I mean Bat’s whole situation can be summed up as “Harvey I know you got it rough and i want to help you but I wouldn’t have to keep beating you up if you didn’t keep ROBBING THE FUCKING BANK”
Also not EVERYONE Batman fights is a mentally ill serial killer. Most are career criminals!! Black Mask, The Penguin, and King Shark are all MAJOR mafia crime bosses!! Bane is a flat out hired mercenary and Poisom Ivy is an eco-terrorist.
yeah the guy who invented them made incredibly precise infusion pumps (as opposed to gravity fed ivs) which not only meant they could give medications to teeny tiny babies safely, it's also used for insulin pumps and portable dialysis machines. the key element is that it's a peristaltic pump so the liquid stays in sterile tubing for safety
(unholy drink cloaca uses it to dispense precise amounts of flavored sugar syrup)
i never understood what made steampunk punk. romanticizing georgian era england and industrial revolutions are some of the least punk things ever. youre putting gears on a top hat
i genuinely believe that you can directly blame steampunk directly cribbing from cyberpunk for the fact that solarpunk is an aesthetic and not an ideology. the roots of considering a civilization for its trappings and appearance rather than what it does goes back to that. cyberpunk was punk* because of the stories it told** not because of its aesthetics***
*extremely debatable depending on which punk you ask.
**objectively debatable depending on the game and system
***cyberpunk as a modern franchise not a genre is absolutely a prioritization of aesthetics over punk ideology. you cannot be punk if youre a fuckin franchise of a corporation idk i feel like this should be obvious
Hi hello, Steampunk here: the 19th century was punk as fuck actually, and the active steampunk scene in 2005-2010 was very much aware of and into it. You're citing the Spirit Halloween version.
Way back in November 2013 I made a post about the aestheticization of the subculture that STILL stands:
Steampunk: VICTORIAN LONDON VICTORIAN LONDON TOP HATS CORSETS ARISTOCRACY GLORIOUS BRITISH EMPIRE AIRSHIP PIRATES RAY GUNS APOCALYPSE APOCALYPSE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE!
Me: …Industrialization, colonialism, imperialism, exploitation of the working class and oppression of POC culminating in violent socialist revolution because fuck yeah the working class and don’t you dare forget it?
Steampunk: ::crickets::
[Steampunk]: THE GREAT GAME COGS GEARS VAMPIRES BUSTLES EXOSKELETON GOGGLES ANGLOPHILIA SUPER CREEPY OBSESSION WITH ORIENTALISM INCLUDING CLOCKWORK GEISHAS MANOR HOUSES TEA!
Me: ::sigh::
^ you are doing exactly this.
The punk ethos is primarily made up of beliefs such as non-conformity, anti-authoritarianism, anti-corporatism, a do-it-yourself ethic, anti-consumerist, anti-corporate greed, direct action, and not "selling out". That is what 'punk' means, in terms of subculture.
When steampunk arose as a subculture, out of Goth mind you, it was entirely a DIY and small business scene.
What steampunk music, fiction, craft groups, or meetups have you been to? Steampunk is, like cyberpunk, about the stories it told/is telling. Often stories of revolution (often violent), the overthrowing of governments and toppling of monarchies, civil rights movements (emancipation from chattel slavery! Indian wars! Rising against colonial powers!), the dawn of first wave feminism and women's suffrage, the original source of communist and socialist thought, workers' rights movements, the fucking enlightenment...
What is more punk than The Communist Manifesto(1848)
What is more punk than The Battle of Greasy Grass(1876)
Who's a more OG Punk than John Brown?
Steampunk literally music and fiction set in and about the Age of Revolution.
Judging Steampunk as a subculture by the part that was heavily commercialized is like judging all of Goth and a subculture by Hot Topic (which is not punk rock).
Go read China Mieville's Bas Lag cycle.
Go read Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
Go read Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
Go read Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld (crossover with dieselpunk and biopunk!)
Go read Steeplejack by AJ Hartley
Go listen to some The Cog is Dead and some Abney Park and some Rasputina and some Steam Powered Giraffe and, hey, let me link Painless Parker one more time. You will note that that recording is from Occupy Wallstreet.
