always trying to be good

Saw this comment by @genquerdeer and went looking for the map. I think the map truly does speak for how "white" it is to call Hamas terrorists.

Look up the owner, not the name. The name is the cheapest part of the company to preserve. If the ownership trail ends at a private equity firm or a licensing group, assume the product and the reputation are no longer aligned.

Read the warranty before the reviews. Its length is the company’s own estimate of how long the product lasts, and its exclusions are a list of the ways they expect it to fail.

Buy bare metal where you can. Cast iron, carbon steel, plain stainless. No coating means nothing that dies at cycle 40 and nothing to rebuy in eighteen months.

There's so many little things. So many normal people. The corpo eating space noodles in a takeout box. Bosses ignoring big problems because it would take too much effort to fix them, just ignore it. Nurses gossiping on the job (about the fact that a whole hospital wing was shut down, it must be a senator, i suppose we'll find out the truth tomorrow). Paparazzi droids to take photos of important senators, something which simultaneously feels strange to see in star wars and also entirely natural. Passive aggressive coworkers. Reminding your partner to pick something up from the store- but it isn't a chekov's gun, just a normal thing normal people have to do. Space poker. Getting drunk while playing space poker with the reprogrammed murderous droid you adopted. A random technician trying to get the ISB agent they're assisting to put in a letter of recommendation for their cousin. Early morning talk shows. The dichotomy between the tone in those talk shows and what's going on in the galaxy because of the Empire. An Empire technician being ridiculously excited by the complexity of Luthen and Kleya's comm system even as that complexity makes it near impossible to decipher. Letting your weird space dog off the leash once you get to the park. The career fallout of someone stealing your password because you ignored the tech department's recommendation to change it. Someone accidentally emailing you files they weren't supposed to.

These moments are slipped into the background. There's no spotlight on them. No writer slipping it in and winking at you like "hey, look, we did worldbuilding, we made it look real!". Its just there. In the background. Should you care to notice it. And it makes the world that much more textured.

An autistic man with a special interest in the Harry Potter series has made the decision to value the lives and dignity of his trans friends more than a book about a wizard who grows up to be a cop, leaving you with no excuse whatsoever to keep wearing that Hufflepuff scarf, sources have reported.

Jack Harrington, 38, grew up reading the popular children’s stories, and soon developed an intense fascination with the world of the books, including knowing all about the suspiciously depicted money-hungry goblins, and that one time it was revealed that slavery is commonplace and accepted in the wizarding world.

In spite of this, however, Harrington has recently worked to redirect his interest towards media created by someone less troublingly focused on his friends’ genitalia.

“It was hard to do,” Harrington said. “I really love collecting things, and there’s so much merchandise to collect! But once I realised that it’s possible to collect things in a way that doesn’t make it harder for my mates to go for a piss when out and about, it really was a no-brainer.”