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Instead of cursing her to an eternal sleep or death, Maleficent declares that the princess will grow up to betray the kingdom and serve her instead. So the king sends Aurora away, but one day the young adventurous girl strays a bit too far and right into her territory.
And of course Maleficent is like "hey kid do you wanna learn some totally normal magic that is not dark or evil at all"
Aurora deserves to be a dragon. She should be a beautiful and enormous golden dragon whose splendor rivals the sun itself.
And when her father learns that his daughter can take the form of a dragon, he grows haughty, believing his kingdom invulnerable with such a protector.
When he offends a rival kingdom, they send an army. He calls upon his daughter to stop them, to protect him from his own actions.
"No," she replies, and flies off, for dragons do not intervene in the affairs of Men. And so she fulfills the prophecy, betraying a kingdom which expected her protection and offered her nothing.
Tubby at da vet he is in hell
but he looks sick as fuuuuuuuuuuuckkkkkk
Your…your dog?
It's so wonderful to see another cat receiving the Hannibal Lecter treatment!
Shiro was an adorable, friendly cat who loved everyone!
But at the vet, he was 8 lbs of demonic terror. The vets were actually afraid of him: on one occasion I know he caused a vet tech to need stitches; there was screaming, the tech who returned him to me had a butterfly closure and a thousand-yard stare, and we never again saw the vet tech who took him initially.
But at home? Friendliest little kitty you could imagine.
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a few indian brutalist buildings
Aesthetically, I still don't like Brutalism - sometimes it can work, but usually I just don't like it. These also still have the long-term issue common to Brutalist structures: they're extremely difficult to remove or renovate as they age.
That said, I am always a fan (pun intended) of passive approaches to handling the environment. I see no reason these concepts can't be integrated into designs with other aesthetic approaches, and even if I personally don't like something, I'd rather an intelligent approach which I find ugly, over an impractical approach which happens to be pretty.
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THE ADAMS FAMILY
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As a Catholic, counterpoint: No.
Trad Caths, I swear to fuckin' God. All crazier than a bag of weasels and so convinced that they're right.
I'd rant more about this, because boy do I have rants, but I've got an evening of stuff that needs doing before I can sleep. And if I get all riled about schismatics I know my treasured sleep will be troubled.
Child of a former Jesuit here, represent.
Okay I don't go here but: aren't there tons of feast days (so school will never be open), and also wtf does "restaurants will observe lent" even mean? Is there a standardized lent I've never encountered?
You know, these theocrats never seem to be willing to give a straight answer to Everyone Else. They just kinda wanna put in place a structure where we're forced to follow all their little rules, and they think we're gonna do it and go "Oh actually this is awesome and I'm so grateful someone is abusing the power of the state to oppress me".
There's no room in their world plans for people like me, and they don't ever get why that might be a bit of a problem.
They don't care about you or I. At least, not until they no longer feel like putting up with us.
They care about what they want to accomplish.
Yeah, but they're ALSO too big of cowards to admit that their cute little godly utopia is built on murdering billions of people, and constantly monitoring all the others forever.
Policy
For reasons I'm looking through my old communications with contractors about home repairs - a LOT of home ownership is finding someone decent to do this or that repair or upgrade - and I'm still salty about how many of them pull the "Oh we really don't discuss this without both spouses present. It's just our policy, you see..."
And there are so many flavors of no in that.
Like, yes, I get that there's a niggling chance that it's an abusive relationship (which the contractors don't actually care about, but there's the one real moral issue). And there's sorta-ish a chance that one spouse will make a legally-binding agreement and the other will try to pull some shit to get out of it... but that's no more a risk than with any other contract.