Also keep in mind that labor/union songs are wildly popular steampunk standards; you will hear Solidarity Forever and other songs from The Little Red Songbook at steampunk song circles. You will hear marching band and orchestral covers of The Sex Pistols' God Save The Queen and The Clash's London Calling. You'll hear songs from Chumbawumba's album English Rebel Songs 1381-1984.
I'm gonna linkspam a bunch of my older writings on this:
#50 Overcoming the Noble Savage & the Sexy Squaw: Native Steampunk–Guest Blog by Monique Poirier
#98 Musing about Native Steampunk-Guest blog by Monique Poirier
Some of you already know Monique Poirier, either from her Beyond Victoriana essay , or from Tumblr , or you know her from cons and stuff. S
Other steampunks of my followers, please reblog with more recommendations about Steampunk stuff that's actually PUNK.
@sapphoandvanzetti , would love to hear you chime in.
Well shit yknow what I retract my statements because I had no idea about any of this! And the fact that the Spirit Halloween version was the only one I'd heard about is actually insulting with how cool a lot of this stuff sounds! Thank you for spending the time to drop all this, it's really appreciated!
“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”
>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.
>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.
>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.
>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.
>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.
>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.
>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.
>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!
>Lemmings problem now solved.
>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.
>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.
>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.
>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.
>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.
>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.
Seriously, get and run PiHole if you can. It changes your internet experience so much for the better. I get shocked when I visit a website when I'm someone else's network, by just how many ads the internet is flooded with now. Take back control.
Much like Springfield before it, Seattle is one of the few major cities in the world with a monorail. That, combined with a more conventional light rail system, makes Seattle the rare U.S. city with two different types of train for public transportation. On Tuesday night, the rail system briefly had a third: a Mazda CX-5.
do u think omegaverse acknowledges covid-19 and the generation of people who permanently lost their sense of smell like how are they all scenting each other now is the omegaverse economy in shambles
actually pheromone sensing works differently from normal olfaction, since humans in our world don’t have a functioning vomeronasal organ (VNO), we don’t have any data on how covid-19 would affect a functioning VNO in omegaverse AUs
Actually there is evidence that covid probably would affect the VNO and it stands to reason would accordingly impair its function. Briefly:
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes covid, can only infect cells expressing a certain protein called ACE2
ACE2 is expressed widely in nasal cavity epithelial cells but not in olfactory sensory neurons.
Seo et al. (2021) studied potential nasal targets for SARS-CoV-2 using golden hamsters as a model organism (commonly used as a proxy for humans in virology studies)
They found ACE2 expression in the main olfactory bulb epithelium (MOE, your “normal” nose organ) as well as the vomeronasal organ (VNO)
Several cell types in the VNO were able to be infected and they also found significant inflammatory activity (macrophage activation, apoptotic cells, etc)
The specifics of how covid actually causes dysosmia are not known for sure but epithelial damage by local inflammatory immune responses likely plays a role, especially because sensory neurons themselves are not affected (Bilinska, & Butowt, 2020). Therefore I would suggest a potential similar effect of VNO dysfunction as we see in the main olfactory bulb
From Seo et al.: “Considering the function of the VNO, infection and subsequent pathologic changes may affect the behavior of Syrian hamsters”
If it stands to reason that omegaverse individuals have functioning VNOs similar to members of the animal kingdom, then it is more than reasonable to conclude that covid may cause them to lose not only their main olfactory function, but also their VNO function as well
References: (1) (2)
In conclusion the omegaverse economy IS in shambles.
