When you're an aeronautics engineer and you have to instruct a middle school teacher on how to build Ikea furniture.
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When you're an aeronautics engineer and you have to instruct a middle school teacher on how to build Ikea furniture.
“For example, if you’re trying to convince people to boycott a segregated store, your object is to convince them that boycotting the store will have a strategic effect, not that desegregation is morally important. For whatever reason, on a cognitive level human beings have a really hard time with this. Smucker cites an example of a Lefty roleplaying session where people were tasked with selling an action to people who agreed with them on principle but didn’t see the strategic merit of the action. Surprisingly, the sellers couldn’t make the conceptual switch to sell strategic merit: instead, they doubled down on THIS ISSUE IS IMPORTANT — even though it had been stressed to them that the people they were selling to bought into the importance of the issue. People react poorly to “this is important, so do WHATEVER I SAY”; they want to be convinced that what you’re proposing will work.”
Source.
Also from above:
“Bob Wing, a grassroots organizer, explains this nicely: “If winning feels impossible, then righteousness can seem like the next best thing.” But righteousness is not conducive to getting normies to join your team if your team cannot demonstrate ability to, at least sometimes, win. Nor does righteousness help you make real inroads with regular people.”
Somewhat related, my favorite comic strip of all time:
Treat anything on Discord as media that will be lost
Do not use Discord to host your files. Do not rely on Discord to preserve your text. DO NOT RELY ON DISCORD FOR ANY KIND OF PRESERVATION OR HOSTING!!
It CAN be lost, it WILL be lost! You must consider Discord as a part of the Core Internet, controlled by one company that hosts the servers.
I thought it was impressive at first that it replaced IRC, but now I am horrified. If the company behind Discord went under today, how many friends would you lose?
How many relationships? How much writing?
You may think this won't happen, but I remember when AIM went down and along with it, entire novels worth of interaction with my oldest friend.
IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU. IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN. NO COMPANY IS INFALLIBLE.
Back up your files! Download anything you've saved to Discord NOW, before the API changes go into effect! And DO NOT RELY ON THEM FOR HOLDING IMPORTANT FILES!
Here is a program that lets you download any and all of your discord DMs, your servers, everything. You can set the format (raw text, html (dark and light), and others. You can even download the uploaded files not just the text, though that may be just for the command-line version not the GUI window version.
Exports Discord chat logs to a file. Contribute to Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter development by creating an account on GitHub.
Please back up your conversations, your stories. I have a backup of everything I care about that runs once a week, with full attachment backups every several months. I write stories on discord, and would be devastated if someone happened to them. You have to have your own local copies of every file you care about.
"there is no way you're not using chatgpt for at least a few things here and there no matter your stance on it" what the FUCK are you talking about
"Mirkwood would judge Legolas so hard for Gimli-" Wrong. Gimly has consistently charmed the pants off every single elf he's come across. The elves of Lothlorien went from wanting to kick him out to loving him in like 2 days. He's Galadriel's special little guy. My man is out there singlehandedly tearing down centuries of prejudice because he's just so damn charming. When he was nearing the end, he didn't even go to Durin's halls - he just went with Legolas to the undying lands so he could hang out with elves for the rest of time. Gimli would have Thranduil and the rest of the elves of Mirkwood wrapped around his dwarven finger in a week's time. Ideal son in law except for the beard.
i love you lab grown diamonds i love you slavery-free chocolate i love you community gardens i love you fact that the insulin patent was sold for $1 i love you locally produced meat and milk i love you streets turned into walkable parks i love you little reminders that Things Do Not Have To Be This Way and there are people working to build a better world!!
i love you smog tests for cars i love you clean air regulations i love you HEPA filters i love you dam removal i love you planting native gardens i love you monarch butterflies (up 64% in 2026!) i love you working for decades to bring the condors back from zero to 300+ in the wild i love you inventing little machines to pick up the plastic fishing nets and other trash in the sea i love you occupational health and safety regulations i love you environmental protection agencies i love you unions i love you social aid programs i love you food not bombs i love you sea shepherds i love you most countries stopping industrial whaling and more humpback whales now than ever before i love you saving the forests i love you little libraries i love you take what you need cupboards/fridges i love you secular food pantries i love you public bathrooms i love you all-ages playgrounds i love you museums i love you aquariums + zoos i love you restoring peregrine falcons to nyc i love you letting beavers fix the river i love you releasing wolves into the wild i love you bison recovery efforts i love you landback i love you reducing light pollution i love you freeway sound baffle walls i love you advertising bans i love you public outreach and education i love you maria montessori i love you queer clinics i love you people working really hard and succeeding at fixing the world and making it safer for all living beings!
