No worries :)

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Mind you, if you’re driving far enough to go on a tangent, you should pack a bag. For that matter, you should always keep a small bag of basic supplies in your own car anyway. A change of clothes at least.

And, if you’re smart, you’ll have a go-bag for an unexpected overnight trip ready to grab in case it happens.

Of course, that comes back to the EDC mindset of preparedness.

That mindset is often compared to the old scout motto, and that’s one of the good things that scouting did.

It’s a shame scouting died off because of the bad parts of the organization itself.

You know, my uncle was the den leader for our area, and it’s something he’s fondly remembered for.

Speaking of, anyone remember back when scouting was less about badges and more about useful skills and camaraderie?

Man, I miss camping, too. Not just scouting camps, but all of it. My family would go several times a year. When I grew up, I would even go out alone and do primitive camping.

I ran into a bunch of feral dogs and coyotes back when I was doing it. Damn near got killed by them once, and ran into trouble another time.

Luckily, I always parked my car in a location that was easier to get back to that it was to get away from, if that was an option. You always want the hard hike to be towards your camp site when you’re alone because, if something happens you want a better chance of getting out in a weak or injured condition.

A long hike is bad enough if it’s downhill. But you still have a long drive back to a town or city.

Which gives you plenty of time to go off on tangential thoughts.

Being real, this is the kind of shower thought I prefer.

This particular one is inaccurate, but it’s still a proper shower thought; something that you might think of idly while your body is busy and your brain is on autopilot.

Yeah, it’s an issue for sure.

Southeast.

Well, that screen shot does change things to a degree.

However, we have no way of seeing any reports you sent, or any messages with the mods.

Since both of those are cited as reasons for the ban alongside the comments, there’s a couple of ifs involved.

If those two reasons are accurate enough, then it would switch it entirely to YDI for the ban alone. You go around fucking with reports, you get banned, and you should be. But, again, nobody here can see that, so that’s a giant IF.

If the only factor was a claim of misinformation, I’d call PTB because the mod log does not back up a claim of repeated misinformation. Nor does your user history. The links you’ve posted, the comments you’ve made in the last month or so don’t have a pattern of misinformation at all, though you do have a habit of hyperbole that might read as pushing an agenda. IMO, that’s only a problem if you’re going crazy with it, or you’re beating the drum in inappropriate communities, and I’m not seeing that happening.

But, because the ban cites behaviors we can’t see, it doesn’t serve to change my opinion on the original matter of the removal. The removal itself, not power tripping. The ban might be, but it could also be totally justified.

I will say that it is entirely possible that the mod in question could be exaggerating those other reasons, because that kind of thing does happen. But that makes the ban as evidence of power tripping useless.

Look, that’s the entire reason I disliked her as VP and as a candidate.

But the words you used, the way you used them do not accurately represent the facts of the matter.

So, yeah, it’s misinformation. When someone bends facts, that’s exactly what it is.

Hyperbole being presented as fact is just another form of misinformation.

Since the only action taken was removal of the comment, I can’t see any power tripping, just a difference of opinion about the precise definition of what makes up misinformation.

I can’t fully say YDI in this case, because you clearly weren’t acting in bad faith to break a rule.

But it also isn’t a clueless mod either.

It’s somewhere in between those two. The comment being removed was a justifiable action. If they’d done anything at all beyond that, it would have been over the line, but they didn’t.

Sin tar is the usual way, though it’ll sometimes come out more sin tawr, where the au is a bit more drawn out.

Sin tore is a fairly common one.

However, sin tar is more common, at least with what I’ve heard in meat space. That’s a fairly limited thing though, since most of the people I have talked to over my fifty years have been fellow southerners. We do tend to use softer vowels in most cases, and tar is softer than tore in the way we tend to do vowels.

However, with the latin and Greek origins of the word, I’d argue that the tar or tawr would lean closer to that than tore, just because of similar words. When an au is present in medical terminology (which is where almost all of my latin and Greek comes from) it usually gets pronounced aw or ah, not oh.

But, I never hear anyone pronounce the initial C as a K, and that’s the way it would have been in both of those languages originally. The Greek version is spelled with a K, when written with the usual alphabet rather than Greek. Kentauros.

Which is an aside.

Wikipedia lists the two I did as the usual pronunciations, fwiw. And all the dictionaries with audio options are either those two, or slight variations of them, where the au sound is rounder or flatter than the norm.

