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WRETCHEDSORCERESS wrote

Reply to do yall have any new year rituals by skookin

Rest in peace bagpipe fella, that's a real shame :(

I usually find somewhere to cry-sing Last Song by Jason Webley as the year turns. Just my little ward against despair.

My stepdad always makes black-eyed peas, collard greens, and cornbread. I am not southern, so it's never really something I've done, but those foods are all great. Maybe I should.

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I_got_killed_one_time wrote (edited )

Reply to do yall have any new year rituals by skookin

for the past two or three years ive gone and blasted death grips in the tesco car park.

the first year i think i interrupted a couple doing Some thing becuase when i started, a car lit up and very quickly peeled away, and im pretty sure the guy behind the wheel scowled at me more fiercely than any mad animal ive seen

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to comment by twovests in Someone tell me what Sonic games to play by twovests

Update: WOW that's a bad game

It does a few things very well, but this game is defined by jank. It was bad in 2001 and it's unplayable in 2024. Every moment that felt good is subverted by the horrible controls. It's damning that this is the best of the 3D Sonics, too.

The Sonic/Shadow levels are good, the Tails/Eggman levels would be okay if it weren't for the BEEEEEEEEEEEEEPBEEEEEEEEPBEEEEEEEP, and the Knuckles/Rouge levels bring the whole thing down.

I have so much positive memory of this game that I threw away by playing it again. This one should have cooked a lot, lot longer.

I wish I had more good things to say about this. Chao Garden is the best part of the game though

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WRETCHEDSORCERESS OP wrote

Reply to comment by cute_spider in Microbe Monday: There is a Hole in the Antarctic Ice; Tainted Blood Flows From the Desolate & Wounded Earth by WRETCHEDSORCERESS

Basically, they go something like SO42– → SO32– →S2O32–, which is broadly endergonic, but there's a ton of different electron acceptors in the vicinity which can essentially create the free energy, and also cycle the sulfur between these different forms. it doesn't get eaten up, just kinda tossed around.

It's not fully worked out the exact specifics of the metabolism, but it's some really weird anoxic stuff! the carbon deprivation is another big thing I don't even fully understand - apparently small amounts of carbon 14 are found in samples but it seems much of that is just because the samples are taken from surface outflow (same with how theres a bit of oxygen there, but almost no actual dissolved oxygen in the deep glacial reservoir)

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rain wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by twovests in My vote was never counted and my election officials never got back to me. by twovests

Maybe there's a reasonable explanation, but maybe the road to hell is lined with "benefit of the doubt".

Exactly. And the thing is, some fraction of the uncounted ballots probably are for completely unrelated reasons, and they rely on this for plausible deniability. But taken as a whole, I believe most of these cases are cases of deliberate lack of care, i.e., voter suppression.

The real question now is: so what? What are we going to do about it?

Edit: just to be clear, I don’t have an answer - this is just what I’ve been asking myself the last month

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rain wrote

Reply to My vote was never counted and my election officials never got back to me. by twovests

But, why wasn't my vote counted?

I’m absolutely convinced it’s because someone knew there would be no consequences for burying it. Voter suppression is far more likely to get hand wringing than a serious response, so active grassroots voter suppression has become popular.

It’s turns out the old saying “if voting could bring change it would be illegal” was wrong. Instead, it’s “if voting could bring change we will rig the results.”

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