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Got this map from this Live Science article (where you can zoom, how can they even prevent you from zooming on a mobile site? Why?). My biggest question, as a lay-fan of geosciences, is: What in the "Wounded-Moose Soil" are we doing here with these.. time? Era? Epoch? Names? I need more novelized tectonic histories in my life, Did Reid wound the Moose?

Thank you! I have only seen this mentioned in Reddit posts and Substack articles, and definitely feels like an op to undermine trust in the voting system. Targeting an audience that wasn't wrapped up in the 2020 campaign to undermine the voting system.. eyerolls all the way down. The people in place are like electors, delegates, and state secretaries, where the power is de-registering people, throwing out whole locations of ballots, refusing to certify counted results, and many other ways to make voting painful. But not necessarily messing with individual ballots, except where they have armies of people to review any questionable ballots but those are reviewed by reps from both parties in that scenario, I think? Mostly remember the Nevada episode of Veep on that last point

When covid stopped everything the noise in the oceans and cities decreased so much the animals started singing again. Dolphins returned to Venice, whales to New England harbors, the environmental impact of those years was significant. We are capable of adapting quickly and making huge impact, covid showed us that's it's just an unwillingness on the part of the ruling class. It can be done, we're just told "small, incremental change is best" (neo-lib bs enshrining short-term profits). Kill the industries, pay the people via social safety nets, federal jobs program to build better stuff, public projects, public ownership. Public money made most things but the people in power transferred all that tech and IP into private hands.

It's perfect and wild and calm. Taking a copy to make a background and tap that peace

The new Superman is David Corenswet, pronounced "Corn Sweat". Movie came out two weeks ago, and it was the San Diego Comic Con last weekend. Been hearing his name aloud on a lot of my podcasts.

Dogs own us Cats are prisoners

Garlic Confit, use like butter, also really nice on sandwiches, caprese, the oil is great for dressings

I was going to say, "learn how to communicate" like your ideas and opinions so when you're confronted with an opportunity to bring people into them, you have accessibile language. But really, the work is on the ground right now, we need communities, what's yours? Don't have one? Look around? Don't see any? Build one. Start with affinity groups, mine's star trek and ttrpg's, I have a lot in common with people who share those interests, what are they anxious about? Is it the same? Now we're together! Is it different? How can we help? Look at your house, neighbors, blocks, how would you communicate with your community if the Internet went out? Cell? Got mesh networks in place? How will your community handle food insecurity? Housing insecurity? Healthcare? Ok. That snowballs quickly, but they aren't unanswerable questions. We're not starting from scratch here, we should think about living without a functional state though. Just meet some neighbors and people you feel comfortable communicating with. Think about this stuff with other people, it's not on one to fix anything, it's going to take a bunch, so let's be a bunch. Need a lot of people with courage so no one has to be a hero, many hands make less work. Google Bookchin, Library Socialism. Reading groups at bookstores, slingshots, game shops, food co-ops, mutual aid, jail support, community pantry, cat cafe. Being a safe person for people who feel unsafe, and then, how do you let scared people know you're safe? So I too feel really small and powerless, but I know I'm not.

Local fan-run cons > litigious "professional event management" monopolies. I'm here to imagine utopia and all that star trek shit. But I'll see you there in '26 for the 60th. I'll be the one with sidewalk chalk for Allamaraine.

Tldr: they get everywhere and the population grows super fast, smaller bodies of water may have issues with the boom before the population reaches equilibrium. Not an expert, just from Ohio, Lake Erie anecdote below. And I don't know if they displaced anything else to occupy this novel niche.

Zebra Mussels got into Lake Erie bunch a years ago and the population exploded so fast people were worried the colonies would block stuff, whole waterways by some estimates. But it turned out they were living off something in the water "that made the water cloudy and brown", idk pollutants or an algae thing? So after a few years there was less of that food source and the Zebra Mussel population found an equilibrium. There were issues, something about getting them off boats, so people were at work to protect infrastructure. Now Lake Erie is clearer and they just found those 40 circles on the bottom, there were some great headlines a week or two back, but they're just sinkholes, not alien structures, whomp whomp

This article is helpful, I think it's "gay sex" bc it's the MSM community that cruises in that particular forest. Verse other locations for dogging, which isn't a queer culture thing, it's a voyeuristic & exhibitionist activity

https://www.the-fence.com/the-fuck-tree/

But yeah. Just a good tree to fuck on, however the orgy at midnight is very well attended by MSM