I started thinking about that one post about how from dogs POV humans are beings that live like 500+ years (because I was petting my dog and I was looking at her like “thirty thousand years of cooperation have led to this. our species have spent 30k years building up to the point where you, child of wolf, descendant of noble hunters and wild things, would come all the way out of the office and come sit with me in the hopes of letting a souped up monkey rub its paws on you”)
and then I thought about what it must have been like for the first humans to let a fucking wolf, maybe only a few generations from the wild, behold their infant child. Like man can u believe that? Maybe this alliance is only a few years old and sure you’ve seen the wolf’s kids but now you’ve got one of your own. And even though you’ve seen this wolf tear out the throats of creatures that could kill you, this wolf is your family. This wolf is your friend, you love them and they love you and you gotta show ‘em the new kid, look, friend, I had a child. I know you are wild and dangerous, but look at this, my most precious thing, sniff him, give him a lil lick, his children and your children will be bound together for thirty thousand fucking years because I love you
There’s a set of preserved footprints from 30k years ago that is a young child and a wolf standing side by side
can you fucking imagine? Maybe the kid’s mom was like “hey go get some water from the stream, but take the wolf with you. I trust him, he will protect you.”
that one scene in hotel transmasculine where that guy shows Mavis the first sunrise she’s ever seen while making sure she doesn’t get burnt invented vampire/human romance actually like twilight could NEVER
TiL (click to go to the thread, which probably has more interesting tidbits I missed).
Bonus:
These are my people.
Betting I’ve reblogged this before. Betting I’ll reblog it when it turns up again.
In addition to the print terminology stuff: the visual shorthand icons and ad graphics for something about writing are still often pen-nibs, fountain pens and typewriters…
…while graphics of a monitor, keyboard and mouse remain visual shorthand for computing…
…even though most writers now use monitor / keyboard / mouse or even laptop / touchpad.
In addition, headers for “this blog / website is about writing” are often in one of the many imitation typewriter fonts complete with smudges, or just Courier.
The start and end call icons on most / all smartphones is still the handset of a classic desk telephone, and sometimes the open-app icon is a complete phone.
The term “hang up” for “end the call” refers to something even older - one of these…
And of course the Save icon
is indeed a 3½ inch floppy disc.
Why it wasn’t a
5¼
floppy is a mystery. The icon version is just as distinctive.
Also, why various OP updates never changed “Save” to the graphic of a CD / DVD or flash drive is another mystery, and nowadays a Save icon should probably be a cartoon cloud.
Graphics and terminology are funny things.
reblogging this again for EVEN MORE information.
I’m mostly entertained by the guy who thinks you need to know that “case” means “box” in French as though that’s not what it means in English.
skeumorphism my beloved
It’s fascinating. This post alternately made me feel old and taught me something. Tumblr is amazing.
And because we continue to use signs of ancient hardware, youngsters come up with questions like “why is the icon for ‘save’ a vending machine with a can of soda?” (One day I’ll find that post and link it)
The reason the save icon is a 3.5" floppy seems to mainly be that 3.5" disks were the most common disk by the time graphical interfaces got popular on PCs. Earlier stuff was more text based so they didn’t have or need icons.
But there are always exceptions. Lotus 1-2-3 for windows uses 5.25" disks for the save and load icons!
TiL (click to go to the thread, which probably has more interesting tidbits I missed).
Bonus:
These are my people.
Betting I’ve reblogged this before. Betting I’ll reblog it when it turns up again.
In addition to the print terminology stuff: the visual shorthand icons and ad graphics for something about writing are still often pen-nibs, fountain pens and typewriters…
…while graphics of a monitor, keyboard and mouse remain visual shorthand for computing…
…even though most writers now use monitor / keyboard / mouse or even laptop / touchpad.
In addition, headers for “this blog / website is about writing” are often in one of the many imitation typewriter fonts complete with smudges, or just Courier.
The start and end call icons on most / all smartphones is still the handset of a classic desk telephone, and sometimes the open-app icon is a complete phone.
The term “hang up” for “end the call” refers to something even older - one of these…
And of course the Save icon
is indeed a 3½ inch floppy disc.
