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silveradeptIf ever we should meet, please tell me if there are adaptations necessary for your health and happiness, whether physical, gastronomical, or emotional. It's important to me that you are able to enjoy yourself fully.
It is worth examining whether technological innovations take advantage of sex-linked characteristics, so that they can be refined to be more equal. As one might guess, the comments section has at least some who are more interested in protecting their privilege than engaging the material.
No thing is simply easy to anyone who is being taught. Some may have better aptitude, but the subject is always challenging.
It is possible to tell how good a given gelato place is merely by looking at the gelato. Color and presentation are really good indicators of the presence or absence of artificial materials.
Speaking of food, the price one pays for food at a buffet directly affects the enjoyment obtained from the food.
In their attempts to make clothing more uniform to hide the dwindling economic prospects of everyone during the American Great Depression, fashion adopted designs that accentuated the body underneath the clothes, trading anxiety about appearing to be too rich for anxieties about not looking attractive enough to fit into fashionable clothes.
To the West, Everest is a legend. To those who live there, it can be a way of living, and a way of marking the passage of time, by those that die there.
The Supreme Court of the United States determines it is okay to open legislative sessions, including city council meetings, with sectarian prayers, so long as there is enough good-faith effort made to find and present different sects. Which, if you examine the place from whence the suit originated, you find that there's a lot of people and practice there that aren't going to benefit from the ruling.
Protestant denominations are just as likely to have abusers hiding in their ranks. They, however, will have to rely on organization like GRACE instead of a denominational structure to root them out.
Failed vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin spoke conservative glossolalia at an NRA gathering, indicating that she saw the torture practice of waterboarding add a baptism for terrorists. It is a bit frightening to conceive of the alternate universe where she and Senator McCain were elected, and then the further universe where she ascended to the Presidency. That said, Ms. Palin is a perfect fit for the NRA, who believe they are the last bastion of freedom against a world utterly corrupted.
A Florida Congresscritter accused his wife of bigamy, claiming she was married when she married the Congresscritter, even though he also claims she secretly divorced her other husband in 1994. Which wouldn't make it bigamy any more...
Ostensibly-tolerant religious sect claims true nondiscrimination is discrimination against their sect members. Which is way too steeped in so many privileges to do much but stare at them. And possibly curse. Because it's already hard enough to get people to see the subtle signs of privilege, overt, flagrant displays like this often get condemned as "those nuts", when the fact that they even have a platform where millions listen to them is the thing to be working against. Because most people think its perfectly normal for others to debate about whether some people really aren't people (If you can't watch, have a transcript) without it pinging in their brains that this thing is exactly like that other thing they deplore, because they were taught to deplore it. Because they don't make the connection, they will ignore a rich man's documented action and become incensed when a secretly-taped private conversation is leaked, because the leaked tape says the words we have been taught to understand are wrong. But we haven't been taught that those actions are wrong, even though they are illegal. The response, such that it is, is late to the actual racism.
Persons believing that the federal government holds no authority are sufficiently unpopular in the Nevada territory around Cliven Bundy that allegations are coming in that they have set up road checkpoints in Nevada.
Ohio's constitutional amendment banning marriage equality is being challenged, as Northern Ireland rejects marriage equality, gay men in Syria have their lives threatened, get brutalized, and are killed, with Brunei set to follow suit (prompting Mr. Fry to boycott any hotel owned by the sultan's investment group, among others).
Looking to the President to produce change? He&apos:s doing a lot of things that the previous administrator was vilified for, just with better PR. It can be tough to gauge what is an accurate account of things, because truth becomes distorted in small ways every time someone with a partisan position retells the story. Or big ways, but at least small ways.
NPR gave only one side of the story when talking about buffer zones around clinics, neglecting to add the accounts and experiences of those who walk those zones on a daily basis.
An attempted execution in Oklahoma finished with the executed saying he could feel his body burning during the execution. There's also the part where the continued difficulties in obtaining drugs to be used in lethal injections that contribute to the idea that perhaps lethal injection has passed as a method for execution.
On the opposite, the governor of Oregon, John Kitzhaber, may have helped save the life of a constituent by performing CPR on her until paramedics could arrive and take over.
In technology, it's a lot easier to commit tax fraud when the outsourced payroll company is accessed though compromised logins.
Internet Explorer is vulnerable to a Flash-based exploit, which has a patch released, but updating Flash is always a good idea.
The Heartbleed vulnerability may be baked into various Internet of Things devices, which may or may not receive updates depending on whether the device manufacturer bothers to put one out.
Anti-virus software is useful for defeating yesterday's threats - today's threats are encrypted so that they don't trigger against current definitions. So, don't uninstall it, but exercise your bullshit detectors.