From my perspective, as the homeowner, the superficial issue is that my spouse literally Does. Not. Care. Dragging them to the hardware store to look at paint chips is harder than pilling a cat. They don't want to be involved. To them, home improvement decisions are the same as taking me to a women's clothing store and asking for opinions on outfits. Just not involved, not informed, not interested. And given that, given that my spouse not only has neither the ability nor desire to contribute to the decisions and their entire interest is in completing the unpleasant and pointless thing as quickly as possible, the best solution is to schedule discussions when my spouse is NOT going to be present. When we can go over the options without someone metaphorically tugging on my hand and wanting to please be done. (And, FTR, a lot of contractors have the Gift of Gab; which I tend to allow because it puts them in a good mood, but for the love of all the gods, I just want to know about the shingles.)
The deeper issue, though, is that the moment the salesperson starts trying to set conditions on how we will consider their pitch, and wants to be sitting in on the discussion within our household, the salesperson - and by extension their business - has wildly overstepped. They have zero right. They have made a request, the answer is no, and there are no take-backs, there is no discussion, and I will not do business with anyone who thinks that's okay. They appear to be shocked when I show them the door immediately.
The last issue with this is that it's always "Well, it's our policy..." Companies treat policies as being slightly more absolute than laws of nature - and very definitely above mere law or express wishes of the customer. And most of all: absolutely not changeable under any circumstances. Policy is set by a nebulous other who makes all these decisions, who cannot be consulted or reasoned with, who never changes their mind, and holds absolute authority. This is, of course, true even when you're talking directly with the person who set the policy. If they are called on this, they will yammer something about accountability and that making exceptions would undermine their leadership or somesuch - it's blatantly excuses, and worth exactly zero respect - they just don't want to make the "hard" decisions of "thinking".
What really amazes me is how many businesses operate this way - that they treat customers in such an entitled fashion, and yet they get away with it.
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While I don't think I'd generally just listen to their music, World Order has incredible music videos, and generally seem to have pretty good messages.
It's not as positive, but I do strongly recommend "Let's Start WWIII".
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As a Catholic, counterpoint: No.
Trad Caths, I swear to fuckin' God. All crazier than a bag of weasels and so convinced that they're right.
I'd rant more about this, because boy do I have rants, but I've got an evening of stuff that needs doing before I can sleep. And if I get all riled about schismatics I know my treasured sleep will be troubled.
Child of a former Jesuit here, represent.
Okay I don't go here but: aren't there tons of feast days (so school will never be open), and also wtf does "restaurants will observe lent" even mean? Is there a standardized lent I've never encountered?
You know, these theocrats never seem to be willing to give a straight answer to Everyone Else. They just kinda wanna put in place a structure where we're forced to follow all their little rules, and they think we're gonna do it and go "Oh actually this is awesome and I'm so grateful someone is abusing the power of the state to oppress me".
There's no room in their world plans for people like me, and they don't ever get why that might be a bit of a problem.
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See the thing about Stratt putting all media ever in the Hail Mary is that it isn’t just for lolz or to keep the crew entertained, it always struck me as something deeply sad. Because even if all the crew survived, there was no way they could consume all possible media ever, language barriers alone would present a problem. And even then, they had a job to do and focus on first (which could have theoretically taken decades of work to figure out) so they wouldn’t have much use for The Great Gatsby or a week’s worth of poorly written amateur Guatemalan experimental opera. Let us remember that Stratt is practical and true utilitarian Instead, I think it was another part of the Hail Mary. If the scientists failed, if the Earth died, then what? Everything would have been completely lost. Art, music, film, history. Destroyed. Without a single living soul to remember it by. It would be as if all of humanity had never existed.
But if it survived? If other alien civilizations discovered traces of humanity? Then the memory of mankind could live on and be remembered. What better way to do that than to send everything (literally everything, the art, the music, the science, the history) out as far as humanly possible so that it might connect with someone else in the universe? It would be a long shot, a Hail Mary, but it was the best chance that humanity had to be remembered
Just thinking through how I'd be doing it...
First, you just want to give them all the information they could possibly need for their work. Don't want to send them 12 lightyears away only for them to realize that the paper on arsenic-based life isn't on their laptops, right?
