Beautifully phrased. Make science about science again, not about flash in the pan personalities.
Hey, I write sci-fi for fun, too. I'd love to chat about writing.
I'm a Canadian and I know exactly where that is. Not many people know about Other Vancouver.
In all likelihood, this is the work of man. Conventional wisdom tells us that deer can not put on clothing, no matter how simple the design. And yet, let me tell you about deer.
Not long ago I moved to a small town nestled in lake country. My first week here I ran into a bear as one might run into a neighbour in line at the grocery store, both of us picking up some berries from nature's free shop. Foxes, wolves and otters are common sightings, too, but none of them so bold as the deer.
A deer can jump a six foot fence like a tissue floating on wind, so when I decided to garden, I caged the whole thing up. I look left and I look right, and then I open the wood and wire door to check on my pumpkins to an audible snort, deer just behind me, waiting to get at my peas.
A deer figured out the gate to the deck and ate all my tomatoes. I chased after one, trying to help, because it got the whole tomato cage stuck on it's head like an avant-garde muzzle, it wore it for a week. A deer begged my friend for her wendy's fries and ate them from her hand, we posted a picture and three people said "Oh yeah, that's Bernie." A deer broke my plastic garden chair by trying to sleep in it. Just today, I was scattering salt and sand over the walkway when a deer pranced over and stuck it's whole head in the scoop/shaker thing while I still held it.
I don't encourage the deer, I don't feed them or start conversations, but to them we're all one weird tribe. They bring their kids to the yard in the morning to hang out, sometimes waiting by the door for me to come outside with my coffee. Sometimes they have neon flagging tape or chicken wire stuck in their antlers, and they won't let me take it out. Sometimes they have orphaned mits in their mouths, I don't know where from, and they throw them at each other in a game I don't understand.
I'm not saying a deer could put on a vest, no, but it was probably their idea.
I am for regulation of e-bikes
BUT
One day my back break felt loose on the trip home. I was taking 'er easy until a car sped passed me on a residential street going downhill. The speed sensor got kicked askew by a bush or something, right then, and when the computer can't tell your speed it locks into second gear. I was in first, so I pedalled, felt the motor kick in a little too hard and then braked because of the car that swerved in front of me, back brake didn't pull as hard as the front and I went over the handlebars.
The crash forced the brake into the throttle so the bike spun out over the road.
It was a good quality bike too, not some wal-mart model.
I phased out for a few. There was a crowd, a few had their phones out to call 911, I told them not too. Someone said "I've never seen an e-bike do that." I saw the bike spinning out, rolled over and caught it to take the brake off the throttle.
I had a twisted ankle and a few scrapes but was otherwise okay. E-mailed the company about it, said they were hogtied by regulations. I got an engineer buddy to "fix" the bike so it wouldn't happen again.
Point is, having control of your vehicle and knowing it'll work intuitively is safer than limits that are only meant to work in ideal conditions. Regulate the speed we go and not the speed we could potentially go. And wear a fucking helmet.
Easier in winter if you have good survival skills. There are cabins that sit empty most of the year, especially since a lot of people got them to work remote and then had to return to apartments in the city. Not suggesting anyone should illegally cross the border to steal a cabin, but if you do, send us updates.
That sucks. Hard to be yourself around people when navigating their fragile beliefs is like playing epistemological fiddlesticks. Weird when most executive chefs are male.
I donno the answer. Make 'em some pink sparkle shortbread infused with whiskey and bacon and watch their minds implode.
The last question is a leading one and poorly framed, so I won't answer it. This is a thread about two comments on a discussion, we don't know the context of what came before or any relationship these two people had.
But yeah, in my circles of women who are just fucking tired, we've all been told we gotta let men be men, and that's somehow our responsibility. So that's the context, we hear that phrase in a different tone than men do.
Nothing's wrong with feeling like a man.
I feel for this post because I've been told by bosses that men aren't used to people like me. They'd get used to it if women weren't told to dumb themselves down for the poor boys raised on some fabricated ideal of manliness. I don't like to think of traits or talents being gendered because it's exclusionary.
