Sorry I Was Asleep

link to the original study

Basically, increased co2 concentration in the air makes plants make more carbohydrates, but not take in more nutrients from the soil, so they grow faster but have a lower density of vitamins and minerals. Plus, they're "breathing" more efficiently and actually using slightly less water, so they're taking in even fewer nutrients. And the faster growth can't make up for the rates of damage due to climate instability (droughts, floods, extreme heat etc).

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no wait that- no that's not- no.

Unles you've like, poured out ALL OF YOUR BLOOD, used it for a spell, and then somehow SIPHONED THE WHOLE THING BACK IN, that doesn't mean the blood on the inside of you is also used. And even then, if you'd had your sacrifical blood IV'd back into your body-

actually nevermind, I need to draw a graph to illustrate:

these are great tags @ dr-docktor and you bring up a great point.

It shouldn't be on the actors to "confirm" things about the characters they play but rather the writers who wrote those characters in the first place. Furthermore, retroactively "confirming" queerness of characters doesn't change how they are still continually presented as a joke in their canon. The actors don't have that much sway over how their characters are written, they're still beholden to the writers and director choice.

That is not true for starkid (and theatre has historically always been the place to take those risks and explore queer stories more fully to begin with!). Starkid are the creatives *and* the executives. Advertisers don't fund those shows-- fans do, and many of those fans are queer and might appreciate being treated like their stories and relationships are more than just afterthoughts or punchlines

Starkid doesn't have those same external pressures to produce a widely marketable economic product, so frankly it seems like they just can't be bothered to think about the existence of queer people at all, and certainly not with the kind of heart, depth, and intentionality they give to their many, many straight relationships. In the last ten years, starkid has had more man + car possessed by his dead wife, or man + troll in a dead human girl skinsuit, or boy droid and girl droid content then we've had onstage/onscreen gay relationship. Queer people rate below "man fucks car wife" I guess?

And it's sad to me how many people just eagerly accept this, because they headcanon Richie as queer, or Mariah headcanons her characters as pan or Joey thinks Ted is so horny that he's probably bisexual (don't love that this and canonically bi Ruth seem to share the bisexual = extra horny premise), or MacNamara is gay according to a tweet or livestream or a cut scene or whatever. What we actually have on stage/screen is like 20 seconds of Deb and Alice in a series that has three full length musicals AND two webseries seasons AND several very well developed canon straight relationships (plus more from VHSCCs and now Tomb Quest)

I think another part of the problem is that there's a tendency to say "oh, well starkid are all good kind-hearted liberals, so we know they're actually cool with queer people!!" Great. Where are they then? It's like a perpetual "Oh don't worry, we know Starkid is good for it!" I grew up in actual, literal small town Michigan and knew more queer people than are currently confirmed to exist in Hatchetfield

And I think another issue is that the general fandom has no problem treating TCB like a separate entity when it comes to (not) promoting TCB stuff or (not) contributing to TCB kickstarters, but because of the overlap between the two companies (Corey, Brian Rosenthal, and Joey obviously, but also people who've been in TCB shows like Lauren Lopez and Curt Mega) I do think people tend to count TCB's heavy focus on queer characters/relationships as "basically starkid." Like TCB is the spinoff channel where Starkid puts their gay stuff. And that makes me really irritated, because whatever critiques I have of TCB, they at least make the conscious choice to center queer characters and stories and even (gasp!) romances (even if they all end in misery and/or death, at least they fucking exist man). Starkid may have Curt and Joey in their shows, but they do not have Agent Curt Mega and Owen Carvour, yknow?

they make me start frothing at the mouth and punching drywall thanks for asking <3

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and his feelings for february are clearly romantic.

1: photoshopping is an actual skill and takes time to learn and time to do and is something that a real person does. I might not like the one i'm looking at, but i respect the medium

2: because it is a skill done by humans, photoshopped images cannot be made and uploaded to the internet ten thousand times an hour by a single account - multiplied by, potentially, near infinite accounts - drowning out our ability to access non-photoshopped images online.

saw this on Insta and the idea that people who are anti-AI are just using it anyway like... willing to give it up? I ACTIVELY AVOID THAT SHIT BUD! WHAT ARE YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT?

ALSO

But you know what I find every time?

It's shit. It can be superficially successful, but push a little and the facade still turns out to be paper thin.

And yeah, I know, AI is good at finding vulnerabilities in a codebase. Except that quite often, it has come out, the vulnerabilities aren't actually there. It finds real ones, yes, but it "hallucinates" others.

All that's really happening is that the token predictor is working as designed and people are putting their faith into it due to anthropomorphism.

We just don't have the lexicon to talk about this stuff coherently without falling back on technical language. It's a huge problem. We either use technical language and lose people, or use ill-suited general language and mislead each other!

Yes, this is a bugbear of mine.