Yet another refugee who washed up on the shore after the great Reddit disaster of 2023
Science showed things like climate change, which was hurting the bottom line of giant corporations who donate huge amounts of money to Republicans, so Republicans convinced their base that science is against God, and that it’s all part of the evil woke liberals thing. So now anything that comes from science, including vaccines, is tainted.
You didn’t need to stand up a whole instance to create a community.
Thanks, though I’m just not going to give Reddit any more of my clicks. I left there at the first big exiguous and I’m not going back.
There aren’t a lot of posts on the SF community here, but when I’ve posted something interesting it’s gotten a lot of activity, so I know there are people reading it. Here’s one from the end of the year.
I’m a big science fiction reader. Mostly I:
The “tepid” reaction is because there’s zero surprise here. A giant swath of the maga base is made up of white supremacists, and I don’t think there’s even debate about that. Lots of people voted for Trump specifically because he said he’d do mass deportations, get rid of LGBTQ protections, etc. We’ve literally been screaming that people were voting for a bunch of Nazis. So now, on inauguration day, someone gets up and does a Nazi salute - what do you want us to say?
And as for “now what,” the best we can do is fight where we can and make sure the mid terms are different, though after this last election my hopes are low. People knew what they were voting for, and he didn’t win by cheating. It’s gross, but that’s where we are.
As a more than triple adult, I can say it for sure isn’t linear.
I didn’t think so? When I say Iris, I mean the colored ring. When I say pupil, I mean the hole. When I say asshole, I mean the ring, not the hole. I can’t remember ever wanting to refer to the actual hole. Maybe “gape?”
The phrase “don’t look a gift horse in the mouth” comes from this. If someone gives you a horse, you shouldn’t look into its mouth to see how old it is because, hey, free horse.
Except don’t we usually mean the sphincter itself when we say asshole?
Pretty good number of them if you count things like intermission. Slit, slot, crack, aperture, interlude, gap, breach, etc. Others, too.
The turntable is there because the microwaves bouncing around inside the unit don’t do so completely evenly; there will be spots that don’t get heated as much. Moving the food around inside the unit makes it so one of those cold spots isn’t consistently in one place in the food.
So with that as a context, if a cold spot is at or near the center of the turntable, it’s not going to get moved around in the food when it rotates. So better to put the food away from the center.
Here’s an odd one my wife and I were just talking about. Some years ago, we were redoing our kitchen and the contractor told us to go buy the kitchen faucet we wanted. We went off, looked at several, and picked the one we thought looked the best with what we were doing.
When the contractor went to install it, he opened the box and a battery pack fell out. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out why a faucet would need batteries. It turned out that you can turn it on and off by touching it anywhere (handle, faucet itself, whatever), you just leave the physical handle open and set where you want it, then you can touch on and off. I thought it was the dumbest thing ever and we’d never use it.
Flash Forward to now and it’s one of the most used conveniences we’ve ever bought. All those times your hands are covered in raw meat or other cooking mess? Just touch the faucet with your elbow. Rinsing a bunch of veggies one at a time? Tap on, tap off. It works flawlessly, unlike those touchless ones at the airport: no delay and works every time. We will never have a kitchen sink without it - my wife wants them for the bathroom.
It feels like there’s few pranks these days that don’t end up being cruel. We have enough horrifyingly outrageous things in the news, that if the prank is trying to make us think something horrible happened that didn’t, we sure don’t need that. On the other hand, if it’s trying to make us think that something good happened, but it didn’t, then that’s a really perverse cruelty.