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ok i need to check something
After googling, I'm even more confused. Merriam-Webster's blog claims
The term mano a mano comes from bullfighting. Usually there are six bulls and three bullfighters, or matadors in the ring; a mano a mano is a variation that is a duel between two matadors, each killing two or three bulls.
which sounds less like "hand to hand" than "horn to swords". Bulls don't have hands!
the hand is metaphorical in this case. it's about the evenness of the terms of the match rather than the literal weapons used, is my best guess.
Anonymous asked:
Oddly specific question: is there any superpowered characters in worm who developed there trauma from a superpowered mom?
so off the top of my head, characters with a canonically superpowered mum: theo, aster, victoria, amy, crystal, eric.
theo has most of his trauma from his superpowered dad, though abandonment by a mother-like figure (who had superpowers) was his trigger event. his actual mum is kind of a non-entity, dead for a while by the time the story starts, we don't really see him thinking about her much?
aster never develops powers and is (famously) a toddler at time of death so we don't really get to see her interiority. if she has any trauma from her superpowered mum we don't know it. (her mum is theo's mother-like figure. they also share a dad).
victoria and amy definitely have trauma from their (shared) superpowered mum. As far as Worm is concerned, Victoria's trigger is about her getting hurt while playing sports, though in Ward we get her own perspective on it and it's much more focused on her failing to live up to the expectations set up by her superpowered family. So I think she counts.
Amy... her trigger event is supposed to be Victoria getting hurt. So not specifically about her mum, but like it's not like the thing is separable? victoria got hurt because she was caping in the first place, victoria goes around caping because see above. and like it sure seems a plausible read of Amy's character that her obsession with victoria is related to that being the only family member she really has a positive relationship with, because her mum hates her and her dad is not really there.
Eric and crystal also share a supermum (and amy and victoria's mum is her sister). I don't know anything about eric? on priors his trauma also comes from his family but i don't know of anything on the text or WoG to support that.
Crystal's trigger is about getting recognised as the child of superheroes and getting attacked. we don't get a lot of detail on that, and it's not really specific to her mum as opposed to her entire family. as far as I know, anyway. up to you whether that counts.
people tend to frame the whole yahoo acquisition and later sale of tumblr as 'yahoo destroyed a billion dollars of tumblr value' but i think this doesn't make a lot of sense. sometimes equivocating between price and value can be a reasonable approximation but this is not really one of those cases?
yahoo thought tumblr was worth a billion dollars, presumably in expectation that they could turn it around and make it profitable, and eventually realised they couldn't. you might argue that some value was destroyed by yahoo's management, but mostly it was never there. the difference in price tells you more about yahoo's (later verizon's) state of mind at different times than anything about tumblr itself
I've never seen this interpretation. I always understood it to be Yahoo wildly overestimating the value of Tumblr.
Ok, so something I've noticed that is utterly baffling to me is that all the Americans I know primarily dry their clothes using a machine called a dryer. I don't even own a dryer. So, I need to know:
people tend to frame the whole yahoo acquisition and later sale of tumblr as 'yahoo destroyed a billion dollars of tumblr value' but i think this doesn't make a lot of sense. sometimes equivocating between price and value can be a reasonable approximation but this is not really one of those cases?
yahoo thought tumblr was worth a billion dollars, presumably in expectation that they could turn it around and make it profitable, and eventually realised they couldn't. you might argue that some value was destroyed by yahoo's management, but mostly it was never there. the difference in price tells you more about yahoo's (later verizon's) state of mind at different times than anything about tumblr itself
I see a lot of definitions of what exactly constitutes a bug, so I want to know what you guys think makes a bug.
So if you think that earthworms are bugs but spiders aren't, you'd click "An above definition + land worms" and then say "insects only" in the tags.
I wish I had one more option so I could just have a "see results" button but I won't. 😭 Please reblog so the rest of bugblr can see it!
New guest post on Devereaux's blog is, like, eh.
But mostly if you're going to pretend to make any sort of objective technical taxonomy of leadership styles, and then you name one 'The False Hero' and your characteristic example is Hitler, then you should be legally obliged to provide 2-3 other examples who you think were basically good guys whose politics you agreed with.
oh, don't worry, he later fleshed it out by including Bush, Putin and Trump. Just so we know it wasn't a politically motivated 'this guy sucks' box but instead a natural category in approaches to command.
also you know who's basically the modern equivalent of alexander the great? Zelensky. again, dispassionate observation about approaches to command.
It's always interesting how trans people see their transition. Some people are like "I was a boy now I'm a girl" and some are like "I was always a girl" and every once in a while you get a fun one like "I used to be a boy but the girl won"
This vessel used to belong to a young man but he had a weak will and gave in to my dark influence
okay i’m curious
if not put why in the tags if u wanna
observations
- a lot of european countries saying it’s long/uses an older version of the language
- a lot more people saying no than i thought. like i did Not expect it to be this many i thought no would be a rare answer
- i love the diversity of the americans answering. like half of the americans are like “of fucking COURSE i know it it’s played everywhere it was etched into my eardrums” and the other half being like “i know. the first line??”
As an American - yes. That shit is drilled into your brain in kindergarten.
As an Australian - no. No one does.
