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So one of my New Year’s resolutions was to find another flying job. Well, I got my butt in gear a few weeks ago and carpet bombed the province with my resume. I think I sent out about twelve all in one day. Just emails – I figured if I didn’t get any bites I’d go bang on some doors.
It’s crazy how, when I’m ready, the universe sometimes just, everything happens whirlwind fast.
But another…
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New Year's Post 2020
New Year's Post 2020
I missed my new year’s post last year, and maybe the year before, and I haven’t been as active on here lately. I try not to make a habit of apologizing for that sort of thing, but hopefully I’ll be able to post more regularly. I have a few book reviews I’m behind on, so that’s definitely coming.
Anyway, I’m not going to bother hunting down a several years old new year’s post to review the…
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“Playtime with Mom”
(Source)
with his flesh abroad, he wakes. on its return, he slumbers again.
the pain of departure pulls him from his dreams, his nightmares, his vast and unspeakable visions of beyond. god bless the back of the beast, for it is all that keeps us from his terrible awareness.
this is post is definitely part of something far darker than we will ever be able to comprehend
“He who adds spices to his coffee year-round as a matter of habit need not be enthralled by pumpkin spice season.”
—Sun Tzu
On the one hand, nowhere around here actually sells pumpkin pie spice mix. On the other hand, Starbucks decided to respond to the "The pumpkin spice latte has no pumpkin in it!" bullshit by adding some, which is atrocious. So yeah, not sure what to do there.
Pumpkin pie spice is one part of each: Ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves (optional: one part allspice)
Add a few shakes of that to a chocolate chip cookie recipe to transcend flavor into nirvana.
ALTERNATIVE FOR YOUR LATTES - GET YOU SOME TORANI SYRUP. They usually carry it at Smart & Final.
DaVinci Syrup also works.
I don’t know what actual measurement it is but if you put alcohol pour tips on those bottles it’s a four-second pour of either of those syrups to make a pumpkin spice latte (or steamer, or hot chocolate, or cappuccino, or mocha, or whatever drink you want to add pumpkin spice syrup to)
I need to keep that comic about letting people enjoy what they want on hand for people like OP.
“He who reads too much into statements about habitually adding spice to your coffee year-round and interprets them as attacks against his taste in seasonally-available beverages will surely be defeated.” - Sun Tzu
“He who buys pumpkin spice coffee as a seasonal treat shall fail; he who prepares pumpkin spice coffee as a matter of habit will be victorious, powerful, and may be called a heaven-born lover with an amazing schlong.” - Sun Tzu
theyre right OP, this was a bad post and its stemmed from sexism
“Making yourself coffee and adding spices to it year-round as a matter of habit because you’re a spice fiend rather than relying on major corporations to provide it to you at an inflated cost isn’t sexist, holy mother of nutmeg.” - Sun Tzu
“The whole point of spices is that they’re not fresh plants and can be stored year-round. Spices are not restrained by seasonal availability so you can use them whenever you please and become sexier and victorious by doing so. He who tries to limit your access to spiced coffee in the summer and spring is your enemy.” - Sun Tzu
yeah this wasnt very clear in the original post
That’s fair, it’s from an older translation of The Art of War. A more contemporary translation of the same passage from the original post:
“People who add spices to their coffee whenever they want do not have to wait for corporate permission to enjoy it only in the fall.” - Sun Tzu
Perhaps you got that quote confused with this other infamous quote (which is NOT by Sun Tzu):
“Pumpkin spice coffee is bad and women who enjoy it are pathetic and also I hate them.” -Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
I disagree with Machiavelli, of course, and that’s why I didn’t quote him here.
It’s sad that toxic game culture is so prevalent cuz like. As someone who has ended up in random matches with kids before, I can attest to how fucking easy it is to reverse and un-teach shitty attitudes in kids.
Example: I downloaded Friday the 13th because it’s free on psn. I dunno how to play, so I just enter quick play and I’m matched with 3-4 kids on mic. Immediately on mic they’re shitty and disparaging to each other. They laugh at each others deaths, they actively work against team mates and self sabotage, they call each other “fags”, etc. From the sounds of the voices they cannot be older than 13-14.
I put on my mic and just decide I ain’t havin it. I am nice. I thank them for barricading doors or leaving me items. When they break free from Jason’s grasp I say “good job!” or I try to help them. One kid survived for most of the match by himself. When he dies, I tell him he did a fantastic job.