A small and secretive team is constantly monitoring crucial financial networks to ensure that they are uncompromised, to the point of being able to detect a USB device inserted into a computer port and shunt the entire computer into a walled garden until the device is cleared.
Last for tonight, when the observation of stars disproves a theory about their age, there's only one thing left to do: attack the messenger. Which is a perfect opportunity to deploy your pocket bullshit prevention guide.
Iterative design works, even on a single-person level - work until you're bored, and change your definition of complete to count even when you only accomplish a fraction of what you intended. If only other parts of work worked like that.
It is worth examining whether technological innovations take advantage of sex-linked characteristics, so that they can be refined to be more equal. As one might guess, the comments section has at least some who are more interested in protecting their privilege than engaging the material.
No thing is simply easy to anyone who is being taught. Some may have better aptitude, but the subject is always challenging.
It is possible to tell how good a given gelato place is merely by looking at the gelato. Color and presentation are really good indicators of the presence or absence of artificial materials.
Speaking of food, the price one pays for food at a buffet directly affects the enjoyment obtained from the food.
In their attempts to make clothing more uniform to hide the dwindling economic prospects of everyone during the American Great Depression, fashion adopted designs that accentuated the body underneath the clothes, trading anxiety about appearing to be too rich for anxieties about not looking attractive enough to fit into fashionable clothes.
To the West, Everest is a legend. To those who live there, it can be a way of living, and a way of marking the passage of time, by those that die there.
The Supreme Court of the United States determines it is okay to open legislative sessions, including city council meetings, with sectarian prayers, so long as there is enough good-faith effort made to find and present different sects. Which, if you examine the place from whence the suit originated, you find that there's a lot of people and practice there that aren't going to benefit from the ruling.
Protestant denominations are just as likely to have abusers hiding in their ranks. They, however, will have to rely on organization like GRACE instead of a denominational structure to root them out.
Failed vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin spoke conservative glossolalia at an NRA gathering, indicating that she saw the torture practice of waterboarding add a baptism for terrorists. It is a bit frightening to conceive of the alternate universe where she and Senator McCain were elected, and then the further universe where she ascended to the Presidency. That said, Ms. Palin is a perfect fit for the NRA, who believe they are the last bastion of freedom against a world utterly corrupted.
A Florida Congresscritter accused his wife of bigamy, claiming she was married when she married the Congresscritter, even though he also claims she secretly divorced her other husband in 1994. Which wouldn't make it bigamy any more...
Ostensibly-tolerant religious sect claims true nondiscrimination is discrimination against their sect members. Which is way too steeped in so many privileges to do much but stare at them. And possibly curse. Because it's already hard enough to get people to see the subtle signs of privilege, overt, flagrant displays like this often get condemned as "those nuts", when the fact that they even have a platform where millions listen to them is the thing to be working against. Because most people think its perfectly normal for others to debate about whether some people really aren't people (If you can't watch, have a transcript) without it pinging in their brains that this thing is exactly like that other thing they deplore, because they were taught to deplore it. Because they don't make the connection, they will ignore a rich man's documented action and become incensed when a secretly-taped private conversation is leaked, because the leaked tape says the words we have been taught to understand are wrong. But we haven't been taught that those actions are wrong, even though they are illegal. The response, such that it is, is late to the actual racism.
Persons believing that the federal government holds no authority are sufficiently unpopular in the Nevada territory around Cliven Bundy that allegations are coming in that they have set up road checkpoints in Nevada.
Ohio's constitutional amendment banning marriage equality is being challenged, as Northern Ireland rejects marriage equality, gay men in Syria have their lives threatened, get brutalized, and are killed, with Brunei set to follow suit (prompting Mr. Fry to boycott any hotel owned by the sultan's investment group, among others).
Looking to the President to produce change? He&apos:s doing a lot of things that the previous administrator was vilified for, just with better PR. It can be tough to gauge what is an accurate account of things, because truth becomes distorted in small ways every time someone with a partisan position retells the story. Or big ways, but at least small ways.
NPR gave only one side of the story when talking about buffer zones around clinics, neglecting to add the accounts and experiences of those who walk those zones on a daily basis.
An attempted execution in Oklahoma finished with the executed saying he could feel his body burning during the execution. There's also the part where the continued difficulties in obtaining drugs to be used in lethal injections that contribute to the idea that perhaps lethal injection has passed as a method for execution.
On the opposite, the governor of Oregon, John Kitzhaber, may have helped save the life of a constituent by performing CPR on her until paramedics could arrive and take over.
