Narrow Road to the Exterior

When I say belief I don’t actually mean that people in Denmark truly believe it. It’s more like a funny thing you can say like “The sun is shining so I’ve been good” or “Its not my fault its raining. Must be all the other people who have their birthday today”

Heh, the weather on the day you were born says nothing about you in this context because it’s supposed to be indicative of your behavior since your last birthday. You haven’t had a chance to be good or bad yet on the day you’re born.

Unfortunately your personal weather preferences don’t count. It goes like this:

Downpour/snowstorm/storm: very bad

Rain/snow: bad

Cloudy: neutral

Sun with clouds: mostly good

Clear skies: good

Heatwave with cruel sunshine: people will beg you to commit a crime next year to save us all

You can however request that a person behave a certain way to get your desired weather on their birthday. My grandmother used to say she had been deliberately bad so her garden would get rain.

The responses below are exactly the spirit of this “belief”, silly and fun banter for all.

But for heaven's sake. The people who think that "actually, a solarpunk world without a deep conspiracy and capitalist exploitation is actually like super pro-capitalist" are just... like, the entire point of the genre is imagining a world that exists outside of capitalism. That is literally what makes it radical.

Folks who want to imagine a world that still is capitalist literally are the kind of people who maintain capitalism. Because the system relies on telling you that there cannot be anything else. And if you say "a solarpunk future without capitalism is unrealistic" then you basically say: "they are right - that cannot happen, there is never gonna be anything better than capitalism."

A lot of folks also claim that Solarpunk is ecofascist. Not realizing that this genre largely goes back to Latin American indigenous movements.

And the folks who claim that this is all rooted in capitalism also do not seem to understand that the entire fucking reason why we have not gone renewable, despite having had the technology, is that capitalism does not want it. Too many billionaires depend on their fossil fuel related assets. A bunch of billionaires would loose their billionaire status if we switched to renewables. Too much of the economy is tied to fossil fuels.

An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in people exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus at home, according to trial results published today in the New England Journal of Medicine1. The drug could be a lifeline for those who still face real danger from the virus, such as care-home residents or transplant recipients on immune-suppressing medication.

turns out

it was definitely my favorite boba place at my favorite mall. I sent op an ask with this photo when I was leaving the mall earlier (I don't think they've seen it yet but I was astounded)

you guys would all have loved my (not on tumblr) spouses reaction when he went "oh no the kiosk is gone" and I immediately said LOST JOB FROM TUMBLR?!?

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Sources beyond dude just trust me, for the skeptics.

https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/scientists-lab-gloves-may-be-causing-an-overestimation-of-microplastics-411138

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics - Phys.org (it’s a pdf)

Also they DID account for contamination in WET sample preparation, because they’d already learned previously that the nitrile gloves could contaminate wet samples, but this was the first discovery that they were contaminating DRY or AIRBORNE samples as well.

All of this was very clearly laid out in just the last provided link - i didn’t even have to read all of them to learn this, I read like 3 paragraphs of the nautil.us article and I was able to learn what happened and why it hadn’t been accounted for.

Like, I understand the frustration, but this is the sort of thing that has to be DISCOVERED before it can be accounted for, and this is what that kind of discovery looks like, and berating scientists for not already knowing something science hadn’t yet learned is kind of a pointless and bad faith approach to things.

❤️💙💛GRACEFUL💛💙❤️

I'll come with you. I don't care. I'll see anyone, face anything. If they want to guess, let them. That's our start of getting free. It's a risk, so's everything else, and we only live once. ...And now we shan't be parted no more, and that's finished.

So I went to the website on the door and it's basically the same thing as free little library where you can pay for a box from them to get it installed OR Build one yourself

Boiled grain

Flatbread with various toppings

Flatbread wrapped around filling

Fried lean meat

Stew of fatty meat and starch

Fermented vegetable

Oily sauce

Aromatic herbs

Stimulant alkaloids

The passage of the seasons - Spring defeating Winter