I’m hoping for some nice, thick socks.

There’s some overlap there for sure.

Problem is that the ducks are quackers, and the chickens are giant peckers, along with being some serious mothercluckers when you take the eggs off of the pc.

We have it, usually.

You’ll run into it in different ways though. Apartments rely pretty much purely on whatever environmental controls are in place. You move the air mechanically, along with whatever heat and cooling goes on. Some have windows as well.

Houses, it’s turned into the same thing a lot of places. Particularly with new builds, but even those have ways to manage air flow for the house itself, when the area calls for it.

Older houses? Plenty of air flow. Windows, higher ceilings (in warmer climates), floorplans that allow for doors to be open to the outside (but screened) on opposite ends, etc. There’s a lot of ways to manage living space airflow. Plus attics for more general purposes than comfort and environmental management of living spaces.

You’ll see higher houses here in the south a lot because higher ceilings gave you better relief from heat. We also tend to have attic space that’s meant to keep hot air moving out and away. Up north, as I understand it, it’s more about balancing summer and winter needs, whereas we didn’t historically have severe enough winters to worry as much about the balance, even here in the mountains. I don’t doubt there’s equivalents for desert building, coastal, etc.

Back before AC and central heating, pretty much every design of houses had a solution for controlling how air moved.

High school, not college.

Chilling in the halls, first day of junior year

New kid comes up, asks where a room is.

New kid is all dressed up; suit, tie, nice shoes.

But new kid is smiling and friendly.

Give new kid directions, he says thanks and turns to go.

I tell him he better dump his drink before he goes to class, students aren’t allowed to have sodas in class.

He gives me weird look, says thanks again, walks away.

Three hours later, new kid is behind teacher’s desk of American history class.

Be me: confused and slowly realizing.

Mr B slowly lifts a cold can of coke, takes sip and grins.

Mfw the teacher is shorter than me, looks younger than me, and has just established dominance with a friendly smile.

I usually use the orishas. I just like them more when talking to imaginary beings.

Yeah, ikr? My wife won’t even bang me, and I’m fairly sure it’s part of a global conspiracy to make my balls explode

From personal experience, you will only be able to fit one chicken into your network, but you will end up with at least two, possibly more.

If you refuse to buy said chickens, one or more will arrive on their own

So, you might as well just default to three and hope that’s the end of it.

The good news is that chickens very much enjoy the warmth of a humming PC, and will gladly lay eggs there.

That last part is not a joke.

Wait, wait, wait, how long do I have to catch up in the larceny?

The problem is you have to get an iPhone or Samsung

Pretty standup guy!

My yaris is a 2007. So I feel you, very much :)

Well, the reboots, resets, and retcons tend to make it feasible to suspend disbelief at any given time along the publication history.

But, like you said, it tends to break once you try to read widely separated segments, or read different arcs in order.

Some of that, comic geeks develop head canon for. Some of it, the companies have in universe explanations for, like Marvel’s time elasticity where it allows Captain America to both have been in ww2 and awakened at any point in the past that’s useful, or how people age (or don’t age) even without super power reasons.

My personal way of maintaining immersion in the face of all the silliness is to take older issues as a synopsis, or as a kind of inner fiction behind the fiction. Like, all the older Spiderman stuff is where he told stories, or someone else wrote it about past events. It means that when there’s fuckery in ten years, those old issues aren’t contradictions, they’re more like a prequel that isn’t historically accurate.

Which, I get it, is a lot of damn work for someone coming into it at this point in time.

But there’s an advantage to that long (if jumbled and poorly managed) background. There’s a continuity between generations, and there’s the ability to see the old stuff as a part of its era of writing and art without having to just erase it up keep having new writing and art.

DC makes it both easier and harder than Marvel in that regard. Their semi regular “crises” do all that work. They say “hey, here’s the new backstory we’re working with, here’s what’s relevant, if it isn’t your thing, wait a decade and it’ll switch again”. So there’s always going to be an ease with jumping into DC as published. It does break some of the continuity though.

What’s really cool about the way DC handles their “multiverse” is that they’ve had elseworlds and other alternative frameworks for decades now. They’ve had multiple earths with similar but not the same histories. So you don’t need to know the entire backstory, regardless of what form of media it is. You can casually go between any of the animated animated, live action, comic books, comic strips, and just enjoy the ride because the other ones still exist as their own thing.

The era of 52, new 52, silver age, golden age, they all exist as their own thing. And they exist in shared continuities, and exist in updated versions.

