Actively girlbossing too close to the sun

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Seen a few people make this point and I love the optimism but this would truly be a nightmarishly bad idea. Funny, but extremely bad. Mostly for the same reason people climbing Everest and mountains like that have to wear sunglasses and sunscreen on any exposed skin despite being in some of the coldest climates in the world, white reflects UV radiation. Everyone would be going snowblind all the time, and it would also probably be a lot harder to make out what color the lines are and read street signs. Black makes more sense, but what makes even MORE sense is getting rid of the fucking roads and building trolleys and other forms of public transit that don't need black asphalt under them.

Urban/suburban vegetation: any amount of vegetation can aid in lowering the temperature by increasing evapotranspiration rates, especially trees which also provides a canopy, creating shaded areas

Shaded sidewalks/benches: we can't realistically shade the entire sidewalk, both because of scale issues and also sunlight is, in moderation, good for you, but having shaded areas, especially where rest amenities are like benches, can go a long way into making cities/suburbs more accessible in the heat

Shaded parking lots: I haven't seen an example of this irl but I know there's parking lots where the majority of it is shaded using solar panels, which is really just beautifully efficient

Underground paths/walkways: Toronto, for example, has a system of underground tunnels (imaginatively named PATH) which spans about 30 km and connects various office buildings, restaurants, etc. This helps pedestrians avoid the heat AND the cold in the winter, AND rain/inclement weather!

Non-reflective glass: less relevant for suburbs, but non-reflective glass absorbs solar radiation rather than reflecting it towards street level, which helps tremendously in keeping cities with lots of tall glass buildings cool. It does require more cooling within the building to balance it out, though, so it's not a perfect solution

Lots of other solutions like green roofs/walls, designing cities to allow airflow, dedicated vegetated areas/water features within cities (parks), permeable pavements, reflective roofs (as previously mentioned in this post)

The important thing to note is that these solutions are rarely, if ever, universally applicable, but the flip side of that is that at least some of these WILL be applicable no matter where you live, so it's a matter of figuring out which ones work and which don't.

You send people to space to save the literal entire world and you still don't trust them to dispense their own drugs

I need every single person to understand how horrible tumblr’s tagging system is

I go into the tag for epilepsy and its all flashing lights. We can’t use our own tag because people without epilepsy fill it up with improper warnings.

Use ‘flashing’ in place of ‘epilepsy’ in your tags. You aren’t warning people of epileptics, you’re warning us of flashing lights. Please please tag properly. Epileptics say this endlessly and constantly and it’s ignored. You are risking lives by doing this.

Here’s proof of what I mean:

The problem is back then, search worked differently. You searched a tag and you got that tag. Then they rolled out “new search” that rather than searching specific tags, it searched the word or phrase as a keyword in both the body AND notes of a post. Everyone hated it, and back before the majority of people moved to mobile, Xkit boomed in popularity just so people could fix it by replacing it with the old search method (that still exists, technically, if you know how to modify the URL, there’s just no UI for it anymore). But on mobile strictly tag-searching is hard to do and isn’t the main search function. So instead of showing you posts talking about just the condition for visually-triggered problems, now you get posts tagged with “tw [thing]” as well…

As a reminder, he's suing Caroline Wallner, one of his accusers, for breaking her NDA. Not for libel. He's saying she shouldn't have told anyone about it, not that she lied.

He doesn't need the money. He's risking the Streisand effect. He is punishing Caroline, he's trying to intimidate other victims who have signed NDAs to scare them into continued silence.

He is no friend to women, to the LGBTQIA+ community, to anyone quite frankly unless he thinks they are of value to him.

I thought this post would get 150 notes maybe. 300 at the absolute outside.

It's got more than that in the last few hours.

I'm really glad to know how much people hate him.

I was trying to track down a non-soundcloud version of Chords of Humanity, the song he wrote that when he was 17 was used by Doctors Without Borders, and instead found that it was used in a Fallout New Vegas mod that he may also have made at 17?

which is a sequel to another mod that's also credited to a Dylan Hollis, which I'm not necessarily assuming is him. Could have been a different Dylan Hollis who happened to have found the song by searching his name--oh, wait, there's a video of game play (with the song as background), and there's a tiny bit of voice acting...yeah, that's him.

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you ever have just like, a really bad idea