Posts by cwicseolfor@urbanists.social
(DIR) Post #AqiIXfSE30LWvO8Ymu by cwicseolfor@urbanists.social
2025-02-02T16:26:59Z
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@futurebird I don't know if you ever dabble in video games, but one of the best pieces of fiction, in any medium, I've experienced in my life is titled Horizon: Zero Dawn. I saved the sequel as a pick-me-up "for emergencies," I'm playing it now. Both titles debuted the same year as major entries in famous beloved series, so they were very undersung.Specifically (likely only) because of that context, "anthropic stone" didn't startle me in the least. It's a major feature of the game's landscape.
(DIR) Post #ArAOu1PAuxmRI8hvYu by cwicseolfor@urbanists.social
2025-02-16T05:41:49Z
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@ShiitakeToast @evacide He's got a habit of doing that, insinuating the science is being done in backrooms and concealed from the public, instead of published in journals and enthusiastically shared as PDFs to anybody who breathes a hint of interest.
(DIR) Post #ArpAbFFTEla8LBGGTg by cwicseolfor@urbanists.social
2025-03-07T21:53:03Z
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@ErikUden I fear that preparations *are* being made, and they look like what is happening now. They're just not preparations for the outcome *we* desire, that being mass survival.
(DIR) Post #As1AeCxaX8X20bpSmu by cwicseolfor@urbanists.social
2025-03-13T16:50:05Z
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@stux This one, though it's no less meanspirited and malicious than any of the rest, made me laugh a bit, because most people in the US who can afford European imported alcohol on any sort of regular basis are pretty well off. For once he's disadvantaging chiefly the people with money. (Ergo, I do not expect it to last.)
(DIR) Post #AsJPx6fMfqSKMtH4W8 by cwicseolfor@urbanists.social
2025-03-22T11:56:57Z
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@pjf @mensrea @futurebird AAAA thank you for that link. My father was a bowyer into primitive archery; we did a few of these things, and I still tend to fabricate whatever I can as a first instinct vs. buying. Most lately I've started playing with coppice and wattle in the garden - nobody here does, so online sharing really does make a lot of impact.Following for those future handouts!!
(DIR) Post #At1XVpQtNGgX74R8jo by cwicseolfor@urbanists.social
2025-04-12T18:58:26Z
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@futurebird She’s so cute!
(DIR) Post #At7vkhd6ER9J6WX1Qu by cwicseolfor@urbanists.social
2025-04-15T20:58:19Z
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@futurebird It was very annoying in the amphibian community because some toads have similar skin colors to humans and my toadposts kept getting removed with “warnings” about my adult content submissions. Sir. Sir it does not even have external reproductive organs.
(DIR) Post #At9N01aVCasxGdo6sq by cwicseolfor@urbanists.social
2025-04-16T13:32:04Z
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@ContraindiKate @futurebird @skynebula I’m beginning to wonder if on some level it’s not just avoiding the work of humanizing others, but the peril of humanizing themselves, from a fearful equivalence of negotiation with malicious manipulation; wanting to socially exist as an inscrutable black box to which desiderata flow, but without leaking any vulnerable information as to why (let alone reciprocal obligations.)
(DIR) Post #At9N0BFFITp9DbwH8i by cwicseolfor@urbanists.social
2025-04-16T13:32:28Z
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@ContraindiKate @futurebird @skynebula End stage consumerism, maybe?
(DIR) Post #AtAe2MWQohkXgX0yvo by cwicseolfor@urbanists.social
2025-04-17T00:53:55Z
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@Brad > … a three-minute test to simply see how healthy patients’ blood vessels are while resting.Someone with long COVID will feel overexerted just from sitting."What we saw in people with long COVID is they were burning 20, 30 percent more energy than someone that we would expect for their height, weight, gender and age," he said. "So even though we were asking them to sit very still and not use any energy at all, their bodies were working really, really hard to maintain that."
(DIR) Post #AtBlYra9lVb47VA5ya by cwicseolfor@urbanists.social
2025-04-17T17:20:30Z
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@hannu_ikonen “That won’t matter for you, you haven’t changed your name.”Just endlessly tapping the “I don’t know how to make you understand you’re supposed to care about other people” sign.
