My headcannon is a giant cast iron thingamabob that shoots balls made out of steel! Very uncomfortable thing to wear on your head I do not recommend getting one!
I had Snopes fact check this, and they told me that when a black person kills a white person it isn't killing because thanks to white supremacy white people do not die when they are killed because white power protects them from all negative consequences. They therefore were happy to mark the claim as false. USA today's fact checkers went a step further, saying that when a black person kills a white person, it only hurts the black community therefore the claim is false.
Deboonked!
Deboonked!
ngl, having seen what passes as a canadian professional engineer a lot of times, I don't think our licensure system really does much to make sure people who are licensed are actually competent.
Sometimes I see people sticking their noses in the air, like "Oh, we're the high class engineers, not like those third world engineers" then you see if someone ever built what they engineered it'd blow up or fall down, and it's like "why do we even bother with all this shit then?"
And apparently it's like "Oh, but they're responsible for their designs" -- bullshit. With the incompetence I've seen the last few years, every engineer would be living in a shopping cart if they had to take responsibility for their work.
Sometimes I see people sticking their noses in the air, like "Oh, we're the high class engineers, not like those third world engineers" then you see if someone ever built what they engineered it'd blow up or fall down, and it's like "why do we even bother with all this shit then?"
And apparently it's like "Oh, but they're responsible for their designs" -- bullshit. With the incompetence I've seen the last few years, every engineer would be living in a shopping cart if they had to take responsibility for their work.
I get a kick out of the implications of what he said, actually.
"Oh lordy, we wuz stolen from our homeland, most of us died crossing the ocean, and they made us do unspeakable things without pay -- like polynomials. Damn you to hell, you white devils!"
"Oh lordy, we wuz stolen from our homeland, most of us died crossing the ocean, and they made us do unspeakable things without pay -- like polynomials. Damn you to hell, you white devils!"
It's a sci-fi/speculative fiction book about 4 people from today waking up 100 years from now after dying unexpectedly in a plane crash in the arctic. They witness and try to integrate with varying degrees of success into the future that already experienced the consequences we're just talking about today, while dealing with the personal consequences of their resurrection (which are at times really visceral) and also navigating the pathologies of our age transposed into a new age that sees the world through much different eyes. Meanwhile, the story also looks at the potential consequences of certain technologies that are just beginning today but are likely to be fairly mature in 100 years, such as a combination of AI and neural implants.
The book lives in people's immediate perspectives, and has no omniscient narrator throughout. Everything that happens happens through the viewpoint of the characters in the book, and so part of the journey of each character's arc is learning with the reader about this new world that's quite alien to our current postmodern civilization.
One difference from most science fiction is that this isn't just modernism plus or postmodernism plus. It's a society that rebuilt from the ground up after our current era destroyed culture, meaning, and institutions. It's a society that believes in community, and that has made religion a core part of that community.
The book lives in people's immediate perspectives, and has no omniscient narrator throughout. Everything that happens happens through the viewpoint of the characters in the book, and so part of the journey of each character's arc is learning with the reader about this new world that's quite alien to our current postmodern civilization.
One difference from most science fiction is that this isn't just modernism plus or postmodernism plus. It's a society that rebuilt from the ground up after our current era destroyed culture, meaning, and institutions. It's a society that believes in community, and that has made religion a core part of that community.
I'm pretty excited about the book I'm working on, I hope people like it, I think it's really special.
But make no mistake: if it fails, it's my fault -- either on writing, or editing, or art, or typesetting, or advertising.
I can't blame readers or potential customers for it, at the end of the day I'm not owed anyone's time or money.
Regardless, hopefully at least a few people check it out when it comes out, and hopefully the people who pick it up will think it's as special as I think it is.
But make no mistake: if it fails, it's my fault -- either on writing, or editing, or art, or typesetting, or advertising.
I can't blame readers or potential customers for it, at the end of the day I'm not owed anyone's time or money.
Regardless, hopefully at least a few people check it out when it comes out, and hopefully the people who pick it up will think it's as special as I think it is.
If you're not able to read, put the effort into learning. Expecting someone to pick up skill that is common might be ableist, in that you are judging someone on what they are unable to do, so just become able to do the thing. In that sense, it's a moral good to be ableist -- you're saying you should judge someone for not being able to do something they're fully capable of doing.
And yeah, maybe some people are blind or they're really stupid (I mean, they are on bluesky so that second one is definitely an option) and that's the case then I should recommend that you get over yourself -- obviously nobody expects you to read, the message to read isn't aimed at you.
You could qualify any post with a giant disclaimer "of course people who are physically, neurologically, emotionally, or sociostructurally unable to read get a pass" but if the argument is that some people are unable to read, who are you writing the message for? People who can read?
And yeah, maybe some people are blind or they're really stupid (I mean, they are on bluesky so that second one is definitely an option) and that's the case then I should recommend that you get over yourself -- obviously nobody expects you to read, the message to read isn't aimed at you.
You could qualify any post with a giant disclaimer "of course people who are physically, neurologically, emotionally, or sociostructurally unable to read get a pass" but if the argument is that some people are unable to read, who are you writing the message for? People who can read?
Random Canada facts regarding milk in bags.
Milk in bags is mostly an Ontario and Quebec thing as far as I know, it's not common in the prairie provinces.
You tend to have a certain pitcher for the milk in a bag, it holds the bag upright, you snip the corner of the bag and then pour it out of the hole.
You typically don't reseal the bag, but we did use a chip clip for a while (before we just moved back to jugs because it's more convenient and easier and cleaner to close a lid). When I was a kid, the milk just sits there open in the fridge, and yes it does go sour faster that way.
The bag uses significantly less material than the jug because the bag isn't a rigid structure that has to maintain its shape.