Why it wasn’t a
5¼
floppy is a mystery. The icon version is just as distinctive.
Also, why various OP updates never changed “Save” to the graphic of a CD / DVD or flash drive is another mystery, and nowadays a Save icon should probably be a cartoon cloud.
Graphics and terminology are funny things.
reblogging this again for EVEN MORE information.
I’m mostly entertained by the guy who thinks you need to know that “case” means “box” in French as though that’s not what it means in English.
skeumorphism my beloved
It’s fascinating. This post alternately made me feel old and taught me something. Tumblr is amazing.
And because we continue to use signs of ancient hardware, youngsters come up with questions like “why is the icon for ‘save’ a vending machine with a can of soda?” (One day I’ll find that post and link it)
The reason the save icon is a 3.5" floppy seems to mainly be that 3.5" disks were the most common disk by the time graphical interfaces got popular on PCs. Earlier stuff was more text based so they didn’t have or need icons.
But there are always exceptions. Lotus 1-2-3 for windows uses 5.25" disks for the save and load icons!
“can we normalize-” NO!!!!!! we do not need to expand whats considered normal!!! we need to teach people to stop reacting judgmentally when encountering something new and weird!!!! things dont need to be normal to be respected!!!!!!!!!!
“can we normalize-” NO!!!!!! we do not need to expand whats considered normal!!! we need to teach people to stop reacting judgmentally when encountering something new and weird!!!! things dont need to be normal to be respected!!!!!!!!!!
“can we normalize-” NO!!!!!! we do not need to expand whats considered normal!!! we need to teach people to stop reacting judgmentally when encountering something new and weird!!!! things dont need to be normal to be respected!!!!!!!!!!
This easy Sesame Chicken Recipe combines pieces of battered, crispy fried chicken with an easy eight-ingredient sauce that has both sweet and salty flavors with just a hint of spice. It is so simple to prepare and tastes so much better than takeout.
When a character doesn’t realize they’ve been, like, shot or whatever and they hand brushes against their side and comes away wet with blood, and they’re just staring at it like wtf is this and then their knees just totally give out on them and they sink down, maybe gasping a little as the reality finally hits them. That’s good stuff.
I see that, and raise you a character who knows they’ve been shot, but waits until the rest of their crew is out of sight to put their hand against the slowly spreading stain of blood on their shirt, then trying to steady their breathing so they can follow without letting on how injured they are.
Okay but like the character who doesn’t realize they’ve been hurt trying to see if everyone else is okay only to slowly realize that everyone is looking at them with mounting horror. Then they touch their side to find it’s wet and oh no
all 3 of you are evil but i admire, respect, and fear you
Don’t let Chrome’s big redesign distract you from the fact that Chrome’s invasive new ad platform, ridiculously branded the “Privacy Sandbox,” is also getting a widespread rollout in Chrome today. If you haven’t been following this, this feature will track the web pages you visit and generate a list of advertising topics that it will share with web pages whenever they ask, and it’s built directly into the Chrome browser. It’s been in the news previously as “FLoC” and then the “Topics API,” and despite widespread opposition from just about every non-advertiser in the world, Google owns Chrome and is one of the world’s biggest advertising companies, so this is being railroaded into the production builds.
This is a response to the laws that eliminate or severely limit third party tracking cookies. Since Google makes so much money on advertising, it had to figure out other ways to get your data. It’s already been tracking people who use the web while logged into Google, but now they’re baking it into Chrome.
As someone who works in advertising, the reason I new use Firefox is because I heard the industry rumblings about this for the last 3 years. It’s finally here, so if you care about making it harder to be tracked/advertised to, switch to Firefox.
Bought some Christmas biscuits today and on the 5 star health rating system they have half a star. I think that’s the lowest I’ve ever seen. Go biscuits.
I hope you mean “health rating” as in level of nutritiousness, and not as in cleanliness of the facilities where it’s produced
Yeah it’s a nutrition rating. Australia has some of the highest food and water safety standards in the world.
