Impossibly Sporadic Creation

logan but as an android and totally not a deviant from detroit: become human~ 

Q. You want to raise every boy as a girl? Yes.

Q. Why? A boy will learn to hate girls as long as he is raised in such a way where he is treated as better, and superior to, his girl peers, whenever he is cruel to girls. So, instead, we raise boys as girls.

Q. What if they say they are not a girl, and want to be acknowledged as boy? Then you know they are a boy, so you must make sure to understand them as boy, and not a girl.

Q. What does it mean to be 'raised as a girl'? That's up for you to decide. The only difference is that you should not raise boys any differently than you raise girls, since you raise every boy as a girl.

Q. Girls and boys are raised in specific ways for specific purposes, so it does not make sense to raise boys as girls. If you raise every boy as a girl, then there is no being which is not raised as a girl, so anyone raised as a girl necessarily must learn to do anything and everything to grow up, without restrictions on tasks, labours, or interests.

Q. But boys and girls are different. All two girls are different, and raising girls in one specific way destroys this individuality in favour of moulding girls to serve the same master. Still, the girls resist to live life on their own terms. If girls can be raised such that they know they can do anything they want, including not being girls, so too will boys raised as girls.

Q. Why not raise every girl as a boy? Because if a girl does not exist among boys, then the girl is made.

Q. Why not raise girls and boys as themselves? The self must be made in a world where girls and boys can first and foremost be themselves. One step towards this goal is to raise every boy as a girl.

Q. The way people raise girls is cruel, so why would you raise boys with that cruelty? If you raise girls with cruelty, then you should stop being cruel to girls.

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People commonly defend this practise with "But the audience isn't meant to understand!" or "It's inconsequential!", neither of which actually address a) their assumption that the [ideal Anglo] audience wouldn't understand, or, perhaps most crucially in the context of CCs, b) that this is a failure of accessibility. A hearing person who speaks that "foreign" language will know exactly what's being said. A deaf or HoH person – the people CCs are primarily intended for – who speaks or reads that language should therefore have the exact same opportunity to understand. It very much feels to me like an assumption that we deaf and HoH people couldn't possibly understand any language but English, so there's no point in getting those languages transcribed for us. I hope it goes without saying how profoundly audist that sentiment is.

There is also, I think, a profound misunderstanding or ignorance of Deaf culture at play. Which is to say, CCs in English-language media are written with not only the assumption that the audience will be native English speakers, but that all d/Deaf and HoH people speak English as their first language, so all other languages are as supposedly foreign to them as they are for hearing people. But sign languages are their own distinct language. BSL, ASL, ISL, AusLan, NZSL etc ≠ English (and are indeed different from one another), LIS ≠ Italian, JSL ≠ Japanese, and so on. So, if you follow the captioners' logic to its natural extreme, all non-signed dialogue is "foreign" to many d/Deaf and HoH people and should therefore be labelled [speaks foreign language] / [speaks English] / [speaks own language] / etc. – which is, obviously, a terrible idea that perfectly highlights all the biases implicit in closed captioning.

Dracula adaptations/spinoffs/reimaginings, for some reason:

so yeah rain isn't usually hot but just like any other form of water it can have a range of temperatures. And because it forms at a wide range of temperatures, there's two main ways that rain forms: warm and cold. They follow the same general pattern, water evaporates, then condenses, then falls out of the sky, but how that condensation happens is different in warm and cold rain formation.

For both, first, I need to introduce two basics of meteorology. First off is the idea of saturation, which is when there's as much water vapor in the air as is physically possible. Warmer air can have more water vapor in it, which is why summer feels much more humid in so many places. The second thing is that as you go up from the ground, the atmosphere gets colder (until you reach the stratosphere at some 12+km above ground level but that's not important to this post)

Warm rain happens in warm clouds, which are clouds that don't have icy crystals in them. To form these clouds, gaseous water vapor condenses because the environment is supersaturated, meaning that there's more water vapor in the air than can physically be there at that temperature. Because there's no ice in these clouds, this condensation process is happening above freezing, in some cases even at temperatures in the 20s Celsius (70s Fahrenheit). These types of clouds are more common in the tropics and in summertime, because you have to go a lot higher in the atmosphere to get cold enough temperatures for ice crystals.

Which brings us to cold rain and cold clouds, which are clouds that do have ice crystals in them. The same supersaturation rules still apply, but now instead of just condensing into rain droplets, we also get to play with ice. Depending on how cold the cloud is, how much water vapor there is, and what sorts of aerosols (little tiny particles) are in the cloud, a few things can happen.

If it's not very cold (only a few degrees below freezing), and there's not a lot of aerosols, it's actually quite hard for any rain droplets to freeze or water vapor to deposit into ice. This will give us supercooled rain drops, where liquid water is below 0 Celsius (32 Fahrenheit). If there are certain types of aerosols in this cold but not very cold cloud, however, then we can also get freezing to happen, with the aerosol acting as a surface for the water vapor to condense/freeze or deposit onto. This would form snow in the cloud, though by the time it reaches the ground it could melt into rain, but because there's ice crystals in these clouds, it's cold rain.

If it's very cold (-40 Celsius/Fahrenheit), then even without aerosols to help with freezing we will get snow to form. Same deal applies with it possibly melting into rain as it falls if the air at the surface is above freezing, and it being cold rain.

All of the cold cloud/rain processes are more common at higher latitudes and in wintertime. (also there's mixed clouds which are very tall clouds that have warm rain in their lower portions and cold rain higher up but that's not important for the rest of this post)

So what sort of rain would Grace be getting in the biodome? My money's on warm rain, because that would only require the Eridians to increase the amount of water vapor at the top of the biodome and maybe add some aerosols to speed up the condensation and rain formation processes. They wouldn't need to make the top of the biodome super duper cold to get that ice formation to happen for cold clouds/rain, or make it ridiculously tall or anything like that. Opting for warm clouds/rain also makes a ton of sense when you consider that Erid is also much much hotter than Earth, so they're already doing a lot of work to cool the biodome to human-friendly temperatures (though lowering the pressure to human-friendly pressure also helps with lowering the temperature)

Now, we know that Grace is from San Francisco, which, at 37N is solidly in the midlatitudes and definitely not tropical. Furthermore, San Francisco gets most of its rain in the winter. These two things mean that Grace is probably more accustomed to cold rain than warm rain, which, in addition to the different processes forming the rain, does usually mean that cold rain is colder.

He's feeling a little under the weather

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for anyone who doesn't know, wheelchairs are very expensive and insurance will usually only cover one every five years or only cover a new one if your needs have changed significantly. the expense is especially true for anyone who has complex positioning needs (i.e. requiring tilt/recline/elevation in power wheelchairs, general group 3 power wheelchair needs, one arm drive for manual wheelchairs, etc.). as with so many disability related issues, those most impacted by their disability are most at risk of harm when adequate support is out of reach.

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