its important to me that all y'all know that mannertee has an arch nemesis
his name is Ikanzame and he's a shark with bad driving etiquette!!
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its important to me that all y'all know that mannertee has an arch nemesis
his name is Ikanzame and he's a shark with bad driving etiquette!!
The holy grail of searching through academic literature is coming across a string of publications that are like:
Hereās An Idea. Smith et al. 2016
Terrible Idea; a comment on Smith et al. 2016. Johnson 2016.
Youāre Wrong Too; a response to Johnson 2016. Nelson 2016.
Guys Just Stop Fighting, None Of Us Know Whatās Going On; a Review of the Current Literature. McBrien 2017.
Not even an exaggeration.
āIf We Knew What We Were Doing, It Would Not be Called Research, Would It?ā
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Theyāre having Twitter beef now.
This camera angle is honestly so neat its like i get it now i wish I was a little guy its like a lil park parkour adventure
But also what was the beef
For all the people wondering: the initial sound the cat with camera makes was a pretty clear "hey tf are you doing in my space" and the other one doesnt even really react. Either it was a repeat offender (always strolling into the other cats territory) or the camera cat is just VERY territorial (also not unlikely)
To put it in human terms: imagine some rando walking into your living room, you yell "hey wtf?!" at him and he continues to leisurely stroll while looking at your decor. You'd also chase that guy off if your face and hands were full of convenient knives. Especially if they guy was also armed with a bunch of knives.
I think its territorial because the entire tiktok page is just that cat defending the neighborhood and chasing but never catching the other cats
āthey were flirting with youā and how was i supposed to know such a thing when everyone speaks in codes and puzzles
you are doing some sort of riddler shit to me.
Did I just employ the "Treat Them Like You are A Kindergarten Teacher Again" method with my insurance company today? I surely did. Did it work? Probably better than intended because I made an actual doctor feel contrite.
So, my insurance has been trying to not cover my SNRI because it is new on the market and no generic available yet, so pricey.
I apply for a refill and the request gets locked for review. Again. For the 3rd time.
This time I call and immediately ask to speak to the actual doctor making these clinical decisions. Very politely. Must be a slow day because they allow it.
ME: [Teacher voice] I'm calling in regards to the SNRI you have placed a lock on. Why was this decision made?
DOC: Well, there are dozens of other medications on the market in that tier, and far cheaper for you and [insurer]. We have sent a request to your doctor to consider alternatives.
ME: I am aware of that. So, can you do me a HUGE favor and look up my prescription history really quickly and tell me how many SSRIs and SNRIs were only filled once in 2022 for me, showing they were poorly tolerated?
DOC: It looks like eight.
ME: Great job! Now, can you please look at my genetic test for psychiatric drug tolerance and tell me how many medications are listed in the safe category?
DOC: Two.
ME: Awesome! Now, can you tell me what type that other drug is that I'm not taking?
DOC: Yeah, totally, it's an MAOI.
ME: That's correct, you're really knowledgeable! Should I be taking something as dangerous as an MAOI with my other medications, or even just in general?
DOC: It's contraindicated for sure.
ME: It is! So true! So, last question since you've been incredibly smart and helpful. Is it less expensive for [insurer] to pay out for the medication knowing they already get a huge manufacturer discount anyway, or is it more expensive for them to pay for me to need potentially long-term inpatient psychiatric care?
DOC: I'll clear the code, ma'am and flag it as medically necessary. I'm sorry about this.
ME: I appreciate you SO MUCH. You have a great day now.
WALGREENS PHARMACY TECH WITH 5 NOSE RINGS AND PURPLE HAIR STARING AT ME: ........... OKAY! It'll be ready in five minutes. You wanna come work here?
my bf has many interesting stories and observations from his new job as a 911 operator
my favorite is how meandering people are, even in the midst of a terrible emergency
they respond toĀ āwhat is the emergencyā withĀ āwell, the thing is, four weeks agoāā
and then heās likeĀ āWHAT IS THE EMERGENCY RIGHT NOWā
and theyāre likeĀ āso what happened this morning was, i said to my wife, i saidāā
āWHAT IS CURRENTLY HAPPENING AT THIS MOMENTā
āoh iām having a heart attackā
my second favorite is how specific he has to get sometimes
like,Ā āwhat is your emergency?ā
āiām sitting in a pool of blood.ā
ā⦠is it⦠your blood?ā
āyes i think soā
ādo you know where itās coming from?ā
āprobably the stab woundā
āhave you been stabbed?ā
āoh yah definitelyā
In all fairness shock is a hell of a drug
#MedicalHistoryTaking
One difference between the Lord of the Rings books and the Peter Jackson films that I find really interesting is what the hobbits find when they return to the Shire.
In the books, they return from the War, only to see that the war has not left their home untouched. Not only has it not left their home unscathed, battle and conflict is still actively ravaging the Shire. They return, weary and battle-scarred, to find a home actively wounded and in need of rescue and healing. All four launch themselves into defending their home and rousting those harming it, and eventually succeed. But their idyllic home has been damaged, and even once healed, is never quite again the Shire they set out to save.
