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I think the world has heard enough of the idiotic “own the libs” phrase to understand what motivates a great deal of the MAGA members. Bloody cunts that are making it their defining political desire, is what they are.

There’s a lot of debate on that, if you want to get into the academic side. I think the best definition for it (when I was studying it in college) was based on four primary ‘focuses’ of evangelism. The wikipedia article on the scholar that laid them out explains them in brief: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_W._Bebbington
I’ve seen them cheekily laid out with the ‘-centrism’ part in every one, as in ‘biblicentric,’ ‘crucicentric,’ ‘conversioncentric,’ and ‘activity-centric.’ The wikipedia page on evangelicalism itself is a pretty big slog, but talks more in depth about them.

What those four things mean in practice is very interesting, again in an academic manner, in how neatly they lay the groundwork for MAGA/this shit we’re seeing. The biblicentric primes them to reject the authority of more ‘traditional’ sects when there exists conflict between beliefs (even between different evangelical churches), because the bible is ‘always right’ and you can always find something in the bible to contradict something someone is saying, and is a major part of why evangelicals that move will church shop for a while (so they can find one that fits with their beliefs, highlighting, of course, that their beliefs are not necessarily based on much more than vibes). Crucicentrism isn’t as big, but it’s a part of their ‘us vs. them’ mentality that pops up. The emphasis on conversions and activism is part and parcel of why so many of them want to force their beliefs on others (think abortion bans and such).

Now take those religious aspects, and throw them at politics (where politicians specifically target them). They’re already primed to reject logic, even christian logic, so republican (well, fox news style propaganda even more so) calls to reject what the other side says finds fertile ground. Use their desire to spread their beliefs in controlling, political manners, and you’ve roped in every one of them that wants to ‘do christianity’ with all the guilt they have built in about not improving anything suddenly being assuaged.

Yeah, that’s the one they apply to themselves, while lashing out at everything around them while screaming from the first one.

Mine would scoot through the apartment at speeds faster than any of us half-hungover college kids could catch whenever the outside door would open, and somehow end up under my bed. It would take a bit to coax the cat out, and then I’d eventually have to fess up to the neighbor’s little kids when they’d start calling for it. I miss having the little black ball of warmth cuddled up on my shirt.

I’ve seen the results from dog bites. That 200,000 might not be enough to make up for your lost function/enjoyment-of-life. The damage can be pretty nasty.

I’m trying to remember, but wasn’t there some investigations on seattle’s police, and they were specifically from outside the area (so locals aren’t hired as the local cops) and told to act as shitty as they do? They were under one of those federal agreements at one point, and a lot of dirt came out on them.

Yeah, I smell a future patient of mine. That drop onto the hip looked like a classic hip breaker.

I didn’t think it was ai, but I couldn’t figure out why the movement in that one clip was just a little uncanny. I had sort of settled on it being an effect of how they were moving the camera.

It would take some effort, but the church could do support services with their members, having a gathering of their adherents coming together at the clinic to offer words of kindness. It would be tough to have it as five days a week though, and really, the ultimate issue is MAKING the local law enforcement actually enforce the law. They love to scream about ‘discretion’ when it comes to things like this.

I wonder if we could get a law passed to be like finland, which bans private schools. All the public schools have to be good schools if you can’t send your kid to a private school. I always thought that was a pretty neat idea they had.

Maybe I need to go spend time on wikipedia, but how would he even get the position at this point? Surely every single new senator just elected doesn’t want him in the position, and is he actually even liked by anyone?

Is there a way for the republicans to fuck with this? As in, they purposely aid the neoliberal democrats and vote for him? Same thought for Jeffries.

Woah, I love it. I kept wondering wtf you were on about, because I was looking at the second (original photo) and not getting it. Then I scrolled up before closing the tab and BAM, there it was.

I get you. It was so frustrating being the less in shape one when I hiked a giant cliff face. I’m pretty stubborn and ‘strong-willed’ or whatever, and even so it was a definite struggle to demand (because the little happy bouncers don’t get any subtle suggestions) to take a break when I made it to the meeting point… and then they get frustrated because their break is now “too long.”

I mean, the comic shows a skeleton, but I’m reasonably certain that the skeleton wouldn’t be intact by the time it looks like that. The jumpsuit might (big might there) keep some of it in place, but there’s no way the hands are still gripping toggles and the skull is there, looking upwards in horror. I think we can give everything we’re talking about some pretty big leeway and make things work.

Plus we could always give our freefaller some superspeed by making him want to practice his speed competitions. World record right now is somewhere around 374mph, I think. That’s over 500fps, and probably means we could expect him, with a little pack of water, to be alive for long enough to reach ludicrous distances compared to the canopy pilot. Even if he’s only a wannabe speed star, I’m betting the scenario is plausible. Not from what we see, obviously, with him doing cannonball rolls and belly falling.