The mood shift is practically INSTANT. These kids almost immediately stop being dick heads. They start encouraging each other and being kind. After the match all of them try to friend request me. Which should tell you a couple of things:
A) kids want to be kind, and they want to have a nice time playing games. But encounters with adults like me or so rare that they’ve trained themselves to instantly put on a toxic, shitty, defensive veneer when encountering any new person online. It’s literally just THAT EASY to not groom a horrible gaming community, it’s just that NO ONE does it.
B) the speed of which they all tried to friend me was cute, but paints for me such a sad picture? Like these kids are SO desperate to find people to play with who aren’t crappy jerks. They played with me for 10 minutes TOPS and all instantly tried to reach out to me.
tl;dr: The kids are alright. Adults are shit heads.
I cant agree with this post more
I witnessed something similar with my younger brother (this was when he was In fifth grade so bear with me here) and his friends. The teacher assigned for them to build a somewhat accurate spanish mission in Minecraft because their school had gotten some iPads and she needed to assign them something other than a PowerPoint.
Now here’s the thing. Most of these boys, my brother included, have ADD/ADHD. About a week into the project all they had in their shared world was chaos. Somebody filled the place with tnt and lit it up. Holes everywhere. Whenever one would attempt to try and build something (mostly wood huts and not the actual project) it would be destroyed within minutes as the boys began to insult each other heavily and complain that the design was ugly.
I brought my own ipad with me and decided to sit with the boys while they continued their reign of terror. I joined the world and built a hallway out of brick at the very center of this war zone. Immediately one of them tried to destroy it under the impression that “it looks bad”.
“Well, what should I make it out of?”
“Diamond.”
The ten year old mind is a mystery to me…
Anyway, then I showed him some pictures similar to these:
I reasoned that it would be easier to sway this kid toward another pretty block than trying to get him to stick to the materials of the time, so I asked him if he would like to help me replace my brick design with quartz (eh, it’s white).
Bam! One of the ten year old anarchists is dutifully building me a glittering gem hallway for our insanely rich monks.
The other three are off somewhere still yelling at each other and setting off explosives, but we have something built. Much to my surprise the kid asked if he could build the church next because he “wanted to build the most important part”.
Here’s where I learned something important. I don’t have ADD or ADHD but as I said before my brother does. When he gets fixated on something, he’s really gets into it. Once a few minutes had passed and this kid already had four walls up I decided to grid up the entire mission. One gets the church, one gets the farm, etc.
After playing the game with them for an hour, I had a pretty good idea of where each kid should go.
Church kid, I found, was very particular about materials and shape(hence his hangup over the brick). I gave him free reign over the outer walls of the mission and showed him the reference pictures to get him started.
My brother liked the farms most (he was building dirt domes over the cows don’t ask me how I made this connection it just worked, okay), so he was in charge of building pens for the animals.
Another kid was, at first glance, very loud and bossy when it came to decorating (constantly said we were making chairs wrong). Turns out he likes interior design, like putting benches and beds in the little rooms, so his bossiness was just frustration with my brother’s artistic sense I guess.
Another was very good with placing trees and plants around the exterior (I guessed this because he covered the place in a ridiculous amount of trees and I asked him if he would like to know where they are supposed to go). He got to make a vineyard for us and organized how the crops should go.
So how did it turn out?
Actually very nice!!
So what did we learn? Kids actually like to play games and be praised for their creativity and intuition. If I had just told them to stop messing around rather than direct their attention to areas within their interests, they never would have gotten anything done.
After an hour of gaming they:
Mirrored my language; “thank you!”, “which part are you working on?”, “I like this block.”
Realized each other’s strengths; “hey [kid name] can you help me with the roof?” “How do you make the big trees [kid name]?”
Were able to articulate exactly what they did or didn’t like without using force; “that looks good!”, “how about we put it there?”, “I don’t like that block, how about this one?”
On the plus side, since we moved the game file to my device for safekeeping, I now have a cute little souvenir of the time I played Minecraft with four ten year olds.
This is a really long post, but it’s super important. In games like Fortnite where you’ll find lots of kids, it’s important (if you can) to steer them away from toxicity. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve run into kids who talk like toxic adults and the act of just being nice to them completely turns them around.
This isn’t limited to games, by far. When younger kids are exposed to snide, aggressive older people in any capacity their instinctive response is to adapt that behavior to seem cool and adult and avoid being a target. Maybe you’re not even an asshole and you just play around with your friends by ironically insulting them, but kids don’t really know the difference. They don’t have that context. And they can continue to develop thinking this is just the way you’re supposed to act and that any sensitivity or vulnerability is something to be laughed at. I experienced this as a 13 year old on 90′s webforums and I didn’t break out of a non-stop snarky rude mode until like 22.
