How’d you do it?

Yes, the US has been a police state for 250 years. The slavery apparatus wasn’t held up by magic. The Black Panthers didn’t fall apart on their own. This is how the country has always been

Yes, civ VI is my game! I focus on producing troops at the early game. I produce a second melee, and then queue a builder before queueing a city center and another melee. Use the melee to scout nearby and then when you have a builder, focus on immediate production to get started quickly, such as clearing woods. For more production, make it a priority to become suzerain of production city-states.

I also recommend getting religion asap in early game, and focus on gold income, such as income per worshipper or per city. This injects a huge amount of money in the late game. Branching into amenities or housing isn’t a bad idea either if those things are sparse.

Even if you don’t want to get a domination victory, I recommend conquering your continent, or at least to easily defensible chokepoints.

I think it’s fair to call me an elder lemming at this point, as I recall the reasons for both. I signed up on .world with my first account on the last day before the infamous APIocalypse.

Along with myself, a lot of us were putting effort into posting good stuff, upvoting, and generally having a lot of positive interactions. Someone on !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world posted a picture with a can of beans with a caption along the lines of “I hear that lemmy will upvote anything. Here’s a picture of beans”. It quickly became the most upvoted post of all time.

As lemmy culture developed into a deeply political space, it began flooding !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world with American politics. People got sick of it, and people started doing “we’re posting x now until politics stops”. There had been a couple rounds of various themes, and then someone announced “that’s it, I’m sick of politics everywhere. We’re posting corn”. Cornposting has become the default political purge over there.

And so the black metal community did much rejoicing

I hope solar winds blow them out of orbit.

Obama should have appointed a progressive judge and declared that Congress has opted to decline their constitutional duty.

he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law: but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.

Now, I’m not a lawyer, but I’ve spent a long time pouring over labor laws. “by and with advice and consent”, along with other permissive language like “may” and “shall” speaks to the ability of Congress to decline their duty of appointment.

It may be a trap, but what if it isn’t?

If you’re taking 400mg at noon, you’ll have 200mg in your system at 6pm, and 100mg at midnight. 100mg+ in my system by bedtime will negatively and noticeably affect my sleep in those situations. You could be exhausted due to the time you’re consuming caffeine

What are your consumption habits, i.e. when are you drinking your caffeine? The bioactive halflife of caffeine is about 6-8 hours, so it’s in your system affecting your mind and body long after the caffeine buzz goes away. My personal rule of thumb is all the caffeine I want before noon, but a hard cutoff at 1pm

I have 2 tattoos that aren’t visible unless I remove my shirt, so it’s not always about attention. The first one I got when I was 18, it symbolizes the values I wish to live by: Strength, Honor, Wisdom, and Courage. It’s on my dominant arm to represent always acting based on those principles. The second is on my chest next to my heart, it symbolizes protection from harm.

The 3rd one I’m planning on getting is a symbol of the union I helped form. It embodies the principles of my union: Democracy, Diversity, Equity, Solidarity, and Transparency. Being the leader of a union movement is genuinely the greatest accomplishment of my life, and I’m going to immortalize that achievement on my body.

Why are you so nihilistic?

As a Minnesotan, I support nuking all of the non-Minnesota towns surrounding the Great Lakes.

Biggesota is cool and all, but we deserve all of the great lakes by Providence

We’ll spare Canadian cities if they annex us

I have civ games that I started years ago that are still incomplete. I regularly dump about 40 hours into a single civ game because I like the marathon pacing

I have 2, looking to get a 3rd soon. I don’t really talk about them, because I got them for me. They mean something to me, so they’re intimate pieces of art that only a few people know about. I’ve never heard someone talk about their tattoos unprompted either

ETA: it came up in another comment on this post, so these are the meanings ascribed to my tattoos:

The first one I got when I was 18, it symbolizes the values I wish to live by: Strength, Honor, Wisdom, and Courage. It’s on my dominant arm to represent always acting based on those principles. The second is on my chest next to my heart, it symbolizes protection from harm.

The 3rd one I’m planning on getting is a symbol of the union I helped form. It embodies the principles of my union: Democracy, Diversity, Equity, Solidarity, and Transparency. Being the leader of a union movement is genuinely the greatest accomplishment of my life, and I’m going to immortalize that achievement on my body.

You should look into Pathfinder 2e! They have all sorts of small ancestries in the core books like Tripkee (froglike), Ratfolk, Kobold, Goblin, Leshy (nature spirit), and more. The best part is that even the most silly character builds will be interesting and fun to play because of how leveling works.

They’re trying to overturn it and it’s not guaranteed to be reaffirmed with this current court.

Nonsense, the cats serve as a secondary defense against insects

Hoshi is definitely the best character in ENT

I was curious, you can easily defeat a taser with a thin 3 layer jacket: outer and inner cloth of any type, a layer of carbon fiber tape, and optionally a thin layer of dense rubber

That does seem to be correct, this is the satellite and street view of Plumber Blvd near the hospital