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There's definitely some stuff we could stand to do first, for what it's worth. Kill qualified immunity dead, disarm cops more or less in their entirety, probably just fuck civil forfeiture completely, stuff like that. And if we can't get basic shit like that through, then yeah, maybe it's time the institution just stops existing.

The idea of direct reimbursement for wrongdoing's been bouncing around my head lately -- basically when cops fuck up or do something excessive, the specific cops involved pay (significant) reparations to the victims (or next of kin, or whatever). Make their district and any supervisors price match it, make it follow everyone involved even if they quit, make it unable to be bankrupted away. It's small consolation for someone robbed or brutalized or killed, but it's the kind of consolation that can get organizations and whatnot to sit up and stop fucking up, too.  We do something similar for other professions, after all.

Civil forfeiture was the thing I was thinking about as a particularly appropriate issue for it. Tighten up investigation of incidents, and if it turns out to have been done wrongly (as at least fucking half of them are, probably significantly more), then the cops involved return whatever the amount illegitimately stolen was and pay back double the same amount -- their boss price matches, the district price matches, and it's all direct garnishment or something effectively similar. No escape, no quitting to dump the reparations, no bankrupting it away. If you're going to have the privilege of that kind of extrajudicial horseshit, it's going to come with some goddamn responsibilities, yeah?

Mind, it's questionably something that even needs fixing if the pants still wear fine. There's been a few times in my life I've wore pants with non-functioning buttons or zippers for, like... years. In general if you belt the things closed it won't make much of a difference. Wear an untucked shirt with some extra length to it and it's bloody unlikely anyone even notices.

Yeah... I don't know how common it is outside the content creator, but it's maybe worth noting there are things able to break the skill caps beyond certain traits. Only seems to be sorta' useful so far as item production goes for everything except alchemy (alch yield will just keep scaling; I've got one critter with a stupid, probably normally impossible alchemy skill that reads 600 in the inspiration tab, that prints out about 30 spirit crystals per batch, ferex), though. 70-80-ish crafting skill is enough to start producing named items, which is, y'know, enough

It's also maybe worth noting passionate/obsessed seems to effect behavior, as well. If you have an obsessed crafter they seem remarkably likely to end up passing out on the floor besides a crafting station instead of actually going to bed, which can potentially be an issue, heh.

They will curse you unto the seventh generation for the imposition you place on them with your greaselust.

... more seriously, I'unno. It probably is an imposition, but likely not much more of one than anything special order would be. If you're worried, just don't make the request during busy hours.

Also consider, like. Asking them. Some areas probably have more or less other people doing the same thing, which would change how prepared or unprepared they are for the request!

I... think there's some elixirs that delay tribulation? Not 100% there, 'cause I seem to recall there being some differences between shapeshifting tribulation and other sorts. But if there are, that can help out a lot with a high intelligence thingy yaoguai. Iirc if you max it out their tribulation comes in like ten days or somethin' (which you're going to have a hard time managing even if every possible duck is in its row), being able to extend that a bit (or a lot) helps more than a little, heh.

Is not "it" more accurate. As an non english native reading they migth confuse things since it express plurality.

'It' isn't a word you use for people. S'fairly exclusive to objects, and using it as a person pronoun is generally considered either dehumanizing or insulting. They is really the only gender neutral singular pronoun english has for stuff considered to be people, unfortunately (unfortunately 'cause it's also other things, and for all the usage has been around for centuries it's only starting to come back into general use recently).

Okay, so someone try this food thing they were refusing to sell to me in a dream and report back.

Basically, like. They had a hotdog bun? And in the hotdog bun they had a breadstick looking thing, smaller, doughier/denser bread (practically, I could see something like you normally make cinnamon rolls from, just hotdog shaped). And they slathered the inside of the bun with what looked like icing with sprinkles, coulda' been cream cheese or whatever I guess? And that was it. It was called a candied hotdog or somethin'. It was not diabetic friendly (they were assuming I was taking it to one for some reason! Gimme the goddamn candydog!). I kinda' want to know what it tastes like.