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elizabeth holmes has been spotted soaking lady fingers in a clear colorless liquid. sources close to the entrepreneur claim she is working to "revolutionize tiramisu" by using just a few drops of coffee diluted in water. early testers described the result as tasting "like shit." undeterred, holmes insists that a breakthrough is imminent. her company, theramisu, is currently valued at $150.

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It's faaaar down the list of things to actually care about on basically any front, but I admittedly do get a bit of schadenfreude from having to interact with a certain kind of (nigh-invariably white) environmentalist who imagines indigenous people being universally in-tune-with-the-land noble savages when they have to process this sort of lede.

imsobadatnicknames2

I know I already made a post to this effect but it's so baffling to me when someone defends the fact that headphone jacks are slowly but surely getting phased out by smartphone manufacturers with some variations of "wireless headphones are more convenient anyway" bc like. If we're talking about convenience what I like about wired headphones is that they conveniently have a single plug that makes the same damn pair of headphones universally compatible with every single audio-output-capable device I own, from my phone and my computer to my fucking gameboy and my casette player, it doesn't get any more convenient than that.

fuglyjeans

Have you heard about Bluetooth it's legal now

imsobadatnicknames2

Yeah ofc lemme just pair my bluetooth headphones to my gameboy advance and my goddamn casette player why didn't I think of that

argumate

the Guardian going above and beyond here! I appreciate the implication that America should just change the flag to match the pool.

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slorty

The fact that this is completely incomprehensible to me makes it funnier than if I could understand it

the-grey-tribe

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elancholia

It's fine to try to persuade someone to do something lol. Obviously subject to all norms about being nice, respectful, not weird, etc., but it's not inherently "disrespectful of someone's autonomy" or whatever

str-ngeloop

all communication is rhetoric and rhetoric is fundamentally evil

myfootyrthroat

There's a weird gentrification of the working class where I'll say that I do mending or something, and someone will be like "Oh yeah, I did a 6 week kintsugi workshop at a monastery in Yokohama. I also spent 3 months living in a commune near Oslo where I did an intensive on visible embroidery with hand dyed thread."

That's cool. I darn my socks and patch stuff. Cool cool.

the-grey-tribe

Socks are really difficult. I tried, but I can't. I can mene holes in merino sweaters, completely invisible. But socks? Why are they so hard?

The question is a four-hour conversation. The four-hour conversation is followed by sex, because she will need to be reassured that her body is loved. If you say no, you get the four hours plus the sex. If you say yes, you get the sex.

If you know what this is from, then I should preface this by saying I know I'm not a transgender lesbian with complicated living arrangements. But this just feels... normal to me. Or rather, it feels familiar. Maybe you think it's "definitely not normal", but it feels like the exact thing people will normalise when it happens to somebody like me, and it's something I recognise from a relationship I was in: Women are more emotional, women require more emotional reassurance, this is normal.

Even worse, when it happens to me, people might point out that I am a man, so of course I prefer the sex to a difficult conversation. Men always want sex. Maybe, as a man, I am just pushy and put my dick in my ex-girlfriend's mouth to get her to shut up.

And, well, I am a man, and I do like sex. I even liked to have sex with my emotionally abusive ex. The sex was great. Well, it was at least decent. It was better than the rest of the relationship, which makes it the best part of the relationship. Sometimes it was great, but I would have liked it more without the tears and recriminations. Of course I never told her that like that, and it would be mean to say it like that, to imply that fucking was all that she's good for.

I have been told that women just are emotionally needy, and this is what it's like to be a man, so you shut up and take the sex over the four hour conversation.

Maybe it's not "normal". Maybe it just "happens all the time and nobody cares".

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ritterum

what is it with PhDs and always writing something

asteroidtroglodyte

Early 21st century academics were subject to a social doctrine known as “publish or perish” by which they were threatened with death unless sufficient smart words were put in the proper order in the time limit

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definitelynotplanetfall

This feels disingenuous. When I see people complaining about "publish or perish" it's often a matter of

a) "teach but don't research" is either not an extant job or not a stable job, despite those being two unrelated skillsets where someone might excel at one but not the other. You hear students complaining "this guy's research is influential but he can't explain for shit" all the time. This is probably a bad way to structure things and I've never heard a good reason for why "professor" and "researcher" aren't allowed to be two separate jobs.