In contrast, in the Jackson films, they return to a Shire shockingly untouched by the horrors of war. The hobbits of the Shire talk, in the Green Dragon in Fellowship of the Ring, about not getting involved with issues "beyond our borders," and it seems those issues have not invaded their sanctuary. After having been bowed to by kings, dwarves, elves, and men alike at the coronation in Gondor, their only acknowledgment upon returning home is a skeptical head shake from an older hobbit.
One of the most poignant scenes to me in Return of the King (and there are a considerable amount) is the scene where Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin are sitting in the Green Dragon. The pub patrons bustle around them, talking loudly, clapping excitedly, drinking cheerfully, just as they had in the beginning of the story. But the four hobbits sit silently, watching almost curiously at what was once familiar but is now foreign to them. Their home has not changed. But they have.
Which is the deeper hurt? To come to your home to find it irrevocably changed, despite all you did to keep it untouched and the same? Or to return home but no longer feeling at home, because it is only you that is irrevocably changed?
OK but I do genuinely believe we need to push for something like this before it's too late - and not just in digital spaces. We should have the right to peace and quiet from advertising. There should be more limits on how much and where we get advertising because otherwise it'll just become a creep of more and more until every fucking public space is lit with several billboards blasting us with ads, and the walls between spaces lined with ads, and our commutes filled with ads, and local parks sponsored by corporations to offset the cost of local councils, and so on and on and on and on. No. I need quiet. I need spaces where ads cannot touch me.
There are places working on it! Here's some:
Grenoble, France, in 2014 banned any new billboards and took down the city owned ones in a step towards de-advertizing public spaces. They swapped out the billboards with trees btw!
The city of Nantes in western France has recently banned most electronic billboards, dismantling 110 in one night. The municipality is also cutting digital advertising in shop windows and on the public transport system. Itās also banned all advertising near schools. Which is apart of Frances over all goal to reduce visual noise and light.
In 2009, Chennai, India prohibiting billboards, digital banners and placards in public spaces.
SĆ£o Paulo Brazil created a law "Lei Cidade Limpa" (Portuguese for clean city law) in 2006
Several states, namely Maine, Vermont, Hawaii, and Alaska have banned Billboards and have been working on other electronic ad bans.
This article goes over what some other locations might look like without such advertising
So just know these kinda policies are possible! Whether your in Europe where the UN is working on anti-Ad legislation, in the US, or South America!
Look how much the SĆ£o Paulo photos differ in the amount of light pollution!
Before him, it was Carnegie. Vertical integration, monopoly by undercutting competitor prices. Every wildly rich man of the Industrial Revolution got there by walking on the backs of every other human they possibly could.
I AM ABSOLUTELY LOSING MY MIND AFTER READING THIS PLEASE READ IT
READ PART TWO AND THREE BELOW !!!!!
there is a VERY chaotic Cupid running around this village
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I never knew i needed this in my life, to believe thereās kindness that still exist in this world. Thank you God, iām glad i lived
So a couple days ago, some folks braved my long-dormant social media accounts to make sure Iād seen this tweet:
And after getting over my initial (rather emotional) response, I wanted to reply properly, and explain just why that hit me so hard.
So back around twenty years ago, the internet cosplay and costuming scene was very different from today. The older generation of sci-fi convention costumers was made up of experienced, dedicated individuals who had been honing their craft for years. Ā These were people who took masquerade competitions seriously, and earning your journeyman or master costuming badge was an important thing.Ā They had a lot of knowledge, but ā hereās the important bit ā a lot of them didnāt share it. Ā Itās not just that they werenāt internet-savvy enough to share it, or didnāt have the time to write up tutorials ā no, literally if you asked how they did something or what material they used, they would refuse to tell you. Some of them came from professional backgrounds where this knowledge literally was a trade secret, others just wanted to decrease the chances of their rivals in competitions, but for whatever reason it was like getting a door slammed in your face. Ā Now, thatās a generalization ā there were definitely some lovely and kind and helpful old-school costumers ā but they tended to advise more one-on-one, and the idea of just putting detailed knowledge out there for random strangers to use wasnāt much of a thing. Ā And then what information did get out there was coming from people with the freedom and budget to do things like invest in all the tools and materials to create authentic leather hauberks, or build a vac-form setup to make stormtrooper armor, etc. Ā NOT beginner friendly, is what Iām saying.
