Morning Gang
With the Paracelsus section growing to a close, its looking like time to jump into the next big section: The History of Alchemy. That's probably what I'll be researching today!
i’ve been saying it for years:
government considers you able to work if you can give anything more than 0%
employers consider you unhireable if you give anything less than 100%
it occurred to me recently that this may be somewhat on purpose.
not saying there's a conspiracy or something, I'm just saying the people in power have a pretty strong economic motivation to interpret the stats this way.
I've given this advice before and I'll give it again:
if you are looking at the checkbox where you have to self-identify whether or not you have a disability,
- only check it off if you are going to request a specific accommodation
- only do so after you have already been offered the job.
Companies have absolutely no reason to know you are disabled unless you need to get accommodations. And if you do need accommodations, it is so much better to have an offer letter in hand when you request them - at that point, the company will need to actually officially rescind its offer if they want to try to discriminate, and any company that has even heard of the ADA knows they are on dodgy legal ground doing that given that they would have to do so in writing and provide some kind of valid reason for it, rather than just ghosting you like they would probably do if you had not already been offered the job. You have the legal right to wait until you are hired to disclose that you have a disability, and you should avail yourself of that right.
I just got woken up, from a nightmare, by the train going by shaking my bed, to find that duolingo randomly sent me the first notification in over a year, please understand my state of mind right now
I learned what sun poisoning is recently and now I keep getting scared when I see suspiciously pink white people out and about during the day. Like dude get back inside you're in danger
Barbie (2023) // The Good Place (2016-2020)
this looks like the same party
they’re shouting back and forth across the club
Wild that folks keep saying beekeepers abuse bees as if bees are not both venomous flying animals and fully unionized
Hubris to think you COULD abuse bees
I think that if you see a balrog in an unlocked kitty kennel then you can assume that it wants to be there
Actually, beekeepers take many precautions to keep their bees from leaving.
many clip the wings of the queen, destroy new queen cells, cull queens they don’t like and use bee pheromones to prevent a hive from naturally swarming or absconding. They also try and prevent mating with the African honey bee, which makes them less docile among other things. During artificial insemination of queens, drones are crushed and „spare“ queens are killed.
Coupled with the fact that there is evidence that insects do feel pain, this is not great.
It is so fucking bold of you to link the exact same paywalled book thirteen times in your reblog to throw people off the fact that you’re using one source from 1859.
I LOVE being alive so I can be mediocre at SO many different hobbies
People in the tags keep saying this but unironically but this WAS unironic I actually do have hobbies and I am mediocre at them. And they do make me happy anyway
Mostly "read". A lot of "watched" too. Some "played".
“experienced”
“withstood”
“anguished through”
"was fundamentally changed by"
They should have made VHS tapes double sided like audio cassettes. Six hours of recording a side!
Yeah they'd have to be really thick. But I want Chonky Tapes, damn it.
Anyway the reason they didn't do this is because of helical scan. Audio tapes are linear, they just have a head touching a spot on the tape and it records along the tape as it moves.
VHS tapes are instead recorded as a sort of spiral, because it gives them more bandwidth.
The head is tilted and spins, so the path of the recording is longer. It's quite amazing and tricky but it gives much higher bandwidth, which you need for video. Otherwise you'd need your tape to move really fast, which would cut down on how much you could record on one tape.
So for audio cassettes they just have four linear tracks, stacked top to bottom on the tape. The head is placed to read the bottom or top two (for stereo), and when you flip the tape it can access the other two.
Flipping a VHS tape would result in you recording ACROSS the existing tracks, which would be weird and not work. Probably. Note to self: try it
I mentioned this on mastodon and someone found a reddit post where someone claimed to have the results of doing this. I don't 100% believe them, but it's certainly a look.