Thing is, it’s a word in a living language. Whatever the original English pronunciation may have been, that can change, so supporting a pronunciation is kind of meaningless. What matters is consensus over time, and by location.

So, a regional accent that sounds more like cent-ur is just as valid in that region, it just isn’t standard. So would any other variant be, if there’s enough people using it to be called a consensus.

Yeah, you block and report. That’s all you can do

Man, it’s crazy what folks will get up to when they’re spring cleaning their HQ.

Kinda bold of them to admit up front that ice is the same as the klan. Never would have thought a group of republicans would just put it out there like that.

Nah, the roman system developed from even older systems.

They’re tally marks, with a twist.

You take a stick and cut a notch, that’s one. This works up to a point, and that point is 4 or 5, when it becomes unwieldy, and our brains have trouble using the groups of notches.

So you need a new mark to denote a grouping. The v notch is basically adding a / to the already present \ or | tally mark, denoting that the new symbol represents a group of the previous ones.

Different methods have 3 base marks, with the fourth being the new one, others do it at five.

Roman numerals stop at 3 individual marks, and there’s no record of why. But avoiding 4 repeating symbols is consistent with the higher numerals as well.

Basically, once you hit |||, the next number with be the | subtracted from the next higher digit. It works with IX, as well as XL, XC, etc.

But, the idea you suggest is sometimes presented as a possible origin for the earlier systems. Thing is, other tally systems that originated separately follow the same basic concepts, without using the same V symbol, but using other cross marks. Not that it matters because nobody knows. Nobody back then passed the information along.

It does kinda make sense, but the idea that it’s the simplest way to make marks on sticks and stones does too

That’s what I wanna say, 128.

I think it’s https://lucida.to/ this

Yeah, I’ve never run across it before, and there’s too many things that use it as a name to run a regular search

There’s some interesting stuff in the article. Well worth reading.

Lotta love left though, and both she and y’all deserve every bit of it.

When we got pet chickens, I agreed to it in part because they’re chickens, and there’s no way I could fall in love with any of them. I’ve lost too many companion animals at this point, and didn’t want to ever go through it again.

Yeah. Turns out that I had zero say in whether or not I loved the damn things lol. I can’t even stop myself from caring about the feral hens that adopted our tiny flock. But our actual pets? Somehow, they decided that I’m their favorite human, and that was the end of my ability to stay distant.

Now I’m just rolling with it. Spend every evening cuddling with one or another of them.

Totally worth it

That’s a cute little chickie :)

The first step in the world I currently use as the basis for most of my fiction, and all of my ttrpg needs started in jr high for me too. This would have been late eighties, though I’m having trouble pinning down in memory exactly when the initial idea popped into my head.

I wanna say it was in physical science class in the eighth grade, which would have been 87? But it might have been earlier than that, depending on exactly how I trace the lineage back in precursor thoughts, as far back as the sixth grade. I tend to really count the initial phase a little later though, since it wasn’t until my junior year that I set it down on paper, which would be 90?

Anyway, the lead up to setting it to paper was a year or so of internal storytelling, daydreaming casually. I didn’t initially have a plan, per se, it was just ideas around d&d, plus ideas sparked by fantasy reading. Just a series of what ifs that got stuck in my head until I decided to really use it when constructing a home brew setting instead of using prefab stuff for d&d.

That first piece of paper was just a list of gods, and how they managed to win the position they had, just rough outlines to use for players wanting to run clerics.

Truthfully, the first five years or so, almost none of the world building was on paper more than that. It was all kept in my head as it got used in play.

Then, the system I had built up got used by my best friend in his first run as GM, so he wanted a lot of information about the hows and whys of it all. So I started scribbling notes in the booklets about the history of things, the underpinnings of how the magic actually worked, how and why the various churches and factions and such came to be as they existed in my version of the setting.

He didn’t use all of it, but having the majority of it written down made it more important to really work at. It eventually got compiled into its own folder (as in an actual folder, this was before I had access to a PC).

That was in the mid nineties somewhere. It was still not until the turn of the century that I started writing fiction based on the core concepts. I had written some fiction before then, but never in the setting and system that I had put the work into.

After that, though, it started being less general, because it needed more meat than what you need in a ttrpg session. And, that’s that :)

How the fuck does that benefit anyone? Like, what kind of bullshit are they going to use to try and justify that?

Ffs