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The real answer is the fungus gnats are harboring one of your houseplants; you can't find it because they've mimicked the plant entirely at this point. Buzz buzz goes the begonia.

Yeah, if you got that it'll be okay eventually. Going through major disasters is never fun, and it'll probably be a long while before things are back to normal. It's been nearly half a decade now, but the tree line still looks weird occasionally around here, the results of a cat 5 hurricane rolling over the area. I've never been through a major earthquake, but if the damage is on similar scale it'll probably be a couple months at best before things even start to stabilize for a lot of the region. Just hang in there, stay safe, do what you can for who you can. It'll be tough, but it's survivable if you've made it through the initial damage.

E: ... probably longer than a couple months, current reports are at least 1300 dead so far, hitting both turkey and syria primarily with damage reaching as far as tel aviv. That's a big one, it's going to be rough as hell to recover from that

The blame thrown around is going to be vicious, too... apparently after a big one back in '99 there was basically no hardening done to infrastructure in the region. The area knew it could get hit by a earthquake this size and took very little precautions for it.

First ever attempt at making lazy homemade garlic bread turned out pretty okay! It could definitely be better (more care on ingredient distribution, i.e. don't just stick a small block of butter in the middle of the piece of bread, spread the cheese around better), but it's 100% definitely garlic bread, doesn't taste bad at all, and took all of like five minutes to make. Nothing fancy to it, just regular cheap wheat bread with some unsalted butter, garlic powder, and cheese, toasted in one of those little multifunction air fryer ovens.

... it's absolutely confirmed my suspicion garlic bread doesn't need fifty bajillion tons of salt added to it to taste good, though -- normal (frozen, restaurant, etc.) prep would be like 4-500 mg per slice of this size, sometimes more. These ones are less than 200, just what's in the bread and cheese, and it still tastes solid, pretty much just as good as the usual stuff. Bloody salt obsession in this world, I swear *grumbles*

It's just an idle thought, but... like, the original Your Mother's Son in Law was a fairly subversive song for the time -- you had this young lady basically saying, "Look, you don't have to be some kind of impressive guy, just marry me", which was not exactly a culturally normative statement at the time for a number of reasons. "My mother's Son-in-Law" -- young woman lead, somewhat abnormal  There was an arrangement not long after with a male singer that swapped up the lyrics a bit and made it significantly less subversive by dint of it suddenly being an older dude saying more or less that they didn't have to be that impressive, just marry them anyway (on top of some other things, it was a much more standard sort of message for the time). "Your mother's Son-in-Law" -- male lead, bog standard heteronormative message.

... the thought, though, was that if there'd been a hypothetical version -- if it was done, it wasn't popularized in any sense -- that just, just genderflipped the singer, well. That would have been a song that might have gotten the singer killed in the 1930s, because suddenly you have a guy saying they want someone to be their mother's son in law. I.e. that's all that it takes to make the song gay as hell.

Anyway, the random thought was just ranking the songs in terms of subversion for time of publication, which was Six Swingers <<< Holiday < Hypothetical Literally Gay Version.

The best part is when you've looked at it recently enough it shows up as a link you've followed in the last little while, I think.

I... don't remember ACS's specific metaphysics, but it's fairly common in punch magic settings for similar critters to explicitly be versions of their species that had managed to obtain greater sentience and a human form -- it's less human vs monkey and more monkey learned the hand jive and found a nice tux and lives here now.

It's fairly likely that was pretty explicitly cannibalism, and more specifically what amounts to cannibalistic veal eating :V

E: Though I do remember ACS has it so pretty much anything can eventually become a full fledged sophont, so cannibalistic veal eating is in a sense basically everything you do in this setting. Lean into it, eat children before they can run away fast enough.

Count me in a different camp, then. When it comes to stories, I prefer ones with intended arcs and actual endings.

You'd still have those, possibly even AI generated, too. There'd just be the option of other stuff existing in a way that currently doesn't, limited as it is by the weaknesses of human flesh and temporal existence. It'd be a straightforward improvement from the current state of things, y'know?

(And in terms of potentially finishing a dead author's work, we already have attempts at that - even if AI may eventually be able to do it better, unless we digitalize the author's mind into the mainframe or something it'll still be different from authentic.)

Eh, people don't care much about authenticity if the work remains enjoyable, just see the series that keep using dead author's names

There's also the general sentiment that even inauthentic is better in some ways than nonexistent. Some folks disagree, sure, but there's enough of a market for it such works continue to publish.

Friggin' dream brain created an execution method, punishment for having an illicit cable box (with over 600 channels!) installed in your home. It's a life sized recliner chair made of lego bricks, built to float somehow or another. You're strapped into it, alive, pushed out to sea, and then the thing is set on fire. Plastic themed funeral barge, except you're screaming when it's lit up.

Folks really should have made it clear to their kid they shouldn't be talking about the second TV outside the house