b) The deadline is unrealistic for the amount of time it takes to do this properly, leading to rushed and shoddy work. This is not unique to academia but stupid management overworking you and allocating insufficient time is still a problem and it seems strange to say "academics, specifically, are not allowed to complain about stupid management."

c) Incremental progress on a longer-term project doesn't count as "publishing" which warps the type of research done by universities.

d) The replication crisis being caused by the same institutions threatening to perish you if you don't publish not being willing to fund boring repetitions of other experiments because they aren't "exciting," so you have people churning out these junk studies that nobody is around to disprove because the people that "publish or perish" is supposed to be getting to do these boring replications are too busy churning out their own junk studies.

keirametzbrassknuckles

RIP Richard Serra. You made so many people so so so mad

markadoo

For those of you who don’t know, Richard Serra was an artist who spent months observing how people moved through Foley Plaza, and noticed that people trying to get from one side to the other tended to walk through the middle of it. So what he did, as an artist, was build a wall in the middle so they couldn’t do that. And every day when they walked around his wall, they would say “Dammit, I’ve been trolled so good, having to walk around the wall. I have no choice but to contemplate my role in perpetuating structural inequality.” Unfortunately a large group of convenience advocates (lots of people spend a lot of time talking about convenience these days, wanting things to be convenient, don’t they? we’re not like them) sued Richard for trolling them so good and the government agreed and sent him to prison.

the-grey-tribe

Eh, if putting a wall of steel somewhere is speech or art, then using a blowtorch or shaped charges to cut a door through the wall is also speech, or art, and equally permissible.

hellyesbro

When gay people start talking about gender and orientation like pokemon types instead of meaningful signifiers of social class you know it's not a safe space

slowlikehoney1996

If your lover lives in Hong Kong and cannot get to Chicago, it will be necessary for you to go to Hong Kong. Perhaps you will spend your life there, and never see Chicago again. And you will, I assure you, as long as space and time divide you from anyone you love, discover a great deal about shipping routes, airlines, earthquake, famine, disease, and war. And you will always know what time it is in Hong Kong, for you love someone who lives there. And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time and, furthermore, to win.

James Baldwin, Nothing Personal

garmbreak1

"you can use electric scooters in the city BUT! only if they're rented from a company, you can't use one you own" is the stupidest fucking policy goddamn

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loving-n0t-heyting

the belfast violence has gotten a lot of coverage in us media (plus british media ofc, which a lot of americans including myself rely on). i havent seen as much attention given to the "march and march" protests and associated rioting/looting in south africa, which are very similar in character: flare-ups in anti-immigrant hatred, sparked by social media content abt victims of violent crime at the hands of immigrants, fueled by ascendant anti-establishment xenophobe-populist parties unwilling to fully associate themselves w the violence but very eager to commend most of those protesting as airing entirely legitimate grievances -- tho w the caveat that in sa the main such party (the offensively named "mkhonto wesizwe" party under jacob zuma) brands itself as far left rather than far right. (special disapprobation also is due here to the recently minted "mayibuye" party under ex-eff and ex-mk sellout floyd shivambu.) the orgs responsible for instigating these protests/riots have set a 30 june "deadline" for illegal immigrants to get out; theyre claiming they wont be calling for an escalation that day but we shall see

looking especially dicey for the eff (which has condemned the march and march organisers) since this means this election yr (the self-proclaimed yr of "victory or death") its going to be fighting an uphill battle against both reputation loss for its anti-borders stance in the wake of the resurgent anti-immigrant sentiment and its leader getting lawfared into prison (probably)

anyway i thought this statement from mk was particularly flabbergasting

The MK Party has distanced itself from formal alignment with the March and March movement but says it supports the right to protest and view

He said failure by authorities to manage protests cannot be attributed to organisers, stating, “If the police fail to contain those people when they protest, then that means they are weak. It means the police are weak.” Nomvalo added that policing failures should not be used to delegitimise protest action, saying, “We can’t suffocate March and March for the failure of the police to enforce order during this protest.”

"the race riots arent the fault of the ppl stirring them up, theyre the fault of the cops being too weak to stop them stirring them up" hahahahaha wtf

i feel like the upswing in anti-migrant hate in sa ought to feature more in western thinking abt similar tendencies in our own countries, it makes you think more abt commonalities we share w sa and not just other highly developed western liberal democracies w the left in perennial retreat

algebraic-dumbass

why do i need to defend my master's thesis. it's got hands it can defend itself

locally-normal

I-it does?

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