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"nothing is real atoms never touch each other youve never touched anything in your life" ok. well when i pet my dog he is soft and when he licks my hand it is wet and that is far more real to me than whatevers going on at an atomic level

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I’m reading/listening to the Poppy War (finally!) and one line is stuck in my craw and i won’t be able to continue until I talk about it.

In chapter 13, they travel via “two weeks hard marching, four days of sailing and another three days’ march” before Rin sees the ocean for the first time. My brain is STRUGGLING to imagine what the geography looks like for that kind of travel to make sense. Most notably, how can you “sail” for four days and not be on the ocean? Or a lake that looks big enough to give the same feeling.

If those four days are on a river—a) is it really sailing and (more importantly), b) why were there another three days of marching to get to the port city instead of sailing to the port city.

I guess a river like the Mississippi would work for 4 days of sailing, but it still breaks my brain that a river would get within 100 miles of an ocean without flowing into it.

No doubt there are dozens of geography experts who can point out five places on our globe where this could be, plus sketch out five more maps that would be realistic alternatives, but my general understanding of landmasses is leaving me confused.

For such a short line, that travel description is doing a lot to take me out.

I suppose another reason the travel happened that way in the book could be strategic—the boat is on a river that *does* go to the port city they’re heading toward, but because of war things, they need to approach on foot to hide their presence from the Federation’s navy, or their spies in the harbor.

Ok, enough ranting, it’s off my mind, back to listening (and crochet!)

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This woke up my cat and made him mad

Watch for a surprise

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In a vacuum, I love “personhood of technology” stories—currently reading the murderbot books— but in the actual cultural climate of the prevalence of AI and people having “relationships” with chat bots, it feels like maybe an irresponsible theme.

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Reddit was complaining about the US using the MM/DD/YYYY date format instead of y/m/d or d/m/y.

Since I’m American and grew up with that date format (and imperial measurements and Fahrenheit temperatures), I’m pretty attached to it (to all of them), and I defend them all on the basis of human usability.

Fahrenheit has the most granular applicability to individual human experience. Tolerable weather range is a 100 degree range. Converted to Celsius, that’s only about a 50 degree range.

The foot (12”) is an incredibly useful unit of measurement for the scale of objects humans use, and I think it’s great that we have a unit that is smaller than a yard and larger than 1/3 inch. Oh wait, I expressed that in a fraction, which means we have *two* units between centimeter and meter.

Yes, metric is easier for engineering/STEM in general. But I’m talking about day to day life here.

And for the one that started it: the American date system.

I like month/day/year because for individual human use, it gives the most relevant information first. Day may be more specific, and year gives the biggest picture, but starting out with the month is incredibly effective at narrowing down the range of when you’re talking about.

Year is likely to be easily inferred/assumed through context, and if it’s not, we’re probably discussing something where my brain knows to process things slower/wait for the context knowledge of the year will bring.

Days of the month are discrete data points, but month names are vivid. Words like “June” and “October” are sensory and bring associations of events, holidays, weather, and other kinds of locational and cultural ambiance.

Numbers like 8, 14, and 27 may have special meanings to some people, but don’t generally ground us like the memories and experiences that come to mind when we hear month names.

Cat got off my lap so I can sit up and eat my dinner now.

Ugh. What kind of tag goes on a post like this.

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There’s an ad for Fatboy sandwiches that I turn up whenever it comes on. Every other commercial* gets muted.

It’s a Life Alert parody with an old woman laying on the ground like she just fell. She’s reaching towards the camera screaming, “Fatboy! Call for help!” over and over.

The reverse shot of the ice cream sandwich has the tag line “Not America’s #1 smart speaker.”

I find it hilarious and cackle with laughter every time.

Then mute the rest of the commercials in the ad break.

There’s at least one other as in the Fatboy campaign, and it’s also funny, but doesn’t get me laughing out loud like the screaming old lady.

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* thinking about a gummy bear commercial that dubs toddler voices over football players eating candy. I leave the volume on for that one, too. And sometimes the Starbucks ASMR coffee brewing one.

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Reblog to give a trans person a fresh and perfectly ripe mango wait huh

It's the wikipedia image??? How big could it be

What

Huh???

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botanical sea creatures 🦈🌸

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I, for one, welcome a new original Mel Brooks movie.

He’s 98. Can’t be bothered to give any more fucks.

I’m optimistic, but aware I may end up disappointed. But I’ll be optimistic till then.

Why are they making a second Spaceballs movie

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Still bothered by the US cultural idea that men can only be non-romantically intimate with one another in war-like or competitive circumstances.

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Happy Pride!

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Art museum priorities are in order.

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He instantly left to get a drink of water, then sit by his food bowl expectantly. Rude.

Trying to break my terraria obsession with Neon Gods and this

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Trying to break my terraria obsession with Neon Gods and this