So what you’re saying is that the biscuits are nutritionally pitiful EVEN FOR BISCUITS
Just STUMBLING over that grounded fucking bar
The Health Star Rating System is meant to compare across the same category of foods.
Would you believe that there’s only six categories across which food star ratings are compared?
Non-dairy beverages (Category 1)
Dairy beverages (Category 1D)
Oils and Spreads Including Butter And Margarine (Category 3)
Cheese and processed Cheese (Category 3D)
Dairy Foods Not Included In Categories 1D and 3D (Category 2D, aka “Dairy Products That Aren’t Beverages, Butter, Margarine Or Cheese”)
Al foods other than those included in categories 1, 1D, 2D, 3 or 3D (Category 2, aka “Everything That’s Not Dairy Based, A Beverage, An Oil or Spread”)
So essentially, not only does that mean that the 0.5 star biscuits are worse than many other biscuits, for the purposes of comparison they are comparable to (and worse than most) breakfast cereals, chicken, fruits, bread rolls, and so on.
After all, we all know that when we’re trying to pick a snack, we’re going to compare a cookie with a jar of pasta sauce because the star rating system says they’re in the same category of foods.
Well that does explain the low rating but what the fuck
The other bit that makes no sense is that you’re not at all required to put your health stat rating on your packaging at all! Like i can see if you’re a 4.5 or 5 star food, or like even in the 3 ish range for something generally considered not that healthy, then that’s a selling point, but why would you ever ever choose to show the half star?!?! Why would you advertise ‘this is the least healthy on the how healthy is the food scale!’
Bought some Christmas biscuits today and on the 5 star health rating system they have half a star. I think that’s the lowest I’ve ever seen. Go biscuits.
I hope you mean “health rating” as in level of nutritiousness, and not as in cleanliness of the facilities where it’s produced
Yeah it’s a nutrition rating. Australia has some of the highest food and water safety standards in the world.
So what you’re saying is that the biscuits are nutritionally pitiful EVEN FOR BISCUITS
Just STUMBLING over that grounded fucking bar
The Health Star Rating System is meant to compare across the same category of foods.
Would you believe that there’s only six categories across which food star ratings are compared?
Non-dairy beverages (Category 1)
Dairy beverages (Category 1D)
Oils and Spreads Including Butter And Margarine (Category 3)
Cheese and processed Cheese (Category 3D)
Dairy Foods Not Included In Categories 1D and 3D (Category 2D, aka “Dairy Products That Aren’t Beverages, Butter, Margarine Or Cheese”)
Al foods other than those included in categories 1, 1D, 2D, 3 or 3D (Category 2, aka “Everything That’s Not Dairy Based, A Beverage, An Oil or Spread”)
So essentially, not only does that mean that the 0.5 star biscuits are worse than many other biscuits, for the purposes of comparison they are comparable to (and worse than most) breakfast cereals, chicken, fruits, bread rolls, and so on.
After all, we all know that when we’re trying to pick a snack, we’re going to compare a cookie with a jar of pasta sauce because the star rating system says they’re in the same category of foods.
Well that does explain the low rating but what the fuck
The other bit that makes no sense is that you’re not at all required to put your health stat rating on your packaging at all! Like i can see if you’re a 4.5 or 5 star food, or like even in the 3 ish range for something generally considered not that healthy, then that’s a selling point, but why would you ever ever choose to show the half star?!?! Why would you advertise ‘this is the least healthy on the how healthy is the food scale!’
The fact there’s people who actually think it’s a red flag to not share your passwords with them or let them look through your phone blows my mind like “what do you have to hide” is crazy do you think you’re just not allowed to have privacy if you’re in a relationship. Do you think it’s normal to have a voyeur potentially monitoring your conversations like they’re a conservative Christian homeschool parent indefinitely
@gpsping not only is this very true it’s also something that will very easily distance the person from their friends like if I found out my friends partner was reading everything I said let alone that they were letting them do that there would be a permanent wedge in our friendship and distrust towards them indefinitely
the first time this cat ever touched me was when I was 95% asleep on the floor of my first apartment and I guess I was snoring or something because he decided to check if I was breathing by putting his nose right under mine. I woke up to his big whiskers tickling my face and he’s been haunting me every night since
shower gel label: immerse your self in this new “Me Time” luxury fruity tooty. abandon all sense of identity and dissolve Your memories into this soothing chemical broth One billion melons are in this tube… use them wisely
Easily one of the most important videos I’ve seen since the election.
