SoCal neolib who likes board games, videogames (in moderation), and being a dad. Formerly Senior Editor with Blizzard Entertainment, laid off on 7/2/2025.
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Last Notes npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti I like "swarm." Has the right connotation, like an insect infestation. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti I wonder if maybe from a strategic perspective, the most effective talking point isn't the scientifically accurate "We don't have sufficient data about what will happen" but the media-friendly "The pollution from all those artificial chemicals in the air is causing permanent damage to the atmosphere, and we can't even begin to calculate the full scale of the devastation." Technically correct while still using simple scare words. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti I've translated different RPG systems to different VTT environments. It works, but it never feels *natural,* because these systems were originally designed for table play, not virtual play. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ambition npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti Fediverse, help me test a preconceived notion I have about y'all with a quick #poll. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti There are many different types of programmers and software engineers, and they all sit on various points along a number of axes. One such axis concerns name length for variables and constants. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti The other day, I was talking to a friend about how our world is an unsettling blend of *Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World,* and *Nineteen Eighty-Four.* I can't believe I have to now add *The Hunger Games* to the lineup. The fucking Hunger Games! npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti Justice for John Mastodon! npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti We tell our kids that "Santa" is the spirit of kindness and generosity that lives in all of us, and we all have the capacity to be someone's Santa. So in that sense Santa is real, but his marketing is just a bit over the top. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti On February 4, 1912, inventor Franz Reichelt leapt from the Eiffel Tower, wearing a parachute of his own design which he (incorrectly) believed would allow him to land safely. Instead, his parachute almost immediately wrapped itself around him as he plummeted. His body struck the frozen ground at full speed, killing him instantly. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti I don't want a lot for Christmas npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti Alright, I'm gonna need to know what game this is! npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti There's this person whose posts the LinkedIn algorithm keeps showing me, and all his stuff is about "bad game programming/good game programming," and all his "good" code is objectively terrible. I don't have an IT degree (dropped out before I could finish) and even I know that stuff is jank. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti I love it when the dog is dreaming and her legs are going like she's running. It's both wild and wonderful that animals dream. What a shame it'd be if our kind were the only ones who did. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti You really gotta wonder about the internal configuration of someone who keeps engaging in affairs with gross, old, married, republican politicians, and then pretends to be an impartial reporter. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti There's this sinking feeling that between the Panama Papers and the Epstein Files, such a large part of the monied élite is embroiled in monstrously evil shit that a complete and utter rejection of the entire fucking apparatus of power is the only sane response. It all makes a pretty god damn convincing point in favor of taxing wealth above a certain threshold at 100%. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti From what my coworkers who survived the layoff that got me are telling me, A.I. ain't replacing shit, management just asks the remaining people to do more. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti God, if there were a fediverse alternative to LinkedIn, I would switch in a heartbeat. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti "Our numbers stink like donkey piss. We need to do layoffs." npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti "Nah bro, this tech is only going to get better bro, just trust me bro, everything's going to be A.I. bro, you're not gonna hafta lurn anithung brah, computors r guna mak gams fr brah" npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti Things I don't want billionaires to own:<li>Newspapers</li><li>TV networks</li><li>Websites with more that 1000 MAUs</li><li>Film studios</li><li>Book publishers</li><li>Museums</li><li>Theme parks</li><li>Islands</li><li>Political parties</li><li>Airlines</li><li>Cellphone networks</li><li>Email platforms</li><li>Game studios</li><li>Satellite launch capability</li><li>Radioactive materials</li><li>People </li> npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti Letting people contribute vibe-coded pieces to open-source projects as long as they clearly label their stuff as such is a little bit like letting people bring peanut butter and literal human feces sandwiches to the cookout as long as they clearly label their contributions. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti Got to explain to a couple of normies how the A.I. bubble is part 2001 DotCom bubble, part 2008 Global Financial Crisis. Like in the dotcom bubble, the tech will still be around afterwards but valuation is utterly out of whack; like the 2008 crisis, there's a mountain of bad debt piling up that's going to get toxic very, very soon. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti #3GoodThings<li><p>Hmmm...</p></li><li><p>Uh...</p></li><li><p>Well, shit.</p></li> npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti There are a lot of popular themes in post-apocalyptic storytelling that you see over and over: "War never changes," "People are the real monsters," "Man's hubris will be our undoing," "Civilization is defined by people, not laws," etc. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti You have more self control than I would in that kind of situation. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti So, uhhh, we have a dog now? She's a rescue. A schnauzer poodle mix, her fur was pretty matted and flea-bitten, so one of the first things we did was get her groomed and washed. That trim produced a pronounced mohawk, so my wife thought it might be cute to dye her mohawk pink. Turns out dyeing a dog is not trivial, so now she's got a pink mohawk and slightly pink fur overall. She doesn't seem to mind, but people (especially kids) are delighted to see this pink dog. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti *reads the artist's bio* npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti Oh god this is the best thing I've seen all year! npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti Not pictured: The third kid, Blort, who was lucky enough to end up with fish top and horse bottom. