Possibly some kind of rope knot, clamps, some combination of the two, possibly modifying them somehow, it’s hard to know what to suggest without knowing what exactly you’re trying to ratchet.

The videos of it are cute too. The little frogs follow the spiders around and do a little squishy squishy underneath them where they’re safe and protected by their big strong spider pals.

Yeah that weirded me out too. Comes across as someone making excuses for not wanting to practice basic hygiene though.

Just one, lemmy.world. But I want to switch to one that hasn’t defederated anyone, or who has the most providers federated. I do not know how to do this though, or which one to join.

Yes I’m aware of this. But most of the world fell down on the response plan. He just fell down harder.

Also, it’s such a uniquely North American thing to downplay the invasion of other countries. They went in after 9/11, using a terrorist attacking as an excuse to use war tactics known as “shock and awe” MOAB bombing to make the CITIZENS feel helpless while they literally went and privatized their entire resource economy so that it would go to foreign businesses. Do you understand what that means for a country? How absolutely fucked up that is?

Worse for the world? Bush. Worse for America? Trump. But I don’t really care about America so Bush from me.

Oh people were definitely sucking dick for sugar there man.

Well sugar is way cheaper and easier to access so that’s not a good comparison. I wonder if sugar suddenly became a black market item and jumped to comparable prices if people would resort to sucking dick for it?

I mean… the kind of people who would for sugar probably aren’t the same people you’d want sucking your dick tho.

I wish there were more normal people who play magic. Going to any shop to play is always a gamble, half the time the people you end up playing with smell bad or are socially inept, sometimes both. It’s a fun game if you have actual good people to play with.

I mean, generally I don’t let that stop me from doing what I want to do.

But I drink a lot, so that’s probably why I don’t care as much.

I work union. I will be able to retire. But only because I work for a union.

Millennial here. Over half of my friends will never own a house. And we are in the cheapest part of Canada to buy houses in.

I always referred to them as space wizards.

Your lesbian aunt disowned you for being gay? What a bitch.

Your aunt didn’t disown you though did she?

We were at the fights and a hockey game broke out

If someone uses the word tankie it’s a pretty good sign that they don’t actually understand history or political theory and don’t know what they’re talking about beyond current events and maybe a podcast or two.

Most Mao and Stalin fans have a more nuanced take on it, if they’ve actually read anything by them. The theory they espouse demands that you look at things so not totalities and take into account several different things when thinking critically of political figures in history. It’s like… one of the major points of dialectics in Marxist theory.

But people see someone defending certain aspects of a person like Stalin and Mao and immediately think “OH THIS PERSON THINKS THEY DID NOTHING WRONG” which is something I’ve only seen in memes, and those memes are mostly making fun of people who think in absolutes like that.

Most Mao and Stalin fans have a more nuanced take on it, if they’ve actually read anything by them. The theory they espouse demands that you look at things so not totalities and take into account several different things when thinking critically of political figures in history. It’s like… one of the major points of dialectics in Marxist theory.

But people see someone defending certain aspects of a person like Stalin and Mao and immediately think “OH THIS PERSON THINKS THEY DID NOTHING WRONG” which is something I’ve only seen in memes, and those memes are mostly making fun of people who think in absolutes like that.

Tankies is used as shorthand for Marxist Leninists. As far as I know nothing about that ideology supports the use of tanks on civilians. Am I missing something here?