hallo hallo welcome to my cave

[jollymalt]

more pirates!

[luulapants]

My elderly father started talking about how frustrating he finds “the pronouns thing” and I was like. Oh no. He had such a good stand on this, he’s been they/them-ing his cishet siblings for god’s sake! Is he regressing?? And he was talking about how difficult it is to remember, and how onerous it feels to expect strangers to keep track of it, and I’m like oh no oh no.

Then he says, “I mean, the problem isn’t the gender thing. The problem is four words: she, her, he, and him. We got rid of stewardess and turned it into flight attendant. It doesn’t matter if the flight attendant is a man or woman, so we got rid of it. We just need to get rid of those. I don’t need to know.”

“You don’t need to know… people’s gender?”

“No. I don’t care, I don’t need to know, and I don’t want to remember it.”

So we can relax. It’s just a continuation of his crusade to they/them the world. He doesn’t want to remember anyone’s gender. He’s abolishing the genders.

[teaboot]

Your dad is so powerful

[gullahch1ld]

Sometimes it is your fault.. Sometimes you don’t listen well enough, you’re selfish, you’re rude and you aren’t always right. Sometimes you fucked it up and tbh that’s okay. It happens, learn from it, apologize and keep it moving. Just because you fucked up doesn’t mean you’re a bad person. Don’t dwell on it

[moonlitswims-deactivated2024010]

no but this is so important.. it’s so important to just accept you can fuck up you’re allowed to fuck up. you’re allowed to be wrong and it won’t be shameful, it won’t be the worst thing to happen. you’ll either let it go or learn from it and not let it happen again and that’s good.

[homunculus-argument]

You ever think about ancient inventions that may no longer actively be used, but which were so geniously designed that technically speaking, they still work?

Consider that old historical monk haircut. The tonsure looks like that on purpose, to keep them humble and away from temptations of sin. And it still works exactly as intended. Do you guys have any idea how much gay porn there would be of medieval monastery dudes knowing each other biblically if their haircuts were not so unfathomably unsexy.

[patrickdiomedes]

boy, I dunno what I expected after the first paragraph, but it wasn't what I got

[doyouknowwhatimeme]

[serenity-bitty]

reminds me of

the shellfish allergy NO NO FUCKING S HRIMP OR HE D IE post

[p1netre3s]

reminded me of this

[toli-a]

The children are learning about the US Civil War. I can’t say it’s going well. (On the bright side, they’re very clear about slavery. We’re solid on that front. It’s the actual war we’re having trouble with.)

“Ms. T, why would his parents name him that?”

I frantically flip through the possible Civil War leaders they could be referencing. “… Well, you know how Stonewall got his nickname, and we’ve talked about Tecumseh, so there’s Sherman, and -”

“No, not them.” They roll their eyes at my ignorance, then pivot back to the point at hand. “That other guy. Useless.” As this describes a number of Civil War leaders, I blink uncomprehendingly at her. “You know, Ms. T, Useless. Useless Grant.”

“Um. … Well -”

Another child raises their hand. “Ms. T, I don’t understand number three.”

Number three is a question about the Battle of Bull Run, asking for explanations about a Confederate victory despite Union advantages. “What paragraph are you looking in?” I ask in a monotone, because I’ve been fielding this question all day.

The student points at the correct paragraph, even focuses in on the quote about Jackson holding off a Union advance. “It says Jackson and the men ‘screamed like furries,’ Ms. T, but why would that help?”

I cough. I cover my mouth with both hands. “That’s ‘furies,’ sweetie,” I inform them, still wheezing. “Like they’re insane with anger,” I elaborate, deciding to skip describing actual furies at this point in time. “Not … not like furries.”

So, here’s how the war is going, one week in: Useless Grant has been made general of the Union forces, but a bunch of furries are preventing him from gaining much ground.

[cricketcat9]

Teaching is more interesting than I ever thought

[steampunkforever]

If this had happened in 2006 we would've already had a tasteless flash game about it by 3pm this afternoon

[yr-tiktok-mom]

[despazito]

we are the daughters of parents who should not have had kids

[laughconfetti]

[victusinveritas]

[achesspiece]

firefox just started doing this too so remember kids if you want to stream things like netflix or hulu over discord without the video being blacked out you just have to disable hardware acceleration in your browser settings!