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti If your only tool is tariffs, then every problem starts to look like *they're all laughing at you, buddy, because they know what you are, they've always known, just like your dad could see right through you and your pathetic facade, yes the old man had your number didn't he, except you wished he'd laugh, but instead he filled your heart with poison and bile, and here you are, misbegotten homunculus, and they're all laughing at you* a trade deficit, doesn't it? npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti The realization that I am under no obligation to interact with assholes has saved me so much headache. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti During the reign of Stalin, the Soviet leader tried several times to assassinate Yugoslavian president Tito. Fed up, Tito eventually sent a letter to Stalin, which read in part: npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti That whole immigration raid in Georgia where ICE killed a multi-billion dollar project and 8,500 good jobs is like some shit straight out of Ozymandias. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti Like, the people who voted for trump obviously want to burn this place to the ground, hoping that from the ashes they'll build a new nation, with people like them at the top. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti I was listening to a podcast about Pol Pot, and something occurred to me. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti With uBlock Origin on desktop, I can create a custom filter that nukes the Shorts carousel. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti That's the quiddest pro quo I've ever seen. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti Listen, I'm not some super smart foreign policy wonk or whatever, but I think that the most important thing about the Alaska summit between Putin and the other guy is that we really need to see the Epstein files. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti There's a quote from M.A.S.H. that I like. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti I mean, look at this thing. This is what the internet used to look like. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti I miss the old World of Warcraft website from around 2006-2007. We had a lot of fun working on that one. It was a nightmare and a half to maintain, but it sure looked epic. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti > We are coming for you npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti He can come join us here on the Fediverse. I get the sense he'd be welcomed with open arms. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti The people who filmed The Apprentice have footage of the guy saying truly, genuinely heinous shit that would make him persona non grata even among his conservative enablers. THAT'S the footage I want to see unearthed. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti Mamdani really is the best example of what happens when voting doesn't suck and people actually show up and vote. This is what everyone who feels marginalized and left behind should look at and think, "Huh, maybe my vote DOES matter." npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti I think it was @npub1xw7…r9m5 who made a pretty good point recently about Democrats and messaging: Democrats focus their messaging on people who actually turn out to vote. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti > China wouldn't intentionally destroy its agriculture sector npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti Welp, after 21 years with Blizzard Entertainment, I was laid off today. What an incredible journey. I got to be part of challenging, exciting projects, and I played a part in shaping the company's voice for over two decades. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti At this point, I only use LI as a cover in case anyone demands to see my social media accounts. It's where I post all my anodyne, inoffensive shit. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti It's 1991, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti The shitgibbon in chief looked super tired during his failparade yesterday. That fucker kept nodding off. If they can't keep him perky even when all the cameras are on him, I assume he's basically a cantankerous zombie when the cameras are off. Caught in a state of permanent rage, confusion, exhaustion, fear, and disgust. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti Just watch, soon as the trump wealth transfer bill goes through, they'll pull out of L.A. and claim mission accomplished. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti Back in '21, after we had the vaccine, there was a subreddit with a very simple premise: find social media posts of people who were anti-mask, anti-vaccine, anti-lockdown, then find the social media posts from when those exact same people caught COVID and died. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti I'm ALSO not suggesting that if you're a national guardsman driving one of those trucks, maybe you get turned around and take the wrong exit. Happens all the time. We got a really confusing road network. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti No I'm not saying "rioters" should block major freeways in the area. That's definitely not what I'm saying. Whatever would give you that idea? npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti So they're sending in 2,000 national guard to L.A. to deal with the "riots?” npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti If you ever find yourself in a meeting where people are fawning over A.I. and there's a Q&A section, and you have a question that you think might be a bit critical, ASK THE QUESTION. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti Masked "law enforcement" people who don't have to identify themselves are L-I-T-E-R-A-L-L-Y the secret police, aka Geheime Staatspolizei, aka GeStaPo. What the frick. That should *never* be tolerated. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti I took my son to the Nixon presidential library, we toured the whole place, spent ample time with the Watergate exhibit, then we read Hunter S. Thompson's obituary for Richard Nixon, which can be found in its entirety here: npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti Honestly, same. Comments from people on other platforms have become completely intolerable to me: bland, boring, big dumb, and benighted. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti "I only use organic, small-batch apps lovingly hand-coded by my local cruelty-free software collective. They have a stand at the farmers market where they sell their apps on 3.5" floppy disks. All their work is done in Assembly, so you know there's no artificial middleware bloat." npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti Any fan of boardgames and tabletop role-playing games who voted for this bullshit or didn't vote at all should have all their games replaced by Monopoly. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti If I know anything about Russian psyops (I don't know a lot about Russian psyops) it's that in '26 we'll see a lot of messaging along the lines of "Democrats haven't earned my vote because they're not resisting hard enough" or "what's the point in voting D if they're not doing enough to stop trump" or "it's their fault we're in this because they ran Biden and then Harris, so I'm voting third party this time." npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti God, the '90s were such a good time. