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Does feel ambiguous, at least! A strolling fungal god? Wizards, now one with their biomantic experiment, perhaps listening to whatever that great span picks up?

Never knew the name of that one!

Not specifically my subject, but always liked the T-35 (and the Vickers A1E1 that Totally Didn't Get Copied) for sheer enthusiasm in design, and also for having everything under armour. "What if RWS but no R?"

Especially if it's one of the big name/LCF ones.

Riffing on the "have a drink" thing: Trump is the first president I can think of who is likely incapable of shooting the shit.

We are ruled by people who would never give a sweet goddamn about the Christmas Island Shrew. It was worth more than all of them

I smell a bit of desperate Hello My Fellow Youth flailing.

Just lots of vaguely compatible evil, some subsets of which absolutely do have (or explicitly are) a plan (P2025 e.g.).

Though I don't think that contradicts the original point: there really isn't a singular mastermind!

The regime has more strings being pulled than a twine factory, and by everyone from Vlad Putin to Guy Who Spoke to the President Last, but I don't think there's a single coherent strategy behind it.

Every executive who pushed for software to be rental than buy to own should be tied to trees, covered in honey and left for the insects.

Absolutely.

Definite point.

Though someone with way more depth than I've got could probably do a worthwhile comparison of perceived versus actual deprivation, senses of entitlement, and so on: how much was the boot on the plate an expected part of life's range?

i think you need a baby sea otter swimming with mom right about now...

*Everyone* gets to work under canvas or out of randomly selected barracks until pest control is done fumigating.

Yet another thing (masculinity) turned into high-contrast cosplay and welded to being an asshole.

The guy checked off so many positive/traditionally masculine coded/healthy attributes and experiences...

Or, bonus points, her husband.

I would add: onboard storage. If it's possible to make 2TB fit onto something the size of my thumbnail, a phone shouldn't be counting storage in GB. Flagship phones should be infinite bags of digital holding.

IIRC that was more or less true for all the fascists of that era, along with the USSR: a perceived or actual need to give the (chosen) people a taste of improvement along with the oppression, murder, genocide, and military adventuring.

Hadn't seen the potable water one before; what's its background? (honestly no idea, not stirring shit)

Annnnnd update...

For sure! I meant WWII nerds. Like, even if your thing is Mongolian people's militias or something, I'd expect that crowd to be vaguely aware of the major powers' iconography.

Minimally, not even recognizing it immediately, but being aware enough to be super cautious about skull/bones images, and making sure yours is very obviously pirate, say, and not Nazi.

Exactly!

The US contribution to The Horrors seems incredibly fitting in so many ways.

A fancy crook polished by use with actual sheep has a certain cachet.

Side view of a turtle's head, facing left. The turtle's head is partially retracted into the loose and wrinkled skin of the neck. The ground color of the head is a pale blue, almost a powder blue, with a faint touch of green. Overlying this are blotches of a dark charcoal gray; one large blotch covers the nose, another the eyes, and then there are smaller spots and streaks elsewhere on the head and neck. The nose is elongated, resembling that of a tapir. The iris is bright gold, and the pupil is round and black.

For #TurtleTuesday, a profile of an Indian Flap-shelled Turtle (LIssemys punctata), at night in Goa province, India. "Flap-shelled" refers to flaps of skin on the plastron that partially cover the limbs. A creature of still waters - check out that snorky nose! #herps #turtles #NaturePhotography 🌿

It's also such a gratuitous act attack on the target's credibility and veracity that it would be repugnant for that alone, even without the antisemitism.

You want to accuse someone of Santos on 'roids fraud? Best you back it up. Baseless and unhinged? Nope, don't get to do that.

...generation ship or something?

Might get too close to the conspiracy theories, but: aliens (maybe criminals or similar themselves) allying with human criminals or corps for Nefarious Purposes...

All way more fun than They Rule The World Through (((elites))) crud.

Putting some hard narrative boundaries in, early on, would be easy.

Also, secret aliens controlling the world? Sketchy; also, played out.

Aliens trolling The Primitives? Aliens *hiding* their presence (Prime Directive style, but sucking at it, say)? Decades-long recovery mission for a crashed...

Except for tripping over fellow practitioners.

to be specific about the "they"

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