When I go in to buy computer parts I still get asked if I'm sure that's what my boyfriend wants? I never mention a boyfriend, they just assume. I don't ask for help in hardware stores because nine times out of ten it's gonna start a whole argument with someone who thinks they know my project better than I do.
I see the same thing happening to guys, saw a dude at a yarn shop get asked if he was gettin supplies for his wife. That sucks, right? It sucks to feel less like who you are because of what you like. That shit keeps up the gender divide because not everyone has the energy to risk feeling a little worse to do the things they enjoy.
So yeah, I'll never describe an activity as typically male or female.
As it turns out, the things that make a good man are the same things that make a good person.
Not one, just a lot of potential I didn't have the eyes to see at the time. I was a jackass who made up problems to stop people getting close, or made everything a dealbreaker, or held people up to standards even I couldn't maintain. Once I sorted through enough decent people to find someone just as toxic, I'd settle down for a bit.
Now I'm with myself and only myself, I was the one who got away.
There were scams going on, still are, and it was a fomo bubble that rightfully burst. I mean, any industry has a scummy side to it and crypto, unfortunately, makes it easy to scam.
But NFTs are still being used for their original purpose, I'm not defending them, that's just a thing that's happening.
Over the last few years courts in at least a few countries have decided to recognize the contracts as legally binding proof of ownership. England, Singapore and China that I know of. I remember a couple cases coming up in Mexico and the United States but couldn't find much well-sourced information on the follow up.
Weirdly enough, despite the hype of NFTs, that's what they were being used for in the background of the bullshit.
Small artists were and still are using it to sell their work internationally, where they can tailor their own contracts that people, by default, agree to by purchasing.
They were used by people to control and verify their ownership of sensitive digital media as well.
The only counterpoint I can think of is that the distributed ledger is much harder to fuck with than a physical or digital archive with a couple backups.
I'm pretty blockchain neutral. I took an interest in it at one point, did some graphics work for a few companies so I learned the ropes. So yeah, I agree with the statement that OP's making a few leaps in logic.
There are a lot of corrupt as fuck companies working in blockchain because of a weird cryptobro need to reinvent the wheel of finance, but blockchain is still kinda neat. Sending funds internationally is easier, in my experience. Moving funds across borders can be a pain in the ass through a bank if you don't do it often - with crypto it's a few clicks.
This is from my old crypto knowledge before I stopped working with those folks, but there was a company in africa that launched a mesh network that spanned across multiple countries, using crypto as both the payment and the fee for spreading the signal or using it. Then there were at least a couple cases of people securing control of personal, sensitive media by tokenizing it as an NFT - which I understand was done as a faster and cheaper alternative to copyrighting internationally.
Again, I can not state enough how not a crypto bro I am, because it seems like standing in the middle of the road makes me too block-chain friendly for the internet. I've been involved peripherally to a few things that made me go "Huh, that's actually pretty cool."
That's a good point, people make nodes because the incentive helps make sure there are enough servers on the network to keep it secure.
However, back in the days before blockchain we had SETI. So a case could be made that people will volunteer resources for something that mutually benefits them. Protecting ourselves from doctored media and deepfakes would be a pretty good incentive.
Then again, there are a lot of different cryptos tied to tasks already - like using phones as nodes in a mesh network, using a decentralized search engine, learning about crypto itself, etc. If blockchain turned out to be a good way to verify media, there could be a pay off for joining the distributed ledger.
People can do multiple things. Like post and organize mutual aid. Or post and engage in activism. Or write a comment and think.
I almost listed a few of his activism and fundraising initiatives, but then I thought: If this person doesn't think a nearly 90 year old gay man, who survived an internment camp, has seen some shit and has some wisdom to share, I probably won't be the one to open their eyes.
Huh both those articles confirm what I said and say the claim might be a prank. I don't know what this has to do with being wrong about where vinegar comes from.