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Mining, so we can dig up shiny trinkets to distract the research gnomes from their unending hunger for flesh.

Undead are for rekilling. Go rekill. Unless you can enslave them for zombie labor or something. That'd work, too~

As we have tried to tell you time and time again, the southern gentry thought he would be a tyrant because he was a Republican, they were Democrats, they were scared for their way of life. Your fears don't have to be real for you to fear them.

Emphasis mine. I think that's what they're saying the cause you're asking about is, or at least a/the major contributing factor.

There doesn't have to be a factual cause, really.

Major caveat: I neither know nor really care much about the civil war. My give-shit-o-meter caps out within a couple decades before my birth, really, beyond the "Don't do stupid shit people did back then" bit. Just, yanno', re-emphasizing the point.

The union address was weird and depressing? Can you elucidate? I'm not saying it wasn't, just interested in a more informed view on it than my own.

Agreed. It seems congress can at least be united in their reaction to terrible puns, if nothing else.

Honestly, I first ran into it because I wanted to see if boiling something carbonated would cause an explosion. Turns out it doesn't! Makes it smooth, actually. Boils out the carbonation, like microwaving sodas with a reduced chance of actual explosion.

Then I was like, shit, I like green tea. Needs a boiling liquid, right? Let's see what the hell happens.

Turns out it was to my taste. I've tried seven or eight different kinds of soda at this point and a few different sorts of tea (Barqs rootbeer/goji berry tea is pretty tasty~ Orange laced tea doesn't go well with an orange soda base, though.). Some turn out pretty good, some pretty nasty, but the overall results have been positive. Don't have it very often, though, for kinda' obvious reasons.

Best part was when I made some for class. That purple mountain dew from years back and said honey/lemon/ginseng caffeinated green tea. Small class of about eight or so all got a cup, including the (50ish) teacher. Everyone liked it, heh.

Um, fairly sure th'fellow was saying the ones that decided the value of jobs would be the people. Setting job value/wage via popular vote, basically. S'kind of an interesting concept, I guess.

Tip, small talk is called small talk not because of the length of the conversation, but because of the worth of the conversation. No one really cares. The only advice I can give you is fake it, but I don't know if that's good advice. It seems to be my mantra, "fake it." Not sure what personal advice from me is worth honestly. You'll probably end up a liar if you listen to me.

Ehn, I don't have any real objections to social deception; lying to other people is fine so long as I'm not lying to myself, more or less, so long as it's not pathetically clumsy. Hypocrisy and weak-ass blatantly obvious deception (This includes most lying and... most deception, really. People generally aren't genuinely stupid, just trained to be unobservant.) bothers me, basically. I prefer deception through selective truths over outright lying, though~ Much more elegant. The best deception is absolute non-deception, really.

Manage fine, so far, it's just... draining. And awkward, etc., so forth. Is hard to keep up even an attempt at a facade when you can't be arsed to give two shits about it. The borderline hyper-sensitivity helps, somewhat. I can't turn people's yammering off, mentally, so I really am listening and paying attention to what they're saying*. I just can't really respond back very well, yet.

It's just hard to work with and influence (in a benevolent sense) people when the only really important thing to me about other folks is "Are they a bigot and/or hypocrite?**" Once that bit's vetted, I'm all for hug tiemz or whatever. S'just that most everyone else has these weird, I'unno, social expectations or something beyond that. Still haven't quite reached the point I can really grasp on an emotional level desiring anything beyond that kind of base human decency from interaction. If a person's a decent human being, then let us be mellow and feel the wind, yanno'? Or play with concepts or something; world build, discuss ideological systems, play with the language, whatever. Talking just to talk is just... boring, I guess. Unengaging.

*Incidentally, that's one of the reasons for my near-violent hatred of televisions, heh. They won't. Shut. Up.
**The former necessarily implies the latter, by th'way.