Wandering Adventure Party

when you think about it, Robert's Rules of Order is just a TTRPG rulebook with less dice rolling

@CactuarJoe stares wide-eyed at Hitachi Magic Wand

apparently Roger Corman once said that you should have to get Papal dispensation to make a movie longer than 90 minutes

i'm not sure the bar should be quite that high but i think it should definitely involve a lot of red tape and the director personally having to make a phone call and endure being put on hold for the entire runtime they're proposing

since you all seemed to like the previous post…

roses are red,
politicians love blathering,

roses are red,
hackers are leet,
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09828

Free cursed idea: "live action" version of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" with the toons replaced by realistic CGI (complete with muddy colour grading and poorly lit action sequences)

@CactuarJoe sir this is a wendy's

it's me. i'm the person who's used em dashes so much that they've found their way into chatgpt

From The Anatomy of Fascism (2004):

Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.

He further describes their "mobilizing passions" as

• a sense of overwhelming crisis beyond the reach of any traditional solutions;
• the primacy of the group, toward which one has duties superior to every right, whether individual or universal, and the subordination of the individual to it;
• the belief that one's group is a victim, a sentiment that justifies any action, without legal or moral limits, against its enemies, both internal and external;
• dread of the group's decline under the corrosive effects of individualistic liberalism, class conflict, and alien influences;
• the need for closer integration of a purer community, by consent if possible, or by exclusionary violence if necessary;
• the need for authority by natural chiefs (always male), culminating in a national chieftain who alone is capable of incarnating the group's historical destiny;
• the superiority of the leader's instincts over abstract and universal reason;
• the beauty of violence and the efficacy of will, when they are devoted to the group's success; the right of the chosen people to dominate others without restraint from any kind of human or divine law, right being decided by the sole criterion of the group's prowess within a Darwinian struggle.

These are in Chapter 8, where he discusses various ways of thinking about fascism (a purely Marxist view, the totalitarian aspect, etc.) and why he offers his own definition. (PDF of full book. ‍️)

uh, okay, looks like I'm not seeing mentions (in any client I use). Can people try replying to this post?

perhaps i should clarify that it is a foam pool noodle

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  Cyclist says his pool noodle makes Toronto streets safer for him

  Warren Huska attached a noodle to his bike in 2015 and drivers have been affording him more space ever since.

  

  Toronto Star (www.thestar.com)

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  Pool Noodle Safety Awareness Rides - Bike Sudbury

  The Sudbury Cyclists Union is holding a number of Pool Noodle Rides in 2017 to raise awareness of the one-metre passing law that was passed in 2015.

  

  Bike Sudbury (bikesudbury.ca)

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  Why every cyclist needs a pool noodle

  It’s late March and my friend Erik and I are on the first leg of our 2,000-mile bicycle trip from Los Angeles to Denver. After sweating my way up a hill in Southern California, I bask in a glorious downhill. To protect myself from stumbling off the edge and make myself more visible to cars, I do what I normally do on long, steep downhills: take up the full lane. Through my eyeglass-mounted mirror, I watch cars inevitably pile up behind me. When the terrain flattens out and I move back to the shoulder, a stream of cars pass me.

  

  Quartz (qz.com)

#BikeTooter #MastoBikes #bikeTO

after one too many close calls got tired of biking without a noodle, tried mounting a noodle under the saddle, it got in my way and was too floppy, so i finally accepted that as a society we have simply stopped making affordable and nice-looking rear bike racks (like my sadly cracked one from aeons ago) and ordered a not-terribly-affordable but halfway-decent-looking bike rack online, picked it up today, installed my old side basket and noodle on it, and will take photos of my setup when next i have the opportunity to take it for a spin.

(the bike rack lets me mount the noodle far enough back that it doesn't get in the way of me pedaling. the side basket both props up the noodle so it doesn't flop around, and provides a convenient way to tuck it away when i'm parked or am in a bike lane.)

#BikeTooter #MastoBikes #BikeTO