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[mindysan33]

Yay! Happy birthday!!!

[Nightflyer]

[SallyM]

Thanks

[SallyM]

Happy Holidays!

I don’t mean to be a Grinch, however… to those of you who are placing Christmas lights/decorations in your yards, would you please avoid anything that has Red or Blue flashing lights together!! Every time I come around the corner, I think it’s the police and I have a panic attack. I have to brake hard, toss my margarita out the window, fasten my seat belt, throw my phone on the floor, turn my radio down, and push the gun under the seat. All while trying to drive. It’s just too much drama, even …

[chgoliz]

The Trans Experience

Identification is like a quiet room for autists in a school. Whether it’s a safe place or a prison depends on which side of the door is the lock.

[SallyM]

Enshittification

I think we need to think about cars, too. To begin with, they offered some people new mobility options, but put other people in danger. As they became more common, the number of cars slows down both care and bus travel, and threatens bike and foot travel. As they became more common, buses and streetcars were shut down, so other mobility options are being destroyed. To try to reduce collisions, civilians are expected to cross at intersections, where cars would have to stop, but now they don’t…

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration

What? A bullet to the face? Are you fucking kidding me?!?! I’m well aware that MAGA has long ago agreed there are five lights (six, 17, none, whatever Trump wants), but have they really moved to the point where they think the rest of us are there too? Actually, no, I know it doesn’t matter. I heard an interesting discussion on a community radio station out of Texas, of all places, yesterday. They were comparing MAGA messaging to improv theater. So much of it is sheer absurdism that often uses …

[SallyM]

Um.... what.... aka, this is the dumbest thing I've ever read

Using laws to declare that laws don’t apply to you makes about as much sense as the rest of sovereign citizens’ beliefs (“sovereign citizen” itself being an oxymoronically moronic identity).

[SallyM]

Space Exploration

Honestly I don’t understand how he gets away with this. He’ll still say he is 10 years from a manned landing, and people will report it as if it has any chance of being true, instead of giving the obviously relevant context that he’s been saying it for more than a decade. Likewise self-driving or robots or anything he offers that isn’t the world’s worst mobile dumpster. It’s all just stenography as if he weren’t bullshit wrapped in vaguely human form, because he has money, because investors are…

[SallyM]

Women, amirite?

That last bit about construction is utter tripe. Ask any foreman and he will say that the women he’s had working on jobs were more detail-oriented and less prone to injury than men on the same site. Ask me how I know. And I know, I know, this is anecdotal, not data. But it’s hard to make an accurate determination about overall workplace injuries, since the PPE is generally not designed with women in mind, and in some construction, like roadwork, women are most often tasked with being flaggers,…

[SallyM]

Earth vs The Flying Saucers

The belief that the “US government” reverse-engineered alien technology always drives me crazy (and I even roll my eyes at sci-fi stories that involve reverse-engineering alien/future technology). I have an uncle who believes in that shit. I do enjoy being enraged by it, though, as it’s such a fun exercise in thinking about science and technology work. For one thing, all the technologies they point to as the ones so benefiting (e.g. computer chips), are things where we only see incremental im…

[subextraordinaire]

Grammer, miss pellings, tipos, ect

“Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.”

[SallyM]

Um.... what.... aka, this is the dumbest thing I've ever read

Not the dumbest thing that I ever read, but the quote below left me scratching my head this morning. Heavy snow could in turn make temperatures feel even colder, since fallen snow both absorbs and reflects the sun’s rays. The linked explanation goes into why snow cover can contributed to actual air temperatures being lower, but doesn’t say anything about a given atmospheric temperature feeling colder, like with humidity. Anyway, I definitely associate a lack of snow with the air feeling c…

[SallyM]

Climate change and climate justice

It always strikes me that people claiming that anthropogenic climate change isn’t real because the climate changes naturally are akin to someone saying, “People die of natural causes all the time, therefore murder can’t exist. Ignore the 30 knife wounds in the guy.”

[MerelyGifted]

Random Silly Grins

“For far too long, Facebook has been a haven for people hell-bent on spreading facts,” said Santos, who said he was making his statement from the International Space Station.

[SallyM]

Because Fuck You metric system

Oh, let’s just call it 1.61. We don’t really need to quibble over that 66 cm! (This post brought to you by an example of how easy it is to change units in Metric.

[awfulhorrid]

[j9c]

Strategies for Survival

PATROL OF THE PINK PANTHERS IN NEW YORK’S GREENWICH VILLAGE, VOLUNTEERS COMBAT A TIDE OF GAY-BASHING September 19, 1990 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1990/09/19/patrol-of-the-pink-panthers/54b667cd-6265-44af-99a3-f0aaa4ecae36/

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration

Coronavirus is real but can’t legally infect you if the American flag in the room has gold fringe around the border. COVID-19 is fake, because a patriot with an assault rifle raided a pizza parlor’s basement and stopped the Democrat Satanist lizard people from using it to turn babies into gayness-inducing microchips transmitted via Jewish space lasers.

[SallyM]

Healthcare PSAs and BSAs

This is just insane to me. I would have done a lot for that shot when kitty was a baby. Or the one they have now for pregnant people to take before the birth. I would have done that! Lot less painful than the steroid shot I needed when we were afraid kitty might be born as a super-premie. We ended up in the hospital twice before kitty was 2 years old once for RSV and once for the flu. Besides the terror of it, the discomfort and pain for our child, and inconvenience for us, it was expensive. E…