The US is funny, because the "The Defense of Fort McHenry" actually has multiple verses, but only the first verse is officially recognized as the national anthem.
its weird that afaik "men wear pantslike legwear, women wear skirtlike legwear" seems to be pretty common cross culturally, especially the latter part. have there been socieites with the reverse? is there some practical reason?
is that true? my impression was that there were like, specific trouser cultures who developed them for things like horseriding or weather and there they were more or less unisex, and non-trouser cultures where everyone wore tunics et al again independently of sex since those are simpler to make, and trousers being masculine is a fairly modern thing (which may or may not have been driven by horseriding?).
hmm, so this post was inspired by this video, which suggests the iroquois follow this trend. i think the hanbok match this trend, although its more that both wore trousers but women wore a skirt on top, but i THINK they do?
hmm, from trousers as womens clothing
Although some images from Mycenaean Greece (c. 1750 – c. 1050 BCE) suggest both women and men wore primitive trousers, in classical ancient Greece and ancient Rome, trousers were rarely worn in general.[12] Instead, both wore a tunic as undergarment, with Roman women wearing a stola and men a toga as upper garment.[12] Amongst the Germanic peoples, men generally wore long trousers, and women sometimes as well.[12] It seems that ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians wore no trousers but a vast array of aprons, robes, cloaks, and knee skirts.[12] On the other hand, all Persians wore tight trousers, regardless of sex; at a later stage, they adopted some cloaks from the Assyrians.[12] Other ancient Iranian peoples such as Scythians, Sarmatians, Sogdians and Bactrians among others, along with Armenians and Eastern and Central Asian peoples such as the Xiongnu/Hunnu, are known to have worn trousers.[13][14] Trousers are believed to have been worn by both sexes among these early users.[15]
seems like india has a long history of gender neutral trousers
In the Kofun period, the right side was wrapped over the left (unlike in China), and the overlapped edge was secured with ties on the right side. Sleeves and trousers were tubular. Female figures often wear a skirt, with male figures wearing trousers tied with garters just above the calf, so that they balloon over the knee, allowing freedom of movement.[10]Mo, wrapped skirts, were worn by men and women, sometimes over hakama (trousers).[9]
hakama seem to be gendered male, although loosely.
like, the data here is noisy but it SEEMS like a real effect? there are lots of gender neutral trouser cultures, or no trouser cultures, but there are also lots of "trousers are male" cultures and i cant find any "trousers are female" cultures, which is weird!
@tanadrin said: kilts in scotland
men wore kilts, but women wore longer skirts! so like. theres somehting here right. you see that in the iroqouois too. men wore short skirts, women wore long skirts
at a guess it's a freedom of movement thing, but idk
its weird that afaik "men wear pantslike legwear, women wear skirtlike legwear" seems to be pretty common cross culturally, especially the latter part. have there been socieites with the reverse? is there some practical reason?
is that true? my impression was that there were like, specific trouser cultures who developed them for things like horseriding or weather and there they were more or less unisex, and non-trouser cultures where everyone wore tunics et al again independently of sex since those are simpler to make, and trousers being masculine is a fairly modern thing (which may or may not have been driven by horseriding?).
#i think that if your birthday is september 11 and you're american you need to be like#'yeah i'm celebrating 9/11! what do you mean that's insensitive. it's my birthday why wouldn't i celebrate my birthday'#incorporate subtle motifs of the number eleven that sort of kind of looks like two tall buildings#make jokes about the TSA#that sort of thing
i realise i'm in a very different situation than the people saying this but wow 'videogames are too expensive nowadays' is ranking pretty high in the list of least relatable complaints i've ever heard
how about the part about counting prices over time without regard to inflation
also extremely unrelatable but i'm used to compensating for it
i realise i'm in a very different situation than the people saying this but wow 'videogames are too expensive nowadays' is ranking pretty high in the list of least relatable complaints i've ever heard
so, there's the whole teleporter death experiment. you walk into a teleporter it creates an exact copy of you somewhere else and destroys the original. ex hypothesi, we're granting that the copy of you is in fact identical in all observable ways; there is no hidden soul variable that cannot be replicated physically and without which your body is just a lump of inanimate flesh or has a different personality or whatever. people argue about whether the person walking in is in some meaningful sense still alive as the copy or just dead, y'all know that bit.
so imagine they are introducing teleporter technology, specifically the thought experiment kind of copy-kill teleporter though obviously the marketing doesn't emphasise it, people have huge objections, other people argue that it's much more convenient and economical (imagine we also solved all our problems with generating enormous amounts of clean energy, in the meantime, such that 'build someone up atom by atom' is an economically competitive mode of transportation).
and then imagine this one guy. he heard of the new thing and it sounds scary. he's against it. he's not, like, bombing teleporter factories about it, though, he occasionally posts memes depicting the pro-teleport side as unflattering caricatures and that's the extent of his involvement on the matter. he's in a car crash. he goes into a coma. twenty years later, he wakes up, meets his family, kids all grown up, etc, tearful reunion, whatever. turns out, the culture war on teleporters is over, the pro side won, they're everywhere.
his husband and kids tell him they got very against cars after what happened to him, teleporters are much safer, nobody ever gets hurt in one (by which they mean there's always a whole uninjured copy coming out the other end, of course). and like, they need them for work, you can't expect them to commute to their jobs on the other end of the continent without teleporters, it'd eat their entire day in commuting and besides who can afford it. besides, they're perfectly safe, look, they took one here, they're fine, of course they're not dead.
of course it'll take him a bit to get used to it, yeah, they can rent a car for now. it'll eat into their finances a little but y'know they can afford it and they love him. sure he's recovering nobody expects him to get a job or go shopping for groceries. but of course if he does really the only convenient way to do it is by teleporter, they didn't pick their neighbourhood for the philosophical implications of the available modes of transportation, why would they.
so, y'know. this person, who so recently (from his own point of view, at least) would have told you that stepping into a teleporter would kill him. that has not seen anything contradicting that opinion since waking up, because he agrees that the teleporter works and the copy is identical, he just thinks (thought?) that the copy isn't the same person. that would never dream of saying 'hm i should die, that would really make the family logistics much simpler', and of course neither would anyone else in his family.
how long does he hold out, do you think?