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I honestly believe the whole “adults require less sleep” thing is honest to god probably a myth created by capitalism
It is.
i honestly believe that sleep deprivation is the biggest ignored/neglected root cause of health dangers that prematurely kill adults
ask me sometime about the role of sleep in the leptin ghrelin cycle and how its interruption destabilizes weight homeostasis
or about the new research showing that heart disease is not caused by fat, like we thought for years, but by inflammation in the circulatory system whose root cause is unknown but one of the prime suspects is, you guessed it, sleep deprivation
but nobody wants to hear that lack of sleep is killing people. employers don’t want to hear it. and god knows that having sold their waking hours to capitalism to survive workers don’t want to lose the only time they have left to them to live their lives, mostly stolen from sleep
i mean even i don’t want to do anything about it and i love sleep, i just love overwatch more
this this this this this
our society places almost zero value on sleep
on enough sleep
on uninterrupted sleep
on regular, predictable, cycling sleep
all the evidence we have suggests sleep is really, really, really important to the processes of the human body, including both mental and physical health, and yet when was the last time you heard somebody suggest that people had a *right* to sufficient, regular sleep?
Reminder that
- Humans are not meant to sleep for extended periods of uninterrupted sleep.
By this I don’t mean “humans shouldn’t have 8+ hours of sleep a night”; I mean that we are supposed to sleep for four to five hours (ish), then get up and do something relaxing like reading for a half hour to an hour, then get another bout of four to five hours. This is what our bodies were designed for.
Sleeping the whole night through was a fad started with the advent of the lightbulb. Sleeping the whole night through is so recent (and artificial) that First Sleep and Second Sleep are mentioned in Dickens’ novels.
- Lack of sleep for even a single night severely compromises your immune system.
If you’re planning on getting little sleep or pulling an all-nighter, make sure to eat lots of fruit and veggies/take vitamins that day. Or even better, get yourself some bee propolis. It’s a natural remedy used for thousands of years in Latin America and is insanely good for boosting up compromised immune systems (if you get the drop kind, put 3 to 4 drops in a spoonful of honey and mix well with a 2nd spoon to mask the strong taste). It has no side effects and is all but impossible to overdose on.
- According to several government bodies around the world, chronic lack of sleep is literally tied for 1st place as the worst kind of torture (the other is solitary isolation)
- Expecting a teen to get up for 8:30 classes is the equivalent of expecting an adult to be at work at 4 am.
After babies, teens are the age group that needs the most amount of sleep. Puberty is exhausting, and the body needs time to recharge. Ideally, a teen should be getting between 10 to 12 hours of sleep at the bare minimum. Most teens are lucky if they manage to get 8. And that’s a gigantic problem; not only does lack of sleep affect mood (which is extra significant when your hormones are already riding a rollercoaster to begin with), but also has massive effects on growth, which is kinda what the whole puberty thing is supposed to be about.
- According to research “starting work before 10 a.m. is tantamount to torture and is making staff sick and stressed”
- Humans were not designed to have the same sleep cycle across the species. Much the opposite in fact.
Night owls and morning people are an actual thing. Because we’re pack creatures, Nature came up with a clever way for our ancestors to always have someone on the lookout for predators and threats: make people naturally alert at varying times so that there’s always someone alert to keep watch.
Forcing night owls to follow morning people’s sleep cycle means night owls live with what researchers have referred to as “permanent jetlag”.
“Adults need less sleep” means “adults need 8-9 hours and teens need 10-12,” not “adults need 6 and teens need 7-8.”
Hahaha jesus fuck
concept
a beaded curtain, but instead of beads they’re worms on strings
you know… these guys
Hi op I hope this satisfies your needs.
Needs more worms
I wanna make one of these that is like a literal curtain of worms
No clear strings available to get caught and tangle, I want them nose to ass like some kind of horrible human centipede of worms, covering my doorway
@fanotastic more worms
Aw fuck. Nothing makes you assholes happy.
Fuck you guys.
My fellow fuckers, I present you-
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today you, tomorrow me.
u know when something wont send for ages and ages but when it finally sends it goes 40 times. thanks for nothing technology you bastard.
Hello Mr. Gaiman, I have a question about the costuming of Good Omens. In the Arthurian scene with Crowley and Aziraphale, set in the 10th century, they are wearing full suits of plate armor, which wasn’t developed until the 15th-16th centuries. I know it’s been said every element in the show is intentional, so what was the reason for this?
Because people’s ideas of Arthurian Britain are as important as historical reality (whatever that might be). And in people’s minds it was a time of knights in shining armour.
