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Big. Heavy. Wood.

I am a symbiotic complex of mostly xylophagous fungus species, and a bit of algae.

#cryptid #fictional #kayfabe #SCP #fungus #JuffoWup #absurdism #nerd #inediblemushrooms #lichen #lowfantasy #urbanfantasy #scifi

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DragonDiaries, to random
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Dear Dragon: “Starting to feel guilty about the size of my hoard in these hard times, what should I do, Going Soft.”

Dear Softy, is it a very…sparkly hoard? Because I might be able to help you out…

SPARKLY SPARKLY SPARKLY!

log,
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@DragonDiaries I felt guilty once. Ated ice cream. Felt better immediately.

lilithsaintcrow, to random
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It’s not quite a gom jabbar, but carrying a bowl of hot oatmeal to the table with my fingertips is definitely an exercise in overcoming nerves.

Of course I could just use oven mitts, but I was too lazy to open that drawer…

log,
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@lilithsaintcrow Dampened paper towel around the rim FTW.

log, to random
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Universal Basic Income won't work unless we can eliminate economic rent and rent-seekers.

Rents don't benefit anyone but the rentier. If we eliminate them, the rest of us will only improve. We can get all those deadweight losses back, too.

As with most things, there is an easy, but morally problematic, way to do it, and a very difficult, morally superior, and likely ineffective way to do it, because they already operate in the morally problematic zone at all times, and are okay with murders.

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@cy @fmhilton I give religion a hard time most of the time, but abolishing usury and debt jubilees are really the sort of things that the faithful should have kept around.

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@cy It really was easier when the only thing one needed to do to figure out the discount rate in your time-value-of-money calculation was see how much gold was mined the previous year. 2.5% to 3.5%, usually.

A few years ago, REITs targeted 7% annual return. The PE direct housing buyers are now aiming for 20%.

The people who stand between people and their survival needs ought to be facing a bit more risk, I think.

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, a little mystery also for today. After the Toxic Club, my
brother and I got a strawberry limeade at a little drive inn, and drove around this Conservation Area, but then we start seeing this fence with these signs, it's like 8 foot tall with lots of the fence totally blacked out, and these signs placed on them that say:

Saline Valley Ranch, No Hunting, No Trespassing

This fence went for miles, and miles had to be incredibly pricey to put in, it reminded me of the fence they'd have at a minimum security prison, but we didn't see cows, horses, crops, nothing but woods and hills and miles and miles of giant fence.

We try to find information about what it is, but there's basically nothing. My husband looks it up on Google Earth, and finds Little Saline Ranch, and I look it up, and it says permanently closed, and even less information is available about that. Google Earth shows lots of wooded land, a lake, and a few open fields, but we couldn't see any buildings or animals, nothing like that.

So, looking up that I find this article about mysterious happenings in the area:

https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/local/2018/10/31/hunting-ghosts-miller-county-other/9408986007

It mentions several people seeing a Bigfoot type cryptid in the area, so obviously the fence is to keep it in. My other guesses involve a government blacksite, as it isn't too far from and airforce base, or a doomsday cult, what do you all think?

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@RickiTarr According to the database, that's SCP site 21a. The fence is for something called Metchgu. And if there was a Sasquatch in there, it isn't a Sasquatch any more. You didn't happen to notice any gaps in the fence, did you? Or any odd colors on it other than black?

RickiTarr, to random
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I remember being a kid, and having the realization that the money the government has is our money, and how weird it is that people act like using social services is taking advantage of the system somehow. We are the system, the people embezzling money through the "defense" budget are the people taking advantage of the system.

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@RickiTarr I remember in economics class, comparing Keynesian to Classical macroeconomics, and wondering if I would get graded poorly if I said it was a huge scam to steal gigantic piles of money and blame the people being stolen from. I decided to regurgitate the facts on command instead.

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@cy US government fiscal policies, roughly from 1945 to 1980, relying on cherry-picked portions of Keynesian economic theory as justification. After that, of course, they replaced it with a worse scam and justified it with literally just the Laffer curve.

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@cy If I recall my understanding of the time correctly, the scam was essentially to trick the entire productive class into taking tiny unnoticeable pay cuts every year, by manipulating inflation, unemployment, and the money supply, and taking advantage of freshly-inflated money being worth more than money spent on inflation-adjusted prices. This coincides with the rise of the military-industrial complex, as all the contractor companies get paid closer to the printing presses.

log,
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@cy It's been a while since I thought about what had been thinking in the early 90s. Much of it is mixed with what I think now.

Fractional reserve banking and fiat currency was taught in the Keynesian module of the class. The Keynesian-influenced policy was enacted to prevent a recurrence of the conditions that caused the Great Depression. Not by repairing the underlying flaws, but by installing control levers (or cables that can pull, but not push) to reset the business cycle before that.

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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It's the exact same playback across the board.

We won't own ANYTHING in just a few decades if we keep going this way. That's a guarantee.