Video transcription:
My fellow cis ladies, here’s three transphobic arguments I want you to know now so you don’t fall for them later because this is the hot topic gateway into conservatism for women.
Just to be clear, it’s-it’s-it’s the Nazi kind of conservatism as well.
Remember “divide and conquer” is the name of the game, so don’t be divided!
First thing transphobes are is they’re gender essentialists, so they will tell you “men are inherently bad and evil and it’s in their DNA, and women by contrast are good and fragile and precious.” And it’s the same logic as like “oh, women are more sensitive and nurturing, which is why they should stay at home.” It’s bullshit because women are not inherently anything, women are human beings with free will and idolization is just dehumanization with better PR [public relations]. I, as a woman, have capacity for evil, which makes my choice to be good that much more important.
Number two thing, and you will notice if you listen to TERFs [trans-exclusionary radical feminists] long enough is that they hate being women, they have a lot of internalized misogyny, they think being a woman is about pain and suffering. The attitude that women are predestined to suffer and men are predestined to make us suffer is a very defeatist attitude, it means that you can never see a future without misogyny in it.
And the number three thing, and this is the stupidest argument: They will tell you that cis men are pretending to be trans women to go into women’s bathrooms. Men just simply don’t need to do all of that. This is stranger-danger rhetoric which is based around this fear of “oh, strangers are the most dangerous thing to your child or to you” when it’s statistically not true. Abusers are more likely to be people that you already know, which is bleak, I’m sorry, but that is the truth. Abusive men simply don’t need to go to that effort.
Trans women are our sisters, they’re our allies, and a world where a trans women is free and safe to express herself and her gender presentation as she wants to is a world where all women get to do that.
A word to anyone making a game. Save yourself a lot of trouble by making sure the collisions actually are what you think they are. Just spent several hours in misery before realizing my collision was 4 times the size of its sprite.
I, @stardustcartoonist, am posting as both her friend and one of the co-writers of this comic with permission from the original Reddit artist, u/LackaFreak27.
I love the idea of dead gods. Not in the sense of “hey i killed something supernaturally strong” but in the sense of “i killed it and it’s still a god.” It is still worshipped. prayers are still answered. miracles are performed in its name, even as it lies pierced by a thousand swords and burning with chemical fire. even as it drifts through vacuum, decapitated and bleeding molten rock. in cosmic spite of being shot through each eye and hurled into a plasma reactor, it still radiates the power of the divine in a way that primitive death cannot smother. the nature of godchild is not so simple as to be tied to the mortality, or immortality, of any living being.
Tiger found caged in abandoned home gets second chance at wildlife sanctuary: ‘He seems to be so happy’
The estimated 350-pound tiger was transported to the facility, an affiliate of the Humane Society of the United States, on Wednesday afternoon, and is settling in well, Almrud said. There, he will have the chance to roam in enclosures of up to three acres.
Almrud, who estimates him to be about 2 years old, described the moment he first walked onto the grass at the sanctuary as remarkable.
“It was just amazing to see him walk out on grass and to see him explore and have that freedom of movement,” she said. “It was just such a reward and fulfilling to us.”
Now, he spends his days rolling around the grass in glee, Almrud said.
“He comes right up to the fence every time a staff member is present,” she said. “He seems very amenable to our presence.”
The tiger is eating well – a combination of chicken, humanely raised non-processed beef and whole prey complete with organs and bones. It appears that he was being fed chicken, which is what owners of exotic cats often feed them, but chicken alone does not provide the complete nutrition they need to thrive, Almrud said.
In addition, caregivers are tasked with keeping the tiger mentally stimulated by creating “pretend hunting” games and rotating him through different areas so he has access to new smells and environments to explore.
“He seems to happy and content,” Almrud said. “Our staff is just falling in love with him.”