OP this is very well-written but im still hung up on how you came onstage dressed as a clown only to tear off the costume and reveal yourself as a biologist
Something that has floated around Superman's powers for a while is the idea of a "bio-electric" field that seems to be partly responsible for his strength and flight. The idea is that it's an aura around his skin that he can expand onto anything he touches amd it not only holds objects he holds to gather (like a falling civilian or a building he's grabbing the corner of a building he lifts, or the nose of an airplane) & seems to have anti-gravity effects as well (i think the theory goes that while it removes gravity's effects on what he touches, he still needs to move and hold the whole mass with his own natural strength)? It's been referred to "Tactile-Telekenesis" mostly when referring to his clone Kon-El using it...although this is where my confusion starts (beyond wanting to know the exact mechanisms of Superman's aura); apparently Tactile-Telekenesis is a separate but functionally similiar ability to the aura, and it was engineered into Kon as a substitute for the bio-field since there were apparently problems at the time cloning Superman's powers one-to-one.
So my question is...what exactly is this bio-aura of Superman's and is it Tactile-Telekenesis, or something slightly different? How is Kon-el's different and why did his creators well "make" his powers work like that?
Everyone should be aware ahead of time. I am not a scientist. I am a historian. Which means I'm exactly as anal as a scientist but they don't make me do any math. My understanding of biology stops somewhere in 10th grade when they started making me do cell charts and my brain fully checked out. I do not know the first thing about cloning, my understanding of physics is mostly the parts that can be condensed down into a fully English sentence, and all of this is on the most cutting edge of the disciplines involved.
This is a question that might better be sent to STAR Labs rather than me. But I am dedicated enough to sit down. Stare at some research abstracts really hard and TRY to muddle my way through in plain English. So that is what I'm going to do.
The basic principle at play here is that cloning a Kryptonian is REALLY HARD.
(best pic I found of Superboy lifting something, from his earlier days of course)
After Superman's apparent death at the hands of Doomsday, the...dubious scientific think tank Cadmus Labs attempted to use their expertise in cloning to produce a new Superman. Whether they did this for truly altruistic reasons is a question of some debate, but it was their goal. the only problem being is that, as I've said before, the cloning of a Kryptonian is an INSANE proposition from basically any way you look at it. Even moreso back then when Superman was basically the ONLY Kryptonian the world had ever seen. Since this was before the birth of his son or the coming of his cousin Supergirl to Earth. Kryptonian cells don't function the way human cells do, they don't store DNA in the same place, Kryptonian DNA doesn't LOOK or act like human DNA and the Kryptonian genome has never been even partially mapped. All samples of Superman's genetic material that were ever taken, not by supervillains, were only studied in a limited fashion before being destroyed out of respect for his privacy.
We'll probably only have a better understanding of Kryptonian biology when one of the earthbound Kryptonians DIES and probably not even then. One assumes Superman would prefer to be buried by his loved ones rather than dissected for a few decades. So when the time came to make a clone the old fashioned way, they couldn't do it. So they made an attempt at using what they already had. Grafting portions of Kryptonian DNA onto a human genome. Basically vat growing a human being while editing in Kryptonian genes through the process. This came with a LOT of cavets, the biggest one being that 99% of Superman's powers obviously come from complex, interlocking biological systems that you'd need his entire genetic code to even START figuring out.
The one thing they DID get working. Was the "Biofield" which as you said was a popular theory of how Superman was able to overcome things like the First Law of Motion. How he was able to lift an entire building by the corner without just ripping out fist sized chunks. How he's able to stop a falling airplane without getting punched out through the body of the plane backwards by the inertia. It's also what reinforces a lot of his invulnerability, creating a barrier only a few millimeters past his skin that keeps his costume from being annihilated every time he takes a lava bath.
What it is NOT, is tactile telekinesis in the way Superboy has it. While Superboy originally USED it in manners similar to Superman, he found that because it was the only power he HAD, he was able to make MUCH more creative use of it. Basically, Superboy can exercise full mental control of anything he can touch. The way he usually demonstrates it when he goes on TV is that he can move the entire length of a rope while only hanging onto one end, or he can disassemble machinery just by poking a finger to the outside. Anyone with some curiosity and a second to think can imagine the ways that this is a VERY potent ability.
Whether or not Superman and Supergirl ALSO have the potential for this ability is unknown, though they've never shown it as such. It could be an interaction with the human DNA in his system, it could be the dividends from his brain being focused on that power whereas its unconscious in natural born Kryptonians. It could be a lot of things, maybe a wizard did it. But it gives him a different power profile from your "standard" Kryptonian power set.
