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@Trance_Knight

recovering climate doomer building a better timeline // pro-science, pro-democracy, still into Pokémon // the future is weird, and we’ll get there together

Katılım Kasım 2017
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@thepanta82 @LinkofSunshine Those collars are used to communicate with the dog, not to discipline them. The shock administered is not painful, it’s like a tapping or pulling sensation. It provides an additional stimulus, alongside verbal cues, to get and keep the dog’s attention.
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Panta@thepanta82·
@LinkofSunshine The real black pill is that his 3rd worldist audience doesn't care, because they think it's fine to use a shock collar to discipline a dog.
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@LinkofSunshine Those collars are basically industry-standard tools in professional dog training. The “shock” they administer is not painful even at the highest setting. It’s like a tap on the shoulder. They are used as tactile communication for getting the dog’s attention, not for punishment
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@bentrified @SomethingBanter @AspirinJuice425 I think it could work if the game in question is set after SV, like “oh this was a weird Paldea problem that’s starting to spill over into other regions.” It could also provide an opportunity to tug on some of the lingering questions left at the end of SV’s story
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🪷 Willow AspirinJuice🪷 (she/her)@AspirinJuice425·
it's annoying to me how a lot of Pokemon are designed with their role in a single game in mind and never get used for that purpose again so they're left being incredibly weak undeservedly. Look at Onyx man
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@bentrified @SomethingBanter @AspirinJuice425 They could do a Jurassic Park/Invasive Species kind of thing by making them able to breed. Maybe as a DLC or postgame quest Someone gives you a “strange egg” that hatches into a paradox mon, and then they start popping up around the region to everyone’s surprise and concern.
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{trance.knight}@Trance_Knight·
@Supermak292296 @skeleGG_ @dcg1114 The walls in Israel aren’t thousands of miles long. The US-MEX border isn’t a line in the sand, it’s an entire region of many thousands of square miles that has to be policed in a wholistic and professional manner. Abbott’s stunt made that job more difficult and dangerous
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Supermak@Supermak292296·
@Trance_Knight @skeleGG_ @dcg1114 Walls aren’t effective. Yeah that’s why Israel has torn their fences down. You’re a typical liberal. Call names and act indignant if you’re accused of supporting illegal immigration but then oppose any measure to stop it.
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dcg1114@dcg1114·
Which social issues are the Dems supposed to move right on? Abortion? This is a winning issue for the Dems post Roe. Gay Rights? Most support gay marriage. Trans - Dems won this issue in the '25 exit polling. This is too vague to take seriously.
Corey Walker 🇺🇸@CoreyWriting

Dems could probably dominate electorally if they moved to the center on social issues while adopting economic populism. Instead they continue lurching leftwards. They're just as unpopular as the GOP despite Trump's toxicity. They hope to be bailed out by anti-Trump backlash.

