This isn’t meant to be some kind of “hurr durr Stalin” kind of rebuttal or anything like that, and I hope it doesn’t come across that way. I’m as dissatisfied with everything as you are. But I’m not well versed in socio-politico-economics, so I’m genuinely curious: what is the plan for avoiding what happened in the USSR with a socialist nation? What pitfalls did they fall into that spoiled the word “socialism” for everyone else?

I’ve heard of a diesel-electric logging truck that uses this concept as well. Use the batteries going up the mountain empty, charge them again going downhill loaded.

With all the tariffs coming and the immigrant farm laborers getting deported, it just might!

I’m so tired. I just don’t have the energy to fight any more, there doesn’t seem to be any point. At this point I’m probably just going to hold out until some NATO-esque entity invades/occupies us and sets us straight again.

Macrowave

This building was a fire station, and bunker gear is the protective clothing that firefighters wear. I guess they didn’t want you bringing dirty/smoky clothes into the break room

Ah, that makes a lot of sense.

Unfortunately I live closer to the central part of the state, so if things are concentrated near Seattle then it would be a bit too far away

Washington state.

I’m an atheist / agnostic, but I miss the community of church and something about honoring the earth and the seasons FEELS sacred.

I can respect that.

On an unrelated note, anyone know where I can find one of these pagan potlucks? Asking for a friend.

BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL

The concept of having interchangeable, standardized parts is actually kind of a new idea from the Industrial Revolution. Before then, everything was custom-made to fit. The example that comes to mind is firearms. All of the muskets and rifles used in the revolutionary war, for example, were hand-made and hand-fitted. The lock from one rifle wouldn’t necessarily fit on another. If your stock broke, you couldn’t just go get a new stock and slap it on - you had to bust out the woodworking tools and make a new one.

Is there a Redwall community? I’m tempted to make one but I have no idea how

Are you saying that if I picked up a copy of that differential equations book I might actually learn wtf is going on? Because I only passed that class with the help of wolfram alpha and never looked back

One of my favorite moments of this game was when I stumbled across a KKK meeting in the woods. Rather than just go in guns blazing, I decided to stay hidden and listen in. They proceeded to perform some kind of ritual involving candles, and proceeded to light themselves on fire and all burn to death.

The only side of my family who was in the country at the time were Quaker, so probably didn’t have anything to do with the war. Could be worth looking into, though.

I flip off the breaker, just to be safe.

I live in Washington state, most of my electricity is from hydro or nuclear. My bill is usually about $80 a month, but it can go over $100 in the summer if I’m running the AC a lot.

This one got me good because Saddam Hussein was the last thing I noticed

According to Shadowrun lore, the next step is the Supreme Court allowing corporations to raise their own private armies.