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You don’t grow carrots in a rabbit enclosure and act surprised when they get eaten. Capitalism holds a lot of power in the world, and if we want socialism to succeed we need to figure out a way to defend against constant attacks from capitalism while we’re trying to grow. It doesn’t matter if it would succeed in a world where it’s left alone, we need it to succeed in the rampant capitalistic world we live in.

And honey bees! And of course there’s the classic preying mantis scenario. Ultimately, if you live enough to have kids, you’ve won in the eyes of evolution. This guy just nutted in the wrong place - he should’ve closed his eyes until things were situated properly.

The pre-boomer generations didn’t just complain, they physically fought for and defended their rights, and the elite feared them for it.

Then the elite changed tactics - either out of fear or strategy, they gave the boomers everything they wanted, and raised a generation of people who didn’t have to fight, but felt entitled to what their forefathers had fought for anyway.

In turn, the boomers gave rise to generations of people who thought fighting was unnecessary and harmful. Now the elite are back to tearing down rights again, and not only do we not fight, but we can’t even agree that it’s necessary.

I still get the theme song stuck in my head every so often.

I was always a fan of just tossing a bunch of spices in there. The big ones were chili powder, onion powder, garlic powder, paprika, basil, oregano, and cumin, but I’d switch it up every time just to keep things fresh.

Makes sense; it’s a pretty big country - I’m not surprised different places had different ideas of safety. I’m sure it’s a complex mix of factors like everything else in the world. I wish we could just make one change and undo the fearfulness, but I imagine it’ll be a slow climb if we make it out at all…

Yeah, it seems different parts of the country adopted this differently, then. I grew up in suburban Minnesota in the late 90’s/early 2000’s, and all us kids would just get on our bikes and go wherever we wanted all day. I remember frequently biking to a convenience store I liked that was about 2 miles away all on my own in 1st grade so I could buy candy with my spare change. The only kids whose parents cared at all to check in were the ones that the other parents complained were too nosy, and only those kids had cell phones before the mid 2000’s came around and it seemed everyone’s parents finally gave in and got them a cell phone. I didn’t see people care about where their kids were until they already had the technology to do so.

Helicopter parents existed before this, yes, but they were viewed as an overbearing subset of parents. They became the early adopters of this technology that didn’t need to be convinced to use it. The only kids I knew with phones growing up were the ones with parents who needed them to call to check in every hour.

But soon more and more kids had phones, so the paradigm quickly shifted, and what used to be considered overbearing and helicoptering became a normal amount of worry. You kid has the phone - why not call? Subsequently, not having your kid call to check in on a regular basis was soon seen as neglectful.

The same thing happened with phone tracking and things like air tags. At first I knew a few people who used them for their kids, and they felt the need to defend their decision to use them, but eventually enough people used them that nobody batted an eye, and not using them was viewed as unsafe.

We made tracking easy. Why leave your kid out all day if they have a phone that you can call whenever to make sure they’re safe? Why let them go out without knowing where they are if it’s so convenient to just put a tracker on them and know where they are at all times?

As soon as we didn’t have to trust our kids anymore, we stopped, and as soon as we stopped, we no longer trusted them with anything. That’s the issue with convenience - we’ll do anything so long as its easy and sounds useful, and we won’t bother wondering what the repercussions of that might be.

The issue is that money is currently running wild for influence, so it’s staggeringly difficult to make such changes in the face of all the money being put forward to stop us.

Technically I was simplifying it a bit. It’s closer to say that it adds 1x normal attack, so one use gives x2 your normal attack, 2 uses gives x3, and 3 uses gives x4. After that it does nothing.

Swords dance is a move in Pokemon where your opponent does no damage, but doubles their attack power, allowing them to deal twice as much damage every subsequent turn so long as that Pokemon stays in the battle. A small decrease in damage dealt now in exchange for more damage dealt later.

Most children play Pokemon with a simple goal to attack every turn, and don’t pay attention to what non-attacking moves do. They view all such moves as a waste of a turn, represented by the bored spongebob. Adults playing Pokemon better understand strategy, and realize that the opponent becomes much more threatening after using swords dance.

It looks like a normal ice cream scoop, but square. The connotation is that you can use it to make building-shaped scoops of ice cream to put on the twin-scoop cone to make twin towers. Not sure how a square scoop would actually work, though. The round ones work by having a thin metal strip scrape the inside of the spoon to dislodge the ice cream when you squeeze the lever on the handle, but I can’t imagine a shape with corners would be able to use such a mechanism.

What, do you think the crew is just going to sit there when this guy is the only thing keeping them from leaving? As soon as everything else keeping them from taking off is resolved they’ll politely tap him on the shoulder to let him know to put the guitar away.

As much as I hate Dilbert’s creator, he got something right with the joke where you always have to give your boss 2 choices - one that you already chose beforehand, and another that’s only there for the boss to reject so they think they contributed.

In my experience it’s a high B.

I think it’s funny that one of the most well-known ancient pieces of writing is of a man complaining that he was sold cheap copper, and here we are over 3,500 years later still thinking merchants can be trusted. Flock was never going to serve the common people when they can make so much more money serving the wealthy instead. When someone chooses a career in making money over all else, the only thing you can trust about them is that they will drop everyone and everything for a buck.

Most get filtered automatically by my phone, but even the ones that get through never happen in the middle of the night.

Oh, I have heard that before. I interpreted it more as advocating getting up with your alarm instead of hitting snooze a million times, but this makes more sense.

Yeah, my wife swears by it, but I’m lucky to be able to fall back asleep really easily, so it doesn’t bother me much to be woken up.