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femmenietzsche

Which is morally superior?

Bilateral symmetry

Radial symmetry

Remaining time: 4 days 6 hours

#project hail mary

andthepeople

what it comes down to is that he really just loves that rock. that's his guy. seven billion people on earth and none of them were his guy and you know what??? he's in luck because he got shot into space and his guy just happened to be in space also. sometimes life is just beautiful

#project hail mary

apolladay

If you did attend college/university (doesn't matter if you didn't finish/are still there/etc), how old were you when you started?

17 or younger

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25 or older

not applicable to me

Voting ended onJun 2

#13 when auditing took over from homeschooling as my main form of schooling 14 when I first enrolled in a course 15 when I matriculated #'auditing' here means illicitly hanging out in the classrooms of professors willing to do my father a favor to be clear #we were not paying for this I just sat there entirely against the rules

Thought I really fumbled smalltalk with a shop clerk today but she gave me two free chocolate truffles, one hazelnut and one amaretto, and it would really improve my life if every social interaction came with a concrete reward indicating to me that I handled it okay

#this is not a tip situation so I am not sure what exactly the benefit to her was. possibly she simply wants to waste inventory #I am trying to break my cheap candy habit by buying expensive candy because frankly I'm better at hedonism than at self denial #so I'm playing to my strengths

where-you-go

my favorite thing in the world is reading a completed fic and the author’s note on the first chapter saying “i think this’ll be like 3 chapters!”

but i already know that it’s thirteen chapters

somewhere along the way, this poor author lost control of their life and the rest of us have benefitted immensely

#watching the chapter projection on nightrose's meticulously researched medical recovery fic tick up from 8 to 20 was such a gift #like yes thank you a chapter a week until mid August sounds great thank you #I love that the injuries got worse and the fic got longer. ideal case

earlgraytay

Bad things happening to the economy does, in fact, directly translate to real human suffering, and it's disingenuous to the extreme to pretend that it doesn't mean anything.

#it'd be nice if everything you didn't understand was actually irrelevant #certainly I wish things *I* don't understand would stop being relevant #but unfortunately.

Who is the market for the eight hundred dollar gold necklace explicitly designed to look like it belongs in a tack room

#I actually kind of like it but it is quite far down the list of jewelry I would buy #if I had the kind of jewelry budget that accommodated $800 necklaces

exposenature

#I need to be not in the middle of a city sometime soon #rumor in the office is that there's a lost brant goose over by the river maybe I will wander over there and fall in #but at the very least I need to go to a park that is not an assassination monument. breath some air that smells zero like smoke #my sister is going hiking this weekend looking for orioles I think. maybe I will join her

I think the thing is that "unserious" is pretty unambiguously simply a term of abuse, but it is intended to position the speaker as a scrupulous thinker, and the intersection of these two purposes is pretty much universally illegitimate.

Like, sure, fine, I'll concede that there are times to insult people rather than give a careful critique of their error. And there are times when it's important to draw attention to the fact that, unlike you, your interlocutor is disengaged or unaware or disingenuous. But you can't do both

If your criticism is that I haven't put in the work in some way, you certainly have to fully articulate that criticism. If no other, frankly

#I know this sounds like I'm ripping off ante meridiem's recent post about incurious #but actually it just reminded me that this has been in my drafts #it could use an edit frankly because I used a lot of adverbs but I'm hitting post instead

zoesupreme

they made moonshine legal today

#hey maybe my biology professor who I'm pretty sure was already doing this illegally will be able to do it openly #I'm not 100% sure but she loved making every other kind of alcohol in her basement #and her comments about how distilling was illegal always had a faint tone of regretful mischief

Got "I really like your outfit, it makes you look like an archeologist" from the barista and like. Well. Thank you. It is a green button down and brown jeans that now I am going to overthink the look of for the rest of eternity

#I'm glad she liked it but that is a very specific comparison and I thought my outfit was normal

yesornopolls

If you opened the windows of your home would you be able to hear birds?

Yes

No

Voting ended onMay 20

kittydesade

I really don’t actually have to open them. They are loud. And they are right outside my windows. Literally, some of them sit on the sills.

chibisquirt

This. I ended up looking up the call of the most consistent loud offender, I heard it so often

#yes but I live downtown so that's only because the seagulls are louder than the cars

dancingplague

God. You can check measurements as carefully as you want to and sometimes you just don't know how something will fit till you try it on.

Bought a very nice copper silk blouse that did in fact fit perfectly, except that the pockets were clearly positioned for someone with less topography than I have, so they sort of sat awkwardly on top of my breasts at a forty five degree angle, and it was a loose enough fabric that I took a risk and just unpicked the pocket and now I am trying to salvage the blouse by very carefully using hot water on the needle holes

dancingplague

Shirt salvaged, but I did end up actually showering in it in the process

dancingplague

Salvaged the shirt so effectively that in fact I have been instructed to track down an identical shirt to modify in the same way for my mother

dancingplague

Apparently Soft Surroundings made exactly one of these shirts and I own it. Dutifully offered the one I already have to my mother, she said no, I don't need that, but I'll wear it once before you take it back so I guess that bodes well for convincing her to take it permanently

#I'll see her in three weeks so we'll see then how she feels about it

dancingplague

God. You can check measurements as carefully as you want to and sometimes you just don't know how something will fit till you try it on.

Bought a very nice copper silk blouse that did in fact fit perfectly, except that the pockets were clearly positioned for someone with less topography than I have, so they sort of sat awkwardly on top of my breasts at a forty five degree angle, and it was a loose enough fabric that I took a risk and just unpicked the pocket and now I am trying to salvage the blouse by very carefully using hot water on the needle holes

dancingplague

Shirt salvaged, but I did end up actually showering in it in the process

dancingplague

Salvaged the shirt so effectively that in fact I have been instructed to track down an identical shirt to modify in the same way for my mother

#she wanted to buy one for herself and I had to explain that they are no longer sold and I bought it on Poshmark and removed the pockets #so I had to find her a second used one. it has been purchased and I will modify it also

dancingplague

God. You can check measurements as carefully as you want to and sometimes you just don't know how something will fit till you try it on.

Bought a very nice copper silk blouse that did in fact fit perfectly, except that the pockets were clearly positioned for someone with less topography than I have, so they sort of sat awkwardly on top of my breasts at a forty five degree angle, and it was a loose enough fabric that I took a risk and just unpicked the pocket and now I am trying to salvage the blouse by very carefully using hot water on the needle holes

dancingplague

Shirt salvaged, but I did end up actually showering in it in the process

#you can still see the place where the seam was if you hold it up in front of the light #but that never happens when you're wearing a shirt so it's fine

God. You can check measurements as carefully as you want to and sometimes you just don't know how something will fit till you try it on.

Bought a very nice copper silk blouse that did in fact fit perfectly, except that the pockets were clearly positioned for someone with less topography than I have, so they sort of sat awkwardly on top of my breasts at a forty five degree angle, and it was a loose enough fabric that I took a risk and just unpicked the pocket and now I am trying to salvage the blouse by very carefully using hot water on the needle holes

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Belle Époque Diamond Brooch, Circa 1910

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