I've noticed a lot of people are the "sit back and watch your neighbors be executed and sent to camps" crowd.

Unfortunately there's also a lot in the "I would but not alone" crowd.

It's why left-wing organized groups get alphabetted at the drop of a hat.

Don't feel bad, it took until "valley" for me to realize, and those movies were my jam as a child.

Pffffft

The Voth are pushovers, I can destroy one of their city ships with a Miranda Class.

Oh what's with the 15 other ships flying around the area? Don't mind them. Just my bros. Totally solo'd. Mhmm.

Man, what is it with Sci fi and having futuristic tech from Dino-descendants.

I'm not complaining, I want more.

no Democrat is likely to do that

Honestly this is what pisses me off.

When an opponent who literally wants you or yours dead hands you a gun, shoot them with it. Because if you don't shoot, they will.

Republicans have handed democrats so many tools over the years they could easily wield against Republicans.... But they don't.

They take the "high road."

The Moral High Road is Filled With Corpses.

Brotherly love didn't even last in my parents church while inside the building. They convinced a pastor to move his family across the country, and then when ONE PERSON got offended by a difference in interpretation, they managed to strong arm their church leaders into firing the pastor.

Fun fact! This is also how we know when certain asteroids smashed into the earth, because the impact deposits a layer of minerals and elements not found super common in the crust.

Also, sensing equipment that uses or detects radiation as part of its function has to be made of non-radioactive materials in order to not interfere. And since hairless apes started cracking atoms open, all steel is ever so slightly radioactive. They need special preparations to make steel without any isotopes present. This also means pre-1945 steel fetches a higher price in some instances.

"But that still doesn't mean you'll get to play it"

Well then it doesn't exist.

And until I actually am staring at the introduction screens, it's vaporware.

Have we gone on long enough to see the endless wheel of "HALF LIFE 3?????" once again spin back around? I remember seeing a handful of these a year, every time valve did anything.

Expect nothing, and you can't be disappointed.

Tldr long rambling anecdotes of a single haunted theater

One of the theaters I've performed in is over 200 years old, and the alley it sits against was used to store corpses during the Civil War before they were carted off.

Supposedly if you walk down the alley on a particularly hot night you can still smell the mettalic coppery smell of large amounts of blood.

Also, after the show is over, and most people have gone home, sometimes you can see a couple ghosts walking through the air straight toward the stage. This is because the theater used to be flat, but in the early 1900s they redid the foundation and sloped the audience downward. The ghosts don't care and continue using the floor they always used. I guess the floor is a ghost too.

I never actually looked into the real events, but apparently someone hung themselves from the pulley system 100ft above the stage in the 60s. And now nobody can use one of the tie-off points for the whole system because it has a steel plate bolted over it because "it kept coming undone".

The basement contains the dressing rooms and makeup room, and the access points to the sub-basement areas that contain the air circulation systems. One is just a gas line busted through the wall going to a large boiler. Another room contains the actual air pump, which is the size of a school bus.

There are pipes that go some distance under the theater to keep the circulating water cool. That's the original AC system, although they have since added modern ones to the main hall. So once the hall is cooling, they turn on the big one and the whole building gets cooler for a few hours. Just long enough for a play or musical.

The problem is that sometimes, and for reasons we can't figure out (probably just a factor of how humid it gets) the main motor will stick, and you have to crawl down to the housing and kick on its side. I think it gets a little rusty and the kicks are enough to dislodge it from the thin surface level stuff.

I have spent countless hours alone in the building just checking out the rooms and nooks and crannies they like to keep people out of during normal operation.

What most people don't know is there are open areas under some of the dressing rooms. It's not just a wooden floor and supporting lattice, it's a couple of half-sized rooms, possibly intended for storage. There's a lot of rusty blades in one corner, an insane amount of what appears to be dried blood splashed on the walls and floor of one. Legit looks like someone used the areas as their Dexter style murder hole, without the plastic to keep things clean. I placed a single cheese it cracker in the middle of the floor in 2007. It's still there as of 2023. Which really makes me wonder if anyone else even knows the rooms are there anymore.

And the local police have been called multiple times over someone breaking in and using the ballroom, blasting Orchestra music. Apparently nobody is ever found, nothing is broken into, and the security system says nobody has been inside since it's last performance, or maintainence.

So yeah. Haunted theaters are neat.

My mother keeps sending stuff over Facebook, my sister keeps inviting me to supposedly important events over Facebook, my work wants me to use twitter, and my brother in law keeps sending tiktock videos.

I remind all of them that I don't use social media, and my Facebook account is only up for the 2 times a year I need it to get ahold of otherwise-unreachable people. If you want something, send me a text or email and be direct.

So like.... I don't need my preferred substance to get through the day. I think all the days I go without it kind of prove that.

But sometimes I just am done dealing with the week and want to spend my remaining free time smoking a bowl and listening to Sci fi and fantasy lore videos so I can pretend I'm chilling somewhere near the Anduin or on the holodeck.

Damn, if holodecks became real, humanity is basically over.

some suggest that herders need to start acquiring private land and operating like other businesses

Yes, why don't these poor farmers who have nowhere else to go simply BUY large plots of land?

Let them eat cake.

Oil companies and the ICE manufacturers that rely on them.

Changing production lines to EVs is expensive, and they want profits now. Not later. Line must go UP

My hope: increased costs make people demand domestic manufacturing, companies and governments actually listen and decide import costs aren't worth it and move all manufacturing back inside their own borders.

Politicians like to bullshit about "job creation" all day, but this, massively expanding domestic manufacturing capabilities, would create more jobs than any program put out since WWII.

All I can think of while seeing "Oklahoma city" is "oh...... Shit....."

So much stuff is going to die around here simply because it can't live in Oklahoma's climate.

Certain trees have started dying en-masse around me because they were already at their upper tolerance for temperatures and water.

Luckily the internet exists and allows you to see present day conditions without going to the place yourself!

Here's a crazy idea: no PERSON is involved in cutting off the mic.

They're on timers.

X you have 45 seconds to answer. timer clicks down and auto shuts off

Boom.

Nobody has to worry about biased moderation because they wouldn't let cheeto ramble weirdly for ten minutes.

And more importantly we won't have to deal with a fucking child doing the "I STILL TALKING AND LOUDER SO MY POINT IS BEST LALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU* on stage while 30% of the country cheers.

Can I get the N2 delivery system? you don't have to worry about installing anything, just keep breathing and you won't even notice the installation.

Just once I would love for a judge to just go "You know what? It's obvious what your company is doing here, so rather than attempt to receive this information in good faith, since it's not being OFFERED in good faith, we can go ahead and say you lose, and now owe punitive damages to every artist you've sued over the years over a couple circles. "

But no, they pretend that corporations are people.

I'll believe they're people when I finally see one executed, or taxed, or imprisoned, or face any of the consequences normal people do. You can't argue the idea of a comoany has personhood and then walk that back any time it comes to punishment.

Fuck disney