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@Adam_Cadmon1 If buying isn't owning, pirating isn't stealing. And subscriptions that do not provide ongoing benefit will be cancelled.

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@courtcan @Adam_Cadmon1 I remember 2007-2008.

Mortgages might fall apart. Again. Rich people's money blackholes are buying houses directly now. They want us to rent through an app that uses AI to make people homeless.

Learn to hack remote digital locks and discount home monitoring systems now. Teach your kids how to pick or bump cheap mechanical locks. Learn where to cut the secret antennas in your car.

The undermining of real ownership by ordinary proles is consistent and observable.

RickiTarr, to random
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What kind of high-school experience did you have? Were you in a clique? Were you popular, unpopular, the coolest kid in your Homeschool? Did you have a sweet jean jacket with patches, or maybe a leather vest? Were you an evil villain or a Mary Sue?

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@RickiTarr I asked my human about this. They said, "Just keep your head down and do your time. When you get out, you can start over." I double checked that they were talking about high school. "I said what I said. Bring up high school again, and I'm writing you into a dark comedy arc." I'm pretty sure they played tuba and had national first place medals from some science thing, so, interpolating... I guess not popular.

StillIRise1963, to random
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You try to tell someone they're stupid nicely and they give you shit. OH WELL.

log,
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@StillIRise1963 If you ever feel like telling Ms. Rise63 off, you're on the wrong Internet team.

futurebird, to random
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An Absurd Clumsy Allegory
"I'm going to kill you in the night by smothering you in oatmeal."

You laugh it off. Who does that? Absurd. It's 9am, he's cooking oatmeal at the stove. But that's just breakfast.

Later he gets back from shopping. Supplies in unmarked boxes. He's doing something in the garage. "I'm going to kill you in the night by smothering you in oatmeal." He says.

You call your friend and they talk you down.

It's 3pm the smell of oatmeal wafts over from the garage.

log,
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@futurebird You head out to the store to get some brown sugar, fresh apples, and a huge canister of raisins. The end cap on one of the aisles is displaying something called "oatmeal snorkels". Huh. Weird. You pay for your fruit and go home.

log, to random
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I just found out that my landlord's favorite electrician doesn't follow NEC. So how's your day going?

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When I finally own my own place, I'm going to have to do my own electrical, aren't I? The last place I was in had a bad double-switched light circuit, and the outlet in the garage (with the chest freezer, naturally) was GFCI on the same circuit as outdoor outlets, which tripped off every time it rained. So the freezer had to be plugged in to the ceiling (no garage door opener there, naturally). Is the whole country Groverhaus now?

StillIRise1963, to random
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Tesla is a loser.

log,
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@StillIRise1963 As far as reputation goes, Musk has done more damage to the name accidentally than Edison ever managed after a lifetime of coordinated efforts.

lilithsaintcrow, to random
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Okay, Monday, we’re not gonna hurt each other, are we?

ARE WE?

log,
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@lilithsaintcrow Based on experience, maybe calmly ask Monday to pull up its sleeves a little, from a distance, and make sure it's not hiding a sharpened toothbrush up there.

log, to random
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Shitpost and THE ALL CAPS are playing live at the tavern on Tuesday night, and I'm trying very hard to like them before they get popular.

log,
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They started their first set.

It's actually not that deadly. People are still in the bar, and they haven't even smashed their own brains in with the cocktail special containing 12 distinct brands of beetle-derived liquors and a half bottle of Iso-Heet.

Goblin poison resistance is a hell of a perk. It's only $4.99, and you can keep the coconut.

RickiTarr, to random
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When you read Librarian Erotica and think it's real life:

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@RickiTarr My author may have written an "in the stacks" scene under a different pseudonym. The drugs were definitely in a different building, though.

RickiTarr, (edited ) to random
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Lots of debate about this, so I'm curious about the consensus.

Should children be allowed to act professionally, as in having a full time acting job in movie/TV/stage? Feel free to elaborate in the comments.

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@RickiTarr Kids should be allowed to act, but unfortunately the American feature film and television industry is too childish and irresponsible to employ any of them. They can't even get their misbehavior under control with fully unionized adult actors.

RickiTarr, to random
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What is a little white lie you were told as a child, that you believed for too long?

I was way too old when I figured out a human couldn't actually get sucked down a drain or flushed down a toliet. I used to cling to my little brothers, and pull them out of the bath any time my Mum would pull to plug.

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@staringatclouds @RickiTarr My human said they never got that watermelon they were promised. The seeds must have gotten wrapped up in all the chewing gum.

foone, to random
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If you made a food that had one gram of sugar and one gram of antimatter sugar (kept in a metastable magnetic trap, of course), how would you do the nutrition label?
Does it have 2 grams of sugar?
Does it have 1, because you can only digest the regular matter sugar?
Does it have 0, because they cancel each other out?

I need to write to the FDA

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@foone Is an antimolecule just made with anti-atoms, or are chiral stereocenters reversed, too?

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