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Writer (unpublished), Egyptologist (unfinished), migraine (continuous), human (probably). Extra-large liminal space. Always add marinara. He/him. Profile thingy is a penglion by HumanDescent.
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My brain helpfully read this in the voice of Sam Elliott from The Big Lebowski.
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Well, this could explain why every single time I see an autistic person describing autistic traits I go, "Hmmmmm." 🤔
I wonder about clustering neurodivergences. ADHD, dyslexia, fine motor control, auditory processing, proprioceptive issues... At what point does autism become a foregone conclusion?
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Feeding others to the leopards won't stop them from eating your face.
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Is there an enforcement plan?
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Why are you framing this as if cutting essential services and firing the people who make the country work saves money? 🧐
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I know it's technically a joke, but... We are in the midst of a global pandemic, and the response has been to let people die. All of these, same response: let people die. It's only funny if you're sufficiently unbothered or unaware that you don't really notice it as it happens, today, in real life.
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Thank you, I'll pass that along and hope.
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But Musk is already going after treasuries. Wouldn't that make them even less secure?
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What if you're not rich, have no stocks, and your life savings is in a local credit union? I'm very very worried about my parents (and myself, we're in the same boat) losing everything to this.
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An 88% increase in cancer? 🧐
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Well. That's not great. (And no, I'm not surprised.)
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Yikes. 😬
On the plus side, a story about near-future hobos I half-wrote just got its villain.
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Please look at the original post, then my response, and consider that my response may have been *in response* to the specific claim being made, rather than a blanket statement made in a vacuum and meant to cover all eventualities.
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The last sentence of your prior post restated my point, yet you say it is bad faith and now somehow ableist to say that -- EXACTLY as you yourself said -- not everyone can ride a bicycle, and multiple means of transportation are needed. 🧐
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I'm not sure why you would say my argument is bad faith, but I thank you for agreeing with me nonetheless.
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Your pinned post says you live in San Diego, which unless my geography is way off, is a city.
Also I keep saying bicycles are great and we need more support for bikes and riders. Why is this not enough? Do you honestly believe every problem has one and only one universal solution?
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I hope the Tour de France goes well for you.
Also trains aren't bicycles, but they are part of the broader range of solutions we need in order to accommodate everyone, so thank you for supporting my point.
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Also my apologies for not being clear enough that I knew the broader verdicts and sentences were not handled well.
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Yes, but I was speaking specifically and only of the executions, not whether the Nuremberg trials as a whole were sufficient.
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I'm anti-death penalty, but I also have to recognize that the Nuremberg trials did a lot of good, and the Nazi resurgence would've happened 60 years ago if their leaders had still been alive.
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And studies probably show most trips are under five miles because most people live in cities. I don't. My minimum trip is ten miles one way. So please show me the bike that my tall, fat, disabled self can ride for 20 miles, or maybe accept that it's true that bicycles are not the universal solution.
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Bikes for slightly tall and slightly short and slightly heavy people exist. I know, I've tried to find a bicycle I could ride. My best bet was a very expensive custom bike maker who could not guarantee I could actually ride it because I'm very tall and very heavy. And then I became disabled.
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Cars don't work for everyone and I never said they did. My only argument was that the OP is inaccurate. Bicycles do not solve a wide range of complex problems, they solve a single problem for a limited number of people. For that problem and those people, they're a good solution.
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Interesting that you assume saying bicycles don't work for everyone means I want fossil fuels. I mean, I even said bicycles are great and need more support. 🤷♂️
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I'm going to guess that you're not particularly tall or short or heavy, you're not disabled, and you've never tried to carry groceries for a family for a week over ten miles balanced on your handlebars. In any case, I never said bicycles are useless, only that their use is restricted.
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...If you live in a city, never need to travel very far or arrive undishevelled, and you're not disabled or tall or short or heavy or trying to carry things or...
Bicycles are great and need better support, but the only problem they solve is abled people traveling short distances without a car.
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I'm doubly worried because it becomes impossible to isolate from the various plagues if you're using cash. Is it a foregone conclusion that we're going to lose everything that's in a bank or credit union?
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So what should we be doing, taking all our money out of the bank in cash and hoping no one breaks in and looks under the mattress? I'm not being snide, the folks and I have been genuinely asking this question and we don't know the answer.
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I think the matte painting is filmed separately. But there is a huge difference between adding a background later and filming on a set entirely draped in green cloth, with all physical objects added later by CGI, characters added later by CGI, etc. Matte paintings are like stage play backdrops.
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Tales of the Shire is coming out at the end of March. It's supposed to be a cozy hobbit life simulator, just wandering around the Shire growing and making things.
www.talesoftheshire.com
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If they do this, when we come out the other side (assuming, obviously), it's going to get interesting when people start suing over every debt because every means of tracking them has been compromised.
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VILLAIN: You'll never pull one over on me, internationally renowned gentleman thief Simon Templar!
SIMON: *ruins the villain, confounds the cops, saves the damsel, poses for magazine photos*
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JIM PHELPS: Rollin, for your next infiltration, study this photo of yourself in Groucho Marx glasses.
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It's funny because in the original TV series, both ratcheted back the disguise options several notches. Simon Templar was a world famous philanthropist-thief and wore no disguise, while in Mission Impossible half the villains just happened to look like Martin Landau with a fake mustache.
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It makes sense to me. Thinking of @democrats.org, if someone promises to save you from a disaster and then watches from a safe distance as you get disastered, and then asks you for money, you're going to be angrier with them than the disaster. Same idea, but the disaster is people.
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If the people affected are afraid to be in a press conference, then why are the Democrats not holding press conferences to say so? Every day, this is what they've done, this is the human toll, and all these people are terrified of retribution. Nothing you've said excuses even a moment of inaction.
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I am of the opinion that defense even by force can be nonviolence, and I consider "nonviolent" leaders who sacrifice their followers without defense to be committing acts of terrible violence. Sometimes things are paradoxical on the surface.
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It's an amazing movie. And I think one reason the cinematography is so good is no one had invented (useful) CGI yet. So each shot is an actual, physically present work of art.
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Oh, and robusta is more likely to survive climate change, so coffee drinkers will probably all have to get used to it or switch to tea.
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Possibly? Robusta coffee has an earthier flavor, arabica a lighter, more acidic flavor. And about a hundred years ago marketers decided arabica was more highfalutin', so coffee ever since has advertised "100% arabica." Lavazza, an Italian brand, is a blend, which I think I prefer.
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Thank you! I've been worried about this. I have a good food thermometer and always cook everything to 165 F, but my folks both eat meat and have compromised immune systems. This is a great relief.
Of course, now my brain will be convinced anxiety insomnia is profitable. 😁
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If you don't understand that your job is to be an opponent of fascism, bigotry, and all who would promote lies over the truth, then you're not a journalist. You're just a stenographer for authoritarians.
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What does "post-pandemic" mean?
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In my Mesoamerican anthropology class, the ch was pronounced as sh rather than tch. Has that understanding changed?
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Obviously not the point, but it's fascinating how far the conservative refusal to listen to the lyrics or understand *anything* in the arts goes: she's named after a character who kills herself after she is betrayed and her lover murdered. 🧐