Draegur 2h ago • 50%
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Draegur 2h ago • 50%
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Draegur 2h ago • 100%
you know, it's funny, russia murders so many of its executives, and yet despite being under mountains of sanctions, its economy continues with unprecedented resiliency. Maybe we'd have an economy that resilient if we murdered more executives!
Draegur 2d ago • 100%
Cannibal doesn't belong on this spectrum because it has direct overlap with birds that eat their own species, fish that eat their own species, and insects that eat their own species. There are also plants that eat other plants, although those are rare as well. Tortoises will eat the flesh of their own species too.
now, if you're attempting to define carnivore as a life form that exclusively eats its own species and nothing else... those do not exist. even cannibalistic humans supplement their nutrition with other biomass.
at first i was going to joke, but it's a subject worth serious consideration.
(the joke was going to be along the lines of 'um akshully cannibals eat fewer animals because by definition the more people-eating they do the less animal-eating they do' or something)
Draegur 3d ago • 100%
Honestly we gotta sink these castles faster if we ever want to reach the bedrock of this swamp XD
Draegur 4d ago • 100%
"We need as many golden parachutes prepared as possible, people! This shit is going DOWN!"
Draegur 4d ago • 92%
for real though, that's exactly what happens if we can finish the republican party and bury it in the dustbin of history where it fucking belongs.
In any first-past-the-post electoral system, it will always settle toward there being two parties - how this came out the LAST two times America purged one of its two parties was that the remaining surviving party split.
So, after the GOP is well and truly DEAD, the Democrat party will massively recruit to fill the power vacuum and then it will begin to polarize. It will polarize into progressive and regressive factions, most likely. And when that happens, we all board the progressive train and systematically purge what remains of the old Democrats TOO.
At some point while this is going on, hopefully we can dismantle FPTP and replace it with proportional representation elected through ranked choice.
Draegur 4d ago • 100%
What, you mean, after laying off all the creatives?
Who could have ever imagined such an unprecedented outcome except literally fucking everyone.
Draegur 4d ago • 92%
Also apparently basic sanity.
No one in their right mind wouldn't want to punish the Republican party - especially to death.
Yeah. It needs to die.
The GOP needs to be taken out to the gravel pit and fed very fast, very hot buckshot until it stops moving.
But because we can't get away with using that weapon to do the job, we'll just have to use these icky Democrats instead. Even though the Democrats don't WANT the Republican party to die, we are using the tools we have to do what must be done.
Draegur 4d ago • 95%
He really is an accurate representative for his base: the worst scum sucking garbage alive.
Draegur 4d ago • 75%
He needs to go back to Canada. Or cuba.
Draegur 4d ago • 90%
Bad because the centralized planning committee is little better than ONE BOARDROOM TO RULE THEM ALL and if you disagree with them they send their secret police to yank a black bag over your head and disappear you in the night. Then you, everyone you associated with, and everyone within three generations related to you spend the rest of your short, brutal, agonizing existences starving and/or freezing to death at a slavery camp in the wilderness.
Draegur 5d ago • 100%
OOP better not whistle at night either.
Draegur 1w ago • 100%
an extremely elegantly bite-sized HFY story
Draegur 1w ago • 100%
oh! oh shit, thank fuck.
If jones were saying that AFTER getting spanked in court, that seemed a lot more alarming to me
Draegur 1w ago • 88%
i think you might have dropped your "/s" homie.
because of course i fucking judge them XD
however nice they are to me does not absolve their cruelty toward others
Draegur 1w ago • 100%
jesus fucking christ they're agitating for a bloodbath...
either the military is going to have to massacre a rebellion again,
or they're going to be allowed to run rampant and murder a bunch of civilians.
Draegur 1w ago • 80%
oh wow this show
it was super cute
Wordplay aside, I found this item at a grocery chain local to Western Massachusetts called Big Y. Noting the >250% markup on sockeye variety over the standard pink salmon, it's a bit of a hard sell... But it did manage to snag my curiosity. Guilty as charged! Guess their daring marketing plan worked on me! So. I waited about a week before actually trying it to give myself some time to kinda 'forget' how much more I paid for this one than the other one. I did have in mind that it was "more" but I had managed to divorce my thoughts from "how much" more. That said, I can state for the record, you can tell by the flavor that there's distinctly more going on here. I don't know if it's actually 2.5x better than the alternative, but it most certainly makes an impression: the flavor profile is broader and the texture is discernibly richer. The coloration is more pronounced as well. This is some bougie fish, friends. But I think it is in fact worth more. Just, perhaps, not worth THAT much more. I believe that once the novelty wears off, it would be acceptable at no more than 1.5x to 1.75x markup. Both are definitely nice enough that I enjoyed eating them STRAIGHT outta the can. Honestly I don't even know what further preparation I'd even bother with. When I want canned salmon, this hits the spot and scratches the itch. The sockeye version in particular, to be fair.
