Autism

Two places that are of interest for me recently are Spain and Norway, since both end up being very central for at least understanding somewhat languages nearby. I find it super interesting to understand languages around without studying them specifically, and it also helps drawing an etymological map in my head. =D

Someone on here said their life was pretty poop until they dogged it up. Dogs tend to heal the souls of their owners pretty well. Just be aware of the things you need to do in order to keep their quality of life pretty solid =)

Hey, hey! I don't know Michael Whelan actually, but I did look him up while on the phone yesterday. Which by the by, sorry I am getting back to you late. I was on an epic quest with my mama searching for a lost 30+ year old game. Didn't find it, but she was happy by the end, so that was nice. Oh hey, now that I am having a look I wonder if this is the guy a former roommate told us (my partner and I) about when I was drawing a fantasy image one time. Cause he kinda looks like it. You know, I will tell you I am absolutely awful at backgrounds. To this day, I wish I were better. Scenery is ??? an abstract idealism to me. Even with that picture, was hard for me to push through. I wish I could get stronger with it - and it's something that I swore to myself I would do.

I personally think that mustelids are the coolest guys around, and thanks for asking about them. I have three little blubs, and they're my sweet babies. They're carnivores, not rodents - which a lot of folks get twisted. In fact, they eat rodents, which was a fun thing to see in the wild this year - as I looked outside and watched a small weasel speed its way past my door with a dead curled up mouse in its mouth. They've actually got the smallest mammalian carnivore in their order, and they contain some really cool relations including otters and badgers.

While I love them, they are an invasive species in some locations, as they're obligate carnivores that are opportunistic eaters. Colonist in attempts to keep down certain populations (such as rats in Hawaii and rabbits in New Zealand) ended up disrupting the ecosystem and as these places have a lot of ground-birds the weasels they introduced just decimated the population. But in all honesty, they will eat anything they can take down. Which might not be much as most are solitary, but they have also been known to be quite vicious when paired (which can be known as a boogle or a buisness).

I love the fact that most weasels tend to mate for life, forming bonded-pairs. Which is unfortunately a double-edged sword for domesticated babes, because one will kill themselves with depression if their other passes. Which I have seen first hand, and no amount of love tend to bring them back. Another interesting fact is that they tend to be diurnal - and typically hunt at dawn and dusk. Although some can be nocturnal. Their coats change with the seasons, which can include changing colors or growing thicker or thinner. I believe the lot tend to shed bi-annually. But I could be wrong on that one. As I can't imagine a honey badger doing so. But I haven't looked into it exclusively.

Outside of that we've been domesticating them for ~2,000 years. WWI veterans kept them in their bags as what I'd like to think of as emotional support animals. If you bag train a babe, you can take them around and they just chill with you. But they are for sure an exotic pet. They're very high maintenance and I would explicitly recommend them for individuals who can support the lifestyle they need and are absolutely obsessed (like, yo!) Otherwise I would recommend something simpler like a dog or a cat.

We've got our litter trained, and they are free roaming. But we have to keep the house a pretty brisk temperature because they can't go over a certain temp or they can heat stroke out. I am not sure how well a majority of them are going to fair with global warming. One of DaVinci's six (I mean not actually six, but he doesn't have an excessive painting catalogue and tended to linger on paintings for extended periods of time) was Lady with an Ermine which looks like one of my bebs! But it always geeks me out, by the by I believe the ermine was added later to the painting, but I don't really remember the ins and outs of it. Speaking of which, these guys are long - have slinky bodies which are great for tunneling. And they are both predator and prey. You should have a look at the weasel war dance because it's pretty funny =)! They also make hilarious noises, that a fellow fur-mom describes as "chicken noises."

Idk if that was enough, but it's all that came from la cabeza real stream of conciousness style =P!

Eitehr way, cheers, and I hope you go and watch some really cute fur-boy videos and cool conservationist docs. p.s. - I joke that once we were all weasels because look at the first mammal.

