“Progressives” with enough privilege that they think that if it comes down to it, they can always bend the knee to avoid the wall.

These people tend to be rabidly accelerationist, cause it’s not their lives and livelihoods on the line.

This line of thinking allows you to be an ideological purist and denounce any incrementalism or harm reduction as antithetical to the cause, stirring up infighting.

It also happens to be an excellent strategy outlined in the CIA’s saboteur handbook. (Literally, Google it, download the PDF from CIA.gov)

I daresay if more of the populace were hung there’d be a lot fewer angry opinions like this.

To be fair, it applied in feudalism too, depending on how important you were.

Worse.

“Vulgar sense of entitlement” - you think you deserve more than I think you do and it is viscerally disgusting to me.

In context - “You think we shouldn’t be able to coup your government/group because we don’t know better what you need than you do and that viscerally disgusts me.”

ETA: the “woke” bit is fun too because it adds a layer of racism to this seven layer shit salad.

I’ve had more luck flicking and smashing than anything else.

What kind of dragon are they?

Are they a chromatic dragon like Bezos or Musk?

Are they a metallic dragon like Swift?

Either way they still smash smallfolk, it’s a question of if it’s purposeful or not.

It’s enough to wipe out most people’s student loans, and buy a reliable vehicle, then put a down payment on a house. That’s life changing.

Threw rocks at stuff.

Trains, signs, each other,

Peed off of tall stuff.

Ride bikes.

Try to build ramps for the bikes.

Crash the bikes.

Ask your mom for a popsicle cause you have a fat lip now from hitting your face on your bikes handlebars.

Generally dumb things.

Freak out cause the kid s few doors down got his hands on some dry ice.

But the dry ice in bottles.

Run away when that nosy old lady calls the police cause people are “making bombs”

That’ll work out well for them. Fascists are famously tolerant of people who are slightly different.

We should all be so lucky! Harbor Freight is where all my “Tryout” tools come from. If I break a Harbor Freight tool, then I spend the money on a real one. I’ve found some decent ones that way.

“Where does this green wire go?”

I appreciate HW engineers and techs. I’m not afraid of datasheets, circuit diagrams, or a mso and they’re always patient enough to explain things to me so I can make the rocks behave. Or at least tell me how to go from diagram to board lol.

That’s crazy. You can’t do six. It’s seven! SEVEN MINUTE ABS!

“the serial output from my test unit turns into garbage and it happens at completely random times!”

“Did you make sure they were plugged in all the way?”

“WHAT?!?! ARE YOU SUGGESTING I DON’T KNOW WHAT I’M DOING?!?!”

Some time later

“Yeah, it turned out to be the serial connection was loose.”

As someone with a small flock, this is empirically accurate.

It was pre-NCLB, I think they had a lot more freedom on curriculum then.

The chef states are (from North to South) Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Those states, amongst others, grow a lot of food, Corn, wheat, rice, pork, beef, and soy, come immediately to mind. They’re certainly not the only ones, but they do a lot.

From 3rdish grade iirc, MIMAL (Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana) is a man in a chefs hat making lots of food for the whole country. MN being the hat, LA being the shoes.

Good ol MIMAL.

Turns out everyone else online in the 90s and 00s got to meet Chris Hansen.

I try to not buy any Wi-Fi smart home devices anymore. I try to stick to zwave or zigbee, zwave I have better luck with generally. I even left my nest thermostat at my old house and installed a 10+ year old zwave thermostat at the new one. Way happier. I’m not relying on googles API to be stable anymore for home assistant interaction.