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— E. E. Cummings, Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems of E.E. Cummings

[text ID: But I’ll live my life if it kills me]

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memeuplift

fealty-to-thee

More characters ending disabled and happy NOW

the-irreverend

And stay safe everyone!

crippled-peeper

if you enter any primarily-trans or queer social space with the intent to make trans men “sit down” and “shut up” and “give space” etc I consider you a detriment to the mental health of your community members and I’m going to say something to you about it

st-dionysus

And for my fellow trans men, I remind you of the "3 ups" provided by Lou Sullivan's FTM Newsletter back in the 90s. They were relevant than and remain relevant now. Stand Up, Show Up, and SPEAK UP. This motto has been what keeps me moving and pushes me to remain active in queer and trans spaces, even when I face isolation, rejection, abuse, or erasure. Nothing will get better until we make it clear that we deserve a space at the table we helped build.

catchymemes

rika-mortis

Life is beach

probablyasocialecologist

“Musk talks about Mars as a lifeboat for humanity, which is among the very stupidest things that someone could say,” says Adam Becker, an astrophysicist and author of the book More Everything Forever, which outlines the messianic, sci-fi fantasies of the tech oligarchs. “There are so many reasons why it’s such a bad idea, and this is not about, ‘Oh, we’ll never have the technology to live on Mars.’ That’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that Earth is always going to be a better option no matter what happens to Earth. Like, we could get hit with an asteroid the size of the one that killed off the dinosaurs, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could explode every single nuclear weapon, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could have the worst-case scenario for climate change, and Earth would still be more habitable. Any cursory examination of any of the facts about Mars makes it very clear.”

What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us

wire-smith

I really like sci-fi stories where people have to go off and terraform a planet, or figure out how to rebuild civilization after some disaster, or ideally both. "The last ark-ship leaving Earth right before it becomes uninhabitable" sort of deal. But lately I've been coming around to this same idea, that it will always be more practical to try to save Earth than to try to start over elsewhere.

I was reading one story where the apocalypse was impossibly-rising oceans. Like, water is appearing from *waves hand* the Earth's crust or something, and literally all dry surface land on Earth is going to become underwater in X years. Part of the story was about a giant research project to invent FTL to send a few hundred humans to a nearby star which might have a habitable planet. You know what they were hoping to find? A planet with liquid water. Their plan was to descend from their starship and restart civilization using just the tools they brought with them, on a world with no life and no breathable air and the wrong gravity and the wrong temperate and the wrong sunlight and the wrong day-night cycle, just because it had liquid water. You know where else has liquid water? The flooded Earth you just abandoned. Instead of researching starship technology, you could have spent that time loading up all the same civilization-restarter tools into boats.

And this is really true of any futuristic apocalypse scenario. If you can terraform Mars to have a thick oxygen atmosphere, why not just do that to Earth? Even if you smash an ice comet into Earth and destroy basically everything, Earth will still be more habitable than Mars! It'll still have roughly the right atmospheric pressure, and magnetic field, and heat balance, and it'll still have whatever life the comet didn't kill... Same with a starshade to cool Venus. Same with excavating asteroids into city-stations. Same with abandoning Sol System entirely and heading to another star. If an ark-ship arrived in a new star system and found Earth-but-choked-by-climate-change, the crew would be ecstatic. They would never have thought to get that lucky. So why bother with the trip? Just stay and fix the damn Earth.

probablyasocialecologist

“Musk talks about Mars as a lifeboat for humanity, which is among the very stupidest things that someone could say,” says Adam Becker, an astrophysicist and author of the book More Everything Forever, which outlines the messianic, sci-fi fantasies of the tech oligarchs. “There are so many reasons why it’s such a bad idea, and this is not about, ‘Oh, we’ll never have the technology to live on Mars.’ That’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that Earth is always going to be a better option no matter what happens to Earth. Like, we could get hit with an asteroid the size of the one that killed off the dinosaurs, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could explode every single nuclear weapon, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could have the worst-case scenario for climate change, and Earth would still be more habitable. Any cursory examination of any of the facts about Mars makes it very clear.”

What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us

wire-smith

I really like sci-fi stories where people have to go off and terraform a planet, or figure out how to rebuild civilization after some disaster, or ideally both. "The last ark-ship leaving Earth right before it becomes uninhabitable" sort of deal. But lately I've been coming around to this same idea, that it will always be more practical to try to save Earth than to try to start over elsewhere.