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti I smell an opportunity here... what if we do a reverse Steve Bannon and convince a generation of insufferable, disillusioned young men that they'd all be getting laid if only we had open borders, free trade, equal rights, a thriving biosphere, and vibrant pro-labor institutions? npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti > how does one relax knowing what's going on? npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti Recording artist Azealia Banks, who has close ties to the Tesla billionaire's former partner Grimes, confirms that he had a botched penis implant surgery that left him impotent. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti Carville suggested Democrats should "play dead." Which is TERRIBLE advice. But damn if it doesn't look like that's exactly what Democrats are doing. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti The existence of the succubus implies the existence of the succutram, succutrain, and other forms of succublic transportation. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti #Avowed is good. I like it. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti "You won't let us use racist slurs so we won't let you use your woke words" is such kindergarten bullshit. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti Boy, I'm sure glad they did all that "trump proofing" in Biden's final weeks in office, can you imagine how much it'd suck if that lunatic were allowed to just run rampant and rip up our government from within, haha. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti Good news: Fever broke, energy levels up, congestion way down. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti trump: I DEMAND THAT YOU GIVE ME THAT COOKIE. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti > “what if the D&D rulebooks fell from the sky in a fantasy world and it was considered a religion that described the world. So everybody got a “character sheet” and it was expected to reflect what you could do, but the actual world operated wholly differently?” npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti Are there any tabletop RPGs where the entire world is a simulation, its denizens are aware they are simulated, and the player characters in particular are aware they're being played by actual people in the real world, and the goal is to break free? Like sometimes the character you play actively tries to resist you, the player? npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti In 2017, trump did an Oval Office interview with CBS Washington correspondent John Dickerson, and when pressed about some shit he said, he responded with this: npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti Just watch, there'll be a hostage release and ceasefire in Gaza, trump will take full credit, the media will play right along, and he'll FINALLY get that Nobel Peace Prize he's always wanted ever since Obama got one. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti > The reality is, if you can’t organise, win people over, and win elections in a liberal democracy with free speech, free association, and a universal franchise, you’re not suddenly going to be able to win in authoritarian herrenvolk democracy without any of those things, much less under full totalitarianism. You’ve never beaten the first level of the game on bunny mode but are convinced you’d complete the entire thing easily if the difficulty went up to nightmare plus. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti > For the socialist left specifically, it’s also a morality play about society, one in which fascism isn’t a movement with ideas and goals of its own, but the punishment for neoliberalism, an inevitable and deserved consequence of it. Socialism then emerges from the ashes as our reward for having accepted our chastisement. The world doesn’t work like that. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti My daughter is getting airbrushed shoes for Christmas. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti I've never seen a business that was run democratically. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti Our 5-year old will drink ranch dressing like it's milk and eat bananas with ketchup, but chicken nuggets are a bridge too far for her. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti The previous year starting with "WTF" was 2020, which... npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti Y'know, adapting to a diet that included meat is one factor of how early humans got the extra calories that allowed them to develop those big brains, so I'm looking forward to our hyper intelligent squirrel overlords. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti In This House, We Believe npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti Small Domino: Ralph Nader decides to run for president against Bush, Gore npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti There are plants native to Southern California whose seeds need fire to open. Wildfire is such an integral part of the land, it's even in the DNA of the things that grow here. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti Okay listen, this is important. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti Anytime I hear something like "company reverses course after outcry," I always wonder *which* outcry specifically managed to make these Grinches hearts grow three times, allegedly. Was it the media coverage? Was it the grousing on social media? The letters from the subject matter expert organizations? npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti Pictured: The White House 2025 Christmas dinner menu npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti I am trying a new (to me) technique of gently drybrushing a mini after I've applied paint. Started out just slapchopping everything, now I'm doing a combination airbrush/hand brush/dry brush approach, looking to make my paint jobs look more interesting. Next time I'll probably dry brush gray rather than white. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti So, anytime we're on the road and we see a cybertruck (an incel camino, a deplorean, a wank panzer), I loudly yell "Boo, boo, bad cybertruck, boo!" npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti Things I will accept as payment for work done:<li>US dollars</li><li>Euros</li><li>Stock grants, bonds</li><li>Homemade sweet potato pie</li> npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti I am actually angry. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti Y'know, before everyone in America lost their god damn minds over the border, we had a steady flow back and forth where workers would show up for seasonal work, then take their earnings back home where that money would go a lot farther. Still not *great,* but so much better than the current situation where people seriously voted for a guy who promised to build an actual fucking wall. npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti # npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 Legit_Spaghetti Holy shit I didn't realize your brother is in Kyiv. Hope he is safe.
