True. You can have normal soap that's potassium stearate, or metal soaps like magnesium or aluminium stearate. The former acts like soap we think of, the latter doesn't so much (metal soaps are hydrophobic)
I kind of feels like an absurd question because anyone who's been following things knows there have been big problems for quite a few years now.
Every time I'm like "hey, maybe I should also open an account in X?" I shortly after am shown that the fediverse is the best platform and I am right where I need to be.
The really scary thing about it is that the boomers are going to die soon. Most of them are already in their 70s. When you have all of these million dollar homes and the population is collapsing, even the kids who took the risk to buy a home are going to be kind of up shit creek without a paddle.
For the most part, the sort of people who would go to a grassroots protest have already been taught that you don't go to a grassroots protest.
You can tell the difference between the two because the state magically is incapable of doing anything about all the protests that it agrees with, and you can shut down bank accounts and bring out the lead bullets when it's something that they don't want people discussing.
You can tell the difference between the two because the state magically is incapable of doing anything about all the protests that it agrees with, and you can shut down bank accounts and bring out the lead bullets when it's something that they don't want people discussing.
Everyone knew we were totally fucked last year, one guy getting in charge isn't going to be able to change that much.
Imagine how bad the real numbers might be.
Imagine how bad the real numbers might be.
Half of men under a certain (old) age are childless. Half of women under a certain (old) age are childless.
We are in a mass extinction event, and most people have effectively already been written out of the gene pool.
We are in a mass extinction event, and most people have effectively already been written out of the gene pool.
Can confirm.
The land my great grandfathers lived in may be lost forever at this point.
The land my great grandfathers lived in may be lost forever at this point.
[admin mode]A few hours downtime. network down locally, followed by DNS. should be just fine now. pretty unusual these days.
The 21st century scores an F in history because things happened outside of the timespan of 1916-1948.
During a deep review of my latest book, one of the things that came up is that this idea I'd never considered before: There's a sort of psychopathic lord of the flies dominance hierarchy written in as an assumption in a lot of contemporary fiction. Western fiction lately has had a really strong dominance hierarchy implied in all of it, where you can only move up by pushing others down. By contrast, most of human history has been something like "duty-and-care" where power flows from accepting and engaging with a mandate to take care of the people you are responsible for.
Of course, dominance hierarchies do exist. That's self-evident. That doesn't mean that such a worldview should be exclusive. Great leaders see themselves as servants to their subordinates just as much as their subordinates are servants to them. You want great leaders who are competent and powerful, but you also want great leaders whose mandate doesn't just come from competence, but from service.
This is where things like the girlboss archetype becomes inevitable. If you're a psychopath whose worldview says that power is only about being at the top of the dominance hierarchy, then the only way to show you are competent and powerful is to be the strongest, most cut-throat person who never shows any weakness. The thing is, nobody wants that sort of leader. Traditionally, that person was the villain in fiction, not the hero.
The thing is, it applies to men too, so don't think I'm singling out the girlboss. Even within the past century, consider Spider-Man: The point of his character is explicitly not that Spider-Man is the strongest character, it's that he has great power and therefore must use it responsibly.
The leader isn't ideally just whoever is the strongest this week. Ideally, it is the person who can rule with justice, honor, humility, and with the goal being elevating the group you are in charge of. To forget this fact changes everything for the worse, and it's a great reason why most people feel disconnected from a lot of current media, which is laser focused on who is the strongest or most dominant rather than the most worthy.
Of course, dominance hierarchies do exist. That's self-evident. That doesn't mean that such a worldview should be exclusive. Great leaders see themselves as servants to their subordinates just as much as their subordinates are servants to them. You want great leaders who are competent and powerful, but you also want great leaders whose mandate doesn't just come from competence, but from service.
This is where things like the girlboss archetype becomes inevitable. If you're a psychopath whose worldview says that power is only about being at the top of the dominance hierarchy, then the only way to show you are competent and powerful is to be the strongest, most cut-throat person who never shows any weakness. The thing is, nobody wants that sort of leader. Traditionally, that person was the villain in fiction, not the hero.
The thing is, it applies to men too, so don't think I'm singling out the girlboss. Even within the past century, consider Spider-Man: The point of his character is explicitly not that Spider-Man is the strongest character, it's that he has great power and therefore must use it responsibly.
The leader isn't ideally just whoever is the strongest this week. Ideally, it is the person who can rule with justice, honor, humility, and with the goal being elevating the group you are in charge of. To forget this fact changes everything for the worse, and it's a great reason why most people feel disconnected from a lot of current media, which is laser focused on who is the strongest or most dominant rather than the most worthy.
Just don't walk in nature or defy the government when it's doing something stupid and you're aces.
Sometimes I'm worried I'm a midwit. Then I remember I'm actually retarded and I feel better.
Have you tried posting massive treatises about the historical differences between the modern and postmodern era? I find that works very well to keep me as a solid non-influencer.
If anyone else is using libreoffice to write like I do, there's an extension called WritingTool that does a much better grammar check than the built-in grammar check. It can connect to a paid external service called LanguageTool, but it can also run all kinds of checks without any external service.
You need to make sure to install the latest Java jre before doing anything with it, but once it's all set up it works pretty well. I also downloaded an 8GB ngram file that's supposed to be helpful for making sure I'm not using the wrong word, but I don't know how helpful that is yet.
For the record, I don't much care for editing. "You must inspect every quotation mark to ensure the tails are going in the right direction, and did you use the correct comma before every or and and?" -- it's important in the long run to have a proper published work, but that doesn't mean it's fun compared to the actual writing part.
You need to make sure to install the latest Java jre before doing anything with it, but once it's all set up it works pretty well. I also downloaded an 8GB ngram file that's supposed to be helpful for making sure I'm not using the wrong word, but I don't know how helpful that is yet.
For the record, I don't much care for editing. "You must inspect every quotation mark to ensure the tails are going in the right direction, and did you use the correct comma before every or and and?" -- it's important in the long run to have a proper published work, but that doesn't mean it's fun compared to the actual writing part.