The Blog from the Old Times

Everyone can survive more injuries. Go nuts.

Healing magic that exhausts the user, leading to an entire team of whumpees when the healer faints after saving their wounded friends.

Healers in pain tearing out pieces of their own life force to save the life of a friend.

Healing magic that works best with contact and close proximity: holding the whumpee’s hand, stroking their hair, forehead kisses, whumpees being held and cuddled...

Very sore and weak whumpees who just recovered from something too quickly.

Healing magic that hurts...

Healing magic that feels good and warm, soothing the whumpee’s consciousness away into a deep sleep in the healer’s arms.

Characters with a healing factor putting themselves between their friends and the threat, taking bullets for teammates because they can heal.

Characters with healing factors being tortured or cruelly experimented on.

Healing stasis: limp, broken, very unconscious whumpees behind glass or floating or laid out on an altar.

The whumpee coming out of stasis taking quite a while to fully regain consciousness.

He is an actor. Not a scientist. If it wasn't for being 'Bill Nye the Science Guy' (probably because the name would rhyme) the only thing he'd be known for is this:

That state of affairs would at least be massively preferable to some particle physics professor opining on science topics because he is AN EXPERT(TM) and before you know it then he's hosting a TV show on the BBC and he talks with authority on epidemiology or city planning or newly discovered species of worms, and he's no longer using his academic authority as a particle physicist to talk about particle physics, but he is using his academic credentials to talk about everything.

At least with Bill Nye, you know he's actually an actor, and you know he's just a guy in a costume.

like I can't believe that the green opposition to, say, building a new 9GW natural gas plant to feed a 9GW data center in Utah is primarily focused on how much water the data center might use for cooling chips, with NIMBYish land use fears and heat island catastrophism playing second fiddle. If the Utah guys had proposed exactly the same data center with exclusively wind+solar+battery power the green backlash would look almost exactly the same!

what happened here? Uncharitable guess is that the highest-viz climate groups (e.g. sunrise, extinction rebellion, greenpeace, Sierra club) got hollowed out by 5 years of scope creep (e.g. Gaza, BLM), leaving the field open for off-message influencers on tiktok or whatever.

also nobody in this crowd seems to have noticed that gas plants (like all thermal generation, including nuclear) also generate concentrated low-grade heat and require cooling, traditionally done by evaporating water. Not trying to summon any demons here but like that is exactly what those big towers with big white steam clouds billowing out are doing.

I tend to assume that Trumpism suddenly replacing climate change as the Doom is a bigger factor. It's all weird.

But my impression is that the anti-AI leftist youth movement you see on this hellsite has merged with nonpartisan local-politics NIMBYism and conservative-coded farm defenders to form a growing big-tent consensus that new data center construction should be banned or restricted. AOC & Bernie sponsored bills on this last month, but Josh Hawley and Nancy Mace are also in the news as being on this train.

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"Not stocking a book on the shelf of this library" is not "banning"

The historical argument whether it was a sacrifice or an offering - whether they killed captive people or people offered themselves for the sacrifice is an ongoing debate, but for crying out loud, WE KNOW IT IS TRUE

This is why I have never liked the decolonizer movement, at least not how it's been presented in Mexico - it tries to blackwash the Spaniards more than they already were.

Mexico sits in a weird spot in the Spanish Invasion narrative becaue Hernan Cortes saw what Columbus did and said "ew, no?" and mostly succeeded at not wanting to kill people! Also, like, literally EVERYBODY HATED THE MEXICA because they were FUCKING HORRIBLE PEOPLE! It is known that Cortes would've failed had it not been for Malintzin successfully negotiating an alliance with the Tlaxcalteca. But we also know that had Cortes failed, then it would've been fucking Pedro de Alvarado and now that bastard was probably even more cruel than Columbus ever were.

And yes, there were different attitudes from the Spaniards based on who had the crown - particularly with the Bourbons there was a stronger introduction of the caste system, while before it was less strong as there was a lot of early mestizaje. And it's not like I am trying to absolve the Spaniards - indigenous people are still feeling the effects of the Conquest.

A woman her age

A man his salary