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My kingdom to be able to draw worth a damn right about now. Finished off one that ended looking over like a Pen and Paper or Larp or Supposed to Actually be Real multipage -- like, ten, twelve, maybe more -- magazine article type thing detailing the setup of a tournament/renaissance fair sorta' event themed and illustrated dead on based on the old Disney animated robin hood thing. The one with the rooster, which should be more than enough identification for anyone that saw it.

Art was basically perfect greyscale of the characters involved, had events, little side story type things, just your standard real-damn-good article type whatsit, each pair of pages with one or two scenes with said characters acting out whatever it was talking about.

Was just damned amazing. I was actually dreaming about something else -- already forgot what -- when the PoV was scanning over the related pages of whatever sort of print media the thing was and noticed the picture on the other page was one of the rhino guards resting its head on top of what small fair tent thingjigger. Immediately derailed and spent what was left of the dream looking back and forth over the stuff related to it.

... man, apropos to the thread, you reminded me of all the other times within the last year or two that people said something to that effect, baff. People kept saying trump or his administration or the GOP in general wouldn't do X, where X is a whole mess of crap. Many of those Xs have since been attempted.

What concern I had about the recent fuckery just became less little

dunno if it's big yet but maybe let's just not tempt things by saying that sort of line
gods bloody know many of the major leaders in the US takes it as a challenge rather than a reasonable outlook at the mo'

... huh. We appear to now have trump on record thanking putin for expelling a few hundred US diplomats and related personnel? Because not paying them is the most important part of that whole exchange.

Like, I can get maybe it was just a fucked up degree of tone deaf wanting to downplay the import of russia's actions, but, uh. It happened.

Hopefully it's a record, and we haven't had a previous president thank a foreign power for putting a few hundred americans out of a job. My day would be worse if it turned out this had actually happened before.

Sorry bubo, the brakes have been replaced with dollar story mini bibles. All trying to stop will do is make our passage littered with sacred confetti.

So let's say I hate myself, my life, and existence, and want to look at correlations between county level population migration, government spending (preferably in regards to specific sorts, such as infrastructure, utilities, etc.), and economic shifts in the USA over time. Last three decades or so, more is great, less is fine.

Anyone just happen to miraculously know something on the net that's already set up to do that, where the prospect doesn't include functionally creating a searchable new database via stitching together census data by hand?

'Cause curiosity's starting to hit me, it's not the healthy sort, and I'm having it confirmed that no one fucking cares about rural areas in this country, to the point no one seems to have a goddamn clue what's happening on a level below state and no one's gotten around to making any sort of dataset amiable to that kind of crosschecking. And I'd really like to find out I just missed 2017's candidate for the patron saint of statistics, rather than them not having incarnated yet.

Or just not inclined towards trying too hard. We're talking alabama, here, where Roy Moore actually has a chance of election. I'm not sure there's many democrats in that state that are particularly well known outside of it. Or inside of it. Or at all.* There looks like there's a few counties and maybe one district that approach competitive, but most of the state isn't exactly amiable to democrat overtures.

That said, damn, the balls on hansen. Good luck t'the guy, even if it looks like Kennedy's in line to take the dem slot.

* Checking the wiki page to see who's running is kinda' hilarious. Check out the title of the 74th source, one of the ones besides Robert Kennedy Jr.

... yeah, I'd bet decent money quite a few folks know exactly which painting you're talking about without looking. If it's the one it almost certainly is with the octopus, it's fairly well known.

Actually, now that I check the url, yeah, to no surprise it's the fisherman's wife

E: Though, that said, do note that there's not really anything mild about how NSFW that painting is. Notsquid Questionablegender is right up in there.

Well, we'd definitely be getting that recession that's about due, which is reason enough to not do it. Especially considering there's a lot of folks that have barely recovered, at best, from the last one.

More likely things would be considerably fucking worse than that. For everyone, stateside or otherwise. Pretty sure there's still articles and such loitering around the internet from the last time that chucklefuckery was on the table, and from what I recall the general shape of things makes forced austerity look like a gentle spring rain.

E: Though... yeah. Complete seriousness, if there's any specific individuals that try to roadblock for that, too hard? Right now I'm not entirely sure they'd survive it. Even a gentle recession is an existential threat for a hefty chunk of people in the US right now, and that's with a government able to keep things from getting too terrible for the worst off. You proposition a hard one (or outright depression) and a government set of fire during it and assassination is going to start looking more tempting a possibility than it really has been in a long, long time.