[achesspiece]

for the people saying this might be too difficult: idk about chrome but in firefox it just goes

> open settings

> search “hardware acceleration” and there should only be one result

> uncheck use recommended performance settings

> uncheck use hardware acceleration

done!

[agender-witchery]

Since I’m looking at the comments and seeing a lot of people asking what hardware acceleration is and getting wildly incorrect answers, here you go. This is what hardware acceleration is. It’s not DRM, and it’s not placing a limit on memory usage (unless you have weird definitions for both “memory” and “placing a limit”).

This is what hardware acceleration is:

“Do you just have a graphic for this on hand at all times?”

Yes. For this precise reason.

[mewfan156]

hey just to let anyone using firefox know! searching “hardware acceleration” in firefox settings doesnt do anything! you wont get anything whatsoever! you have to scroll down on the main general settings page to “Performance” and uncheck “Use recommended performance settings” to be able to uncheck “Use hardware acceleration when available”! signed someone who was extremely confused when trying to follow OP’s instructions only for there to be no results

[zoesupreme]

spotify is raising prices again here's the apk that gives you premium for free

[world-of-lang]

and here's the desktop version for Windows with adblock and skip-bypass BlockTheSpot

[dont-look-me-in-the-eye]

spot X for windows

spot X for linux/mac

[queersona]

therapist: cunt dracula is not real and cannot fuck you.

cunt dracula:

[lamina-tsrif]

real event that occured that i cant stop thinking about

[scumtrout]

Due to budgetary constraints we do not have the resources for any Ship of Theseus bullshit and we have chosen death over continuity.

[scumtrout]

Including these tags as a screenshot because damned if I can copy tags on my phone.

When I made the original post, I had no idea that some people would get Kind Of Weird about it, and I've seen a lot of comments that made me think, 'I was being flippant originally, but christ do people not have any tolerance for nuance?' So the whole thing has been uhh... eye-opening. There also seems to be an inverse correlation between how much people seem to actually know about the clock and how emotive their language is regarding it being stopped.

[crowbarsfavorite]

Oh look its my tags.

It's actually a phenomenon you see often in museums (hence my own research into it) that when it comes to conservation and restoration (and museums in general) people tend to have very black and white views... when they don't know the details of an object.

One of my professors who has been a conservator for years actually ran a study once (which i am basing my own off of) where they had people vote for if a 17th century piano should be restored to be able to play it again or not. At first there was a lot of firm agreement for restoring it, with a lot of the same responses in the tags. "its meant to be played" "its a functional item" "ur just letting it rot"

The exhibit then went on to explain that to make the piano playable again, they would have to completely replace all of the mechanisms inside the piano, replace an entire leg to make it stable enough to sit at, multiple keys which had been worn down from decades of people playing them that held the history of the people who loved it would need to be removed and replaced. That to be able to use the piano again, it would essentially need to become a entirely new one.

The end of the exhibit then encouraged people to once again vote on if the piano should be restored to being functional again and the answers saw a dramatic shift. There were some who were still staunchly for or against, of course, but having the history of the object laid out for them tended to help a lot of people realize that theres maybe a bit more to an object in a museum than if it still works or not.

Functional objects are meant to be functional, yes, but there is so much more nuance when it comes to historical objects. A violin in a collection might not be able to be able to played anymore, but the frayed bow, worn frets, and battered strings show the love and history that object contains. A clock might not tick anymore, but the mechanisms inside still have the fingerprints of the creators what were smudged on them with grease and oil when they were hand carved and placed inside. These decisions are not made lightly, and the historic value of an object and its materials should always be weighed against the value of it still fuctioning, especially in regards to objects like clocks which can easily have replicas made.

Museums are meant to keep the records of history. To keep objects around for future generations to study and learn and grow from. That is why we are constantly debating these ethical considerations. Its why we carefully weigh the concept of keeping something functioning vs keeping the original pieces. The concept of replicas vs replacements. We have to weigh the cost of keeping something running as well, as museums, despite what people seem to think (with the exception of maybe a dozen or so big musuems), are chronically underfunded, especially when it comes to collections care. There is no right or wrong answer, no way we can make everyone in this scenario happy. All we can do is try our best to preserve the history of an object in the best ways we can so that it can be around for others to learn from in the future.

[scumtrout]

This is honestly the most interesting commentary I've had on my post by a long shot.

[catchymemes]

[lordascapelion]

We should piss on the poor

[barryogg]

How dare you say that reading comprehension on this site is piss poor