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  • Gotta go where the people are. If they truely believe there are republicans that will vote for them because he is that alternative to the Trump they are tired of (an admittedly small amount), this is as good of a place to go to speak to them. The country right now is biased enough that the margins of swing are super small and if this can help attract those people it makes sense for a campaign like Biden who has maintained that there’s a subset of republicans that are non-MAGA and just want to get back to “normal”.








  • JaymesRS@midwest.socialtopics@lemmy.worldMonorail [OC]
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    11 months ago

    The Simpsons did an episode where a monorail salesman tries to sell Springfield on installing a monorail, and there’s a song somewhat evoking the 76 Trombones scene from the musical The Music Man by Meredith Wilson. Mine and other comments are lyrics from that song.




  • Something else just occurred to me, you might try the Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman or This Quest is Broken series by J.P. Valentine too. They are a newer genre called LitRPG where the conventions of gaming (like things being “quests” or health/mana bars are directly apparent to the characters and it makes for some interesting moments.


  • I don’t read a bunch of strict Horror, but I have enjoyed the ones I’ve read by Grady Hendrix.

    Otherwise, based on your answer, here are a few books I’ve read that line up for one reason or another. I’ve placed them in a specific order but they are all enjoyable:

    Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi John Dies at the End by David Wong Dark Matter by Blake Crouch The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey









  • In Japan, there’s a competition known as the Kezuroukai Planing Competition. It’s a challenge for experienced woodworkers to see who can plane the thinnest contiguous piece of wood using a type of hand plane known as a kanna. The thinnest piece I last heard of was around 3 microns.

    I only mentioned this because it sounds like your skin might beat the record if people calling out the bad behavior of others on your instance immediately gets you this riled up.