I was reading one story where the apocalypse was impossibly-rising oceans. Like, water is appearing from *waves hand* the Earth's crust or something, and literally all dry surface land on Earth is going to become underwater in X years. Part of the story was about a giant research project to invent FTL to send a few hundred humans to a nearby star which might have a habitable planet. You know what they were hoping to find? A planet with liquid water. Their plan was to descend from their starship and restart civilization using just the tools they brought with them, on a world with no life and no breathable air and the wrong gravity and the wrong temperate and the wrong sunlight and the wrong day-night cycle, just because it had liquid water. You know where else has liquid water? The flooded Earth you just abandoned. Instead of researching starship technology, you could have spent that time loading up all the same civilization-restarter tools into boats.

And this is really true of any futuristic apocalypse scenario. If you can terraform Mars to have a thick oxygen atmosphere, why not just do that to Earth? Even if you smash an ice comet into Earth and destroy basically everything, Earth will still be more habitable than Mars! It'll still have roughly the right atmospheric pressure, and magnetic field, and heat balance, and it'll still have whatever life the comet didn't kill... Same with a starshade to cool Venus. Same with excavating asteroids into city-stations. Same with abandoning Sol System entirely and heading to another star. If an ark-ship arrived in a new star system and found Earth-but-choked-by-climate-change, the crew would be ecstatic. They would never have thought to get that lucky. So why bother with the trip? Just stay and fix the damn Earth.

starsinoursystem

this pride month I'm gonna need everyone to be radically pro transgender and also pro intersex and also pro ace and aro spec peoples thanks

zk-j

“Where are the trans men in history?” See. When you're born a gender that was forcefully married off, who had to live most of their life indoors, when you had to raise children, and had a lobotomy if your family thought you were a tad too odd, it's kinda hard to come out as a trans man now ain't it.

horce-divorce

"Where's all the trans men in history?"

Getting misgendered in the news, if they even make it that far.

My friend Lucas Redbeard was shot last month and at first, they didnt even report his name.

An independent journalist from another state (PGH Lesbian) had to be the ones to make the connection.

I knew him on Threads, he invited us to his property once. He posted often.

I didnt find out he had died until three WEEKS later.

If thats how bad it is in the information age, imagine how many others we have missed through the years.

deadgenerations

people talk about cursed knowledge and infohazards but I think learning how movement speed is actually worked out in Morrowind is a rare example of actual cursed knowledge that drives you to madness.

deadgenerations

theres a stat called "speed" in morrowind. It determines your movement speed, and nothing else. this is the third most important factor in determining your movement speed.

theres a skill called athletics as well. this determines how fast you run - because running is different from walking. walking is extremely slow, so running is important. Athletics is the fourth most important factor in determining your movement speed.

theres another stat called "strength". among other things, it determines your carry capacity. the percentage of your current carrying capacity which is currently 'filled' determines how fast you move. In practice, this is the second most important factor in determining your character's movement speed.

Now, old hats of elder scrolls games can see where im going with this. most know that in skyrim, your speed is actually someone determined by your height. this means that, in practice, high elves are a little bit faster than everyone else. In morrowind, the characters also have different heights, and its actually more pronounced than in later games

This has no effect on movement speed*.

There is a secret stat, determined by race and gender, in morrowind and only morrowind. it is called 'Weight' and for some reason determines how wide chests are and how jacked your character looks when shirtless. For some reason, this hidden and unchangeable stat is the single biggest determinator of movement speed. A male wood elf, the smallest race at a diminutive .9 weight and a fast starting speed of 50, will move significantly slower than a male orc, the most jacked beefcake race at 1.35 weight with only 30 starting speed.

However, this also means that mechanically, women are just worse than men in morrowind because almost all female characters have a weight of .9. This Calculation is hard coded into the game. *for some reason, height does affect vertical movement when levitating.

3liza

as a sidecar to this, i want to add for readers (because i know OP already knows) that Morrowind has a known bug called NPC Drift. this bug causes NPCs in savegames that you play for a long period of time to gradually move away from their scripted starting positions, a little bit each day, and eventually over a long enough period of time they can end up outside the map, off of ledges, or even falling into water and drowning or being attacked and killed by hostiles. the drift is caused by their idle animations, which for some reason none of the developers noticed, that cause the NPCs to move ever so slightly horizontally as they shift their weight from foot to foot, or put heir hand on their hips, or look around etc.

so one of the fixes for this is to open the console on each NPC and setting their strength to 0, which will anchor the NPC in place because suddenly, they will be terminally over-encumbered by their inventory no matter what it is, and wont be able to move at all anymore