I too am in my mid 20s and I generally have gotten more tech literate in the last couple years, though mostly hardware since software is the devil.

I wouldnt be surprised if the US ends up with sanctuary ports where the tariffs are just hand waved by the state.

Yeah, this is one of those cases where it very much was a standard of its times. Even in societies that were generally egalitarian ya saw it since well as you stated infant mortality was real fucken high and giving birth wasvery dangerous.

I was 7 or 8, but that didnt matter too much since I had already started puberty.

I was actually asked this as a kid while on the verge of a meltdown, it annoyed me so much it pushed me over the edge and I responded with throwing a chair. I then started swearing and looking for anything that could be used as a melee weapon, I settled for a table. So yeah your mileage may vary when it comes to autistic kids on that one.

Im just imagining spider-man sprawled on all fours rushing people at 60 miles per hour and jumping at them.

You can buy little FM transmitters for car use, and plenty of concerts use FM based speakers and a local FM transmitter. Its perfectly legal just would be real fucken annoying to jam on my side of things.

I wish there was an easy way to do this for radio, best I can think of getting some AM transmitters and overriding the stations. But that would be annoying and the AM ones are hard to find.

Seriously AM talk radio is fucken cancer and needs to be fucking nuked from orbit. Its where my grandmother gets her stupidest ideas from and then I have to explain that no I am not doing that stupidly complex thing so you can have a 5 percent better car antenna.

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Which is also why it works, much like most threats it looks utterly mundane on the outside but once ya look closser you see its true threat. A good example is an old crate of dynamite which may look fine externally but its likely the nitroglycerin has seeped out and if you move that crate you are being annihilated.

Pretty sure that counts as a normal college paper, but yeah it did have some secondary properties to it. But it wasnt bound in flesh or anything, plus by Lovecraft standards thats still pretty tame.

Fun fact in the original Lovecraft mythos the Necronomicons were normal ass books that just happened to hold eldritch and arcane knowledge. Im sure anyone who has had the misfortune of opening up a copy of Wealth of nations or Capital knows the feeling.

Fair enough, my dumb autistic ass somehow thought Venice beach and Italy simultaneously. Which is borderline demented, I blame EU4 and CK2 where I just assume Venice is causing me trouble and doing weird esoteric shit.

The same way people board planes with loaded fire arms? The TSA is run by dumbfucks and is a waste of money.

The Floridamen being represented by the Slaves to Darkness is really on brand.

Dionysus is gonna kick down your door and demand some of your stash, and we aint talking happy drunk Dionysus were talking scary borderline eldritch god of booze and madness Mycanaean Dionysus.

Pretty sure I was at an Ace hardware or some shit. Like I said I was severely sleep deprived and was looking for something, pretty sure it was duck tape for reinforcing an air conditioner.

Frankly speaking once I got to my car and realized what I said I started laughing my ass off since it was such a non sequitur.

I was once mistaken for an employee somewhere and my sleep deprivated response was to say “I am wearing pants so clearly I dont work here.” I have no fucken clue what that means but I think it was a threat.

Even though ya specified south Florida I still read it as fucking San Francisco.

Yeah it was just a patern I recognized, a lot of the cults from the same era juat went farther. First it started with alcohol then it moved on to caffeine, and before ya know it their banning spices and meat.