Eye of the Storm

Saint Emily de Vialar

1797-1856

Feast Day: June 17

Patronage: single women

Saint Emily de Vialar was born in France, to the physician of Louis XVIII. She cared for the children and sick of the town, trying to repair the harm done by the French Revolution, while also caring for her widowed father. In 1835, St. Emily and 26 women took religious vows, calling themselves the sisters of St. Joseph “of the Apparition.” (referring to The angel Gabriels’ telling St. Joseph to flee to Egypt) By the time St. Emily died, 42 foundations were established all over the world. Four years after her death her body was found incorrupt.

I think a lot about what it actually means to be stupid, and I've sort of been thinking that one way to think of it might be "when you don't consider your own ignorance to be a problem"

With the caveat that I do half suspect this particular guy might be an AI designed to parrot current right-wing nonsense, if we take this seriously like...

In order to come to this conclusion you'd have to know basically nothing whatsoever about American politics for the last two decades, like, just a total lack of understanding about the absolute most incredibly basic policy positions of the Republicans, Democrats and Libertarians and yet at the same time this guy is really energized by Trump and constantly kissing Elon Musk's ass.

I have trouble imagining being simultaneously incredibly excited about something and being so totally incurious about the most basic details.

First, I think a lot of big culture war matters have definitely gotten worse (for my side) in the last 20-30 years. You can probably aim for the time period where race segregation was completely cooked, gay persecution was significantly mitigated, but the LGBT movement was not in a position to mandate submission and woke politics was a specific-parts-of-academia curiosity.

Of course, resistance of a traditional society against the Left-culture hadn't yet really emerged.

On the other hand, as you say, this is an absolutely insane statement. A centrist democrat would never let any of their functionaries post vaguely ethnic nationalist commentary on the official media organ. Nobody was talking about ultra-aggressive excessionary approaches to immigration enforcement.

Or just the Tarrifs! Which are not libertarian or centrist Democrat from 2004.

I worry that Trump support involves a kind of genuine break from reality.

I'm reminded of the guy in that interview with young Republican voters who said he thought Michelle Obama would also be a great choice for President.

There's people who go, "Well, people say Trump is really bad, but the people saying that are the crazy loony left, so that must be wrong, and I don't really support a radical right wing agenda."

I really think a ton of Trump's power comes from his appeal to deeply ignorant people who have sort of come to the conclusion that they sort of can't really remedy their own ignorance and so they must choose their beliefs and behaviors by other criteria.

the warbloggers used to love saying shit like this twenty five years ago and it's such a strange concept, like America has a much higher murder rate than China and has been engaged in war basically continually while China has had decades of peace but "China is like the Shire" doesn't have the same mythic ring to it at all does it.

There's something I find offensive about a Trump aligned trillionaire telling the rest of us about how we're so sheltered and incapable of understanding evil.

Not something where you have to hand it to them, you very much do not, but there genuinely are some things that these guys get right that, in my view, many liberal-minded people have trained yourself to avoid thinking clearly about.

(on the other hand, the insane Palestine-commies do think clearly about them, but carefully train themselves to never believe in the implications, and anyway they are morons.)

For a season (roughly 200 years), military supremacy (first organic, then industrial-era, then technological) lead to the myth of permanent European invincibility. The version of this that was seen as legitimizing white supremacy faded away, but even then there's a pretty widespread mentality that nothing ever happens and all the Western liberal democracies will smoothly and calmly remain liberal and unthreatened forever as long as they can contain internal enemies.

The Russo-Ukrainian war has done a lot to shake this blitheness, but it hasn't done that much especially in countries not immediately threatened by Russia.

Trump is often annoyed with Putin because he keeps spoiling Trump's peacemaking whims but the "These Ukrainians are just mooching off of us and why should we care what happens to them?" Faction is largely contained in the Republican party in this country.

Not to mention that military cohesion among the western nations is at an absolute nadir, worse than it has been in my entire lifetime, directly because of Trump's policy of antagonizing our allies and then making mercurial demands of them.

One of the reasons I loathe these people is that they are incapable of connecting one idea to another, let alone connecting their own actions with their ostensible goals.

yeah

feeling a bit victor frankenstein rn

i used the @princessmuk method with this recepie

the normal recepie:

sugar (brown + cane) = 23.93%

butter = 12.07%

eggs = 3.75%

flour = 35.17%

salt = 0.21%

baking powder (+ soda) = 0.31%

vanilla extract = 0.42%

chocolate chips = 23.93%

you guys really came through on the chocolate chips. maybe the least helpful ingredient to have alot of here. but i do appreciate the amount of flour

the salt is what made this inedible. wow oh my god so much salt holy shit

tumblr special:

(i split the recepie in half a bunch of times because i do not have infinite vanilla extract and i knew this would be inedible)

sugar = 1.74 tsp

butter = 2.16 tsp

egg = 1.56 tsp

flour = 4.03 tsp OR 1⅓ tbsp

salt = 2.59 tsp

baking powder = 1.86 tsp

vanilla extract = 38.14 tsp OR 188 mL

chocolate chips = 8 tsp OR 2⅔ tbsp

if you have to do this on a dare just try your best with a teaspoon and a ¼ teaspoon

how i got my numbers:

(original recepie amount) -> tsp

add together the total amount of teaspoons

[(poll%)÷100] × tsp total = tsp (poll ingredient)

tw gross

Turns out you can roll a 7 on a d6

FUN FACT:

So you know how the Wilhelm Scream is in a ton of films as a soundtrack in-joke? It was popularized by Ben Burtt, who was a sound editor on a ton of ton of Lucas films, like all the Star Wars and Indiana Jones films.