AnarchistArtificer @ AnarchistArtificer @slrpnk.net Posts 10Comments 1,763Joined 2 yr. ago
"Markov Babble" would make a great band name
Damn, I didn't expect to get a soundtrack accompaniment to my science meme. I really enjoyed this, thank you for sharing it with us.
Nice. How long did it take you to write this comment? Whenever I attempt stuff like this, it takes far longer than expected because I overcomplicate things
No. I'm pretty burnt out.
Everything I read on burnout says that the best (only?) way to treat it is to reduce or remove whatever is causing such chronic, disproportionate stress. Unfortunately, much of my burnout is caused by the most basic aspects of living (partly because I have disabilities that make it hard to reliably fulfill my basic needs, even with support).
Given that cutting out the bad stuff isn't an option, I've been trying to instead add more good stuff to my life, in hopes that it will increase my capacity and thus reduce my relative level of burnout. I'm so tremendously tired though. I'm trying so hard because I do want to live, and there are things I feel I can offer the world. However, sometimes, in my exhaustion, I find myself thinking wistfully about the depression I felt as a young adult — it was simpler when I genuinely and wholeheartedly wanted to die. In some ways, it was easier to be hopeless and merely staying alive for other people.
I'm just tired.
🤘🔥🔥🤘 This is why trans people are metal af
Regardless of gender, if there is a prisoner who is likely to perpetrate sexual violence, then the great care needs to be taken to ensure the safety of other prisoners. Cis people are plenty capable of committing sexual assault. Trans people are far more likely to be victims of sexual violence than perpetrators of it.
That's part of what their protest is getting at — as you highlight, even "biological sex" is pretty complex (In science, I have heard that the "three G's" (Gonads, genetics, genitals) model is the standard definition, but scientists who research biological sex seem to consider this an extreme oversimplification). Fuzzy definitions like this are fine in science, but things get much messier when we try to write these things into law. One of my problems with the recent Supreme Court ruling on transgender rights is how they use the phrase "biological woman", as if it is a simple matter.
I find this especially striking because I'm a cis woman who has plenty of experience of being treated poorly due to being a woman, and I feel like my "biological sex" (as in gonads, genetics and genitals) don't factor into it much; far more significant is whether I am perceived as a woman, and this is why "gender" can be far more useful than "biological sex" in these discussions.
I had a look further into this, because I wanted to better understand what factors might cause an act to be considered indecent exposure (or outraging public decency). This led me to some guidance on naturism and other non-sexual nudity, from the crown prosecution service.^1 It appears that having an "intention to cause alarm or distress" may be relevant for protests like this — arguably the entire point of the protest is to use the shock value of the nudity as a protest.
That being said, I think it's a bold move and possibly an effective protest. Even if public indecency laws are gender neutral, it would still be a strong message if any of these women got arrested for this — the reason why these women are capable of causing alarm or distress by going topless is because these are "female presenting nipples" (to use a heavily-memed phrase from the Tumblr porn ban era)
There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
What's the context of this photo? I.e. what were you making/processing?
This is one of the things that I can watch on a sad day to immediately be cheered up — specifically the moment when the radio presenter gets flustered and shuts them off when they start swearing.
Strongly recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen/heard it. Here's a link to timestamp in above video where this happens:
"Get rid of it! Sorry, we needed to get rid of that, because that suddenly, uh, turned into something we were not expec— well we were expecting it, and we asked them not to do it, and they did it anyway"
I've found that erring on the side of underwatering is a decent strategy for most houseplants. People ask me what my trick to caring for my houseplants is, and a huge part of this is that I made up a big bucket of well-draining soil to use for my plants. This means that I need to water them more frequently, but they're far less likely to succumb to root rot
A Czech friend likes Kofola, a cola created in Communist Czechoslovakia, when Coca Cola wasn't available there. Nowadays, Coca Cola is available, but Kofola still reigns supreme — when I visited her, I discovered that the majority of pubs that I visited had Kofola as their "house cola" on the tap. Coca Cola was often available, but in comparatively expensive bottles, because it was not the default
Because it would cause too much societal whiplash to, all at once, we see a transformation from a world where information like this is closed away, to a world where it's all public. Often the accessibility of information depends on logistics like where data should be stored, and whether something counts as "public" if some information can only be accessed by, let's say, booking an appointment to see paper records only available at an archive.
FOI are a concession. Legislation that allows them is how we bridge the gap between the abstract political ideology of "this information should be public", and the pragmatic challenge of information infrastructure. That is to say that you're entirely right, and that information obtainable via FOIA should just be public info. However, submitting skillful FOIAs can be a powerful tool towards making more information free generally — more FOIA requests being made can encourage organisations to revamp their information management such that they can fulfill FOIA requests more easily (perhaps even making information available to pre-empt such requests). Repeatedly non-compliant organisations may be forced to comply, if held accountable by an effective information commissioner or ombudsman. (That's a big "if").
In short, they're a step towards pushing for more widespread, public information
This image saved my life once: [image] (https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/89e6fccc-0aea-4791-8f53-27a24ef51fe5.jpeg)
Image description: Roughly written graffiti on a wall that says "I'm fucking fed up and tired and I want to die but living is the most punk shit I've ever fucking done"
Courage the Cowardly Dog is crazy
Is there a particular cut of beef that's ideal for this?
I agree with both your original comment and the edit, but especially the bit about cast iron. Neglecting mine for an extended period led to uneven patches of seasoning, but when I got round to giving it a proper scrub, it was like hitting a reset button. I'm going to try to be better at basic seasoning/maintenance this time, but the joy of cast iron is knowing that it's super forgiving if you do mess it up.
Tangential to your edit: I enjoy being able to sharpen knives, but that's mostly because I'm a nerd who has other tools I need to sharpen anyway, so I already have the stones. Something that I found striking though is that when I was learning how to sharpen knives, I asked if I could practice on various friends' kitchen knives. Most of them were poor students, so I sharpened many cheap knives, and I was impressed by how well some of the cheaper ones performed compared once they were sharp. They held their edge for surprisingly long too.
I'm quite fond of my Wusthof chef's knife, which was a bit of an indulgent treat for myself, but I am utterly baffled by the gear acquisition syndrome that so many seem to fall into. It's not just that prospect of someone who barely cooks buying a $300 knife that perplexes me, but that so many of these people keep acquiring more knives. If they said that collecting knives was just their hobby, and that they were never intending to actually use them, then I'd shrug and say fair enough. That's pretty rare though — the underlying implication that these people seem to operate under is that the fancy knives make you a better cook (and that the perfect knife will make good cooking into an effortless, joyful endeavour). It's an odd culture that's developed.
I disagree with the "complaining about young people" line having coolness increase proportionally with age: when I was a young adult, I often joked about kids these days in a way that seemed to get a lot of laughs. The humour was in the fact that I was a young person talking about young people as if I wasn't one of them (and beneath that was me making light of the text that, likely due to being autistic, I have always felt isolated from my peer group).
Anyway, I got good at leveraging this for humour, but as I aged, the joke potential expired: I was too old for there to be any irony in saying "kids these days", but not old enough for it to be cool to complain about young people.
On the bright side, I am sufficiently old to be able to torment young people by misusing their slang. It's most likely effective if you use the slang in a mostly right way, so I enjoy the challenge of needing to actually understand correct usage of new slang. Amusingly, studying current slang as an outsider is a skill I'm well versed in, given that I had to do this even when I was young.
Damn you all, because I'm now emotionally invested in this