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“gluteal clefts”.
I don’t know why I find that so funny.
I like this comparison because it makes me think of a company that is administering a medical trial type program to improve cardiovascular health — I’m imagining a “farm” type place, where undergrads are on treadmills, taking new, expensive running shoes and running in them until they’re “well-worn”. It’s very silly, and I thank you for this mental image.
Fracking already is unprofitable now, if we account for the slimy corporate practices used to avoid paying for spent wells to be properly plugged.
Propublica has done a lot of good reporting on this topic, this is just one article of many, but this one explains aforementioned corporate slime quite well https://www.propublica.org/article/the-rising-cost-of-the-oil-industrys-slow-death
I didn’t know that. Thanks for sharing.
Now you’re older, how frequently do you think you were right in your comparisons?
Thanks for this comment, I hadn’t thought about it this way before. I had realised about how being gay is framed as a thing you do rather than a thing you are, because I have a friend who is an ex-benedictine monk, and they explained about how their vow of chastity meant they were basically “one of the good ones”. A large part of why they left was because their rhetoric was “everyone has sinful desires in them and turning away from those is an important challenge”, but the unspoken part was that his gayness made his desires extra bad, like there was just some innately bad thing in him.
And of course they would apply this same logic to gender. As you say, it makes more sense when you try to see it from their angle. I think that’s important to do if we hope to ever refute them
A few posts above this one, I saw a post about how German bridges are falling apart, so your comment has done me psychic damage. Man, things feel grim.
You’ve got to be careful with rolling your eyes, because the parallelism of the two eyes means that the eye roll can be twice as powerful ^1
(1) If measured against the silly baseline of a single eyeroll
Finland is very good for people who hate smalltalk.
I love stories like this because it makes me reflect on random people I’ve seen who have stuck in my memory for years who probably never noticed me. Makes me wonder if anyone remembers me for something random like this
I’ve not heard that quote, who said it?
Well that’s a horrifying way to think of things, thank you for that (not sarcastic)
I have learned linear algebra in a few different contexts now, and each one I learned made it easier. When I first learned it, it was in a pure maths context and I found it tricky. It began to make more sense in university, when I learned it in the context of x-ray crystallography. I think more so than most topics, linear algebra really needs the context of it’s usefulness for it to really make sense, but also, I think I’d have struggled with the x-ray crystallography if I hadn’t already got a grounding in linear algebra from a pure maths angle.
Incredible
“vendored my library”
I’m unfamiliar with this phrase, are you able to explain what it means (or point me towards an explanation)? Is it relating to forking?
I was just skimming over the judgement
"The developer argued that, as regards the impact of the project on climate, the scope of the [Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)] […] need not include an assessment of the greenhouse gas emissions that would occur when the oil extracted from the wells was ultimately burnt elsewhere as fuel. The council accepted this approach [and granted planning permission]
The claimant, a local resident, applied for judicial review of the council’s decision. She argued that the decision was unlawful because the EIA was required to, but did not, include an assessment of the combustion emissions."
Props to the person who challenged the local council’s decision. No doubt she had a lot of support to do so, especially as this case travelled through the courts (even if she started the challenge without help, I would imagine legal support from climate activism organisations chipped in later), but it’s still a lot of work and stress to see something like this through. I wonder if she anticipated how far this would go, that this is now case law that is relevant in the global fight for climate action. I hope she and everyone else who worked for this feels proud of this achievement.
Holding corporations and the government to account on existing regulations may not feel significant given how much more is necessary in the face of the climate crisis, but that’s all the more reason why it’s important that we fight to maintain the ground we’ve gained. This is a small step, but I am feeling quite heartened to learn of this.
I resolve to keep an eye out for opportunities to challenge decisions like this in my area, because as this case has shown, when it comes to climate action (and inaction), decisions made at the local level ripple out and affect far more. I may not have the fortitude to see a complaint through to its end without forsaking my duty to take care of my own wellbeing, but I will aim to also look out for local climate action groups who can support people like me as we collectively push forwards (or, where I may be able to support people who are better poised to bring a legal challenge).
I agree, this is important to emphasise. I don’t want to ever slip into the mindset of dehumanising Trump in the same way that him and his allies dehumanise people like me, because I think that drive to so thoroughly otherize political opponents is a key driver of fascistic thinking. Having empathy for people like Trump (and those that follow him) doesn’t excuse their actions or beliefs, but I think it’s important