to the surgeon and the little guillotine he got from the prop department of Robin Hood: Men in Tights
good enthusiasm, but the statement you're responding to was said in jest
This really sounds a lot like the high-jinks of the early Civil War, when nobody was quite certain if secession was actually happening or not.
A more concrete agreement than anything that's happened in the decades of crowing about Britain's "special relationship" with the United States.
A quick reverse search suggests that this was initially made with HL3 news in mind. I found (a lot) of very recent reposts of it.
I don't have much more to say, other than to express mild cynicism that the same joke used in waiting for a computer game gets reused for very serious historical events.
Maybe I'll pirate Plural bus or whatever the apple show is, for now deal with my Adventure Time posting.
I liked this season a lot. Spoilers ahoy:
I like that the show's multiple universes have been revealed to be cells in a giant cosmic tree. That's way more interesting than your typical multiverse fair, which is usually just a boring writing crutch.
That last shot really sticks with me, of that solid block of densely packed city poking out of an ocean of wilderness. I mean, anyone can project anything they like onto it. A fantasy of modern comforts alongside a "virgin" wilderness, shorn free of history... hard not to see a reactionary read in that.
But. It makes me think of Half-Earth Socialism by Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese, that book that argues we can probably balance modern industry with the natural world but only if we devote (at least!) half the landmass of the planet to wilderness preserves. (Maybe you remember the browser game they released alongside the book) I'd like to think that's the read the creators were leaning towards, given how the show ends with starting a community center and also all the ecological imagery they've introduced to their multiverse. Maybe that's too hopeful. Oh well.
If you want a different fiction that explicitly delves into what life might look like in a world that's half wilderness preserves, (or you don't want to read the non-fiction I've referenced above) check out A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
As a kid, I just assumed it was aesthetic. Like, someone for an audience of non-musicians to project themselves on to.
As an adult, I recognize that this is almost certainly not the case. Presumably the conductor plays a role that is necessary and helpful to the rest of the orchestra... but I'll be damned if I can't quite figure out what that is. Surely its not just timing? Can't the players just... listen to one another to work that out?
lol, threads
thought this was a twitter screenshot at first
The internet has become 3 massive multi-user blogs, each largely consisting of screenshots taken of the other two. This kind of blows, and not just for the usual reasons that may spring to mind.
Images are a terrible medium for online communication! Not everyone online uses a monitor. Any messages contained in a picture is straight up unacceptable without alt-text. It also makes it harder to find and fact check sources, or to spread a thought or idea further than yet another image upload. Copy/pasting text is just plain easier than downloading and uploading.
If you're going through the trouble of creating an image post, take an extra minuite to copy/past (or even transcribe) the source text into the alt-text submission. It's not much, but it goes a ways to improving how we use this blasted network!
The internet has become 3 massive multi-user blogs, each largely consisting of screenshots taken of the other two. This kind of blows, and not just for the usual reasons that may spring to mind.
Images are a terrible medium for online communication! Not everyone online uses a monitor. Any messages contained in a picture is straight up unacceptable without alt-text. It also makes it harder to find and fact check sources, or to spread a thought or idea further than yet another image upload. Copy/pasting text is just plain easier than downloading and uploading.
If you're going through the trouble of creating an image post, take an extra minuite to copy/past (or even transcribe) the source text into the alt-text submission. It's not much, but it goes a ways to improving how we use this blasted network!
https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-write-an-image-description-2f30d3bf5546
I wrote this as a comment to that video about medieval bread. And, what the hell, apparently I spent two hours on it so here it is a full post. Also a tumblr link to a video of Avery Brooks giving satisfying line deliveries. One of which is "Bread...!"
The bulk of industrially produced bread differs from pre-industrial bread in the following key ways:
Grain is a plant seed. It has an outer casing (bran, ~5% by weight) a "seed-embryo" (germ, ~15% by weight) and store of nutrients to feed the germ through its initial sprouting (endosperm, ~80% by weight). In most industrial breads, the bran and germ are removed. This improves the shelf-life of any bread you make from it... but it only lasts longer because it now lacks the gem's nutrients and the bran's fiber.
This one is pretty self explanatory. Grinding hot and fast breaks down oils and stuff in the wheat, further reducing the nutritional content of the resulting bread so that it can be produced faster. Older milling techniques also produce larger, less consistently ground flour, leaving more nutrients.
After you mix the dough, it is left to rise. Sometimes for hours. Sometimes for days. I feel like if you know anything about baking bread, you know this step. It's the fermentation process. Yeast slowly eats the bread, digesting and transforming it into different nutrients that we have an easier time digesting ourselves. In the same way you cannot fully understand a plant without including the soil it grows in, the microbes and fungi that surround it; the human body does not end at the topmost dermal layer. We are just as inexorably dependent on the microbial world, both within and without our bodies. Digestion begins long, long before the secretion of saliva and the gnashing of teeth .
