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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • He was removed, not because he was bad, but because he was bad and unnecessary.

    If the monster world went into a blackout, he’d have been out and operating the child-reactor with full government support. Only because Sully found a new, compatible, source of power was the ethics of the old system finally up for debate. Slavery is only allowed to be abolished after it stops being “necessary” for the economics of the system.

    And yeah, it’s a movie, so he got taken away in cuffs before the new power source was operationalized, but that’s just a bit of movie magic 😉



  • I mostly agree, but I’ll also admit something embarrassing: the first time I heard one, I didn’t recognize the names of any of the groups or treaties mentioned, despite living in the area most of my adult life. So in that sense it educated me, and made it so their names are names I now recognize.

    Sure, I could have looked it up, should have looked it up, but I didn’t. And now I know.


  • Yeah, I think the image for concrete plates in the app is from the wiki, and is kinda unclear because it’s some rectangles of concrete. And I’m looking down and what I’m seeing is a series of rectangles made of concrete. I agree, though, with that in mind I feel like the app could benefit from some guidance there to say “concrete, perhaps with joints, such as for sidewalks” or “concrete plates, precast elsewhere and installed. Rarely used” or something. Just a bit of a nudge in the right direction.


  • Yeah, my original interpretation of lit matched that. I have seen bus shelters with lights in my life, and this isn’t one of those.

    But the wiki makes it sound a bit more vague, even saying a footway lit by the glow of a nearby billboard is lit. But at that seems a bit… useless to me? Since basically anything within a city that isn’t a forest will be lit by some kind of glow.

    So that’s what made me wonder if this tag really is effectively meant to indicate full darkness, essentially?