Just an update! Since I got curious and the og post is from 2019.
His name is Loki now! In June he celebrated his 7th birthday at the sanctuary where he lives and thrives. Here’s a few pics of the boy:
Penicillium :3 sooo pretty… and very useful. Thats the stuff that makes your oranges go bad!!! It smells yummy. I also like alternaria. It mostly affects plants but i think its super pretty on walls. Here are some pictures under the cut. First two penicillium second two alternaria
To answer the title question: I don’t know. It’s not clear to me if anyone knows the answer to that question for certain. It’s quite likely that Armstrong (yes, first human on the Moon Armstrong) did kill people, and yet there’s no clear (public) record of it. Very few sources even seem to want to report it, only noting slightly euphemistically that he flew combat missions in Korea, and then they rush off to his later, cleaner exploits.
That’s kind of weird. The actual violence tells us something about Armstrong, but the whitewashing of his background arguably tells us more about ourselves.
To spell it out clearly, he was mostly involved in ground attack flights, for example bombing anti-aircraft guns (which would likely have killed the people firing those guns), so that later bombers could pass by unimpeded (and possibly kill more people with their own bombs). This is what Neil Armstrong did before he became an astronaut.
I don’t think this is the defining activity of his life, if such a thing even really exists. We all mainly know him as the Moon guy, but we also get that this wasn’t his whole life. Most people would think of him also as a scientist or pilot, and those who’ve done their homework would be more specific and call him a naval aviator, test pilot, engineer, and academic. Some might focus on his family life, or his religion, or his media presence. But it doesn’t take that much thought to go beyond purely “Moon guy”. So why the resistance to also giving him the title of “someone who has probably killed people”?
This is something that’s bugged me about many astronauts. Quite a lot of them have military backgrounds, and more than a few have shot people. In most sane professions, that’s something that keeps you from getting even the first interview, and yet NASA considers it a virtue instead? We put these people up on pedestals and expect kids to regard them as rolemodels. (Are we hoping the kids will never find out about the violence? Or that they will?) When the first astronauts were hired, it was widely considered damning that most of the early ones were having a lot of sex with a lot of people (oh noes!), and yet not damning in the least that they might have ended someone’s life on purpose. That’s a pretty fucked up set of priorities.
I’ve responded to this by doing what any sane, well-adjusted individual would do, and spent several days scanning through every single astronaut/cosmonaut/taikonaut profile page on wikipedia (plus other sources, notably spacefacts.de, where greater clarity was needed) to build up a spreadsheet that categorises all of them by the level of violence they’re known to have embraced. Below is the google docs version of that.
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The second column gives the person’s violence level, on a scale from 0 to 3. 0 indicates no known violence; 1 indicates military employment, with no known actual violence; 2 indicates participation in violent activities, but uncertainty about whether this actually killed anyone or not; 3 indicates definitely actually killing someone.
This is a kind of interesting question, but the article also adopts this tone of… what should I call it… moral buffedlement(?) that really bugs me. Like:
Quite a lot of them have military backgrounds, and more than a few have shot people. In most sane professions, that’s something that keeps you from getting even the first interview, and yet NASA considers it a virtue instead?
First of all this is not true; having shot people in a military context does not bar you from a first interview in most professions. Having shot people outside of a military context does. Second of all, it’s pretty clear why NASA considers military experience (especially flight experience!) to be a virtue for astronauts. So the point the author is making here seems confused.
Just because you think something is bad does not mean you have to be baffled by it! In fact, acting baffled by it when it is perfectly rational seems kind of weird!
the reason there’s resistance to calling the apollo astronauts killers and drawing attention to your doing so is because that imparts miasma, the same as anyone else, and miasma is a problem that requires solution.
there are extremely carefully constructed systems, especially during and after the 1939-1945 war, to attempt to purify people of that miasma, to make them clean, and to forgive their sin. especially for veterans of the war, these were generally very successful and those men went on to live mostly unpolluted lives, with the miasma safely contained and mitigated.
generally once you have solved the containment problem, you don’t want to go unsolving it. it is extremely silly to just *assume* that there have been no miasma-forgiveness systems and blithely state that well, of course, anyone with miasma has to live outside the camp and everyone setting up first interviews would be able to smell it and isn’t that how society is? No they didn’t, no they can’t, no it isn’t, and why are you wishing it were?