You very rapidly - and when we're talking life sciences, this is measured in picoseconds - discover that a lot of the cutting edge research is behind a paywall. That's how a lot of that research is done: some company pays for a university to do the research, but they get first crack at monetizing the results, and are litigious as fuck about it. So! This is a fun chance for Eva to test all the legal abilities she has been given. And she, I assume, does: it's yours? That's nice. Put it on the drive.
Then you start to sift through the data. Maybe you start thinking "These are human beings, they need downtime... we should give them some entertainment, too. What would they want?"
And somewhere in looking at what scientific information they might need, and what entertainment they might need, you say "This is stupid. This is a waste of time. How about we just give them... everything?"
And, if it were me, that's where I'd also click "If we make 'Gather all human knowledge' into a side project, then not only do I give my people access to everything they could possibly need, I could also put that on as a last resort to preserve humanity. And I could put it in more of those beetles and send them out into space, too, after we launch the Hail Mary."
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should be shown at every DMV when you get your licence
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You learn the basics of this at least when you get forklift certified, but this video is a great demonstration!
Huh! Definitely something I did not know! (I am terrified of towing and have always found an alternative)
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People who don't pay high rent for shithole apartments love to have an opinion about how tenants should pay higher rents for the sake of those sad, rich landlords. Evil little shits.
Do people really believe that more expensive apartments have higher maintenance costs? Sure, there's some variation in maintenance cost depending on what kind of appliances are present and so forth, but not nearly enough to account for the range of rent amount
Just to speak directly to the appliance question.
Now, in my youth, my parents rented out two houses - they were the houses they'd lived in previously, and rather than sell them they rented them out.
Now, these were not great houses. They rented for cheap in a bad part of a small town in the Midwest. Section 8 cheap. Which meant that not infrequently, after months of late and past due notices, and vague promises from the tenants that they'd pay the rent "in a few weeks", the tenants would skip town, owing six months of rent. [In spite of what you'd expect, I don't recall my father ever having to actually evict anyone - the closest was giving them a notice that he'd started eviction proceedings, and that only happened twice in my recollection]. But when tenants skipped town, they tended to take everything which wasn't nailed down and wreck everything that was left. We would bring flashlights because they took the lightbulbs. Meaning often as not, the refrigerator, washing machine, and dryer were either gone or destroyed.
What did my father do? He "knew a guy". We'd take the truck to this warehouse where he'd buy replacement appliances for a few hundred bucks. They worked. That's thereabouts all that could be said. But it was cheap, and meant the houses could be back up for rent with a bit of work.
And I know this is still something that's happening. Two years ago my spouse and I decided to replace the washer and dryer in our house with newer ones - they worked, but the washer was the older style with the agitator in middle and small besides; and the dryer took a long time to dry anything.
So we had this working washer and dryer; what to do with them? Well... no one wanted to buy them. Hell, we tried to donate them, no one would take them as a donation. But where we are, you can leave anything out for trash and they'll take it - appliances included. So, that's what we did. And not six hours later, they were gone: it was not trash day.
I have absolute faith that old-but-working washer, and old-but-working dryer found their way to a warehouse, run by "a guy" who folks "know", and for a couple hundred bucks, they'll get loaded into a truck by the teenage sons of a landlord, and they'll find their way into a cheap rental house somewhere.
The point is, there's an entire economy of outfitting rental homes with stuff that's functional but too old, too ugly, too beat up for people in nice luxury condos or upscale townhomes. That is a thing which is already happening, and carrying water for landlords who are already cutting every corner they can is not going to matter one whit.
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A little relaxation, Brooks Falls, Alaska @achdiefranzi
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▪︎ Samson and Lion Aquamanile.
Place of origin: Northern Germany (possibly Schleswig-Holstein)
Period/Date: Medieval (Gothic); early 14th century
Medium: Leaded latten (81.7% copper, 9.9% tin, 7% lead, 1.4% zinc).
Source: collections.mfa.org
Getting my cat to take a pill, the eternal struggle.