I hate this intersection. Five lanes on both roads. People run read lights out of habit. People don’t even slow down turning right on red. So many people (including me) cross the street there every day.
Someone got hit by a car just seconds before I walked around the corner. I think she’s alive. God, I went on a walk to clear my head, now I’m practically shaky
I try to compare it more to pamphlets and lectures from previous eras. Radio even. Part of the issue is the quantity and the ephemeral nature of it all. It’s not like a published book or a film. Still, sometimes there’s back and forth through the mediums. That back and forth just can’t look the same
Does the idea of becoming a crotchety old man fill you with dread? Hairline receding? Life draining from your eyes? After only a few months on HRT, the intern’s best guess at my age was 22, and now I get to look forward to being a crotchety old woman one day
Been seeing more older businessmen in tailored suits recently. Getting suspicious
Nostalgia is fine, we are supposed to relive old stories, but in some sense those stories are supposed to be alive. We live in a world of dead media.
Retelling it any differently, iterating on it, is bound to come up against copyright infringement and complaints from fans about dedication to “the source material”
We used to have constant iteration on stories told by actors, bards or whoever. We told similar stories, but they weren’t the same. Now every time I want to go see a Star Wars, the actor is Harrison Ford and it’s directed by George Lucas.
It is such an interesting fact of modern life that stories get told once and then are set in stone. You don’t go to see a live performance, or at least that’s not how you generally absorb music, stories or art. A story is told, a song is played, it is edited, published, and then set in stone.
Electric heat pumps are the main way to outgrow air and climate pollution from burning fossil fuels to heat buildings. Air-source heat pumps are the most cost-effective technology in most settings today, but in the coldest, densest cities, networked geothermal heat pumps may make sense. Quick🧵
This was a different teacher than the one who was proud discussing how he opted out of the teachers union in front of the class. Both were rabid anti communists who would rant about it unprompted and collectively taught every history, sociology/psychology and economics class offered at my school lol
It was a bit fun though, and I think the teacher in particular had a great time. I think most people hated him though lol
I actually got along amazingly with this teacher, but god, that was such a stupid premise for a class, and I think most people came out of it with a worse understanding of history, media, and like basically everything about how the world works. Feels like it had the potential to induce psychosis
In high school I had a history class that was basically just a film study class taught by the least media literate guy imaginable. We just watched cheesy war movies and then discussed them as if they were actual history and said meaningful things about human nature and how people actually acted
A cat, torbie/calico, fat, sitting on top of the back of an office chair
This cat is the most affectionate, needy, 14 pound girl, and she will get you with both paws and a mouth full of teeth the moment she starts to get just a little too overstimulated. We love her, and she’s getting better about processing her emotions, but we’ve had to go to urgent care more than once
I’d really focus on insulating and sealing (and adding ventilation) to try and get utility costs down. Those older houses if they had insulation probably had cellulose, which has probably degraded a lot by now, and was not great to begin with.
I think you can get some good residential condensing boilers these days if the old needs replacing, but heat pump boilers seem a bit off in the North American residential market.
Very comfy. Can be difficult to add air conditioning to. I’ve daydreamed about buying some of the old houses in my neighborhood, and I figure a multi split heat pump with the hot water boilers acting as backup heat is a good option.
I’m not saying every book needs to be “about” trans people, but it’s very ironic to write a whole book centered around how women are systematically ignored and not considered while completely and very intentionally ignoring and not considering the very relevant experiences of trans women.
It’s a real shame. There’s genuinely some good stuff in this book I’ll be thinking more about, but it could have been so much better with a slightly more critical view and inclusive lens. Excluding trans women from “women” just prevents the book from fully grappling with the problem.
Listening to an audiobook about data and design bias against women, and I kept noticing odd little things about it. Odd language at times, odd tangents and emphasis. All this along with it seemingly being written as if trans people simply did not exist. Looked up the author, TERF
We have a system that just inherently pits property owners, developers and renters against each other, when it shouldn’t be too hard to get everyone on roughly the same page on building good affordable housing in places where people want to live, with the infrastructure for them to get around.
So many of the problems with urbanism are problems of real estate, debt and property. People should be able to organize their streets and neighborhoods around their interests and the changes they want and don’t want to see. Interests would conflict less if property came into it less.
Economics is fake and made up. People don’t act like that. They can’t. It would be bad if they did. You can’t tell me anything about the world I actually live in
I think a fast way to get me to disengage from any conversation is to start talking in terms of “rational choice theory”
Democrats love taking strategies that don’t work in the Midwest (appealing to a nonexistent moderate constituency) and applying them to the coasts (where they similarly don’t work)
I’ve lived in Iowa for like 19 years and this stuff always comes off as just incredibly condescending and out of touch to me. I don’t think it plays well for anyone
US-Israeli attacks hit Iran water facility, universities By Mohamed Vall Reporting from Tehran, Iran US and Israeli strikes have hit several Iranian cities in the past few hours, including Haftgel in the southwestern Khuzestan Province. That is the most significant strike of the day because it targeted civilian infrastructure – a water facility with a capacity of 10,000 cubic metres (10 million litres). We have see attacks on civilian property during this war, but this water facility is vital and this attack is something that the Iranian leadership will talk about a lot. Iran operates on the principle of retaliation in kind, and whenever strikes like this happens, we see the Iranian military doing the same across the region, and this is something that is very dangerous for the people of the region.
Well that's very not good...
whenever trans women get banned from something you know it's suppressing some epsteinian-level rape horror. if you think this sounds extreme then let's open up which men the olympic committee lets stay around & what kind of coercion sex-testing entails
3/3 We used to have these people, conductors and attendants. Now we just have cops, if anything. Cops don’t help. Just pay people to stand around and be helpful, and don’t give them guns.