, elk, goat, we have moose, multiple kinds of bears, canines, and small numbers of various (badass and distinct) wildcats. Enough to reliably run into many of these in places, and run the risk in many more.
And that's to say nothing of the variety of smaller life, which is again regional and diverse. Just utterly bewildering. Uhh...guess I got carried away there lol
Some areas get little quail families, running along single-file. Dangly bits on their heads and all, it's the best!
The idea of elegant old French women doing sick vape tricks is just...really something.
Seems like even just the janitor (as well as all other employees) having an ownership stake in the company would be a simple and great start.
What is it about carpet stores in particular?! We had a "Shag-Rug-La" by us for a while and I wanted to give myself a lobotomy every time I drove past it. Lawrence of La Brea Carpets is egregious. Weapons-grade.
Dang, I know how that goes. Makes for a good dish for folks like us in that case, lot of it keeps for quite a while lol
That is a LOT of stuff hahaha I wanna try it!
That does make it tasty, I can stand to do a bit more of that too. Here's my decadent unconventional (but extremely easy) sandwich topper - crunch-less, sadly, but could probably be improved with some cheese crustin.
I like to melt some butter with red miso, about 50/50 or so? You'll know the consistency after messing around a bit. Red miso is super dense flavor wise of course and also doesn't mix easily, so yeah. Today I put it thinly on half a bagel, cream cheese on the other half, toasted, random stuff in between. You can add brown sugar to make it sweeter, or any kind of spice, also both lol.
Don't be defeatist. This is the shit that begins the rolling momentum that eventually causes stuff like that. Actions like you're talking about, absent obvious popular agitation, get treated like isolated random criminals, irrelevant and unsympathetic - see Luigi Mangione. And of course too much violence too quickly will result in extremely violent gov't response.
I understand feeling jaded but we need enthusiasm, support, action. The stuff you're saying is the opposite of that. But on the whole, I'm with you in the sense that I'd rather see 100 LMs than 1MM protesters. I think we're threading a tricky needle though.
Easy, teeth mash the plants into plastic 👍 makes sense if you squint real hard and have a few TBIs
Um. Think for a moment, who'd be granting these licenses?
Disappointing you, myself, and so, so many taste buds
Oof, I've never put nearly that much flavorful stuff into tuna for a sandwich, this sounds amazing. What have I been doing?!
Hmm, I don't remember much, and not in his books in general. Although I am the kind of reader that's wholly uninterested (no shade to those who feel differently!) - but it's entirely possible it's there and my brain doesn't really hold onto it! But put bluntly his stories are usually bleak, romance would fit a little oddly.
You say complacent, I say complicit.
Awesome!! And I don't think it was a series when I read it, so been a while for me too lol. And yeah, Revelation Space books are just so, so good. Can't say enough good things about the worlds this guy builds. Artifact in the meme would fit right in, lol
This post really doesn't call for this comment but here we go -
One of my favorite authors wrote at least one book in a setting where many galactic civilizations have come and largely gone, and treasure hunters try to "crack baubles" - break into old vaults and such left behind. Think Space Indiana Jones! But what's really compelling and brain melty to me is that these civilizations used entirely unknown tech and physics in some cases. So they're trying to break into and steal things they cannot possibly even comprehend, which is SO foolish and so fucking cool, and if that were available to me, my curiosity would utterly demand I keep at it until dead or worse.
Book is Revenger by Alastair Reynolds. Plus it's got one of the scariest fuckin pirates ever, so I mean, Space Indiana Jones with horrifying unknown tech treasure and implacable, immortal(?) pirate villains...that's gonna be a strong recommendation for the right flavor of reader lmao.
It's all of them.
But which one that has been on magazines and had a phase where they infused the blood of the young? Idk, what you're saying is just not very specific 🤷♂️
Yeah, fair, don't make some free bucks if you're in a country where punishment is likely!