I’ve got this knife, and it’s such a fun knife to fidget with! I used it pretty much every day at work to open boxes and packages, and I like that it feels like a very defensive knife, being a karambit (business was a liquor store and the location wasn’t the greatest so we’d regularly get shady individuals).

Carrying this and a pocket canister of pepper gel saved me from assault at least a couple times (pepper gel for range and first line defense, karambit if they continue to try and approach anyway, which thankfully never happened).

Anyway, it’s a fun knife to edc! :)

The only upside I see to President Rittson's misoxenistic (edit: how do you construct the word for 'fear of extra-terrestrials'? this one seems to mean fear of strangers) response is that I feel like it really primes the stage for a natural progression into a fear of mutants that've suddenly started springing up. If you were a normal human and someone close to you seemingly "lost control" and "let their powers slip", and you'd seen the footage of Skrulls (and maybe some out-of-focus footage of a Super-Skrull), wouldn't you feel completely justified in indulging your xenophobia?

In reality, the Skrull letting their powers slip would just be an instance of a young teen manifesting powers they don't know how to control. Powers manifest in high-stress situations near the onset of puberty, iirc.

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Towards the end it felt like the only things really left to engage with were the bots. Upvoting and downvoting felt pointless, as every other post felt like it had been submitted and/or written by a bot, and the comments were so flooded with bots advertising, trying to get you to click on a link, and reposting portions of other comments. Towards the end you'd also see so many posts that were clips that bots had ripped from other videos, only without any sound (even when it was obvious that the sound had been crucial in supplying context to the scene).

At least on Lemmy it doesn't feel like it's been flooded with that sort of drivel (just yet, anyway).