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quasi-normalcy

I don't understand how this is even a defence in the age of drone warfare.

graham-folger

Or even like... Cannon warfare.

quasi-normalcy

Yeah, the Ottomans could have taken this in the fourteenth century.

biglawbear

One siege tower and that shits cooked

deluske

prev nailed it

derinthescarletpescatarian

If you're building defenses *during* a zombie apocalypse you gotta use what's on hand, but building this *before* a zombie apocalypse, this is a terrible choice. You'd be better off with a normal (very tall) metal fence, with metal bars that you can see between. Not only would that let your garden, solar panels and home get some FUCKING SUNLIGHT, but you could see and attack zombies through the fence with polearms. And it's easy to find and repair issues with the fence; zombies put a hole in one of these shipping containers (not hard if there's a lot of zombies) and repairs are a much bigger job. Also, you have to kill zombies that are now INSIDE YOUR WALLS.

These walls make the only avenue of attacking zombies shooting down from the walls and towers. Which massively reduces your attack angles, means you can't get any that happen to be attacking from a blind spot, and means that your defence is completely reliant on bullets. If the problem is zombies (which, traditionally, are not known for their marksmanship), this is an awful defence against them. A normal metal bar fence would be much better.

hollowedskin

My favourite part is the water tank that's outside the walls.

#'this should be the average american home' and you show a product of self-inflicted terror #Even if you ignore the survivalist fantasy angle #This is still a subsistence farming setup WITH NO COMMUNITY in its design #Bitch how are you gonna get anything that requires more than two people to make?#Just say you're afraid of anyone you can't control and leave 9_9

leafstranger

Bedtime Maine Coon mrrps.

userfish

is anyone else’s brother a tumblrina

yes

no brother/only child button

Remaining time: 6 days 19 hours

#But doctor...

dorothygale

pop health science is so annoying bc it'll be like "did you know? eating strawberries will give you mega cancer" and you're like pfft whatever begone influencer. but sometimes then you'll see a reasonably credible article like "Study Shows Possible Link Between Strawberries and Mega Cancer" and you're not usually the type to follow that kind of thing religiously but idk maybe you should consider not eating strawberries? but then there's another article saying "Strawberry/Mega Cancer Study Debunked" and it turns out the original study had a sample size of 3 and was funded by Big Blueberry, and strawberries may have a small connection to mega cancer but only if you are genetically predisposed to mega cancer and eat 50 strawberries every day. so you return to your strawberry eating life. but whenever you eat strawberries in public someone tells you about the mega cancer.

worldbuilding-tomfoolery

you're also, like, thinking about it a little bit whenever you see one, and it's annoying because not only is it wrong but it's also taking up mental bandwidth and you can't delete net zero information at will

watchpoob

Winter has arrived on Poob.

Start your 7 day free trial of Poob today, and watch smash hit Martin Scorcese's Goncharov.

woman-becomer

imagine a goat with a hat

STOP-

what hat did you give the goat what is the instinctual hat you gave to this goat

#It's a leather cowboy hat with a tie-dye hankerchief tied around it. Blue and green and yellow.

fernscare

peaceful chimera at the river

teaboot

I hate you Ozempic craze I hate you 'heroin chic' I hate you weight loss ads on public radio I hate Burn Fat Fast ads every thirty seconds I hate you I hate you I hate you

teaboot

I grew up before the term 'thigh gap' was invented I grew up before 'hip dip' was invented I was born before 'muffin top' was a thing before 'clean girl look' was a thing before 'glass skin' was a thing before razoring off peach fuzz was a thing and I'm so so so fucking tired of us inventing new concepts purely for the purpose of convincing people to hate their own bodies enough to buy products

teaboot

Last time Tuberculosis ran through the USA a small number of people got it on purpose to look skinny and waifish and delicate and used makeup to look flushed and bony and when the Victorians figured out tapeworms people would infect themselves on purpose to starve themselves smaller and women and now in the year of our lord 2026 there is a noticeable fraction of the USAmerican population genuinely thrilled about a treatment-resistant microbial parasite that makes you shit and vomit your brains out for a month because side effects include weight loss and STILL we talk about being skinny like it's the natural default setting for all healthy people as if it's a self-sustaining standard and not an imaginary goal that we are constantly constantly constantly beating ourselves with a whip to acheive

radishforest

For a little while I was making these dudes (I called them sneefters), but they kept breaking or falling over in the kiln. Maybe sometime I'll try some more that are sitting like the strawberry & crying ones.

spaceshipsandpurpledrank

ghostdaartist

Bro videos are always 🔥 💯.. instant collaborations

whatacartouchebag

kremlin

uninstall adobe acrobat. it is malware. it has been malware. these aren't opinions: acrobat meets the definition of malware.

it installs a user-login-time "startup" executable that ignores any windows directives to disable it on startup. doing so only removes the even-more-malicious taskbar-icon-creating advertisement-notification-creating process. no matter what you do, the sleeper "updater" process starts when you log in, and runs perpetually

it sends & receives encrypted network traffic both periodically and non-periodically. both are bad, both are suspicious, and a program doing both is more suspicious than the sum of their parts. and to boot: acrobat will polymorphically edit its code after such network activity

this isn't new: it has always done this. now, it does not even do the thing it is meant to: provide a way to interact with documents, which is amongst the very first features computers were built to provide. you can merely open PDFs and read some of their content in the narrow space between the requests for adobe to give them your money, and interface for features you cannot use (because you don't) or do not, have not, and will not ever need

adobe and microsoft would very much like the user's cultural norms around computers to allow for advertisement built into the local software and even operating system itself. the web being 100% advertisements was not enough! sure enough, acrobat will hijack the windows notifications system thing to give you the 2026 equivalent of pop-ups

i don't really know enough about windows software equivalents, so i'll paypal $20 to the first person that reblogs this with a list of 3-5 PDF reader/editor/etc acrobat equivalents that meet the following criteria:

open source, locally-built executables must match checksum of prebuilt distributed executable

no paid features/premium version/subscription/whatever

not a toy hobby project thing, must be windows-users-proof

cheers

andmaybegayer

Firefox's built-in PDF.js viewer: does everything you could want from a basic viewer, fast enough search, and can now do annotations for filling in forms and such

KDE Okular: is a decent viewer and can also do basic annotations, and is so not-a-toy that you can even download it on the Windows app store.

LibreOffice Draw: I don't ever really like having to open this but if you have to edit a PDF in detail it does work, and doesn't just vomit up a bunch of polygons when you give it text to work with. Better as an authoring tool than an editor.

ms-demeanor

I've 100% replaced free acrobat with the firefox built-in and it works wonderfully for general office use and research/reading/viewing. It doesn't have robust redaction capabilities, but if you need to fill and sign and highlight a form it's actually much more intuitive than acrobat reader.