Milk in bags is typically less expensive than milk in jugs, last time I compared it was about a dollar less.
Milk in bags is mostly an Ontario and Quebec thing as far as I know, it's not common in the prairie provinces.
You tend to have a certain pitcher for the milk in a bag, it holds the bag upright, you snip the corner of the bag and then pour it out of the hole.
You typically don't reseal the bag, but we did use a chip clip for a while (before we just moved back to jugs because it's more convenient and easier and cleaner to close a lid). When I was a kid, the milk just sits there open in the fridge, and yes it does go sour faster that way.
The bag uses significantly less material than the jug because the bag isn't a rigid structure that has to maintain its shape.
Milk in bags is typically less expensive than milk in jugs, last time I compared it was about a dollar less.
"Oh, you guys don't think any of that stuff is bad? Ok! I guess we'll start doing some of it to my political enemies! Oh! It turns it out is bad thing?"
Ngl in Chrono trigger I'd always have magus in my party.
But you don't have him in your party for physical damage.
But you don't have him in your party for physical damage.
This lady is full of shit.
Connecticut and Florida have essentially the same white population, so it isn't any more or less diverse.
Connecticut and Florida are essentially tied for educational outcomes (both are really good), so the education system isn't any better. If her school library in Florida had entire shelves empty, I would be asking why their school had a "showing little boys how to blow dudes" section. DeSantis didn't ban cat in the hat.
The one thing that's true is Connecticut has a much lower violent crime rate than Florida. I doubt the sort of person sending their kids to private school and writing articles for Business Insider have to worry about it.
Strip away the slick editing and progressive buzzwords, and what this looks like to me is a very normal thing when people move -- trying to rationalize your move using every little thing you see that's different where you moved to compared to where you came from. Most people who move do this, but they don't get paid to publish it in an internationally read magazine. The big question isn't the day you move and you're happy with your choice, it's a year, two years, five years, ten years down the line when the reality of living in a place really sets in and the shiny new school library is just a school library.
I had a portion of my life where I moved around a lot, and for sure some places were objectively better or worse than others, but it doesn't look like this; it looks like finding out the deeper good and bad things that nobody tells you at first and them adding up into a new conclusion. I moved to a little rural city and discovered it had a shocking amount of gang violence and other crime. Another city I moved to looked much more industrial but it turned out it had big forest areas you could easily walk to and enjoy, as well as stuff like beaches you'd never expect to see. I visited a capital routinely at one point, but when I moved there the things I did were totally different.
Which also leads to one final thing: "Florida" and "Connecticut" are not actually two individual unified things. St. Augustine was an unusually white area of Florida. She likely moved to a rich but slightly more diverse section of Connecticut. If she moved within Florida I'm certain she could find her kid the only white kid in class, but she didn't do that, and I'm reasonably sure I have a good idea as to why.
Connecticut and Florida have essentially the same white population, so it isn't any more or less diverse.
Connecticut and Florida are essentially tied for educational outcomes (both are really good), so the education system isn't any better. If her school library in Florida had entire shelves empty, I would be asking why their school had a "showing little boys how to blow dudes" section. DeSantis didn't ban cat in the hat.
The one thing that's true is Connecticut has a much lower violent crime rate than Florida. I doubt the sort of person sending their kids to private school and writing articles for Business Insider have to worry about it.
Strip away the slick editing and progressive buzzwords, and what this looks like to me is a very normal thing when people move -- trying to rationalize your move using every little thing you see that's different where you moved to compared to where you came from. Most people who move do this, but they don't get paid to publish it in an internationally read magazine. The big question isn't the day you move and you're happy with your choice, it's a year, two years, five years, ten years down the line when the reality of living in a place really sets in and the shiny new school library is just a school library.
I had a portion of my life where I moved around a lot, and for sure some places were objectively better or worse than others, but it doesn't look like this; it looks like finding out the deeper good and bad things that nobody tells you at first and them adding up into a new conclusion. I moved to a little rural city and discovered it had a shocking amount of gang violence and other crime. Another city I moved to looked much more industrial but it turned out it had big forest areas you could easily walk to and enjoy, as well as stuff like beaches you'd never expect to see. I visited a capital routinely at one point, but when I moved there the things I did were totally different.
Which also leads to one final thing: "Florida" and "Connecticut" are not actually two individual unified things. St. Augustine was an unusually white area of Florida. She likely moved to a rich but slightly more diverse section of Connecticut. If she moved within Florida I'm certain she could find her kid the only white kid in class, but she didn't do that, and I'm reasonably sure I have a good idea as to why.
The punishment for robbery may not be death, but if you fuck around you may find out.
The robbers brought the lethal force, then the lethal force they threatened to use against others was used against them.
The penalty for threats of lethal force may in fact be death. So don't threaten people or you might die and nobody will care.
The robbers brought the lethal force, then the lethal force they threatened to use against others was used against them.
The penalty for threats of lethal force may in fact be death. So don't threaten people or you might die and nobody will care.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z1WpYihkRQ
This video is about ancient music, but the discussion of the pre-1066 English church is really wonderful -- Imagine this thing that's weathered the ages for likely over 1,000 years, taken care of continuously from the anglo-saxons being in charge to the Norman conquest, to the revolutions of the early modern period, through the world wars, and the postmodern period -- and this church has remained as a cultural touchstone of this community.
This video is about ancient music, but the discussion of the pre-1066 English church is really wonderful -- Imagine this thing that's weathered the ages for likely over 1,000 years, taken care of continuously from the anglo-saxons being in charge to the Norman conquest, to the revolutions of the early modern period, through the world wars, and the postmodern period -- and this church has remained as a cultural touchstone of this community.
"mom I just woke up, unless you want me to start talking all about my dick every morning get me some captain crunch"