The way that makes DC harder is that nothing ever feels finished. Yeah, some titles will get tied up before a reboot, but it isn’t an ending, just the last story arc in that version. The ones that don’t get a finale just float unfinished in any way. I can jump into any era of DC, read as much as I want, but it’s going to end without any real closure.

I’m echoing some of what you said here, I know. It’s so that there’s less gaps in the comment that I’m writing in between real life stuff.

That part about having no closure though, it doesn’t mean it didn’t matter. It does still have echoes in the next iterations. So the reading isn’t wasted, it just sometimes feels a little hollow.

As far as Miles goes, if you want to know that, I’ll give the basics. If you don’t, just stop reading here. Anyone else, spoilers ahead

Miles Morales started in an alternate universe to the default Marvel universe. They all have numbers, but the one Miles is from is typically referred to as the Ultimates universe because that was part of all the titles; Ultimate Avengers, Ultimate X-Men, and Ultimate Spider-Man.

In the Spider-Man comic in that universe, Peter Parker was the first Spidey. Stuff happened, he gets killed. But, during the “stuff”, Miles gets bitten by a spider too, and gets a slightly diffee set of powers. He then becomes the focus of the series.

The Ultimates universe ends with a big thing, and Miles crosses over to become part of the new unified core Marvelverse. There’s some fuckery after that, what with DOOM! being god emperor for while and whatnot that partially rewrote how Miles is in the core verse, but that’s details better read in their original form.

I think the problem is that they won’t just remake it, they’ll rape its corpse and exploit it for profit rather than making a good movie that’s based on the same idea.

You underestimate the benefits of puberty blockers and hormone therapy on “passing”.

Someone in high school that’s had access to puberty blockers before secondary sexual characteristics become prominent is already going to present fairly androgynous because that’s what puberty does, it extends sexual differentiation.

If the person then also has access to hormonal treatment, they’ll be experiencing what is essentially the exact same development of secondary sexual characteristics as they would if their own body was producing them.

Hormones aren’t going to grow reproductive organs that aren’t there, but when it comes to things like facial hair, hip and shoulder width, breast development, that’s going to be visually congruent with however the person would have progressed had they been born with the endocrine system that matches.

Now, if a trans person progresses into puberty before having access to treatments, then you’ll have an ever increasing degree of body changes congruent with their assigned gender.

So, no, them having eyes isn’t some kind of automatic trans detection system.

Hell, some folks, they don’t have a ton of differentiation even once they’ve completed puberty, so you can have adults that start hormones without any other treatments end up “passing” without any visual cues.

Yeah, who gives a fuck about what his parents did for a living, he fucked over people’s health and lives for profit.

Makes sense, really. Thanks for the response

Legit, folks that are willing to invite you over to see livestock aren’t industrial farmers, they’re running their own. They wouldn’t invite you if it wasn’t a genuine any time offer given with an address only. If they give a phone # with it, that means to call ahead.

I have a cousin that owns and operates a small dairy farm. Dude is always open to visitors, though he warns people that he and the workers would just keep on keeping on while you pet the cows.

So few people really want to go and smell poo, while walking around, just to pet cows and see a working farm that it’s always a treat for him. Unless you’re a relative, because you get put to work lol. Hell, he’s put visitors to work too. Never anything major, but still.

The local elementary schools do a yearly visit for (iirc) 3rd and 6th grades, though on different days. He has a little section that’s essentially a petting zoo where he’ll move his friendliest critters for them to meet. There’s usually a few hens, one or two of the cows that are the most sedate, this one old sow he took in from someone that didn’t know how big pigs get, plus the farm cats running around.

They don’t get to milk cows by hand any more, too much liability; but my uncle that ran the place back when we were kids would let the older kids do it. He’d make the young’ns in the family do it.

But they get to sample fresh (not raw) milk, watch the milking machines work, “help” make cheese, even churn butter.

It’s his favorite day of the year.

What’s extra cool is the “retired” cows. Most of those girls are super chill. So, if you’re an adult, he’ll usually let you just wander around with them. Those cows are ridiculous. They’ll come up and rub their heads on you until you give them scritches. That’s where he pulls the most relaxed cows for the kids to pet. There’s this one that’s always following me around when I go there, until I get put to work lol. I can’t even remember how old she is, but she’s been around for a while, something like 12 years?

Mind you, not every cow retires like that. There’s an upper limit to how many a working farm can afford to feed and such before it isn’t realistic. But he keeps as many as he can.

No kidding? How was dog?

They can go fuck themselves if it’s installed as a system app

Yeah, I’ve seen it happen a few times over the years. It isn’t always permanent, but once it backs off, it tends to not be as bad when it does pop up.