Nakoichi [they/them]

Where about do you live?

I just got a new full time job as a canvasser in california almost immediately after signing up for indeed. Granted I have a pretty solid resume, but I was fired from my last two jobs and they swooped me up quick full time with benefits and bonuses.

A state with two corporate captured bourgeois parties constantly sabotaging each other is arguably a lot worse

Unironically communism. The more things are held in common the less incentive there is for people to steal, especially if you can ensure providing a decent or at the least constantly improving standard of living while making examples out of those who hoard wealth or violate the public trust (see china executing a few corrupt billionaires every now and again).

They didn’t though

They just said “fact” in quotes.

If they had said “actually I am from x” I could have engaged differently. But frankly it doesn’t matter because they are getting very defensive and calling others westerners without even saying where they are from. They certainly don’t have to I aint fishing for personal info or anything but given the surrounding context I could not help but respond the way I did.

I fuckin burned my draft card and was getting tear gassed protesting against the Iraq war over twenty years ago. Fuck off with that shit.

No you’re just a settler brain dipshit that gets uncomfortable getting called out, the fact you are an Aussie calling someone else westerner is fucking rich lmao.

metacarpals cuz it sounds like some shit a european philosopher from the 19th century wrote a 2000 page thesis on.

They are so fuckin huge dude.

They have one of the largest wingspans of any bird. Like their wingspan is ~9.5 feet.

Yeah check out my comment on the Santa Cruz salamander.

See my other comment about California condors. I actually got to be part of their rehabilitation efforts and thanks to the university I worked with we got them from about 27 total known individuals left to over 170 last data I can find.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_long-toed_salamander

So rare I don’t even know if they still exist.

I did some field biology work back in the mid 2000s and this is the only reason I know this.

There is also the California Condor and a species of kangaroo rat in the Mojave. The former is less rare now due to an immense amount of work we did to save the species to the point where they actually got removed from the endangered list at one point.

Look at this little guy though

As for the Condors:

The condor population (wild and captive) has steadily increased, reaching over 460 in 2017 (with 170 wild condors in California). For the most current update check out the Condor Population Status Summary (PDF)

Back when I was doing field work they were down to only 27 and all had been moved to captivity.

The situation with the salamander is much more dire

Its limited range and fragile specialized habitat place severe restrictions to the viability of this species. There is no definitive population estimate for the Santa Cruz long-toed salamander, but the numbers are deemed to be quite small. Further disturbance of its limited habitat could lead to this species’ extinction.

Probably my hatchet, first aid kit, and a duffel bag I keep packed with all weather gear and a small tent as well as my headlamp, survival knife, and half a dozen MREs

I’m not even a “collapse is imminent” prepper kinda guy but it’s better to be safe than sorry, you never know.

I got to see it opening weekend with my mom and stepdad who took me to see it because I wasn’t 13 yet but was absolutely obsessed with dinosaurs to a more academic extent than your average 9 year old even has any business being. The box office had a giant hand sculpted pterodactyl in a nest on top of it which was one of the coolest things ever.

You should also definitely read the books, there is a much stronger emphasis on how capitalism makes everything shittier and endangers workers and compromises scientific integrity, which makes it especially shameful that toward the end of his life Crichton turned into a fuckin climate change denying right wing crank.

Jurassic Park hands down.

“This is America. Nobody deserves to be treated as a black man” holy fuckin shit.

Don’t be put off by the comparisons to dark souls, the main reason I said it is relaxing is the very lenient way it deals with its survival mechanics. Especially if you have a decent sized group you could totally just farm and play viking stardew valley.

Not sure which season you are referencing but Valheim is really cozy and a very relaxing take on the survival crafting genre.

Not really but when I wear my duster and my nice wide brim felt hat people always say I look like Van Helsing

I miss the chinese F2P battlefield 2 version

Excising yourself from bourgeois social media day just doesn’t have a good ring to it.