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[MerelyGifted]

Thank you, Sugarplum!

[SallyM]

About Languages

English speakers love to make fun of the whole “four twenty and seven” thing in other languages, but then start a speech with an exact synonym of that and it’s somehow brilliant eloquence.

[MerelyGifted]

Well this is interesting

That would require a level of insight into the real world that most of them are incapable of. Nothing is simple, binary and easily understandable. Nothing. But that falls on deaf ears most of the time. So they insist that the world bend to their lazy ignorance instead of accepting how it actually is. And yeah, I’m a little bitter about that mindset.

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration

I’ll discuss the fraud at USAID. My first job was with a food aid contract to USAID. I know A LOT about international food aid, not because I did anything at my job, but because I was so bored off my ass that I read all these academic papers that people spent a lot of time preparing and I don’t think we did anything with them. I think they were supposed to be for some conference. Anyway, I was bored and I read them. There is a lot of grift in food aid. We send food aid to a country that’s war…

[Millie_Fink]

C'mon Guys (Toxic Masculinity)

I read that steaming pile of fecal matter, even though I knew I probably shouldn’t give it the time of day. Relevant (to my ranting) quote: Of course, it is clearly exag­ger­ated for comic effect. But humour reflects deeper truths about social expect­a­tions. Women have long had to endure the relent­less scru­tiny of being deemed attract­ive based on impossibly nar­row stand­ards. Now men are find­ing them­selves judged not just on their looks, but on split-second actions. The idea that a mi…

[SallyM]

Systems of education and its discontents

I like reading about history and I used to read everything I could about the Second World War. One day I read an article about the Manhattan Project and how the United States, despite all its economic power, was far behind in the atomic race precisely because it lacked “brains” and had to import scientists and machinery from Europe. The author of the article said that the American authorities no longer wanted to take risks and started investing in education and ways to attract students to scie…

[SallyM]

Strategies for Survival

This is small, and more maintenance than crisis management, but; rinse your mouth with water after eating. Really swish the water and pull it hard between your teeth with 2 or 3 mouthfulls. My dental hygienist recommended doing this because it not only removes food particles, it helps to quickly de-acidify the mouth, and cuts down on tartar and plaque formation, which helps prevent cavities. I’ve found that cleanings are much less painful since I’ve been doing it, and I’ve had no new cavities.

[SallyM]

Follow up news

I want musk’s and Donny’s version of the US to not survive this. The imperialistic, patriarchal, hetero-fascist, xenophobic, white supremacist side that the US has always had needs to die. I hope the version Emma Lazarus wrote about on that great big metal lady in NYC can come through though. It really does feel like the uneasy coexistence of both halves can no longer abide.

[SallyM]

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C'mon Guys (Toxic Masculinity)

I plan to use that everywhere as my new swear word.

[SallyM]

C'mon Guys (Toxic Masculinity)

Yeah, that’s the problem. I believe most men are decent and safe, and some are very obviously unsafe, but the really bad ones are indistinguishable from the decent ones. (See also: Neil Gaiman.)

[SallyM]

Systems of education and its discontents

But more seriously, they’re trying to eliminate all action against discrimination, and (because fascists live in backwards land) they’re doing it saying that anti-discrimination efforts are discriminatory. And by “eliminate”, I mean not just to stop doing it, but to scrub all information about it, all research, all documentation, all history. They’re working on not just undoing but unexisting the Disability Rights movement, the LGBTQI+ rights movement, the Civil Rights movement, and the Women’s …

[SallyM]

Space Exploration

Your article included a line that surprised me: Years ago I saw someone at Caltech give a presentation about risks to earth from asteroid impacts and the guy said that, counterintuitively, an ocean impact would actually tend to be more deadly than an impact on land because it would cause a tsunami that could travel huge distances, and a large fraction of earth’s population lives near coastlines. But maybe this one just isn’t big enough to cause a major tsunami? That author wrote a book about …

[MerelyGifted]

Elon Musk Destroys Everything

Honestly, I still kinda want a “to the pain” solution for the Orange One. Lock him in a room with a TV he can’t turn off or change channels, and it plays 24/7. Show him his name taken off every building he owned, every one of his “accomplishments” destroyed, people testifying how horrible he is, all kinds of mockery and ridicule. Show that clip of Obama thoroughly roasting him at least once a day. Make him live with humiliation and disgrace for whatever time he has left. As far as anyone else i…

[MagicFox]

Found Randomly on the 'Net

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[MerelyGifted]

Found Randomly on the 'Net

[1000031340] Just squint at it!

[Millie_Fink]

[MerelyGifted]

Banana Sisters! Just look at us!

[Millie_Fink]

[SallyM]

Healthcare PSAs and BSAs

More on measles, related to adults getting revaccinated: “If you have been vaccinated with two doses of vaccine as per routine, you have a 95-plus percent chance of being completely protected throughout your life,” Schaffner says. But public health experts say there are some adults who should consider getting revaccinated. That includes older adults who were born after 1957 and were vaccinated before 1968. But Ratner says there are several situations in which the CDC recommends an additi…

[SallyM]

Site Bugs?

This happens everywhere and I used to call it the “academics vs reality” fight. Before everyone settled on Ansible or saltstack (or terraform) for config management/IaC, there was a holy war between config system that were prescriptive- that is, you write how things should be, the tool makes reality match your definition, full stop, vs tools that can examine how the world is and then convert that into a definition. Many of those tools that came from large university networks or early supercomp…