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i'm quinn, black, he/they, 26 y/o TME lesbian
on every level except physical i am
my main occupation is being a jester. i have secondary position as a neurotic film major dropout
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I’m going to be so honest. I think in the pursuit of an individualized sexual liberation, the Overton window for misogyny has shifted violently towards normalizing bonkers levels of misogyny. Some of you have got to start being feminist killjoys again. I can’t carry this teamfight myself no matter how good I am at fragging liberal false feminists.
extra crazy to see people swinging so hard for big corporate copyright lawsuits on tumblr dot com tbh. alright girl whateverrrrr, I hope the lawyers come for your favorite fan artist next if you're so in favor of it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
you're all frothing at the mouth for a queer climate activist getting sued now but oooh just wait until you can't order astarion keychains and baby yoda plushies and whatever the fuck else off etsy anymore
I guess in light of all the feedback I've been receiving tonight I'm going to turn over a new leaf and become a good citizen who defends copyright law. first up is snitching out the nice lady at the local farmers market who sells crochet pokemon plushies, I want to see nintendo sue that cunt into the ground
in conclusion I've never felt this post more strongly
Scientists have developed a breakthrough “superfood” for honeybees by engineering yeast to produce the essential nutrients normally found in
TLDR- Modern agriculture pollen is low in nutrients, and there aren’t enough wildflowers. Science has to develop vitamins to supplement the diets of agricultural bees. So plant some wildflowers for the wild bees near you.
you’ve heard of vitamin B, now get ready for bee vitamins
Fair Contract for Disability Rights Oregon Staff
Help support the workers of Disability Rights Oregon in the face of unfair labor practices!
The leadership over at DRO has repeatedly engaged in union busting tactics in order to keep their wages for their staff incredibly low ($18/hr for a position requiring a degree in Portland, as an example!). They have repeatedly refused to meet the union at the bargaining table and are restricting staff's ability to advocate for themselves by banning staff from speaking to board members or attending board meetings!
The staff at DRO do indispensable work advocating for disabled people within the criminal justice system, by making sure their medical needs are met properly and with dignity.
The union is asking for folks to sign this petition to show further public support for their union and to put public pressure on the higher ups at DRO to engage in good faith with the union!
The eligible staff voted UNANIMOUSLY to form a union seven years ago. I'm disappointed to see the same management at DRO stalling on the SAME THINGS we demanded back then. The salary disparities have seemingly grown even wider. It helps to maintain that disparity when you layoff senior staff further up the pay scales, like they did back then! In solidarity!
Please sign if you're in the US and signal boost as you can :)
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Theres currently some crows nesting on the building opposite us, and they still remember that we used to put out bird food years ago (had to stop because of too many neighbour complaints of loud jackdaws in the garden), and have managed to work out that they need a sneaky way to get food without alerting all the other birds.
This has had the consequence of me having to inform my flatmate that if he hears a polite knock at the kitchen window he needs to feed the crows or they WILL start trying to steal our cookbooks.
I wonder who could have done this. Surely not an innocent lil fella like this one
the term "camera dolly" is fun it always makes me think of a little doll holding a camera thats at least over half its size
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ambitious indie project this, surprise box-office hit that, iron lung (production budget: $3mil) is the 'someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this, my family is dying' tweet.
set construction: $800
cast & crew wages: $1,200 + uber eats
fake blood (assuming generous discount on bulk purchase): $2,000,000 i am so not kidding i did the math this is nuts
editing: average adult body-weight equivalent in monster energy drinks
update when markiplier announced he's producing the dvd/blu-ray himself i was like cool he's personally supervising the process and then he was like no i mean i'm making them myself at my house and i imagined some kind of complicated gargantuan contraption dutifully chugging along 24/7 blowing up this man's electricity bill and then he was like
anyway if you buy an iron lung dvd/blu-ray: it was made on a printer-sized machine. at markiplier's house.
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Pattern Roundup: Pants for Garb
I was putting together a list of how-to-make-trousers tutorials for a fellow fighter, and I thought it might be a useful resource for other folks. It’ll also be a resource for me, so I don’t have to go hunting for links every time I’m trying to help someone out. :)
Before we begin, remember:
If you’re going to be fighting in your pants, I highly recommend picking a pattern that includes a crotch gusset (like Nova’s Rus pants, or my basic pants with gusset), so you’ll have full range of motion. Nothing is sillier than ripping your trouser-crotch in the midst of battle!
Most of these patterns will work well in any “bottomweight” fabric. If you’re using linen, consider going up to a heavier 7 oz linen, so your pants will last longer.
This isn’t nearly a complete list of All the Pants, Ever: it’s just tutorials I’ve tried and liked. If you know of other great tutorials, let me know, and I’ll add them to the list!
Some of these are based on medieval garments, some of these are more fanciful, and some of these are modern, but still useful for our purposes. Use what you like, and ignore the rest!
And without futher rambling: here are some pants you can make for LARP/SCA/Dagorhir/medieval costuming!
Ask the Costume Goddess: How to Make Harem Pants
Rashid’s Persian Salwar Pattern
Nova’s Rus Pants Tutorial (pdf warning)
Markland Basic Costuming Standards: Braies and Trousers
Making a Pair of Thorsbjerg Trousers
How to Make Perfect-Fitting Pajama Bottoms (from existing pants)
Ilsa’s Basic Pants with a Gusset
How to Sew a Churidar (Leggings)
And lastly, because I’m a rebel, I like to add side seam pockets to my garb skirts and trousers. These aren’t “period,” but since A. I play a medieval fantasy game, and B. my character needs somewhere to store her ever-present handfuls of shiny rocks, acorn caps, trinkets for trading, and healing potions, I think they’re justifiable. ;) Happy pants-making!