Superman himself seems to be regularly caught off guard by the question. As if it never occurred to him HOW he was able to catch a speeding train by the tail until someone pointed out the absurdity to him. Which seems in line with the kind of man he is.
I recall hearing that the Kryptonians actually modified their genome in some way to deliberately make cloning them difficult after some sort of conflict about the ethics of cloning?
Sidenote: because Superboy's genome is modified, apparently he is not, technically a clone, but a DNAlien And yes, apparently this is actually the technical term because unfortunately, modern genetic engineering derives in large part from the work of Dabney Donovan (may he rot).
Yes I've heard that too. "Kryptonology" is still a rather niche study but Superman and Supergirl have made a LOT of very comprehensive histories of Krypton available for free online. I've been told that Kryptonian history and culture diving is a good way to waste a weekend
As someone who was around for Superboy's debut and the start of his subsequent career, let me tell you, he really never shut up about his tactile telekinesis.
There are lengthy youtube compilations of him saying those words.
Here's a link to the EFF page that contains this information:
The ad identifier - aka “IDFA” on iOS, or “AAID” on Android - is the key that enables most third-party tracking on mobile devices. Disabling
On Android
With the release of Android 12, Google began allowing users to delete their ad ID permanently. On devices that have this feature enabled, you can open the Settings app and navigate to Privacy > Ads. Tap “Delete advertising ID,” then tap it again on the next page to confirm. This will prevent any app on your phone from accessing it in the future.
On iOS
To see which apps you have previously granted access to, go to Settings > Privacy > Tracking. You can set the “Allow apps to Request to Track” switch to the “off” position (the slider is to the left and the background is gray). This will prevent apps from asking to track in the future. If you have granted apps permission to track you in the past, this will prompt you to ask those apps to stop tracking as well. You also have the option to grant or revoke tracking access on a per-app basis.
Apple has its own targeted advertising system, separate from the third-party tracking it enables with IDFA. To disable it, navigate to Settings > Privacy > Apple Advertising. Set the “Personalized Ads” switch to the “off” position to disable Apple’s ad targeting.
For those who have missed it, a tourist in Hawaii decided it would be fun to chuck a rock (a BIG rock) at a monk seal. He missed, but he was captured on video, and when told it was illegal to interfere with them, said "I'm rich, I can pay the fine."
Is the best part that he got doxxed? No.
Is the best part that he got tracked down by a local and beaten? No.
Arrested on state at federal charges, looking at up to 5 years and 50K? Nope.
The best part is the local city council's reaction.
And the best part of that is the look on the attorney's face.
I love that even city council is like "we're not fucking narcs, we have no idea who that guy beating the shit out of him is." Extremely hobbified behavior.
I read somewhere that to rich people, fines aren't a punishment, they're just the price for doing whatever the fuck they want. A parking ticket isn't a parking ticket, it just costs $500+ to park wherever they want in the city. It only becomes a punishment when the firemen ram their cars out of the fire lane and/or break the windows to pass the fire hose through 😊
why are there so many posts about asexuals being immune to sirens. people. sirens don’t lure you in with sex (necessarily). they sing about whatever it is that you want most. they could sing about mothman or cinnamon toast crunch and guess what then your asexual pirate is fucking dead
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The thing about Miss Piggy is that she kind of has a Roger Rabbit comedy superpower where she wins nearly any conceivable fight she's in. But unlike other characters of which that's true, like say, Bugs Bunny, who tend to win because they make the opponent play the game with their rules, Miss Piggy wins because the joke is that she can beat the shit out of literally anybody.
This just wildly reminded me of this one speculation thread I read, possibly a full decade ago, about whether Bugs Bunny would be able to beat Saitama the titular One Punch Man (I forgot the details but I think Bugs Bunny won because his is the genre power of comedy and OPM is more comedy than BB is action so he would prevail on area advantage), and now I just imagining how that same thread would go if it was Miss Piggy.