# This Hurts Me As a civil engineering and municipal infrastructure enthusiast, village generation like this makes me die inside. You may think "but it looks cool", until you actually fly in close and realize that none of the villagers can get back into their houses after convening at the common areas of the town because they're up sheer cliffs or halfway embedded into solid rock, and none of the paths are actually navigable in any way. Even 'rescuing' this town by trying to light it up sufficiently that they won't be accosted by zombies all day long from every nook and cranny, let alone refactoring all the paths so they can find their way around, is a frustrating and painful prospect. Yeah sure okay it's just a video game, but games and other environmental simulations of the sort only capture the imagination and our own minds' abilities to extrapolate emergent play by having at least some basic modicum of verisimilitude - and i can tell you, this settlement, which was supposed to have been ostensibly built by allegedly sapient beings, should NEVER have come to be. Villagers can't even merely _sustain existence_ here let alone **build** it. Not that they have any canonical capacity to construct in the first place, but it's supposed to be *implied* by the existence of buildings. In a word, it's dissonant. # How To Decrease Suck But look. I'm not here to just point fingers and lay blame. Generally it's a dick move to criticize a situation without offering a solution, and I have one: Pathfinding as a generative guideline. Retracing the hows and whys of populated places in real life, we can reveal the underlying principles that drive the phenomenon of Basically Any Place That Is Dwelled-Within. You see, for millions of years before humanity even existed let alone before the first permanent artificial structures were constructed on earth, the critters who occupied various land-based biomes on our world were trying to balance the needs of food, water, and safety. And they would do this by recognizing where these things were, and then attempting to navigate between them as efficiently as possible. In other words: animals create game trails, delineated paths of least resistance, between foraging grounds, watering holes, and hiding/nesting/resting places. Even entirely nomadic herds will attempt to beat relatively easier-to-traverse routes between grazing lands. You could build an algorithm that attempts to lay a route between any two arbitrary points in an environment that minimizes for disruptions like objects blocking the way, bodies of water, gaps in the terrain like ravines, or even slopes that are uncomfortably steep. A Pathfinding Algorithm. Now, why do *people* make paths? Well, our hunter-gatherer ancestors did this to follow migratory prey and seasonal edible plants. Even though structures weren't permanent, we'd come back to set up our camps at the same spots because *they're good spots to camp at* - and our ancestors KNEW that as a function of accessibility. When we began experimenting with agriculture and attained the ability to stay in the same spot year-round while not dying of starvation or exposure, we discovered a whole-ass new use for pathfinding: trade! We'd harvest materials from the surrounding world, and congregate to exchange what we found. Since all the materials were there, we began producing those materials into goods! Since we have all these people and all these goods in one place, why, let's facilitate the exchange with the performance of services to improve quality of life! Providers of Materials, Producers of Goods, and Performers of Services, congregating at a common location... **That's a Village.** The villagers in minecraft also possess an intrinsic implied division of labor along similar lines: - Farmers obviously provide all the base sustenance foods the community needs. - Fishermen provide fish, but also presumably various salvaged items or junk their luck of the sea might have brought ashore. - Fletchers hunting in the wild provide wood, flint, feathers, and string. - Masons mining in quarries provide minerals. - Shepherds tending their herds and flocks provide meat, dyes, and cloth from wool. - The various armorer, weaponsmith, toolsmith, leatherworker, and butcher all produce finished goods from those raw materials. - The Cleric provides the service of being the community's organizer and leader. - The Librarian provides the service of keeping records and teaching the young. - The Cartographer provides the service of facilitating travel and communication between towns and the location of resources in the field What I'm trying to say is, there's every indication that the only thing missing from this brew is the PATHS. And that, if you DID try to draw paths of least resistance between arbitrary points in the world, you would see them converging upon level, open areas of solid ground... **which would be perfect for the construction of settlements** and _slot seamlessly into the extant paradigms of villages as they already are._ Not only that, but, this would go *incredibly* far toward enriching every minecraft world with the **semblance** of a narrative without actually having to write one for real. Villages connected with roads will provoke our imaginations to externally hallucinate the existence of social systems that don't even need to be programmed into the game, like sociological regions, or *nations*. **It all comes down to a road-based approach.** edit: BTW, I created a submission in the official Minecraft Feedback site last month. Sadly it's rather hard to elegantly express what I'm suggesting with a character limit of only 1500. So if you think this is a good idea, come here and vote or something. maybe comment. [Feedback Link](https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/community/posts/27048598581133-Improve-generation-of-villages-using-a-road-based-approach)
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They have a whole *range* of herring fillets, just look at them!!! I've tried them but forgot to take pictures, but I plan to again in the future and I'll share them then. The smoked ones are great but the ones I REALLY LIKED were the ones in horseradish sauce, the mustard ones, and especially the tomato sauce ones. The pepper ones are good too and I wouldn't leave them out but they don't HIT quite like the saucy ones.
finding this little community awoke some cravings :3
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If only hell were real just so this piece of shit could be burning there right now. Shame he killed three others instead of just himself. Fucking pig.
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It's a shame he took 3 people with him on his well deserved trip STRAIGHT TO HELL. If it even existed. Fuck the police.
One of the interaction menu options (where "Cross-post / Send Message / Report Post / Block user / Block Community" live) OR (preferably) perhaps even one of the external buttons (next to Comment / Save / Original Post -OR- next to Upvote / Downvote) should be the ability to either hide or collapse a given post so the things you've already seen take up less screen space (but shouldn't be permanently lost to you so you can go back to something if you decide you want to look at it again) Also, apologies if this is already suggested, I tried to search, and either it isn't there or the search function isn't very good.
