I don’t really believe this, but possibly vice versa - the HM phenomena inspired many of our be-hatted dream villains, from Krueger to the Babadook to the Voodoo Papa Shango to the hatted dream villain that inspired Mr. Hyde
In this theory, the entity is 1. At least as old as the Victorian era 2. Wears a hat. 3. Exists in the dream worlds.
I wouldn’t mind seeing the Permian Swamps return.
You could essentially swap Amish country for five-foot carnivorous amphibians and club ferns the size of oaks. Also hawk-sized dragonflies.
We just got a new one - the sentient AI chatbot. Next up is the sentient virus or other AI “wildlife.”
Australopithecus was teeny-tiny - 1.2-1.4 meters
How do you figure? Like, what’s the source for that? ALL of those areas have been heavily terraformed or resource-extracted for hundreds of years, no matter the “sparsely populated” bit. The Midwest is the most glaring example - yeah, it’s sparsely populated - by a small crew that rake every arable inch twice a year…farmers.
Canada and Alaska are both big oil and gas hubs, plus logging and fishing. You don’t need many folks in oil country but you need loads and loads of surveying. Western China is the hydropower center, so loads of dams and industrial projects.
The Amazon AND the Congo are also heavily exploited via logging, mining, plantation farming, etc - the Congo also went through a period of very intense rubber farming.
Just - where do you get the 50% unexplored factoid? I’d reckon it’s closer to zero truly unexplored. We are excellent at resource extraction ton, rich and poor countries alike. There isn’t much wilderness left anywhere.
This estimates only 23% of the land, excluding Antarctica, is wilderness. The ocean is even less.
https://wilderness-society.org/dark-future-for-remaining-wilderness/
Only 5% of the US is protected wilderness - and those are intensely maintained and studied parks. Alaska is half of that, and a lot of THAT is coastal habitat.
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/stories/wilderness-month.html
These are JUST illegal mines in the Amazon, never mind the legal ops, the logging, and the plantations.
Very few movies are beautiful. That was beautiful.
Would I watch Danny Trejo as MacBeth, with an all-Latin cast set in 1920s Cuba? Yes, I would
You lie. Same guy??
Peacemaker is the best DC show, followed super closely by Doom Patrol. DC is best when it leaves the gods on the shelf and focuses on the weirdos. I would kill for a Section 8 show.
Lou Diamond Philips. Love him, tho
It does, though - even if that LINE survived, it wouldn’t be recognizable 65 million years later. Absolutely zero chance you saw a non-avian dinosaur in modern Texas.
It was also 10 feet at the hips. Can’t hide a breeding population of those for 65 million years in Texas scrub. And never mind the vast habitat changes in the meantime.
In the commodities industry, no one wants low prices. It feels counterintuitive - surely buyers want low prices? They don’t - because it makes your inventory value fall and you can’t pass along price increases to end users. End users don’t even want low prices, because it cuts into the margins you can along to the ultimate consumer.
So everyone in the value chain, except you, the consumer, has an incentive to keep prices as high as possible. The hardest way to do that is increasing demand - so it’s far more common to cut production or ask the government for help with tariffs, etc.
So when you look at the price for a basic commodity, like steel, you should know that everyone in that value chain is doing what they can to keep prices elevated, up through actually shutting down “excess” production. It’s one of the stickier things about capitalism - it’s not really focused on production, but value. A dream steel mill would be one that made a single ton worth infinite dollars.
Look at diamonds as another example. They aren’t particularly rare or intrinsically valuable - production is very tightly controlled.
So there’s a tension within any society with that production strategy - the makers want to keep production fairly low, and that cuts into available jobs…for the consumers to have enough money to buy the thing at the elevated price.
Any animal from a theorized “second founding” of life on earth. All life, from our understanding, arose from a single instance…we all have an extremely distant last common ancestor.
An organism from a wholly different chain of life would rock a large number of boats.
Nah, not in the water - there’s no mystery there. It’s gills - plenty of surface area.
LAND arthropods have breathing issues with spiracles or book lungs. It’s why - along with buoyancy for the heavy exoskeleton - sea arthropods get so much larger.
Basically the above - it was never going to be a pretty election year, but with the country both evenly divided and severely polarized based on local geography, I don't think it would be unreasonable to expect an uptick in disorder of all kinds in those two timeframes - the holiday surrounding percieved government tyranny we celebrate with explosives and the election timeframe itself, with the Nov. 5 triggerpoint wedged in there.
What are your expectations? Your preparations? I highly doubt I'm taking the fam anywhere crowded to see fireworks, unfortunately - the risk is too high.
I almost doubled my salary last year hopping jobs twice - I have no clue how I would have survived the last year otherwise. It was entirely networking - I got a job in a somewhat related field till my non-compete ran out at a higher salary, maintained contacts, then joined a competitor, using my interim higher salary as the negotiating hook. Went from $60k to $112k over 8 months, but the hopping was no fun. And I knew that middle job was getting fucked. But - it’s business, and no company is my family. My family is my family.
Ursula sang an entire song warning her before she signed. The crab, her flounder friend, and her father all warned her. She signed. Ursula held up her end of the bargain. So Ariel assaulted and then ultimated shanked her to death with a boat.
Foot guys are a weird breed.
Ursula sang an ENTIRE SONG about how evil she was before Ariel signed the contract. Ariel was warned by the crab, the flounder, her father and more about the "sea witch." The sea witch fulfilled her end of the contract. Ariel assaulted and then murdered her because I guess caveat emptor doesn't exist under da sea.
Riding in the backseat. Important people get driven.
Target does do that - a friend used to work security there. They wait until you've hit a certain dollar amount so they can hit you with a felony.
https://www.fishandboat.com/Fishing/Regulations/Documents/SummaryBook.pdf
All in here - 16 and up. You need one to fish alongside, she doesn’t. Also good to know the rod/bait/hook laws.
Fishing license question.
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