Rennie

anyway now that the US (i.e. california) is producing more pistachios than iran, the next step is to drive consumption of pistachios, so that the farmers who are producing these pistachios can continue to make money on them. ergo all the fancy pistachio coffees at starbucks and similar shit like suddenly being able to find pistachio butter in grocery stores when five years ago it was exclusively available at specialty stores and online, and the huge boom in pistachios foods in instagram and tiktok recipe content. like i watch a lot of instagram foodie reels (cooking/baking is one of my hobbies) and these get thrown onto everyone's feeds, to promote the purchasing of pistachios, so that the US can stick it to iran. it's. kind of incredible to watch this happen in real time, because it sounds like deranged conspiracy thought, but like. i've been watching this trend for the past decade and it's fucking real.

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It’s polite, for one. Professional doesn’t need to mean elaborate—in fact, most professional emails are aiming to be as clear and concise as possible. (in english at least, I know some other languages have some very complicated and elaborate email etiquette)

Greetings and signatures also don’t need to be elaborate. I feel like lots of people overthink it and assume that professional emails need the whole “dear x, my name is x and I am writing this email to inform you about [topic], sincerely [my name and all my contact info]” shebang, when really it’s as simple as adding a quick greeting/signature and avoiding super informal slang.

Here’s an comparison using art commission inquiry as the topic, written with zero extra fluff:

Hi, Are you currently open for commissions? Thanks, [my name]

If I want to add a little more fluff, maybe I write:

Hi, I love your art and wanted to ask if you're currently open for commissions. Here are details of what I'm interested in. Thanks for your time! Thanks/best/etc, [my name]

Those are very short while also being more polite than an email that just says:

are u open for comms??

with zero greeting/signature and very informal tone. 

There’s still a person on the other side reading that email, and just like how being polite with a customer service agent on the phone will get you better results than being rude with them, sending a clear and professional email will have you taken more seriously by whoever is reading it. All 3 emails get the same point across, but the last one leaves a much worse impression. You don’t speak to your close friends the same way you’d speak to strangers, and it’s the same in text form. I get so many emails that are just abrupt questions, with not even a quick "thank you" either in the initial email or as a follow-up after I respond, because they ghost me as if I'm just a chat bot answering questions.

Long story short, it indicates that this is a professional relationship, not a personal one.

I'm teaching myself how to draw which means I can bring my bad puns to life.

2x2 version:

Step 2: smash or pass. No nuance. Fuck em or don't

The momment the cat became infused with such power, a spirit came to visit him, a phantom covered in shining armor, with a great sword in her hands. And the phantom spoke to him, "Small one, I am a warroir of Valhalla, and a servent of the Allfather Odin. The gem that you have stolen contains power beyond that of your knowledge, and your master protected it and used it not, for the sake of all this earth. I urge you to put it back for the good of all life."

But the cat, suddenly imbued with the power of speech, replied, "No. I care not of good nor evil, nor for any destruction. I care only that enough are left to live so that I may be pet and fed." For he was but a cat, and had no desire to do good.

Then a second spirit had come to him after the first one left, a massive demon with the wings of a bat, and firey red eyes, and a mouth filled with iron teeth. And the demon asked him, "Greeting my great lord cat. I have found you in possession of a great object of power. Come and give it to me, for I am a servent of the demon king Typhon. If you give me the gem I will reward you with more money then the greatest of billionaires, and land across the multiverse to call your own. You shall be the richest creature not only in this world but in athousand others."

And so the cat replied, "No. I care not for wealth, nor for riches nor property. I cannot eat money, nor can I grow warm from it, nor from the shiny things like gems and jewels. And I'd rather not own a world so hostile to me, when in this apartment I am comfortable." For he was but a cat, and had no desire to gain wealth.

Then a third spirit came to the cat, a massive creature half beast and hald tree, with a wolf skull for a head and branches for antlers. And the third spirit spoke, "I bow to thee great creature, for I am a servent of the faerie prince Oberon, and I have found myself and equal. Come with me and we shall train, and I shall show you true power, and soon you shall be the match of great old ones as you learn to control thine gem, and be an overlord of entire planes if thou chooses so, and many will bow to your will desd cat, and you will bow to none."

And the cat replied, "No. I care not for power, to fight such great creatures sounds an effort, when moths and house centipedes are more enjoyable prey. And I don't know what I would do with all so many servents, it all sounds like too much work." For he was but a cat and cared not for power (the faerie was also trying to trick him, but he didn't know or care about that.)

because SURPRISE, there's no such thing as "plastic" either. every kind of wood is basically the same on a chemical level, but the only thing every plastic has in common is "some of its molecules are long" and that is NOT a quality that determines how things stick together.

I just ordered some stuff I hope will permanently stick a circuit board to a steel sheet and withstand temperatures up to 150 degrees. by the way circuit boards are made of epoxy-bound woven glass cloth which is cool as hell but what the fuck do you glue that with? can any of the 12 kinds of adhesives I currently own do that? no of course not. if I want to stick two pieces of acrylic together so hard they become watertight to a depth of 3000 metres I have some shit that does that, but it does literally nothing else.