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1, I'm pretty sure that's half the point. 2, I'm also pretty sure there doesn't exist names that aren't. School kids find a way.

Yeh, knew the trees thing. Was more a got-even-dis thing. Might be worth a look, in any case. Seems like you can get the things fairly cheap, too, if you don't feel like building it yourself.

... though we have plenty of abandoned buildings in the area too, heh, if not necessarily many large factory ones. Rural poverty for the win, uh. For? Like said, I could swear I remember reading something about something or another 'round here keeping the bat population low. That was probably something like a decade and a half ago, though, which was the last time I saw a bat in the wild, heh. Things could've changed.

Ah, probably not, though, g. Wrong part of the country, and it's been low from my understanding for a lot longer than from 2012.

E: Though a quick check does show we've definitely got a handful of species that loiter around at one point or another. Eh.

That's... a thought. Bats aren't exactly common in this area, though. Even a decent amount of cave systems in the area, but few bats. Pretty sure things eat them. Something like that. Can't recall what's suppressing the population in this region.

... also somewhat doubtful having a bat house around here would be particularly healthy for the bats. We have more than a few cats in the neighborhood, heh.

That's... not actually the idea, though. GOP mostly just denies there's a need for environmental protection to begin with. Not that an improved economy would eliminate the need.

Externalities isn't a term the party has much of a relationship with save derision, heh. And we've seen how it considers healthcare and worker rights and whatnot. Dead land and poisoned towns isn't a substantial concern for the party. Not anymore, anyway. There was a point conservation and land management was actually something conservatives/republicans somewhat aimed for, where workers actually got some support rather than empty words and practical sodomy. Ideological goal and all that. It's been a long time and a lot of donator investment since that was much of a thing for 'em, unfortunately.

Makes me realize I can't recall what happened to that lot, actually. Party change, corruption, age and dying? Pretty sure there was a point I remembered what had happened to 'em. Know there's some GOP voters that claim to be concerned about that sort of thing still around... but then they vote GOP, who haven't done much but screw that side of societal (government or otherwise) efforts for at least something approaching as long as I've been alive. Puts the claim to something of a lie...

Folks name people jesus or whatev' plenty often, and that's not getting into the actually silly stuff. Poor decision-making is rarely considered sufficient reason to curtail a parent's decisions for their child, particularly for subjects like the kid's name.

I'm... actually pretty sure pttg extends that sentiment a fair bit beyond just the politicians. Wee bit of animus towards the folks that put said politicians in office, too. Conceptually the ire probably doesn't extend to those members of the GOP that actually run counter to how the party does on most subjects or the folks that support those particular non-lockstep members of the party, but... there kinda' aren't many of those. And the rest of them are doing stuff like giving mining companies the go ahead to poison the water table.

Probably going to be something we see more going into the future, really. GOP's been dead set on a lot of policy that kills and/or economically devastates quite a few people (among all sorts of other nasty shit) for a while now, and there definitely seems to be a growing thread that's getting as tired of the people enabling it as they are of the people enacting it. Stuff's becoming both harder to ignore and easier to notice, which isn't exactly something that moderates sentiment towards the folks putting political support behind it. E: Ah, and it seems like it's been getting increasingly obvious the whole "don't treat them like enemies" thing doesn't exactly work. Can understand that, honestly. Telling folks not to be hostile so minds don't close off and whatnot only works so well when not doing that hasn't produced much in the way of results over the last decade or so, either. Some (more) of the more frustrated individuals are starting to wonder if being less passive or whatev' might have better luck.

Yeah, pretty much. I've definitely seen it applied to others, but not nearly as much. That mostly has to do with it mostly originating around discussion of video games, though (and those... basically didn't exist outside japanese when the term was germinating), as near as I can recall, and japanese remaining probably the most encountered eastern language among english prime speaking groups. If it's still being used in another decade or three as korean and chinese stuff propagates more, you'll probably see it used on them, too. If for no other reason than the fact that a lot of folks that use the term can't really tell one written language from the other, heh. Dunno whether moon runes or moonspeak came first, though. I'd wager it was the former, but that's probably because I first ran into the usage in relation to game fan translation stuff, which is significantly more text based than anime et al based stuff is.

Neat thing, I'm fairly sure some of the common romhacking/translation tools derive(d) their name from the term.