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{trance.knight}@Trance_Knight·
@skeleGG_ @Supermak292296 @dcg1114 The fact is that the razor wire made actual border enforcement more difficult and dangerous. Removing it does not equal a policy of open borders. You’re all children who think if you’re cruel enough the things you don’t like will just go away.
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Phill@skeleGG_·
@Supermak292296 @Trance_Knight @dcg1114 Just gotta let the lefties go. They’ll never admit anything, no sense in presenting facts. Proof is in the pudding with the 2024 election, popular vote win with all 7 swing states.
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{trance.knight}@Trance_Knight·
@Supermak292296 @skeleGG_ @dcg1114 Walls and razor wire are not effective management policy, and removing them does not create a “wide open border.” You’re all 12 year olds who think “big scary wall with spikes” = “security”
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Supermak@Supermak292296·
@Trance_Knight @skeleGG_ @dcg1114 “The “wide open border” was never real and no Democrats argue for it. ” Repeat that a million times. Maybe it will become true
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{trance.knight}@Trance_Knight·
@Supermak292296 @skeleGG_ @dcg1114 “Effective and professional” A razor wire barrier at an arbitrary line in the sand is not efficient management of the border region, it’s a publicity stunt that actively hampers management efforts. You have no interest in effective policy, just performative cruelty.
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{trance.knight}@Trance_Knight·
@Mekarrrr @skeleGG_ @dcg1114 No there’s actually pretty strong animosity and fundamental philosophical disagreement between those camps. They do not like one another or work together. Anarchists think Democrats are evil, Democrats think Anarchists are crazy.
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{trance.knight}@Trance_Knight·
@haleighford @skeleGG_ @dcg1114 AFAICT his position seems to be “I was slightly inconvenienced by my new neighbors, so we need to send armed goons to round up and expel millions of people regardless of their legal status.” He doesn’t actually care if they’re legal or pay taxes, he just doesn’t want to see them.
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Haleigh Kaauamo@haleighford·
@skeleGG_ @Trance_Knight @dcg1114 Undocumented&documented immigrants pay taxes. They actually pay more taxes than the minimal social services they use cost so you’re crying about a boogeyman that doesn’t exist.
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{trance.knight}@Trance_Knight·
@Mekarrrr @skeleGG_ @dcg1114 “Open borders” is a position held by far-left anarchists, not Democrats. Democrats are neoliberal technocrats, they want a well-managed and generally humane approach to legal immigration and border enforcement. Those are not the same policy position no matter how you cut it.
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Mekar@Mekarrrr·
@Trance_Knight @skeleGG_ @dcg1114 You will never win another election if you cannot be honest about this. Sticking your head in the sand and lying about the past (and present) beliefs of Democrats is simply not a legitimate strategy unless you’re fine losing forever.
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{trance.knight}@Trance_Knight·
@skeleGG_ @dcg1114 No, I’m genuinely seeking to understand your perspective because I don’t. How does “my community seems to have more legal immigrants” become “Democrats support open borders” and “we need mass deportations”? I don’t understand the flow of logic. Help me understand.
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{trance.knight}@Trance_Knight·
@skeleGG_ @dcg1114 If those immigrants have an affidavit proving legal residency, wouldn’t that imply they are also paying taxes? And if they do have proof of legal residence then mass deportation of illegal residents wouldn’t eliminate that inconvenience. It’s a pretty big leap.
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Phill@skeleGG_·
@Trance_Knight @dcg1114 Enrolled my kid in pre k this year. Limited slots, you live in the town, provide proof(deed/etc.). If an immigrant just an affidavit proving residency. Never dealt with that during my first kids enrollment. What do you think is going thru everyone’s mind that is paying taxes? Lol
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{trance.knight}@Trance_Knight·
@skeleGG_ @dcg1114 That process took place over the last 15 years, not the last 4. There’s been frequent reporting, both positive and negative, since at least the early 2010s about immigrants moving to exurban communities. What changed in the last 4 years was the media landscape, not the reality.
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Phill@skeleGG_·
@Trance_Knight @dcg1114 Immigration has always happened, usually the big cities dealt with it. Was never really an issue for most people because they didn’t see it. The last 4 years you’re seeing it pour over into the suburbs in places that never had to deal with it.
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{trance.knight}@Trance_Knight·
@skeleGG_ @dcg1114 I’m not ignoring the correlation- I think you’re correct that the public’s perception of the immigration issue was influential. I’m arguing that the public’s perception of Democratic policy being “open borders” is not accurate and is instead rooted in propaganda.
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Phill@skeleGG_·
@Trance_Knight @dcg1114 If you say so. First GOP popular vote win in 20 years with all 7 swing states all while GOP campaigned on mass deportations. If you want to ignore the correlation/border, it will be at democrats demise.
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{trance.knight}@Trance_Knight·
@skeleGG_ @dcg1114 The “wide open border” was never real and no Democrats argue for it. Dems argue for an efficient legal immigration system, effective & professional border enforcement, and a sensible process for managing the existing undocumented. Right of that is plain xenophobia and brutality
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Phill@skeleGG_·
@dcg1114 Why y’all always neglect the reason you lost? The wide open border. Move right on the border issue and follow through. Otherwise Dems will never be taken seriously again 😂
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{trance.knight}@Trance_Knight·
@TwoRulesOfWar There WAS a prolonged insurgency in the south- decades of bombings and arson and robbery and assassinations by former Confederates seeking to undermine Reconstruction and rebuild the prewar south. And they succeeded, ushering in Jim Crowe and another century of immiseration
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Ima_Pseudonym@ima_pseudo41406·
@TwoRulesOfWar These people have more animosity toward the Confederacy than Union veterans did.
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Brandon Gorte 🏴‍☠️@GorteBrandon·
@martianwyrdlord The biggest obstacles in terraforming Venus are the axial tilt at 177 degrees and the lack of a large, stabilizing moon (like Earth’s). Getting a moon could be done, but I’m not sure how to change the axial tilt.
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John Carter@martianwyrdlord·
Terraforming Venus isn't as impossible as it looks. Use a sunshade to block the Sun entirely and the planet will start to cool. Over centuries or millennia, the atmosphere will freeze out. Once all that CO2 is in dry ice glaciers, you cover it with rock (or mine it and ship it off world). The freezing process can be accelerated with solar updraft towers or vortex engines to transport heat from the surface to the upper atmosphere where it can be more easily radiated away. Atmospheric conversion can be accelerated further by bombarding the atmosphere with hydrogen, which would convert the CO2 to graphite and water. That has the advantage that it add water, currently scarce on Venus. The entire process could be completed in just a few hundred years. researchgate.net/publication/33…
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Brad R. Torgersen@BradRTorgersen

Things that fascinate me: there must have been a point right around the time the oceans of Earth were first harboring simple life, that there were oceans covering Venus and Mars as well. Three watery sisters circling a younger sun. One of them would become an almost airless, freeze-dried desert. The other would become a cooked hellscape of sulfur-tinged carbon dioxide, pressurized to a terrestrial water depth of 200 feet. What circumstances spared the middle world? Was it the orbit? The fact Earth has a large moon? Was it that our planet has just enough volcanic activity for plate tectonics, but never enough to outgas lethal quantities of CO2? There might be a time in the future when Mars has oceans again. It will probably take thousands of years of harvesting and dropping Kuiper and Oort objects into the atmosphere. But it's a near certainty Venus will stay like it is until billions of years from now the sun swells up and swallows both it and the Earth. Because there's no obvious way to put all that CO2 back into Venus' crust. Still, that finite period when the three worlds were truly clement . . . I wonder about it. And try to imagine what it would be like if those two ancient companions to Earth could somehow become now as they were then. What would it change about our space colonization effort? How much more urgent might we be?

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@thepanta82 @LinkofSunshine @bentrified @SomethingBanter @AspirinJuice425 @Supermak292296 @skeleGG_ @dcg1114