This is the best one, IMHO. I’d want to make it painful.

Rant just kills his male ancestors and impregnates his female ones IIRC?

I could get away with looking at a portrait/painting/whatever of a person and use it to kill their younger self

My idea was that as long as the portrait was painted by someone who saw the person while they were alive, it counts as seeing their face.

So Napoleon can be killed, but not Ea-Nasir. You’d have to go buy some copper and meet him in person first.

Having police vans show up at your door. Getting arrested.

That list would be too obvious to be fun, and would probably get us all v&.

It’s more fun to see people have beef with random obscure historical figures.

I don’t think that’s true. I doubt his numbers match Andrew Jackson’s.

I think you are thinking of the fact that his administration did the largest mass judicial execution in U.S. history, with the hanging of 38 Dakota warriors. He did commute the sentences of a few hundred of them though.

The Death Note can only operate within a 23-day window (in the human calendar). This is called the 23-Day rule.

Books. Slowly working on organizing them by Library of Congress number, but it’s a large collection and a lot of effort. I give fiction and contemporary political nonfiction to little free libraries once I read them, but still have quite a lot.

Yep. States like Oklahoma are already petty fiefdoms ran by whatever christofascist can yell the loudest. We have zero government transparency or accountability because the federal government refuses to enforce the law.

Making art. I get things from thrift stores or the clearance sections of craft stores. The challenge is to find a way to make the random colors of half dried up paint and a donated unfinished project into something new.

Art is the antidote to fascism. Fascism is a death cult with no creative energy. Fascists can’t make good art.

I remember watching an episode where Sheldon makes a “joke” about Ubuntu being his favorite Linux distribution. Like, no. No self respecting “better than you” geek would say they liked fucking Ubuntu. The screenwriters could have spent five more minutes googling and picked something like Gentoo to make it not sound stupid.

Korra is also better than everyone acts like it is (although I’ve only seen the first two seasons so far.)

The way she acted after ::: spoiler spoiler losing her bending ::: seemed to be a pretty clear metaphor for recovering after sexual assaults and hit me pretty hard.

Eureka

I hate shows where the main characters are supposed to be super intelligent, but it’s all told to us by the writers (who aren’t super intelligent) instead of shown.

The Big Bang Theory drives me up the wall for similar reasons. That’s not how real smart people act or talk.

Moral Orel is better than its first season lets on. If you can get past the juvenile gross-out factor of episodes like “Gods Chef,” you’ll find an absolutely brutal depiction of what’s it’s like to live in christofascist middle America and what it’s like to have a dying marriage.

Columbo is fucking awesome. It’s a murder mystery show, but you see the murder happen first, so the fun is all in how Columbo figures it out. He’s just the most charming character in any TV show ever. The episodes are standalone, so you can just watch a random one and have a great time.

And now, even if you do get the error code, Google and DuckDuckGo are so shit that they’ll find only AI generated slop pages instead of the forum posts with the solution.

Physically. Inventory would be smart, to stop me from buying shit I already have, but I’m worried that my apartment is in the early stages of something from Hoarders.

Other complication right now is that I’m still recovering from surgery - standing for fifteen minutes fatigues me and bending over is painful. It sucks, because I had taken off a week for cleaning at the end of last month and spent all of it in bed sick with the thing that sent me to the hospital.

My ex husband had me watch all of “Trapped in the Closet” on a road trip, and I felt like the Mad Arab losing my sanity reading the Necronomicon.

I watched that one in theatres! I also watched Baby Geniuses 2, Meet the Spartans, and the Ridiculous 6 in theatres because I guess I attract garbage.

I like technology (mostly pre-2010), but I think there’s been a philosophical shift in the things that modern tech companies prioritize. AI is a huge part of the problem obviously, but it’s more of a symptom than a cause.

I want something that I can repair and modify. I want the internals to be easy to access and made out of parts cheap enough for me to replace. I want to be able to play pretend like I’m Terry Davis and not have to deal with UEFI bullshit telling me what I can and can’t run on my computer.

It’s all a move to walled gardens with very limited access to the OS or hardware, where the focus is on touch screens and amplified UIs. I’m the kind of person who customized Xmonad and Vimperator (RIP, I know there are dupes but it’s not the same) to never even bother with a mouse, and so it all feels unnatural. I spend so much time fighting my autocorrect when I’m on windows or Mac products, another one of those “helpful” features that is forced and obnoxious.

It’s a move from computers as toy (LEGO set) to computers as toy (needoh squishy). They’ve become machines designed to deliver content and extract data while you zone out. Some of the most fucking fun I’ve had in my life has been spending 6 hours writing PERL to do something I probably could have done manually in 30 minutes or strange journeys into the windows registry as I try to figure out why all of my / changed into ¥, and that’s just not the vibe of anything in modern technology. Everything is designed to hide as much of itself from you.

I actually don’t have insurance so it probably wasn’t a factor.

I am super fucked lol.