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Penrose quilt is officially finished! 2022-07-30 to 2023-04-02, all hand sewn by me and my mother.
It would figure that the Einstein would be found like a month before I finished this! Honestly probably for the best, the Einstein has too many concave angles.
We'll embroider patches for it soon but for now we're calling it, it still needs its first wash and I'll probably have to patch up some quilting after that.
the funniest thing about TikTok is that everybody tags their stuff #foryoupage #fyp because they think that increases the odds of getting it on people’s For You Page, and there is zero reason to think that.
The funniest part is the double clever reason “well, all the popular ones have #fyp on them, so maybe that convinced the algorithm to pay attention to that”
Cargo Clout
What is up with the Marshall Major headphones. Why are like four people on every subway and tram car wearing the exact same model of Marshall headphones. Was there a sale. Did they fall off a truck. Do you get issued one when you enter the city. Where's mine.
i wish disco elysium came out in the early 2000s so we could have gotten some godawful cntrl alt del comics about it
changed my mind this is scary
Dollars trilogy + Reductress headlines
Shoelace throwing a little tantrum because Bark walked over her.
Michelle Tandler – a former venture capitalist and wealthy “anti-San Francisco influencer“ – publicly bemoaned the lack of vigilante groups in the Bay area as she mused about whether or not fentanyl sellers should be lynched. As a researcher who studies drug prohibition, I responded by pointing out that not only is this kind of bloodthirsty rhetoric abhorrent, but drug sellers are, for the most part, workers entrapped in a violent system of marginalization, trying to survive where they have been denied functional access (often through systemic racism) to the licit job market. I pointed out, as my colleagues and I often do, that prohibition is in fact a root cause of most of the harm and chaos stemming from the drug trade. Legalization and regulation would save many lives. Even Twitter owner Elon Musk weighed in on this contentious discussion, surprising many with his stance in favour of the legalization of fentanyl. Despite this, I received dozens of threats and harassing messages for stating a position backed up by evidence.
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Prohibition isn’t fighting the fentanyl crisis – it helped create it in the first place. The more the police crack down – while little is done to address the root question of why so many people want painkillers – the more they push it underground. Drug busts incentivize the flooding of the market with more compact, stronger drugs. More potent drugs are easier to transport and hide, but they’re also more dangerous as they’re difficult to properly dose. It happens every time prohibition is implemented, from the banning of alcohol in the U.S. in the 1920s and 30s, which had the unintended consequence of displacing beer and wine with the consumption of harder liquors, all the way up to the present day, where fentanyl has largely replaced heroin – which replaced morphine, which replaced opium (which was made illegal in Canada in 1908).
Despite countless aggressive attempts, no amount of surveillance or state violence has been able to stamp out drugs, which are available even in prisons, the most heavily guarded places on Earth. This is not to say we should give up the fight to keep people safe from overdoses. Quite the opposite. It means we need to let go of old, punitive, ineffective methods and start trying approaches that actually make practical sense. We have to respect the dignity of our fellow human beings who are struggling and in pain.
Hey guys I typically dojn't make posts like this but today I was playing Minecraft and cutting down a birch tree and a skeleton walked out of a cave. I've been dealing with skeleton for a while now and thought I should warn people about their behavior so I made this google doc in case others come in contact with minecraft skeleton too. please share to spread thew ord to stay safe
train time
Video game-ass country. Turning an innocuous corner to reveal a huge weird cathedral is so 2018.
Also went to the chapel full of human bones. It's a lot of bones! Pretty much the most exposed bones per square meter outside of the Paris catacombs. Jod tier shit.
me: i need to delete pictures from my camera roll i have too many
also me: saves 20 pictures of industrial pipes because of their vibes
immanetizing the eschaton etc
Learning about the world is the sole reason for human existence. We're given this glorious puzzle box when we're born, and we need to figure out as much of it as we can before we kick off. To satisfy this purpose, humanity has developed a whole shedload of cool specialty tools.
Hundreds of years ago, there were a lot fewer tools. You didn't have to know so much, and the chance that you would invent the electromagnet, or discover a new kind of onion, was pretty good. Now, there's still lots of things we haven't figured out, but because it hasn't happened yet, we don't know what they will be. Did that make sense? What I am trying to say is: you need to buy some more tools, because the best kind of tools are the tools that make tools. Took me long enough to get to the point, right?
When you're a teenager, you might think that you're hot stuff figuring out the two-wrenches trick. As an adult, you teach yourself to MIG together two chunks of iron, and then build terrifying race cars. You still have a lot of money, space, and time to get to the point where you're running half of an industrial machining operation just to turn down an oil filter socket so that it fits over your friend's aftermarket valve cover. Such is a life well spent.
Head on out to the garage right now and figure out what tool you're missing. Maybe you can invent it yourself, and then it will forever be named after you. Just let me have a free one, so I can put it on the shelf with all the other specialty tools that I won't use instead of a hammer and profanity.
figured id share this update here for those wanting to keep up with the bandcamp union Bandcamp United and how their efforts have been going
god I’m so fucking tired today. trans barista was CLEARLY clocking me when he was like “I think you and I have a lot in common!” but for some reason my brain immediately went to spinal columns and I raised my fist and said “yeah! team Chordata!”
social media site where your posts and images are dedup'd by hash but the default free account only checks the top 10 bits of the hash, you can pay for more bits.
Civilization was not developed to produce food for people. It is specifically the organizational processes of limiting access to abundance as a means of social and ecological hegemonic dominance. Hope this helps :)
It's neither of these things. "Civilization" is a post hoc term for "all the stuff people have been doing for the past 5-12 thousand years, or at least all the stuff sedentary people have been doing". A wide variety of historians and archeologists have rightly criticized the term as basically meaning nothing, other than conveying a vague judgement about the relative worth of settled vs. nomadic hunter-gatherer societies. Anyway, "civilization" wasn't developed by anybody or for any purpose, it's just a hodgepodge of shit that's been going on recently (in, you know, geological terms).
Wrong again. "Civilization" was developed by Sid Meier in response to his fascination with recently released "god games" like Sim City and Populous, which he believed were the foremost evidence that computer games could be "about" more than destruction. Civilization is now a particularly successful and well-established franchise known as a formative example of and the premier of the 4x genre. It has shipped more than 40 million total units and further installments are still being developed.
