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I don't know if you lefties know how badly you've been owned, but after Steve King drank toilet water to prove that AOC is wrong about our concentration camps (He smacked his lips, you guys. He smacked his lips. It's all over), Laura Ingraham DESTROYED the Green New Deal and the very concepts of climate, science, and logic by trying to drink a lightbulb-infused steak through a plastic straw.

I worry that at some point someone's going to tell these lunatics that chugging bleach really triggers the libcucks because it makes you whiter inside.

Thank you for the information. I have another thought not connected to plastic

I have a thought of an experiment involving raising flies and grasshoppers in the same environment, figuring out if fly eggs stick to grasshoppers, figuring out whether the larvae would eat the grasshoppers if they hatch on them, figuring out whether the adults who ate grasshoppers as larvae would selectively lay eggs on grasshoppers, since they hatched from grasshoppers? The idea is to test how insect parasitism may have evolved. Part of the idea is that there are some flies that parasitism crickets, and that the hawthorn fly sometimes lays eggs on apples and those that lived on apples will lay eggs on apples, so my idea was if something similar happened in various lineages of flies with grasshoppers and crickets.

You know, you could do this in silico before you tried it in vivo. If flies are going to parasitize grasshoppers, they'd presumably need to be able to detect them, and so they'd need an olfactory receptor to pick up on something grasshoppers exude into the air much like how they can detect rotting meat to eat. You could try docking all the volatile small molecules grasshoppers excrete uniquely against the proteome of whatever fly species you wanted to examine; the hit rate would be low, but if they're going to do this the affinity will need to be high enough that you'd probably notice it.

I have a fun WTF for once, or at least a non-irritating one: for whatever reason, the giant millipedes that live around my apartment complex are swarming tonight. Usually I might see three to five in the stairwell. Tonight, I stopped counting at fifty, most of them around the door seals.

They don't bother me or anything, but when they're this concentrated it turns out to be slightly tricky to walk through them without hurting one.

I’m sure the cops would prefer that nobody have guns, no matter what electromagnetic wavelength you are.

The NRA are only pro-cop until they do something that ‘violates second amendment rights’ anyway.

Sure, but cops generally prefer to live in a world where white people don't need guns and want to get there by strongly preferring to lynch black people who carry them. Or might possibly carry them.

Selectively applying high-minded general principles to serve nakedly racist and classist ends is the Republican Party's whole shtick; whichever part of a given problem gives them an excuse to punch down is always the most urgent one, the clear and present danger that must be addressed before liberal blue-skying is even worth talking about. It's why they'd love to fix our broken visa system but first we need to make sure all the rapist criminal druglord babies die in cages, for example, or why the only part of voting they ever want to talk about is voter fraud in districts that just happen to have been gerrymandered to disenfranchise minorities, or why religious freedom is only important when it motivates bigotry against GSRM.

If you want to understand the essence of the American right, imagine a very small child who, asked if he would like to trade half his cookie for half of another child's candy bar, extends his empty hand, and on receipt of the candy suddenly expounds upon how attempts at socialist redistribution have just been proven to increase inequality, as he now has everything and the other child has only half a candy bar, so clearly this trade was a bad idea and all such efforts must be stopped immediately -- although you could be forgiven for finding him difficult to understand, as his mouth will be full.

If, similarly, you'd like to grasp the far right, imagine the same child, but with a gun.

If I had to guess, if we actually had magic that its study would be very similar to current studies in mathematics.

Which is to say, impenetrable to anyone other than an expert, using a bunch of terms that just sound horribly contrived and made-up (ultrafilters, surreal numbers, symplectic group, univalence) to say nothing of the symbols, and 99% of it being created for its own sake with practical consequences being happy accidents.

Or science, in the sense that it's presumably going to spend a long time as a bunch of discrete facts given a quasi-mystical ad hoc explanation before being more rigorously systematized into something with predictive value. That is, in the loosest possible sense, what happened to alchemy.

While I'm not going to go and claim that they're the majority, there's definitely a demographic of people who buy many guns per individual because they're collectors/enthusiasts and just think guns are neat.

Given the numbers in the article I linked, I'm inclined to agree, but those would be examples of gun owners we'd assume wouldn't be closer to the "good guy with a gun" ideal than a given member of the general public. A collector who has a hundred guns safely locked in a display case at home is no threat to anyone and also not meaningfully different from a non gun owner in the types of crisis usually envisioned as solvable by defensive gun use.

It just looks like purchasing trends are more in line with that being more representative of gun owners than we usually imagine. When we talk about the type of people who own guns, it's perhaps more informative to talk about the type of person who owns eight guns* than the type of person who owns a gun, because that's on average what's happening.

*and is not a buccaneer. Just before someone brings up braces of flintlock pistols and so forth.

There is a Space Marine chapter from then named the Dark Brotherhood.

To be fair, there aren't many permutations of names that exude sufficient grimdark and testosterone, at at that point individual Chapters were mostly excuses for paint schemes anyway. They've already run through most of the animals unless somebody really wants to try putting together lore for the Watch Weasels or Void Gators* or something. Colors are hard since red, white and black are specific First Founding chapters' deal and other colors just sound a bit silly as names; nobody wants to paint up an army of Pucemarines. Even most remaining things relating to outright violence sound either silly or a bit Khornate these days. After the Flesh Tearers, Flesh Eaters, Soul Drinkers, Blood Drinkers, Bone Knives, Pain Bringers, Skull Bearers, and War Bearers, you've got to get either really creative or really visceral unless you want to go with Shin Kickers**. Then, too, there's Sons of basically everyone, and "Emperor's" tacked onto just about everything even remotely violence-related. At some point they're bound to start sounding bland and samey.

_{*Admittedly, this one might work for some sort of Florida Man Marines. Airboats count as bikers, etc.
**Although if you did, the image of an army of Marines in ceramite ushankas violently Cossack dancing into enemy lines would be very enjoyable.}

The "burning questions" video did not address Epic, lootboxes, or microtransactions.

Given that, we can safely assume the pleasure deck will be day 0 DLC, the bio deck will be Epic exclusive, all the scuzzers will come out of lootboxes and new segments will cost $0.99 to unlock.