That, barring it being trump and therefore being done in the most idiotic way possible, is a real danger, considering how the president now ‘can’t be a criminal’ in his ‘official duties.’ He really could call for attacks on the opposition in federal places, and pardon them from the federal crimes if they get fail and get caught (and not shot). Sure, he couldn’t do state crimes, but how many states do you think are going to stand up to a january 6 amount of people that are actually attacking as a riot/insurrection this time*?

*Not saying here that january 6th wasn’t an insurrection, just that it wasn’t a big coordinated para-military (lol, like even half those fatasses and larpers were trained, fit, or even healthy) movement with everyone ready to shoot opposition.

The typical smell from cut grass is actually microbes. The soil is very much disturbed by the way we cut grass (not talking about reaping hay/wheat/etc here, just your typical suburbanite with a lawn mower). I can’t remember what they are now for the life of me, but the microbiology professor at my college loved explaining to the younguns that the reason the local water tasted/smelled bad (compared to most places) was that the same variety of microbe responsible for the cut grass smell was present in high concentrations in the source for the city water. Once he pointed it out, you could pick out the similarity.

That parachute looks comparatively tiny, but the typical wing loading for a newbie will have you descending at 15-25mph (20-40 feet per second, approximately). I think I remember an advanced canopy instructor mentioning that with his high wing loading, he could hit 100mph or so (150 feet per second, give or take) in a diving turn. Interestingly, if there is no landing with the bottomless pit, you could give newbies advanced canopies without too much worry. Sure, there’s a chance they fuck up the lines and ruin the experience, but they could just cut away and then enjoy the freefall.

Let’s just say this fella was given an appropriate newbie-sized canopy for his weight, and is at the lower end of the spectrum. A typical fall rate for a belly-to-earth orientation (which is the beginning orientation taught, as it’s the most stable and easiest to manage) will be between 100-125mph (150-180ish feet per second). That’s a difference of ~1:4, which means if your fastest decomposition occurred, our freefaller would be a week in his fall already, and probably dead himself… IF the canopy dude had died immediately upon entering. That would make sense, seeing as how it’s a bottomless hole, not an entire world. He’s probably bounced off the sides a few times. Hitting a cliff face is the beginning of death for most base jumpers, so it could be our friendly pilot’s cause of death here.

BUT let’s not jump to conclusions too quickly. If this dude is decomposed, that means quite a bit of weight is gone. My search history has probably just gotten mildly spicy for an investigator somewhere. A quick search showed a graph of decomposition reducing weight by approximately 70-90%. That means our pilot here might have gone from a conservative wing loading of 0.8 to something like 0.2. That’s going to be suuuper floaty. The vast majority of the weight comes off after bloating stops and the active and advanced decomposition sets in. So let’s say by day 15 (to make the math easier), the canopy pilot is only falling at a rate of 8 feet per second. I don’t want to actually break out the calculus, so simple arithmetic and algebra here. We’ll take the difference between 8 and 20 feet per second and multiply that by 15 days worth of seconds, then see how long it takes our freefaller. So by day 15, canopy-man is at 18,144,000 feet in the pit. He’s now descending at 8fps, compared to the fastest 180fps of the freefaller. The freefaller gets to 18,144,000 feet in 28 hours. The canopy is another 806,400 feet down. In another ~1.3 hours, the freefaller catches up. I think our comic is a possibility now.

We could also say that our freefaller is quite experienced, or very inexperienced, and is vertical more often, which typically sees speeds closer to 180mph, or around 250-300fps. That changes things again (and really makes the scenario easy), but meh. Do the math yourself, nerds.

Oh, yeah, I remember the sword. It let you hold your own against the agents in a sort of janky way, if I remember it right, because you could ‘endlessly’ counter them.

I’ve been helping along with the ‘community quests’ in elden ring, and just beat the base game again with a strategy/build I’d never tried before. Using tower shields and guard countering everything was pretty fun, but not in a great way. Give me that parry life, yo.

I think I want to replay it now with another new ‘build’ and am thinking big naked bonker. Hmm, anyone want to help me out by muling a few big bonking items from one of my end game characters to a fresh starting one? I avoid using the cheat engine or character file editors, and none of my friends have it installed right now to mule for me.

As for bonfires, I think I remember liking dark souls 2 the best. The boss runbacks were part of the fun, and they had a number of neat little tricks to make it feel like you were progressing even with the limited number of bonfires. When I first figured out the blowing up the wall in that first castle, for instance, I was definitely wowed. I can also see the whole stake of marika thing, but it certainly made the game feel more casual.

Huh. I must have completely forgotten about that.