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There is a post that says
Every seven years all our cells renew
How beautiful it would be,
To have a body you never touched
Except it isn't true,
But even if it was
Your hands were on this body
The same body I've never felt at home in
Has become a prison
I have scrubbed off all traces of you
And yet, my skin still knows
Still remembers
What it was
To be touched by you
That should be beautiful
It sounds so poetic
And yet, it is the only evidence
Of the horror you committed
Homesick for the elderly lesbian couple at my hometown's antique store who found out I was transitioning and said, "You should buy a lantern! All the men who come in here go bonkers for our lanterns."
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“I like cancelled plans. And empty bookstores. I like rainy days. And thunderstorms. And quiet coffee shops. I like messy beds and over-worn pajamas. Most of all, I like the small joys that a simple life brings.”
— Unknown
i will never understand the insane takes against having games be more accessible
“does every game NEED to be accessible to disabled people? 🤨” yeah, actually
also the pissing and shitting over difficulty settings. just play the game on the normal difficulty dumbass it’s not for you
Same with stuff like screen shake, particle effects, flashing/lightning effects: “But the game would look terrible without them!”
Then Just.... Don’t turn them off then, dickface...
Meanwhile, *having the option to turn them off* would greatly increase the number of people able to play the game.
The early signs of a coven
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wow... yeah, you're really showing how much you hate capitalism by ... (checks notes) ... paying $10 for a fucking ice-cream...
idiot
they… they gentrified eating the rich
Fwiw, MSCHF is an art collective. They're the people who made Lil Naz X's Satan shoes, which is probably what they're best known for.
This is essentially an interactive art installation. They have an ice cream truck and they sold these ice creams, but it's not like a thing that will be a mass produced item... it was a 3 day event that's already over.
Like... look at the logo on the truck. It doesn't say "popsicle" lol. And they are purposely overpriced because they're trying to make a statement about how "eat the rich" has become a sort of virtue signaling among some so-called progressives. Gentrifying "eat the rich" is very accurate, but in this case, it's completely intentional. There's a ton of people capitalizing on "eat the rich" merchandise already, and MSCHF is trying to draw attention to it. People are literally out there capitalizing on socialism.
The collective has done some questionable things over the years, but like, they've also done a lot of cool things. In 2020, they found 3 Americans with huge amounts of medical debt, made paintings of their actual bills, sold the paintings for $78,000 USD, and then used that money to pay down the debt for those 3 people. It helped them, obviously, but the overall goal was to raise awareness about the impact of medical debt.
In 2021, they bought a robot dog from Boston Dynamics, mounted a paintball gun on it, and allowed people to use it to shoot the paintball gun, to show how these robot dogs could potentially be used by police.
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I need this for my cats and children.
you know what i've noticed in cop shows? lawyers are ALWAYS made to look bad for instructing their clients on their rights and how to speak to cops. in the situations portrayed in the show it looks bad because the person being interrogated is guilty of horrible crimes and thus the lawyer looks evil for defending them. everyone kind of groans when the serial killer or whatever is like "I want a lawyer". am I crazy or is this like a repetitive Thing in cop shows?
cop version of the corporate "frivolous lawsuits" propaganda
oh yeah no this is very real. they also make sure only the people who are guilty of something call a lawyer, and the innocents just "sit down to talk about it and tell what they know" etc
YES!!!! the innocent people never call a lawyer in even when they're considered a suspect
Not only is it a common theme but it’s very intentional. The advent of the police procedural was to rehabilitate the image of the police. Dragnet was created with the help (oversight) of the LAPD to turn media’s image of the bumbling cop into something favorable. The LAPD donated cars and equipment and in exchange were script supervisors the way the military will check over movies now. A lot of procedurals still have “police liaisons” if not use cops as references. Not only are the police made to look good, police brutality is excused because the “good cop” has to “bend the rules”, and people enforcing their rights is intentionally framed as “evil criminals.” Some coverage on copaganda:
If cop shows were realistic 19/20 episodes would end with an unsolved crime and the 20th would have an innocent person framed.
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being a jack of all trades master of none is actually so awesome bc i can make the shittest clay sculpture and the ugliest drawing and the sloppiest painting and the worst hand stitches and the wonkiest earrings and it's like. who cares + now im surrounded by lots of different silly things i made with love and care etc
My great uncle, who loved cooking and engineering and traveling and far too many other things, always used to say:
"Among the cooks, I am the best engineer, and among the engineers I am the best cook."
I love that. It's one of the things I try to live by.
not to oversimplify an extremely complex discipline but if i had to pick one tip to give people on how to have more productive interactions with children, especially in an instructive sense, its that teaching a kid well is a lot more like improv than it is like error correction and you should always work on minimizing the amount of ‘no, wrong’ and maximizing the amount of ‘yes, and?’ for example: we have a species of fish at the aquarium that looks a lot like a tiny pufferfish. children are constantly either asking us if that’s what they are, or confidently telling us that’s what they are. if you rush to correct them, you risk completely severing their interest in the situation, because 1. kids don’t like to engage with adults who make them feel bad and 2. they were excited because pufferfish are interesting, and you have not given them any reason to be invested in non-pufferfish. Instead, if you say something like “It looks a LOT like a tiny pufferfish, you’re right. But these guys are even funnier. Wanna know what they’re called?” you have primed them perfectly for the delightful truth of the Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker
I was in martial arts for years, and in particular I kinda specialized in working with the younger kids.
The two Big Rules when instructing younger students was- 1. Compliment before Critique 2. Don’t say ‘but’, say ‘now’
Praise kids on what they get right first, especially if they are struggling. Like OP said, kids don’t like to engage with people who make them feel bad. They need encouragement when learning new things.
Number two boils down to this. If you tell a kid a compliment, then say “but you need to fix this”, that ‘but’ completely negates your compliment. It’s gone. It was canceled out like adding a negative to a positive. Using “hey, that punch is looking great, now let’s focus on your stance” doesn’t verbally cancel out the progress they’ve made. It’s like they’ve checked off something on their list of stuff to work on.
Wording can absolutely make or break a child’s motivation and interest.
i love pitting classically trained magic users against self-taught magic users in sci-fi/fantasy but it shouldn’t be snobbish disdain for them it should be terror
“WHO TAUGHT YOU LIGHTNING BEFORE BASIC TELEKINESIS. LOSING MY MIND WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU JUST DID IT. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAST WITH YOUR BARE HANDS”
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT YOU’VE ‘HACKED’ MANA DRAIN
WHAT DO YOU MEAN ‘DRINK SOME JUICE’
WHAT IS ‘LOW BLOOD SUGAR’
WHY IS THIS WORKING
I HATE YOU SO MUCH
Okay but other direction can ALSO be a lot of fun
“What do you mean I don’t have to burn half my blood to create a fireball?”
“Why can you teleport more than once without vomiting? WTF is ‘quantum displacement awareness’???”
“You know HOW many spells? HOW? ... What do you mean ‘my spell book’?”
“Ooooh, you’re just summoning water portions from the Plane of Water... Lol I thought I HAD to combine hydrogen and oxygen molecules to generate water in small amounts. That’s so much easier then what I was doing!”
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this does, in fact, map beautifully onto how self-taught programmers will be able to perform near miracles with they're code simply because they didn't know that conventional wisdom said the task was impossible, but can't perform many relatively simple things without a novel's worth of spaghetti code