(DIR) Post #AtJrhIA8yfO7rd4nNw by cwicseolfor@urbanists.social
2025-04-21T14:59:49Z
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@hakfoo @futurebird @lnlyisol The issue isn’t that they made it available, the issue is we didn’t formally teach people to use it because it was seen as a rich person’s toy, then a way of gatekeeping (to the wealthy and to the potential future servants of the wealthy) for so long it hit critical mass without education in place and sold out to ad companies.That’s when they started disregarding Boolean and really nerfed it for everyone at once.
(DIR) Post #AtMp4dnqy4npFjyKI4 by cwicseolfor@urbanists.social
2025-04-23T01:19:42Z
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@josh Just gonna drop the artist’s portfolio link here (and *thank you for crediting*) because very good odds a bunch of us wanted to see more -https://www.lilyseikajones.com/
(DIR) Post #AtVTi3KByXIh51WMIS by cwicseolfor@urbanists.social
2025-04-27T05:28:54Z
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@MissConstrue @hannu_ikonen Finding a counselor who masks has been tricky for me. Mine takes covid seriously enough to have offered to write a letter in support of my masking at one point, which is appreciated, and … masks when they believe themselves to be sick.… psych degrees require no small background in statistics, so it can feel like another layer of gaslighting to ignore asymptomatic risk.I was heartened to see one fellow voter in a proper mask the other day.
(DIR) Post #Ato51ob1kHsibzkzU8 by cwicseolfor@urbanists.social
2025-05-06T05:00:05Z
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@futurebird I misremembered that Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels were being microchipped as a theft deterrent (it’s actually to avoid counterfeiting) but now I’m thinking about the biceps you’d have to have to lift those wheels as a thief, and there’s absolutely Hollywood potential there.
(DIR) Post #Au0Px8sJLs6gzXyQ6K by cwicseolfor@urbanists.social
2025-05-10T18:36:22Z
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@Eka_FOOF_A @tayfonay Per another reply the guy bringing the suit bought 5 more shares just before doing so. Shareholders for oil cos (Shell, Exxon, Valero iirc?) have been firing board members who shut down renewable development, Costco shareholders just voted 98% approval for upholding their DEI policy (against a shareholder proposal to end it.) So I’m thinking there’s a reflection of just who seeks out these specific companies to invest into & sues to *avoid* a vote.
(DIR) Post #Aun2vQb4Jlw1uVo0I4 by cwicseolfor@urbanists.social
2025-06-04T14:53:57Z
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@futurebird "I will always be critical of any mode of dress that manages to be high effort but low effect"SO MUCH THIS. My bar for what constitutes minimum effect is probably higher than most people, admittedly. But I'd truly rather see people in (clean) sweats/ pajamas than climate-inappropriate costume (imagine NYC-inspired businesswear norms, but in Texas heat) or awful fast fashion.
(DIR) Post #AuqyERGuJKTAMoScWe by cwicseolfor@urbanists.social
2025-06-06T12:20:10Z
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@futurebird Shoes are most expensive and also have a functional component that form follows - are you wearing steel-toes, heels, something in a vulnerable soiling-prone material like suede? It announces what sort of work you expect to be doing.I always had sort of a pre-Priestly Andy Sachs history with fashion so reading it discussed with insight and analysis, and not via the offputting, pushy, overt peer pressure of ad- and women’s-styleguide-speak, is fascinating.
(DIR) Post #AuzrZLYrmnZnTuWTey by cwicseolfor@urbanists.social
2025-06-10T19:17:56Z
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@futurebird USians use a lot of peanuts as peanut butter, but I think that ended up associating it with "kid food," and historically they were seen as poor people fare - e.g. "they work for peanuts" - (they're a legume after all) so had some stigma there too.I'm sure someone with stranded peanut assets will eventually come up with some kind of superfood claim that catapults some particular varietal to the top of trendy shopping lists and then they'll be unaffordable thereafter.
(DIR) Post #AvOOisx8MWHrkXnAki by cwicseolfor@urbanists.social
2025-06-21T19:12:36Z
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@Genderqueerwolf (Also if it’s hot, doing laundry on your off day so you can dry the clothes outside on a line, rack, chairs or railings cuts down your electric consumption and indoor heat generation a huge amount. As does cooking outdoors! Or if indoors, in an insulated vessel like a stand-alone pressure cooker, because it’s not blasting as much heat out into the room as makes it into your food - this goes triple if you have a gas cooktop.)