Industrial bread skips this step. It improves shelf-life and speeds up production.
Genetically engineered strains of wheat TEND TO select for the highest possible yield of grain for the least land and resources. Wheat that has evolved in conjunction with human agriculture often but not always has a wider nutritional spread, but lower crop yields. Specific species will have specific qualities, GMO or otherwise. You CANNOT just say all GMO is X, all heirlooms are Y.
With that disclaimer, it sounds like the high yield GMO plants most frequently used in industrial bread have gluten that is structurally different (more complex? bigger I guess?) to heirloom varietals. It's harder to digest and can trigger an immune response in some people. Apparently it's also what lets the bread remain soft for significantly longer.
Here's a scientific paper that was cited in the video. I skimmed the abstract. Those more literate than I can have fun with it: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/medicine/articles/10.3389/fmed.2022.995019/full
Personal consumptive habits: what does this mean for me?
Consider switching to Whole Wheat / Whole Grain bread. Sourdough is also good.
Industrially: production favors quick baking and long shelf life. It doesn't have to. Even in a capitalist system. I'm sure there's still a profit to be made even with slower, cooler milling; proper fermentation times; and a shorter shelf life. But this also means you can't have one factory making bread for a large surrounding area. You'd need more factories with more staff, serving more locally concentrated customers. Long shelf-life bread needn't disappear altogether, but it would be reduced to supplementing the logistical shortfalls of healthier bread that is more time and labor intensive.
Actually getting the capitalists to implement this, would be another matter...
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I was talking to a friend, and he was complaining about his job. He had this whole thing about how he’s so divorced from the work that he does, so disconnected from anything tangible, estranged from the products that he felt only tangentially involved in making. He has a boring office job and dicks around a lot, I guess. And this feeling was something that he’d been carrying with him for a long time, and he felt like no one talks about it, and it was, to him, one of the chief ills of society, the way that we have no connection to the work that we do. And he wished so much that we had a word for it, that people would talk about it.
“Oh, yeah,” I said. “Marx called that alienation of labor.”
“What?” he asked.
“You can google that phrase, ‘alienation of labor’ and you’ll get a ton of people talking about it,” I said. “It’s been a talking point for like, almost two hundred years.”
“They’re Marxists though?” he asked.
“Most of them, yeah,” I said.
He looked off into the distance, thinking about that. I was waiting for him to ask some questions, or for him to talk more about what he was feeling. “Well,” he said. “I guess I’ll get over it.”
furryprovocateur:
literally why is gerrymandering legal. why is america the stupid idiot country.
ndiamichelle:
This could be counterproductive if people actually vote. Everywhere. We can blame the system and politicians all we want but if people don’t get off their ass to vote correctly or just vote in general that would probably solve a good chunk of our problems.
furryprovocateur:
enthralled at the interpretation of the world you have. the best way to vote out a system that exists to suppress votes and bottleneck specific populations from being heard is to vote harder. tell me more.
toloveviceforitself:
There’s a certain kind of democrat whose whole politics is basically “if the entire population just acted in a way they’ve never acted before on a level that borders on the miraculous, we could win without changing anything else about how democrats govern or campaign!” and they think that’s not only a useful insight, but a good justification for rejecting literally any alteration of their ideology, their strategy, or even suggestions that (on the occasions they have power) they alter the rigged system that requires such miracles in the first place.
No, Biden very clearly was fundamental to the 2024 loss.
Now, if she had been able to run a full campaign, if he had stepped aside from the very start, then yes we'd probably still be here today with Trump in office. But she was not given the space to fail on her own merits.
probably
considered
one real base
nothing is funnier to me than a liberal who's gotten ahold of the word "Reactionary" and thinks it means "in reaction to a thing"
A bunch of car dealership owners took the week off to rush into lobby of the capital building, then wander about aimlessly waiting for a cutscene to start. What is that, if not funny?
You're gonna have to explain to millions of women across the country why there is a national abortion ban and they no longer have a constitional, fundamental right to an abortion.
The democrats had the house, senate, and presidency when Dobbs went into effect. They didn't even try to enact a legislative solution. Fuck off.
My kids want to spend real money on a silly gambling game, how do I address this?
By issuing currency, of course!
father of the year
But he said the launch also raises questions around how Huawei managed to launch the phone when it has spent the past four years under US restrictions banning access to 5G technology. “While access to 5G for the chipset is one thing, I’m not sure how the company managed to source all the other components that need to go into a 5G smartphone, such as power amps, switches and filters,” he said.
Love that America's 21st century cold war is fully predicated on the assumption that China does not have the ability to develop its own productive capacity.
Does kinda seem like if it wasn't actually policy before, it's gonna become so. Or, at least, scare off enough potential investors that it might as well be.