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Oh it's not actually fixed, I just found how to work around it. A DUCT TAPER IS ME.

And then through the magic of misreading, RedKing's spirit animal was a Duct Tapir.

The most terrifying of tapirs, the Duct Tapir lives in air ducts and randomly jumps out at other creatures, dragging them back into the airy depths to be consumed. Beware their vicious fangs!

No, I'm not interested in a free ge system wireless home security system. Also, you bastard whorespawns can go violate your orifices with a glass studded cactus. Scum telemarketing arseholes just woke me up from the beginning of a nested dream! Dream with dreaming as a subplot! I don't get those often (that I can remember) and they are rare and precious and these unmitigated jackasses just did a cancel on it.

May their operating facilities go up in flames while they're all somewhere else! To capital investment hell with their long term assets!

... now. Back to my nap.

Just learned that things are about to get a whole bunch worse where I work.  According to my manager 'this is the worst thing he's ever seen them do.'  Holy fuck I hope I get this other job.

Given what you've mentioned before, that kinda' makes me curious what they're intending to do. Demand your first born as collateral for the privilege of working for them?

Then she wonders why I won't do favours for her, like buy alcohol for sixteen year olds.

Shit, is overt law breaking what's considered on the level of "favour" these days? I'll have to remember that when I have the opportunity to call some in. Well. Providing that'd be illegal in your area, anyway.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/07/09/half-life-free-running-an-amazing-hl2-speedrun/#more-159585
HL2 speedrun in under 90 minutes. Soooo many bug abuses.

Just finished this and noticed the credits. 90 minute speedrun that took over a year and a half (608 days) to finish >_>

That is a thing. Does it... does that really count? Was fun to watch, though

It's not the region change I'm complaining about, it's the automatic Japanese translator for text and audio for $300.

Ah. Yeah, I didn't even notice the price tag.

... just have to remind self they know not what they ask. Otherwise the strangling begins.

The heck? japan invaded shadowrun in the past o.O. Im old school but i never saw an anime out of shadowrun... its like... i dont know how to describe what im thinking...

Japan with their anime... They have to invade everything with it...

Not an anime

That's the box art from the sega CD shadowrun game, which never got translated. Art style/direction looks to be about like Snatcher was, which... yeah, anime style. But it's a game, it's a game.

Achievement gained: Obstinate push mower!

Also t'hell with this state, bugger summer, sod heat, and double expresso nukae fuck mosquitoes and humidity. I've got an itinerary of conceptual and cross-species fornication and this entire goddamn ecosystem is invited!

... s'times like these that I'm reminded the non-social reason this state is a pit.

Now to wait for someone more mechanically competent than me to come by and kick the frakking mower a few times. Then I get to try again, ahaha!

We have the option to vote for candidates from the level of local government, to the level of national government. We have PLENTY of control, we just choose not to use or enforce it. Again, the system is NOT set up to make it difficult for the average person to get involved, it's very open to general input.

This is just... no. I'm... I'm kinda' sorry, but no. It takes a hell of a lot more than just choice to use or enforce the control we potentially have. The system itself is necessarily near-impossible for the average person to get involved with, especially on actual policy making levels, simply due to the raw logistics behind getting elected or getting the bodies necessary to get yourself listened to together. Th'average fellow can get involved, but it's going to be at the whim and patronage of someone else. There is a bloody reason the majority of elected positions on every freaking level of government in the states are largely held by people of a relatively advantageous economic position. Those without economic clout or backing (latter of which you damn sure better believe is going to come with riders) cannot, barring the rare exception, manage to manage a campaign. We can vote for candidates on all levels of government, but those people we're voting on are by and large going to be coming out of the same pool of people. It's possible to do things differently (crowdfunding equivalents, etc.), but those with a raw resource advantage stays ahead of the game for a reason, and it's not just because of lack of will.

Conceptually, we do have a lot of control in the states. However, the logistics behind organizing that control means that practically that control is next to impossible to leverage and effectively damningly small. Information technology development may be lightening the logistics burden there, but it remains to be seen if it's actually going to bring it down to a level that we actually see the barrier to entry into politics and general governance made healthy.

... I'd agree that getting involved is one of the only ways to even attempt to change that, though. Identifying and building the networks necessary for expressing what control the populace does have starts with that.

Also caveat that it's like two AM and I'm half asleep. Some of that may be somewhat disjointed. But goddamn, sorry Bd, saying that "we just choose not to use or enforce [our control]" is so massively understating the issue it's almost painful.