despite the fact that i think she's very right-wing, the banking/war establishment will never, ever, ever let hillary clinton run the world because they see her as too liberal. not even nominally. it's really not a gender thing. it just isn't. it's really just that her politics are not in the oligarchy's mainstream.

yes, it's very sad that hillary clinton is the closest thing to a serious anti-establishment candidate that we'll ever see in our lives. she makes rfk sound like thomas paine.

i mean, look what wall street did last time it looked like she was about to win the nomination. it pulled the strongest legal card it had to play.

i don't know what they're going to come up with this time. but, understand this: if they can't beat her, they'll kill her.

she's an unacceptable candidate to the people who are really in power. it's better to just get that and focus on somebody else as a middling centre-right compromise.

slycooper2002
Porkerficial Love
Bacon Is Theft
No Pork Out
Abolish Brocoli/Silent Shoppers
World War Bacon

bigpaddycool
Why not silent sausage?

Gabriel Bejarano
no -_-

deathtokoalas
bacon is freedom?

bacon is impossible...

slycooper2002
Aren't you that meanie who insulted Ty Segall's drumming skills?

deathtokoalas
stating the truth is not being mean. it's just stating the truth.

slycooper2002
He's not even bad though.

deathtokoalas
i've been through this. comprehensively.

slycooper2002
comprehensively

deathtokoalas
i'd never use italics to state a dry, weary point like that. in fact, the purpose of the punctuation i did use - a one word sentence - is to emphasize that.

i'd just keep on being slycooper2002 if i were you, because you make a lousy deathtokoalas.

slycooper2002
Wow. You're so cool. You can reasonably counter-argue stuff.

deathtokoalas
i'm a message board veteran.

slycooper2002
I dare you to not lower-case an I.

deathtokoalas
i'm an alphabetical egalitarian; an anti-capitalist. i'm not really into this idea that change begins at the atomistic level, but if we can't live up to our own ideals then they're not worth much.

slycooper2002
What would you say if I informed you of the mere fact that I happen to be a koala and find offence to your YouTube name?

deathtokoalas
see! the koalas are taking over! look at this, fellow citizens. i warned you, but you did not listen.

you must be annihilated.

slycooper2002
Bring it on. :c

deathtokoalas
we will rise and remove this pestilence. every eucalyptus tree will burn, when we launch a war against you nefarious creatures. i incite this out of necessity, not of desire. i would prefer that we share the earth's vegetation, but you demand that it be terraformed into a sea of eucalyptus groves. i wash my hands of wrongdoing. but, you will see. humans are petty creatures, but we are strong when we are united.

it's not clear whether it's trying to save the roach or trying to steal the meal from the spider. how does this end?

i wonder just how much of a roach's diet consists of other roaches. i know there's going to be a wide variation, but, generally - statistically speaking. 30%? 50%? even higher?

i'm just debating the idea of blocking a hole in my wall....

see, i'm in an old basement. there's cracks in the foundation, ancient sewers and abandoned properties all over the neighbourhood. roaches, where they exist, are generally a neighbourhood/city problem rather than an individual property owner one, but our concept of property in the anglosphere is right fucked so we lack the ability to realize that and deal with it collectively. what it means is that it kind of doesn't matter what i do, they're going to come back - because it's the neighbourhood that's infested. proper eradication would need to be done by the city, or by a neighbourhood group. and, like i say, there's no community awareness here....

i'm dealing with the big, dumb "oriental" sewer roaches, though, not these feisty little fighting german ones. these are actually outside insects, primarily. and i think the ones i've seen down here are mostly transients...

i literally have nothing for them to eat. all food is in the fridge. there isn't even any garbage; i pretty much survive on fruit, and keep the rinds and stuff in the freezer (and then drop it off at a charity compost when it fills up). so, it's not the best place to live, for a roach, food wise. except that it's a basement...

spraying & blocking holes with steel wool has been effective in not seeing them for the last year, but it's time to reapply. i will eventually spray like i did last time, because it worked: i went a whole year with nothing. now, i've seen two in the last ten days. as mentioned, i think they're transients. they were both old. and the orientals have a yearly life cycle that means old roaches die pretty much right now.

they're coming in through a large hole behind the stove that i had steel wooled up to great effect. figuring this out was a step forwards, as the previous tenants were apparently unable to figure out where they were coming from. now, the landlord wants to drywall the hole. but...

...the other side of the hole is a crawl space, adjacent to a shower. it's damp. and dark. i'm concerned that drywalling the hole is going to just give them a nesting space in the crawl space, and they're going to basically feed off each other back there.

i'm thinking it might be a better idea to stick with the steel wool and bait the crawl space once or twice a year. or at least spray it. i'd prefer to fill it with cement, but that's not an option.

but it would be nice to know if what i'm thinking is really feasible. could a roach nest survive like that, on itself, and still manage to grow? does that break some kind of conservation of energy law, or what?