Wow Amazon Prime and Nestle. I know I shouldn’t shame my fellow captives, since I’m sure I’m doing something that another person would find reprehensible

Oh I remember those comics! Didn’t realise that had made it into the movie

Ooo yeah like a curse and at first you think it’s the children’s fault, but then at the halfway point you find out they’re the victims. Would also provide some good tension since it’s the only way for the protag to get more power after the pepper shot removed their ability to make more poffspring.

I mean I was joking in my original comment, but you could tweak it a bit and maybe obscure some of the details to make the story halfway evocative.

Is this Gears of War?

I think so, yes, that feels right. OK, this is powerful… I think I’ve got the hook for my second book

It’s kind of assembled from pig iron?

My protagonist has the ability to wield a franction (a word for a small amount in my verse) of the vitael energies of potential offspring (“poffspring”) they decide not to have, so like if they date someone of the opposite sex and things are going well and they’re thinking of moving in together, and then they ghost them my protag gets the power of the potential unborn babies (well some of it). They have made enemies of pretty much everyone in their hammelit (small village in my world), but have grown that much stronger with each jilted partner.

Anyway, they pulled this with the shire riff’s (reeve of a shire in my lore) daughter and got shot with a pepper shot blunderbuss and exiled from town, but they are able to carry approx a handful of extra sticks using the strength from their poffspring, which they use to heat the abandoned hut they live in upwind of the hammelit’s middens.

Right they hate these straw people. I mean, I;m not going to say my own cognitive projection of “conservative” is 100% accurate, but at least my nightmare scenarios are about actual bad things happening, and not like conservative nightmares of genetically inferior people getting to enjoy the gifts of civilization.

So… huh, so what’s the alternative then? I guess some other flavour of linux?

What?? I was not. I thought it was compatible, or like a fork idk… Guess I’ve got some reading to do.

I’m checking out Graphene OS next week and pretty pumped about it. This Google ratfucking has been just the push I need to get off Android.

And obviously I haven’t stopped telling people around me haha

Oh interesting. My workouts are pretty standard, but I do sometimes ponder moving to heavy weights.

🐘💨

Actually about to start a strength workout having eaten nothing but tofu and lentils for protein. 😱 I’ll probably die tbh

Do people not even Emmet anymore?? Tsk…

Same thing here. There was a brief period where I thought I could just worry about my own affairs, get a little informed, then vote once in a while — trusting there were adults in charge of the boring business of government, with our collective best interests in mind — well, fuck me for assuming those that seek power would know how to use it responsibly, because now I’ve got to get involved in my local politics and activism just to be a good citizen Ig. But God damn do I wish I could just focus on handling my own personal shit, because that is hard enough on its own, let me tell you…

Something tells me soy is about to get a real big brand facelift soon

I liked that part of it anyway

It’s like “jaywalking” oooh oh no don’t “jay” walk, don’t “side” load; conform to our business machines! Your natural existence and free movements are an inconvenience to us therefore you have to change.

Or whatever bullshit–however they couch it.

Yeah now it’s like let’s watch how exactly rich people are trying to make the future suck for me and it doesn’t even work, and even if it did it wouldn’t make our lives any better