EldritchFeminity

EldritchFeminity , 1 day ago to News in Biden pardons thousands of US veterans convicted under law banning gay sex

Just wait until you learn about Alan Turing, the guy who made the Turing Machine (considered the first computer).

He committed suicide by eating an apple laced with cyanide because the US government chemically castrated gay men like him - forced them to take drugs so that they couldn't "get it up" to prevent them from committing "deviant behavior".

And that wasn't outside the norm 100 years ago for governments to do.

EldritchFeminity , 1 day ago to News in Biden pardons thousands of US veterans convicted under law banning gay sex

We don't even need to build new cities. We just need to let our cities increase density like all cities did for hundreds of years before the 50s. More multifamily buildings, midrise apartments, and mixed use buildings would go a long way towards helping everybody.

Besides, much of that land is either already owned by somebody or empty for a reason. It would be a logistical nightmare for sure. You could send them to all the dying towns in the US, but I don't think that would help either - apart from the locals being rightfully angry about large groups of new people coming in and eroding their local culture, those towns are dying for a reason that runs much deeper than just people moving away.

EldritchFeminity , 1 day ago to News in Biden pardons thousands of US veterans convicted under law banning gay sex

Considering that Nixon's cabinet has openly talked about how they made it a federal offense so that they had justification to arrest the leaders of the war protesters (and the same thing with cocaine and the black community), I'd say it's of a similar level but a different kind of evil.

EldritchFeminity , 2 days ago to Wizards in Mana potions

I don't have a recipe for mana potions, but according to my book of Eorzean recipes, a Hi-Elixir requires:

• 1/2 a sprig of rosemary
• Ice
• 1 ounce (30ml) curacao
• 1 ounce (30ml) gin
• 1 ounce (30ml) triple sec
• 2 ounces (60ml) lime juice
• 1/2 ounce (15ml) of maple syrup.

In a cocktail shaker, muddle the rosemary sprig. Fill the shaker with ice and the remaining ingredients. Shake vigorously. Pour through a fine-mesh strainer into a glass.

EldritchFeminity , 2 days ago to Memes in Watch out, guns. You're next.

I didn't know they added swords to CS2

EldritchFeminity , 3 days ago to Science Memes in try fingers but hole

No horse ahead

EldritchFeminity , 4 days ago to US Authoritarianism in In Honor of American Conservatives Learning Homelander is Bad

I really need to go back and watch the whole thing, but I remember in one of the first two seasons there's another point where his wife discovers some duffel bags that he's stashed that are just absolutely stuffed with cash. Like, tens of thousands of dollars, if not a six-figure number. And when she confronts him about it (I think she knew what he was doing and he had promised to stop?), he says that he wants to make sure that she and the kids are taken care of after he dies.

But he was lying through his teeth. What started out as a desperate attempt to save his life quickly spirals into a power trip, and his ego can't let him stop even when he has no need to keep going. The money is just a side benefit at that point.

EldritchFeminity , 9 days ago to politics in In historic first, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis vetoes most arts funding in Florida

We call these people "snowbirds" where I'm from.

You also missed the part where they vote to prevent any additional funding for education and other services in the communities where their summer houses are because it would increase their taxes.

EldritchFeminity , 9 days ago to solarpunk memes in praxis

I don't know about Wal-Mart, but every other site you listed is famous for being filled with Chinese companies that make cheap knockoff garbage. Yes, even Amazon. It's like the perfect blend of enshitification and consumerism.

I don't know about the tech companies, but with clothing companies you'll see the exact same companies with names like asdfghjkl on both Amazon and Temu, selling the exact same product with the exact same pictures as 3 other similarly named companies. And what you buy will only last slightly longer than the 6 months the company is around for before it disappears and the owners open back up under a new name.

For tech, you gotta do research and see what the experts are saying and find out the reputation of the brands that you're looking at. Unfortunately, it isn't as easy as just going on the website and checking the reviews.

As for your original question, I think the answer will be FOSS projects. No company is going to willingly drop the potential ad revenue of AR ads. "This dream brought to you by Underwear brand briefs!"

EldritchFeminity , 9 days ago to politics in Donald Trump Airport? Trump on the $500 bill? Republicans can't stop honoring ex-president

I think they should name an airline company after him instead. Or maybe a steak company.

Those definitely won't go bankrupt, surely. No way a businessman of his caliber would let that happen.

EldritchFeminity , 13 days ago to Political Memes in Not Likeable

It's by the design of the Democrats, though I think our current situation is an unintentional cascade effect.

It's the result of one of the oldest election strategies in the world that remains incredibly popular for one simple reason: it's easy and it works. "Vote for me because I'm not the other guy" is a much easier policy to convince people on than actually having any policies of your own.

For many years now Democrats all over the country have been funding the campaigns of the most unhinged and extremist of their opponents to set themselves up for an easy win - there was even a lady who wrote a book about her doing it, only to lose to that same extremist in the very next election.

And that's why we find ourselves in the situation that we're in. Because the Dems keep thinking that they can court some mythical moderate Republican voting block by propping extremists up as the nominees. But that doesn't exist because the Republicans have always been voting against Dems rather than for people they like. Republicans don't care if the nominee is Bush, Biden, Putin, or Stalin himself, risen from the grave to finally put an end to capitalism. So long as they have an R next to their name instead of a D, that's who they're voting for.

EldritchFeminity , 17 days ago to Political Memes in "How am I supposed to explain this to my children?!"

I'm pretty sure active shooter drills have been ongoing for over a decade at some schools at this point. There was a whole thing a few years ago about schools "putting litter boxes in classrooms for kids that identify as cats" that conservatives were freaking out about where it turned out that the schools had cat litter in classroom survival kits. They sell Kevlar backpacks for kids.

This country has been screwed for decades now.

EldritchFeminity , 19 days ago to Work Reform in Saw this and thought it was fake until I googled. It's real.

I think it boils down to the whole "we learn by doing" thing that's at the heart of a lot of play. And especially for kids, imitating what you see the adults in your life do all the time holds some mystique and new-ness that makes boring tasks seem like exciting activities. To us, filing taxes and loading the washing machine are repetitive tasks we do out of necessity, but to kids, it's a "grown-up thing" to be able to do.

EldritchFeminity , 23 days ago to politics in One in three Republicans now think Donald Trump was wrong candidate choice

But would it even make a difference? The Republicans haven't won the vote in about 2 decades, and in 2016, the Supreme Court said that the Electoral College doesn't have to vote the way that the voters that they represent voted when multiple representatives said that they were going to cast their votes for Trump despite Hillary winning the state.

EldritchFeminity , 23 days ago to politics in One in three Republicans now think Donald Trump was wrong candidate choice

Democrats have been funding the most extremist and crazy of their opponents in political races for years now because it's a lot easier to run on the policy of "At least I'm not that guy" than it is to actually convince people to vote for you based on your policies and agenda. Hell, some lady wrote a book about how she did it to win a seat, only to lose to that same guy in the very next election.

It's one of the oldest and most effective campaign strategies there is, but it keeps biting Democrats in the ass and they keep trying it anyways. Democrats seem to think that moderate Republicans will vote for them over the extremist candidate, but Republicans don't care about who the candidate is so long as they're a Republican.