Then, around 2000 or so, two particular things happened: anime and manga began to be widely accessible in resulting in a boom in anime conventions and cosplay culture, and a new wave of costume-filled franchises (notably the Star Wars prequels and the Lord of the Rings movies) hit the theatres. Ā What those brought into the convention and costuming arena was a new wave of enthusiastic fans who wanted to make costumes, and though a lot of the anime fans were much younger, some of them, and a lot of the movie franchise fans, were in their 20s and 30s, young enough to use the internet to its (then) full potential, old enough to have autonomy and a little money, and above all, overwhelmingly female. Ā I think that latter is particularly important because that meant they had a lifetime of dealing with gatekeepers under our belts, and we werenāt inclined to deal with yet another one.Ā They looked at the old dragons carefully hoarding their knowledge, keeping out anyone who might be unworthy, or (even worse) competition, and they said NO. Ā If secrets were going to be kept, they were going to figure things out for ourselves, and then they were going to share it with everyone. Ā Those old-school costumers may have done us a favor in the long run, because not knowing those old secrets meant that we had to find new methods, and we were trying ā and succeeding with ā materials that āseriousā costumers would never have considered. Ā I was one of those costumers, but there were many more ā I was more on the movie side of things, so JediElfQueen and PadawansGuide immediately spring to mind, but there were so many others, on YahooGroups and Livejournal and our own hand-coded webpages, analyzing and testing and experimenting and swapping ideas and sharing, sharing, sharing. Ā
Iām not saying that to make it sound like we were the noble knights of cosplay, riding in heroically with tutorials for all. Ā Iām saying that a group of people, individually and as a collective, made the conscious decision that sharing was a Good Things that would improve the community as a whole. Ā That wasnāt necessarily an easy decision to make, either. I know I thought long and hard before I posted that tutorial; the reaction I had gotten when I wore that armor to a con told me that I had hit on something new, something that gave me an edge, and if I didnāt share that info I could probably hang on to that edge for a year, or two, or three. Ā And I thought about it, and I was briefly tempted, but again, there were all of these others around me sharing what they knew, and I had seen for myself what I could do when I borrowed and adapted some of their ideas, and I felt the power of what could happen when a group of people came together and gave their creativity to the world.
And it changed the face of costuming. Ā People who had been intimidated by the sci-fi competition circuit suddenly found the confidence to try it themselves, and brought in their own ideas and discoveries. Ā And then the next wave of younger costumers took those ideas and ran, and built on them, and branched out off of them, and the wave after that had their own innovations, and suddenly here we are, with Youtube videos and Tumblr tutorials and Etsy patterns and step-by-step how-to books, and I am just so, so proud. Ā
So yeah, seeing appreciation for a 17-year-old technique I figured out on my dining-room table (and bless it, doesnāt that page just scream āI learned how to code on Geocities!ā), and having it embraced as a springboard for newer and better things warms this fandom-oldās heart. Ā This is our legacy, and a legacy the current group of cosplayers is still creating, and itās a good one. Ā
(Oh, and for anyone wondering: yes, Iām over 40 now, and yes, Iām still making costumes. And that armor is still in great shape after 17 years in a hot attic!) Ā
Hang on a minute. I recognize the name āpenwiperā. Let me checkā Ok, yeah, Iāve heard of this person.
OP also invented armsocks.
Y'all might have noticed that your friendly community moderator has been slacking a bit lately. No updates. No organizing. What the heck was
OP I have been thinking about YOUR IMPACT since 2011. Do you know what you did for Homestuck lmao
Remembering when I went over to my female teacher's house in 5th grade and saw that she lived with another female teacher & went home going "wow, so teachers really do all live together!" & then my family had to explain to me what lesbians are
This reminds me of when I was a kid and my very Scottish grandma did child minding for extra money. At one point she looked after these three siblings that were adopted from Guatemala. The kids had two moms. It was the 90s and I'm Canadian.
Now, you would think that even in the 90s most adults would see two women who live in the same house and have adopted children together and think "Harold, they're lesbians". My mom certainly did, internally, but my grandma never brought it up, leaving my mom to wonder whether my grandma was being uncharacteristically discreet or if there was something about the situation my mom was misreading.
One day my grandma needed a hand with something to do with the kids, so my mom came over to the house, whereupon she noticed that the two women who lived together slept in one bedroom, and said "ohhh, they're lesbians."
To which my grandmother indignantly rebutted, "they're not lesbians, they're Scottish."
According to my grandmother, you see, it's cold in Scotland, so women live and sleep together all the time and women who do this are not lesbians, because it's cold (????). Therefore, upon noticing two women living together in Western Canada, adopting children together, and sleeping in the same bed together year-round, my grandma had mentally categorized these women as Scottish.
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Love when Iām reading a serious scientific article about cows eating bones and suddenly itās like ācalves have been observed picking up bones in their mouths and waving them around as a play behaviorā like yea!!!! āTake thing in mouth and wave it aroundā is a traditional calf game Iāve seen frequently!!! I love calves theyāre so endearing
Wait, hang on now I'm curious - I work with horses who are opportunistic omnivores. Are cows the same or is this just a calcium thing?
Itās a sign of a calcium/phosphorus deficiency. Cows are very curious though which might lead them to mouthing small animals but not to the point of omnivorousness tbh
Our soil is generally phosphorous poor, so eating bones of long-dead herd mates is a big problem, on account of eating bones disease (botulism)
The Trolley Problem (S02E05) The Brainy Bunch (S03E02)
She'll fuck me if I cook good enough I know it
#billions of humans have thought this same thing over the course of the speciesā history #and they were right