"Coercive sex" sounds awesome right? But add "assignment" to the end and suddenly it's bad.
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i used to be a rationalist. roko's basilisk... bayesian theorems... ai research at yudkowsky's. you would have not liked me back then
what is "roko's basilisk"?
it's an ai that's gonna kill everyone it's really, really cool
in my freshman year of college in 2016 they roomed me with an ex-rationalist and I almost immediately started sleeping with her because I was 18 and she was very attractive, but occasionally she would talk about how we should terraform titan or how machine immortality would could about in our lifetime, and would get really sad if I explained how implausible these ideas seemed so I had to go along with it. she was also really into long-term orgasm denial so it was not a very good year for me
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you and 99 other rational (i.e. not making decisions at random) people are placed in individual rooms (such that you can't communicate with each other) with a blue button in front of you. the blue button kills everyone who presses it (including yourself), unless at least 51 people press it, in which case it does nothing. you are under no obligation to press the button and it is impossible to press accidentally. whether you press it or not, you are free to leave after one minute (unless you're dead).
Do you press the button?
Yes
No
aw shit, sorry guys, i forgot to add one little detail: instead of just "not pressing the blue button", you have to press a second red button to indicate that you're declining to press the blue button. so just replace "not pressing the blue button" with "pressing a red button" in this scenario and everything else about it is unchanged. that shouldn't have any influence on your decision to press the blue suicide button or not so just treat it as window dressing :)
okay now for the punchline: this is, functionally, the literal exact same scenario as this poll:
you can go through the tags on this post and apply literally all of the observations there to the original scenario by replacing "not pressing blue" with "pressing red"
see now this is interesting
I would say that pressing the blue button is the correct choice in both circumstances
because a majority X% of people pressing the blue button always results in fewer people dying than a majority X% of people pressing the red button
there is a clear asymmetry to this game that favors the blue button if your goal is to minimize the number of people dying, it just doesn't feel that way in the first poll bc the choice feels more active
I think it's also worth pointing out from a game theory perspective (like the mathematical discipline, not matpat)
that this entire hypothetical is basically just a reskinned version of the prisoner's dilemma
pressing the blue button corresponds to cooperating: a choice that requires some risk, but may result in minimum cost for all players
likewise, pressing the red button corresponds to defecting: a selfish choice that always benefits the player that takes it
it's really telling that people have to go out of their way to frame the problem in a completely different light to prevent people from intuitively seeing this
1. yes, you're right, this is a reskinned version of the prisoner's dilemma, with one extremely important change: there is no punishment for all players taking the "selfish" option. if you were to boil the redbuttonbluebutton scenario back down to a two-player prisoner's dilemma, the outcome grid wouldn't have the extremely important detail where both players ratting on each other results in worse outcomes for both than if they had stayed quiet. instead, ratting on each other/pressing red always results in the best outcome (getting the minimum possible prison time/walking away alive). from an individual perspective, there is never a reason not to take the selfish option, and from a group perspective, both players taking the selfish option harms no one. the only way to get a bad outcome for yourself (and therefore, anyone in the entire game) is to voluntarily pick the objectively inferior option. comparing this to the prisoner's dilemma is not the slam dunk bluepressers seem to think it is.
2. "a majority X% of people pressing blue always results in fewer deaths than a majority X% of people pressing red" alright, let's play ball then. this statement is not only obviously true, but it holds true for any value of X such that 50<X<100. if you personally view even 1 death as too many and are willing to risk your life to prevent that, it is always easier to try to get a blue majority than a literally 100% red vote. so, logically, moving the threshold for blue to win from 50% to 60% should change nothing here. 60% is still less than 100%, so it still makes sense for you to vote blue to prevent that single death. what about 70%? 80%? 99%? after all, 99% is still less than 100%. nothing about your original statement has changed; 99% of people pressing blue will still result in fewer deaths than 99% pressing red. i suspect, however, a few bluepressers reading this would swap their vote from blue to red at some threshold as their chance of personally dying rises exponentially and the odds of them saving anyone drops to 0. if you would still press blue with the threshold at 99%, congratulations! you are internally ethically consistent. if you wouldn't, then you fundamentally have the same self-preservation mindset as a red-pusher, just with a higher acceptable threshold of personal risk.
your comparison of these two scenarios is false and misleading.
you and 99 other rational (i.e. not making decisions at random) people
what do you mean by "rational, i.e. not making decisions at random"?
this is a loadbearing condition you are inserting without elaboration, and it's a stipulation that is NOT present in the jigsaw version of the question. this condition completely changes the nature of the scenario and influences how people think about behaviors of the other participants in a major way.
the jigsaw people weren't decididng at random - they didn't flip a coin or roll dice. the jigsaw question is worded in a way that makes the reader feel like blue is what most people would pick, so that makes blue a safe bet, so they picked blue. they read the room and made a logical choice.
i think what you mean by "rational" is "people who refuse to read the room", as in people who treat the wording of the problem as information-free and decide in a vacuum. that's not neutral, that's a particular philosophical stage you're setting and that is why your version gives a different answer.
when you can't talk to the other 99 people, the way the problem is worded is your only clue about what people might do. in game theory, this is called a focal point. pretending the focal point isn't there doesn't make you a better decision maker, it makes you worse at guessing what others will do. pretending different words don't matter does not solve the red/blue button push, it just removes the actual thought experiment.