There was a *tremendous amount of effort* spent in overcoming the idea that veterans returning from the wars were polluted. The Germans failed to do this during and after the Great War, and ended up with thousands of miasmatic soldiers going around, stinking of death and defeat, who ended up forming the nucleus of the National Socialists. Nobody wanted a repeat of that shit, so the Allied effort from the very beginning had anti-miasma shit built in.
“Sane well-adjusted people” do not pick the scars of ex-lepers in the hope of discovering some encysted mycobacteria. They don’t point to mildly polluting sexual acts, the overreaction to that and say, oh, please, continue to be hysterical and purity policing but *please*, turn that hysteria onto something that’s a thousand times more ruining, and a thousand times less possible to do anything about if it gets out of hand. Someone obsessing about minor sexual improprieties *is* sanity, compared to that.
The Apollo program was a miasma-containment system, anyway. This is obviously the case on multiple levels - It gave clean, prosocial work to rehabilitate people who were trained to do dirty work.
There’s no mystery to it. Listen to the Apollo transcripts. Aldrin and Armstrong are very aware they were beating swords into ploughshares, and being heroic peacemakers. They were more aware than any of us will be, and they have their intention expressed plainly on the plaque:
There is something primally, corruptivity… MALICIOUS about the framing of this entire discussion. And I don’t say that lightly, I’m not being flippant.
There is, in no uncertain terms, no actual reason to CARE how many people Neil Armstrong or Buzz Aldrin killed during their tours of duty in WW2. It’s not as if they’ve got some secret history of butchering prisoners or targeting civilians, there’s no thing that goes beyond the remit and expectations of a soldier. They were military men, fighting other military men, to defend the rights of the innocent from being murdered by a despotic regime.
That the question is even ASKED, that the framework is accepted, that the tone of their service is even later re-defined in a context of ‘miasma’ speaks not to an understanding of the horrors of war, but rather to an absolute, even aggressive IGNORANCE of war, and it’s resulting horrors. It requires a perspective so far removed from war as a reality as to see it not as an unfortunate result of incompatible states but rather as some kind of ethereal evil that infects everything it touches and leaves a stain upon everyone who contacts it.
It’s not a matter of a 'tremendous amount of effort’ to 'contain miasma’ or 'rehabilitate people’. People just understood, culturally and in general, that sometimes one must lift up the sword, and then afterwards put it back down, or better still beat it into the plowshare to till new fields with. The CONCEPT that soldiers should not be allowed to return to the lives that they left did not even really EXIST at that time, and really wouldn’t exist until somewhere around the Korean/Vietnam wars, due to anti-war activists showing no compassion to those drafted into the war when they finally were allowed to return FROM it. That it has grown from that sickening dehumanisation of those people pressed into battle against their will only makes it all the more obvious how evil the concept is.
Anti-Americanism keeps taking such weird turns.
Character assassination of men who did something amazing, just because they’re American.
This is how G*d punishes you for posting interesting stuff
silliness aside, the way that military conscription was an organising principle and common experience of the 20th century is another thing that separates it from the 21st, in most jurisdictions at least.
Who’s this fuzzy potato? It’s the hairy-tailed mole (Parascalops breweri)! Found in parts of eastern North America, this burrowing mammal creates tunnels that can extend up to 78 ft (24 m) long. Though it typically weighs only 2.2 oz (62.8 g), this critter’s powerful forelimbs can generate force more than 30 times its body mass, allowing it to slide through the soil with ease. Its diet includes worms, insects, and snails.
For the second day in a row, civil defense crews are recovering dozens of skeletons that were brutally killed without allowing international organizations to recover their bodies. This is what the world says about the army, the most humane. This army is nothing but an army that treats us as if we were all criminals. It treats the child as a criminal, the young man as a criminal, and the old man as a criminal. This is the reality of the Zionist Israeli army.
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