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Idk if you’re into wrestling games but they’ve got some pretty fucking naners ones on Steam. But people like you always keep me alive. Cause legitimately I never had a personal direct interest in wrestling, but growing up my folks who did always kept me in the know. And you guys have so much passion it gives me life. I’ve seen a couple of gigs and it’s always super entertaining. I’ve pretty much got one guy left in the life and his joy is contagious. Only catch is I don’t understand a damn thing about the game anymore. Simple example is I have absolutely no clue who Chuck Taylor is (I was like - shoes?) BUT! You’re so jazzed and I dig that.

I'm not huge on playing the games but I love watching people play through them! Fire Pro is fucking bonkers.

I really appreciate it :) My coworkers mostly think it's adorable but childish (even the ones who love wrestling), but when I can get really into telling wrestling stories it's so satisfying and fun~! For example, if you really want to understand one of the current catchphrases in AEW, you literally have to start with a ring name from 20 years ago.

Rabbits are incredible! I can’t have them, because my lovelies sustain off of them =_o!! Their paws are wonderful though, I agree. As are the paws of chinchillas. Not the same, but the only other creature I can think of that is int he same boat. Not sure if you’re into camp and absolute goofy horror but they made a horror movie with cutie bunnies called Night of the Lepus.

What are your 'lovelies'? I love hearing about pets!!

And thank you for the recommendation! I think I have this on my steam list to play, so I'll have to check it out!

• On Sundays, I play Pathfinder Second Edition, more specifically the Fate walkers campaign.
• On Tuesdays, I play Star Wars Saga Edition, a homebrew dark side campaign.
• On Saturdays, I ordinarily have a Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay campaign going on, but my GM is laying the groundwork for the rest of our adventure so we're on hiatus.

They're all tons of fun. I also have a solo game which I mentioned in another reply.

Actually I'm a Marxist. However don't see much reason in perpetuating the red/black divide. Both groups have the same end-goal in mind, we just want to do the two major steps in reverse order compared to each-other. The end goal is a stateless society without need of currency and without the division of people into different classes. To drastically oversimplify centuries of work to get there we need to do two things:

• Abolish Capitalism
• Abolish Nationalism

Side note: As you may be able to infer from those two steps Anarcho-Capitalism and National Socialism aren't really from either system, rather they've pretty much just stolen the terms for their use rather that denote relatedness to other Anarcho-s or Socialisms.

Communists want to do them in the order I presented, generally by seizing control of the State and using it to destroy capitalism then adopting reforms to slowly make the State pointless. Anarchists want to destroy the State first then get rid of Capitalism.

One big misconception about Anarchism is that it isn't for chaos and disorder, it's for the end of unjustified hierarchy. An actual Anarchist experiment would still have social order, rather than be the chaotic social breakdown that is called Anarchism as a means of disinformation. A lot of Anarchist works explain how systems of voluntary cooperation can work and would be helpful to society.

Unfortunately America's bad urban design is the product of legal corruption, lobbying, on the part of the automotive industry. Good urban design invalidates any need for a car and so the companies that make and sell cars pour billions into ensuring that ours will continue to be horrible. We used to have trains that went everywhere and they were great but again that was all unraveled for the sake of the dead-last worst way to move people in bulk: cars.

They're great. Kept their crunch more than store bought ones. No loss in heat. Nice tangy flavor. Any vegetable fermentation guide will work. I did a 3% salt solution and 3 weeks ferment.

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Weird, the link works for me. :/

Oh, I've certainly thought of alternate time-lines. Aspiring writer here. Trying to turn one of them into a novel (well, novel series lol), but you know, ADHD. So I could certainly talk at length about that.

Thanks. I've tried getting help. What few have accepted never seemed to have the time, or else they had too much trouble with the wiki paradigm? Idk. It's been a struggle. Which is too bad since I tend to work better (i.e. more often) when others are involved.