CandleTiger

This is awesome I’m doing it

It’s very big in person

CIS male here who went on a lot of camping trips back in the day. I think that staying reliably stealth while changing clothes in a shared tent would be really hard. Changing once with decent odds of nobody noticing — sure. But over the course of a week it really depends how dense your tent-mate is.

I used to always change my pants in my sleeping bag which is pretty easy. Changing my shirt in my sleeping bag was certainly possible but a lot harder. Doing any of that without my tent partner being able to see what I’m pulling out of my luggage would be effectively impossible.

OTOH the people I was camping with didn’t really give a shit what I was pulling out of my luggage and weren’t paying attention. They were my friends, it’s not like I was camping with the Spanish Inquisition.

Have fun, enjoy the trip

It must be my client then (Memmy for iOS). I don’t see any crude ASCII drawing.

I’m not sure if the problem is your post or my client, but I’m not seeing any drawing here.

Fanboys who will buy anything Apple… that is what “strength of the brand” /means/

I’m imagining what happens is they organize a giant search party to look for you (this is not the good kind of giant party) Eventually they find your corpse and put it in a refrigerator for a long time while your relatives argue with the police about whether you were kidnapped and murdered. Somebody pays for all this, maybe the tax payers, maybe your relatives, I don’t know. Then after all that you finally get to have your expensive funeral but on top of being sad, everybody is frustrated.

I’m thinking, better all around if you just don’t die quite yet because that shit is just awkward.

Gluck auf!

The 4-part series on how fusion works was surprisingly great

I was thinking more like a split into North Illinois and South Illinois. I think we’d have to see South Illinois standing on its own before any mergers with Iowa or Indiana are on the table. Wisconsin or Michigan… I do not see that happening, no.

Yes and for the same reason — they are both French words for groups of people.

Except two states called Illinois is different from two people from the Illini tribe and sometimes plural Quebecois is Quebeckers so I wouldn’t place any solid bets on sanity in naming when we get our 2nd Illinois

A complaint is a statement that there is a problem.

There really are a lot of people who think it’s in general wrong/unpleasant/to be avoided, to say anything negative ever. Only positive, mood-building statements are socially acceptable. This seems to be a regional thing and quite controversial; look up “toxic positivity”.

From your description it could be your friend is in that camp but I doubt it; sounds to me more like your friend might mean something anywhere along the line from, “you say no to activities when I want you to say yes” through “I’m surprised how often you’re tired” to “you seem tired more often than is healthy; something is wrong”

Russian Lada was a “people’s car” that (like other Soviet products) was built for internal use and protected from competition. When the Soviet Union fell and Russian car manufacturers were exposed to competition, they eventually went out of business.

The story is not that simple though. The Lada was a really popular and robust car. It lived on for a long time and exported versions to Canada and other places using Western fuel-injected engines. I have no idea what happened to the company in the end but it seems clear at least to me that it was the sudden huge change in competitive landscape that did it in, not the industrial planning.

Škoda is a similar car brand from (at the time) Yugoslavia that managed to survive the fall of the Soviet Union and is still active as a brand today.