i love you montreal protocol, i love you reducing cfcs in our atmosphere to reduce depletion of stratospheric ozone (“good ozone”), i love you people who choose more sustainable ways to travel (such as carpooling, public transport, biking, walking, etc) (ofc not everyone can do this, or do this all the time, this is not to shame people who drive) in order to reduce NOx emissions (which lead to tropospheric ozone (“bad ozone”) i love you planting native plants in yards to promote healthy local ecosystems and reducing invasive plants and animals (rather than grass monoculture) i love you cooling towers which reduce heat pollution in water bodies like the ocean (which harms organisms (like coral!!) i love you no till agriculture i love you integrated pest management i love you using organic fertilizer that returns nutrients to soils rather than chemical which strips it and leads to erosion i love you nuclear energy i love you air pollutant scrubbers i love you water treatment plant workers i love you all the windmills i see in illinois i love you compost programs and people who compost at home i love you upcycling i love you reusing things that would otherwise make it to a landfill i love you liners and leachate removal systems in municipal solid waste landfills that prevent toxic things from entering ground water in trash i love you EPA i love you national parks and conservatories i love you thrifting and second hand stores i love you ecosia (search engine alternative to google that doesn’t force ai upon you and plants trees with every search)
i love you things that aren’t perfect but are a step in the right direction toward environmental sustainability
reminder that while there are many things that individuals can do to make their lives more environmentally sustainable, it’s not all up to us.
the damage done to the planet by humans is not an individual person thing. it’s a global industrialization, government, corporation thing. so while yes!! please make the changes you can to your lifestyle to help the environment! know that it’s not all up to you either. you’re just a piece in the puzzle. making changes is incredible and should absolutely be done, but corporations and governments don’t step in to make changes too, because they are the biggest contributors.
but! some things that can be done in your every day life to be more sustainable!
- don’t use ai (this is the easiest one.)
- don’t leave lights on when you’re not using them
- take shorter showers (i’m bad at this 😭)
- reduce meat in your diet (i’m not saying go vegan or vegetarian if you don’t want to (im not) but meat offers less energy than plants for the same volume of food as its higher on the trophic pyramid (food chain) which divides by 10 at every level. eating more vegetables, fruits, & plants with less meat is more energy efficient)
- use more energy efficient transportation (some examples are walking, biking, using public transport (bus, train, etc), or carpooling (even though it’s still driving a private car, there’s less cars on the road if you’re driving together))
- reduce, reuse, recycle (in that order. they’re in that order because that’s the order most to least energy efficient)
- plant native plants in your yard (this is both much prettier than grass lawns and requires far less maintenance because the plants are meant to grow there (do research on native plants in your area) it also has the benefit of reducing non native insects in your yard which can carry diseases (like ticks)
i have so much more i could say but i won’t say it here. i think i might create a blog dedicated to environmental science and sustainability :)
it still makes me go insane that somehow no social media site bothers to implement interleaved text and images. Fediverse cannot support it broadly, Bluesky can't handle it, Facebook can't do it, Twitter can't do it, fucking, LinkedIn doesn't do this, somehow only Tumblr has this, and it barely even counts as a popular social media site.
well you see we're the new pdf
Yay G O A T
fat pet cat is a kind of weighted blanket
if you’re reading this, i’m putting a thought out into the world for you. a hope that whatever’s worrying you works out in your favor, that a happy moment comes your way, and that you have a heartwarming reason to smile tonight
modern social media should stop offering "sync with your phone contacts to follow them" options and start offering "block all your phone contacts so they never see your account" options
Look I don't really care for AI. I'm scared about the increasing over-reliance on tools like chatgpt and Ai assist that repeatedly give flawed or false information, I reject the promise of AI writers and actors that might infect mainstream art. But like...y'all need to change the way you look at this stuff for real. So much popular anti-AI language is so abstracted from any material reality and human truth, making up slurs for Ai bots like that's a normal thing to do, wantonly accusing artists of using Ai like a witch hunt, and talking about the human element of art supplanted by AI in very Christian terms, calling it "sacred" or coming from the soul. You don't have to like AI, but I really encourage you to examine how you feel about it and what it's been making you say. Cause it's apparently making you say ethnic slurs
Should've known this post would've conjured people defending their right to repurpose real life racist pejoratives to talk about chatbots or whatever. Like is that not crazy to anybody else? That so many white liberals are frothing at the mouth to find a socially acceptable reason to put racial slurs on a t shirt at Spencer's?? I'm not even making this up somebody in the tags saw that shit in person what the fuck are we doing anymore
i do have to say that no matter how shitty any sort of media is or how shitty your own creations are. always remember
i thought this was a hospital drama why does he have a shotgun?!??!?
It’s a really, really good hospital drama
I’m so glad I turned on the Audio bc it turns out this is set to Boney M’s Rasputin and is basically perfectly synced
I’m glad to see the ancient art of vidding is alive and well.