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(Doesn't work if you press yourself into a Lustmord album; Lustmord does that by default.)
Also the pump's problem again was sulphate within the pressure switch's contacts, it worked again after I cleaned it up, which is a good thing since the other tank was out of water.
I might have eaten a number of spoiled or mouldy items, but that's a different story, mostly about me not realizing I shouldn't have.
> rum
> ice
> realize frosting is citrus juice plus sugar
> make daiquiri
> profit
> contains crumbs though
> doesn't matter
it looks like "die-KEY-ree" but everyone says "dackery"
okay so Wiktionary says that it's named after the Cuban town of Daiquirí
so it should be "die key REE" in English pronunciation
I just learned about the time Australians waged was against birds and... well, they didn't lose but they didn't exactly win either:
apparently this is an entire category
Here's a link to the version that contains it: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Emu_War&oldid=745807409
There now seems to be some ongoing disagreement over whether the emus count as participants in the historical event.
I could rant for a good while on the weather, believe me. I mean, I'm no winter hater. This winter we actually had like two weeks of consistent snowiness, which I was pretty fine with, because I like the winter to look like winter for at least a few weeks, and for the last few years it failed to deliver. But then, when the time is for the weather to get warmer, I do not wish to see a sudden snowfall. Was like T-shirt weather a week ago, and now it's back to snow.
Curiously enough, there is an old folk saying that April is a bit winter, a bit summer. With all the global warming shizzle going on, I did not expect I'll have another opportunity to see it in practice.
Somewhere in Poland, there is a schoolchild who failed to drown their effigy of Marzanna.
Now I'm wondering what could be the Venezuelan equivalent in terms of "fun for a while, tedious in long term". Torrential downpour?
Speaking of weather, today was so humid it was impossible not to get all sweaty, even when not outdoors. It seemed like it was going to rain all day through but it didn't rain until almost the evening.
https://en.calameo.com/books/0000801987063d8a51567
look, I know I like both Latin stuff and Japanese pop culture, but you're doing it wrong*checks*
Yep, Jersey to Yukai na Nakamatachi have kept making Andean folk Touhou remixes, so that's good (at least I assume that's what they are; they aren't on Youtube).
You are forced to realize that there are forces out there beyond your comprehension, to which you or all of humankind are nothing in comparison, and which you can at best hope they are well-intentioned or can be reasoned with because that at least obscures the truth enough that you can hope for a glimmer of meaning in it.
Like, The X-Files are a fun conspiracy monster-of-the-week show until the myth arc kicks in, where it turns out you can't help, it's all gonna end, and the bad guys are the closest to actual good guys since there is a slim chance their scheming might just preserve some of humanity.
I think I might've even read it somewhere that there already were attempts to link Lovecraft's writing to the modern UFO mythos. Well, replace squids with grays, or even don't since Mi-Go are already there, and you're good to go, so there's some merit to this hypothesis.
What do you think? Does it make sense? I'm curious.
Also, I put it in Updates because there doesn't seem to be a point in trying elsewhere, but I'm leaving it up for Glenn whether it stays here.
And, jumping back to me actually being me, I personally don't have much to add to this topic. I guess you might have a point, though I think this might be generalizable as just projecting "fear of the unknown" onto aliens in general. Which is how a lot of other horror stuff works anyway.
Meanwhile I ran across this link in a Steam thread, about how some games are pushing monetization methods: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-03/video-games-you-play-are-using-sneaky-tactics-four-corners/100098826
The info is probably stuff you already know, if you've been following commentary about the videogame industry in recent years, but the article is admittedly presented in a rather cute fashion.
Which brings me to something I had been thinking about for a while after watching a video that touches on it tangentially: you often hear about how works with body horror, tentacled fish monsters, unpronounceable names etc. etc. are doing Lovecraftian horror wrong, but it strikes me as undue to expect its narrative to also follow Lovecraftian horror, like there's something wrong with drawing inspiration from the aesthetics and nothing more. It's as expecting any work with Frankenstein-esque monsters to be about playing God.