This is, of course, the only way to do a truly historically accurate adaptation of the corpus of Arthurian literature, with its theoretical “real setting” being the sixth century with most of the trappings added in the mid- to late-medieval era, but it still makes me sad that we have a title text of 537 AD AND the plate armor. There’s no good solutions here, but I might have leaned to either
1) labeling it “Medieval England” and keeping the once-upon-a-time nonspecificity of the majority of Arthurian literature, or if the vague timestamp was too out of line with the other, highly specific dates, I’d go with
2) 963 AD, which is wildly historically inaccurate any way you cut it, but matches my favorite we’ll-ignore-everything-we-know-about-the-actual-history-unless-it’s-funny adaptation.
But I’m deeply grateful the show didn’t go all-in on 537 AD across the board. Then I’d have to be frustrated that the quintessentially *English* Aziraphale is fighting for King Arthur, the Romanized Celt fighting the ancestors of the English, without anyone finding it odd. Maybe Aziraphale would be the origin of Pope Gregory I declaring “non Angli sed Angeli”?
I think there are only two ways to do Arthurian fiction. You embrace it, or you historicise it. And the moment you historicise it, you lose the Arthurian magic, or more precisely you exchange it for a different kind of magic. If you embrace it you accept that there’s a world of sixth century people having adventures created and collected mostly by thirteenth and fourteenth century storytellers, who took the world that they lived in and extended it backwards, in the same way that Shakespeare did when he put a clock and English tradesmen into Julius Caesar. And that includes armour. (We know so much about Gawain’s armour and the Green Knight’s lack of armour in Gawain and the Green Knight, for example. That doesn’t mean it’d happened in the fourteenth century, or that you’d try and put it in the fourteenth century if you dramatised it.)
Cowboys are witches and horses are their familiars
guns are their wands and they only know one spell (bullet)
Rootin’, tootin’, toil n’ shootin’
Fire burn and cowboy bootin’
Eye of newt and spicy beans,
Toe of frog and denim jeans,
Whiskey, grits, n’ demon spittle
tossed into my iron griddle
With the tannin’ of our hides,
Somethin’ wicked this way rides
Not that anyone asked for this but
There are a lot of times I feel like just…flipping the vegan script.
It’s not ‘polyester’ it’s plastic
It’s not ‘vegan leather’ it’s plastic
Its not ‘faux fur’ it’s plastic
Plastic is a pollutant and causes far more damage to the environment both now and in the future than leather or wool.
Please stop telling me that the Plastic Lyfe is the only life, it is not. My leather shoes will last a decade where pleather is lucky to last 12 months. Leather (and wool) decompose and are renewable. Plastic is neither of those.
THANK YOUUUUUUU~
A single wash cycle of plastic-based fiber (polyester, poly fleece, faux fur) may release 700,000 pieces of microplastic into our waters. Nasty stuff.
aw dangit
Wool is the most environmentally friendly fabric despite being an animal product.
Using wool isnt even harming sheep
Sheep need to be sheered or else it will cause serious problems. It’s a mutual relationship, we help sheep get rid of the pesky wool and it gives us a very useful material.
This has been a Burning Hot Take™
Also chickens will lay eggs no matter what!! That’s literally what chickens do!!! You are not eating “chick embryos”!!! If you’re worried about supporting the corporate mass farming industry, buy from a local free-range chicken owner! Almost anywhere has farmer’s markets!
What if Earth is already the property of some galactic empire that hasn’t gotten around to settling us yet because they just purchased us off of another galactic empire a few decades ago?
What if the leaders of said empire tells its citizen to colonize Earth, and they start taking over our cities and land. They find it justifiable because we don’t use the elements in Earth’s core like they do so we don’t really own the planet.
We’re pushed to Mars, where only 1% of humanity lives in relative peace but a lot of hunger and a few international struggles, which the aliens feed into. They eventually settle Mars too, pushing us to the moons of Jupiter, then Saturn.
Eventually the empire becomes a bit nicer, and builds us a bunch of reservations throughout the solar system, though only a few of them are on Earth. Today we’re a minority in our own Solar System, mostly running Casinos on Mars or giving tours of the ruins of our once great cities. The aliens stopped calling us Meatbags though. Now they use the more respectable Native-Earthling term, though they’ll rarely acknowledge whatever nationality your ancestors had before they came.
The message of this gets over the head of a lot of people and it’s making me kinda sad.
Drones building an emergency bridge for rescue after an earthquake
That’s just so damned elegant!
Less creepy spying tech, more cool robots programmed to save lives.
A rare moment caught on camera
