We tried so hard, but there's straight up too many old retired republican voters. Old people from across the country retire here, we even have an entire "city" of nothing but old ass retired people. DeSantis made it so much worse too.

His term is up though, and we almost got a democrat elected to replace him. I was surprised at just how close we came, given the past decade. But we elected another republican, so it's not gonna be much better.

It's not just the old people either, there are a ton of huge rural areas with tump flags in every lawn on poles and fences, giant trucks plastered with stickers and flying flags. Lots of racist rednecks here.

I'm so happy to see the rest of the country flipping blue after seeing how badly everything went here. We also just shredded our tax system to bits, so everything's gonna suck even more now.

This is television at its best

I love that series and I will say I wasn't a huge fan of exodus at first, but I grew to love it. My main issue was that I like the metro part of the metro games, going up to the surface was always my least favorite part of the games, so when exodus came out, a game entirely about being above the surface, I wasn't a fan.

But after a few years, I played it for real after playing the other games again, and there is so much good stuff in that game. Lots of new mechanics that were mostly pretty fun, and I really got around to enjoying the story. The way the story centers around a train and all the different characters on the train, getting new members and/or losing them as you progress across the countryside. All the different locations and the types of creatures and people you meet there.

In a story like this, where humanity is trapped in tunnels while the surface is uninhabitable, you almost have to have part of that story be about leaving the tunnels behind and finding life on the surface. I still wish the series had 2 or 3 more games in the tunnels before that exodus happens, but I didn't get to make the games, so it's not up to me. I'm glad I got to play it though, and I'm looking forward to playing it again sometime soon. I am incredibly interested in the new game too, looks like a lot of metro tunnels again, plus so much weird stuff going on in the trailers.

I was actually just looking up locusts the other day. They are fascinating, they are various species of grasshopper that have a swarming phase. During the swarming phase they go through crazy physical and behavioral changes, they change color, eat a lot more, and breed like crazy. The swarming phase starts with overcrowding causing increased tactile stimulation of the legs, which massively spikes their serotonin levels. Absolutely insane creatures.

Just a heads up, you're not ever actually locked in for any escape rooms I've ever done. You can just walk out at any time, being "locked in" is only part of the narrative, for safety reasons.

That being said, you should always trust your gut and not have to worry about relying on strangers. Local places can also be pretty sketchy sometimes.

One of my earliest and favorite recipes came from having a bunch of stuff around and throwing it together.

Tacos Repollos (Cabbage Tacos)

-Cabbage -Onions (sliced) and garlic -Sweet peppers (the ones that look like baby bell peppers, generally come in red yellow and orange)(also sliced) -Vegan ground meat (impossible is my preferred) -Salt, pepper, cumin, chili powder, adjust to your preference -Small corn tortillas (street taco style, flour tortillas are OK but corn ones are so much better to me) -Fresh lime or lime juice if you have it

Sauté the onions and garlic, then add the sweet peppers. After a bit, clear the center of the pan and add the ground "meat" and brown it. I start seasoning the "meat" directly around here.

Once it's mostly browned, mix everything currently in the pan together, then start adding shredded cabbage. You can fill up the pan with cabbage and cover everything, it doesn't matter because your goal is to cook the cabbage down a lot.

I tend to mix a good bit of cabbage into the rest and add more once it cooks down enough. Just make sure nothing else starts to burn and keep mixing it in.

Add seasoning to the cabbage while mixing it in (salt helps it cook down faster). Once it is almost finished cooking, squeeze some lime straight into the pan and mix it up.

Scoop it onto the tortillas and squeeze a little more lime on the finished tacos if you want.

These are the best vegan tacos I've ever had and just writing this out is making me crave them again. I prefer the smaller tortillas just so I can eat more tacos. I like these so much that we served them at my wedding.

Some good tomatoes

I've also split my collarbone in half falling off of a bicycle! Good times

Shout out to Mars First Logistics, a very fun game where you build rovers out of Lego-style connecting pieces, then use them to deliver things from point A to point B.

I got really sucked into it and spent like a month straight playing only that game. 5/7 perfect score

Jeff Davis of Who's Line is it Anyway has a story about a friend of his mishearing "reach down, ease the seat back" in Van Halen's Panama as "reach down, ease the seed bag", as in adjusting his nuts. Always cracks me up when I think of that or hear the song

Once a couple friends and I decided to take some acid and camp out in one of the friend's back yards. He had a metal tow-behind trailer that he had put up some plywood walls on and draped a tarp over the top. This was in Florida but during the 2 weeks of winter we get so it was actually pretty cold at night.

The plan was for us to all sleep in the trailer, and we even had a little space heater going, but I was closest to the back of the trailer and the cold air was coming in more than the heater was warming me, so I couldn't sleep (the acid didn't help either, it had been several hours but I was still feeling it for sure).

To stay warm, I got up and re-lit the fire which was in a circular cinderblock about a foot tall and a foot wide. Throughout the rest of the night and the morning I continuously tended the fire, only occasionally stepping away to grab more sticks from the woods.

It was one of the most peaceful nights of my life. It did fully kill any enthusiasm I had for tending fires though. The smell of smoke didn't come off of me for days afterwards. Ever since then I've had no problem letting other people take over the fire whenever possible.

It seems that because skin color in humans is determined by more than just the X chromosomes in skin cells, this is not the case. However it is the case in some animals, such as cats, which is why calico cats look like they do.

If skin color in humans was due to solely that X chromosome, then yes, at least theoretically a person who's parents have different skin colors would present both of those colors along these patterns. It would probably be most noticable on mixed-race people but technically almost everyone would have something similar unless both of your parents had the exact same shade of skin color. I think it'd be cool!