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Pepsi-Free was clear like 7-Up. I'd assume any cola without coloring would be clear as well.

I really felt Cherry-Coke nailed the cherry hard, better than any other cherry-flavored brands.

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A flanged mace is the common counter to chainmail, circa 13th-century European armored combat. A curved sword is better for unarmored or those in animal hide like leather.

A mace (general) is a club with a head, which packs a more diffuse wallop than a bladed weapon or a spiked weapon. Spikes on a mace (such as a morning star) can help to focus and to punch through armor.

Not to be confused with a spiked flail, in which there's a chain between the handle and the head (a spiked ball or flanged star, like the one held by the Witch-king of Agmar) The chain helps circumvent shields, but it becomes very easy for the flailman to hit himself. Kinda like nunchaku.

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We are definitely taking notice how a tiny number of rich people have so much control over our lives.

Sadly, local organization is slower than the deterioration of the global climate, and law enforcement are now hunting mutual aid orgs in some states. It may be that we have to find our Mahsa Amini moment, where some poor innocent gets massacred, leading us to protests that are put violently down, which escalates to uprising against authorities. It'll be messy, but so far our ownership class is unwilling to allow progress without violent retaliation.

The blue barrel makes me think of slime in Terraria, When you beat King Slime, he drops a conversion machine that converts gel into slime blocks when then can be made into blue furniture, including chests which smack of modern recycling bins, so I use them to partition out common cruft that is picked up from normal travel and fighting.

There are even slime barrels, though those are normally used for brewing.

You're always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together... And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig sh*t, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig"

— Brick Top, Snatch 2000

We don't need a Robespierre. No man can throw the One Ring into Mount Doom.

We need an organizing council that cannot take political power.

in the US we're suffering from a century of anti-communist (pro-capitalist, pro-industrialist, pro-imperialist) propaganda willfully cultivated by our plutocratic oligarchs and disseminated by our education system.

So communist and socialist are words of contempt, despite what they actually mean.

So I get it.

Since the publishers are also trying to suppress out-of-print media, abandonware and public domain material (also fair use) and the courts are favoring the publishers over the good of the public, we know it's no longer about promoting science and useful arts or building a robust public domain.

The companies and courts alike are breaking the social contract, hence the trmporary monopolies enstated by the agencies of the same state are invalid. Piracy is no longer a valid crime since the state licenses are no longer valid.

(They will still enforce the will of the state — ICE does a lot of raids to enforce commercial interests when it's not massacring refugees— but that doesn't legitimize the will of the state. It only shows they are willing tyrants glad to use violence to oppress.)

We have nothing to lose but our chains!

Don't shame Wayne's kink.

We're among those households for whom the combined reporting rate actually costs us more.

I had a low opinion of marriage even as a kid but [then] the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints invested millions (in 2008 money) to back Prop 8, to enshrine in the Constitution of California a ban on same-sex marriage. The amendment is still there.

It was interpreted by the California Supreme Court to outlaw the act of marrying two same-sex persons, but same-sex marriages from outside the state are still respected for accommodations purposes. That was a little relief.

At that point I decided that marriage is just a state thing, a license I'd get to acquire benefits, or not, and is meaningless outside the boundaries of state or federal law.

I have a wife and she has me, and just had our eleven year anniversary, but we are not married according to any nation or state, because fuck 'em.