In technology, it's a lot easier to commit tax fraud when the outsourced payroll company is accessed though compromised logins.
Internet Explorer is vulnerable to a Flash-based exploit, which has a patch released, but updating Flash is always a good idea.
The Heartbleed vulnerability may be baked into various Internet of Things devices, which may or may not receive updates depending on whether the device manufacturer bothers to put one out.
Anti-virus software is useful for defeating yesterday's threats - today's threats are encrypted so that they don't trigger against current definitions. So, don't uninstall it, but exercise your bullshit detectors.
A small and secretive team is constantly monitoring crucial financial networks to ensure that they are uncompromised, to the point of being able to detect a USB device inserted into a computer port and shunt the entire computer into a walled garden until the device is cleared.
Last for tonight, when the observation of stars disproves a theory about their age, there's only one thing left to do: attack the messenger. Which is a perfect opportunity to deploy your pocket bullshit prevention guide.
Iterative design works, even on a single-person level - work until you're bored, and change your definition of complete to count even when you only accomplish a fraction of what you intended. If only other parts of work worked like that.
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Date: 2014-05-11 03:26 pm (UTC)The second link (vision and sex hormones) is a fascinating thing. How peculiar that the second-largest concentration of sex hormones in our bodies is on our retinas. I shared that with TW, in part since he makes video game levels for Thief, and he doesn't think that problem of making computers accurately portray "shape by shading" is going to be solved anytime soon, unfortunately. I do hope others pick up the ball and carry research forward.
I now know so much more about gelato than I ever thought there was to know!
I have a real problem with the interpretation offered by the media of the buffet prices study. I don't think it's enjoyment of the food at all that's really increased/decreased based on the price difference. I think that what's happened is that, at $4, the buffet seems too low-priced, and it feels like the diners have gotten one over on the proprietors. BUT they're in Western culture, where many things are drummed heavily into us all our lives, two of which are pertinent here: (1) It's GOOD to get one over on someone - it means you've won, and (2) You should feel guilty about food - everything to do with it.
Of course, it doesn't always feel good to get one over on someone, but we assign these guilty feelings to other causes, and I think these diners went for the obvious guilt about food: they felt they'd overeaten and all those bad things we're supposed to feel about food all the time. No, they just felt guilty for paying less than they thought was a fair amount for the operators to keep the place running.
I was suspicious of this from the headline when I first ran into it - I generally enjoy my food LESS when I pay more for it (buffet, sit down, whatever). That's guilt for spending more money than I think I should really, and I know that; I've walked away from many a menu posted outside restaurants crying, "It's Just Food!" But they're dealing with a dollar amount so small that it's a whole nother kettle of fish. Rather than identifying it as THAT cause, the price is too low, they're advising all buffet operators to jack up their rates?! That's rather silly.
*sigh*
The fashion thing was interesting, but it didn't answer why taking fashion that way made everyone feel like they were being less ostentatious. Might should read the book sometime.
"most people think its perfectly normal for others to debate about whether some people really aren't people"
I read the transcript. I really hope Panti wins, and that the point is heard. I identified with it too much for comfort, albeit to a smaller degree, as an immigrant. Smaller only because I mostly blend in; other immigrants have it much harder. There are so many groups Othered by society, so many groups "debated about whether they're really people or not," and it perturbs me to the core that this is so ... commonplace.
The last link is a good thought provoker. Thanks. :-)
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Date: 2014-05-11 04:00 pm (UTC)That's an interesting take on the food article - it makes sense, certainly, that the price would have a difference on the enjoyment. I missed that possibility because I'm thinking about CiCi's Pizza, which is basically a pizza buffet for the $5 price point. It isn't the highest-quality material, but it is cheap and plentiful.
The fashion thing feels less ostentatious, I think, because it becomes more uniform. Instead of being able to tell wealth because of obvious signs of tailoring, fabric, accessories, etc., the fashionable wealthy and the working poor both start wearing "off the rack" suits, dresses, and clothing. It becomes less possible to tell the class difference, so everyone feels less ostentatious.
I hope Panti wins, too.
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Date: 2014-05-11 08:39 pm (UTC)It got much easier as I got older and the groups got smaller and less prone to smoking and drinking, but I still have a certain unwillingness to deal with the possible fallout from this stuff. It makes me wonder how much introversion is an inborn temperament and how much is a learned trait for people who are more physically sensitive.
The perfume part -- my mother learned from her mother (this could probably be traced back for centuries) that if you can still smell your own perfume shortly after putting it on, you're wearing too much. Also that, instead of spraying it directly on your skin, you should spray it in front of you and then walk through it. I think rules like this should be more widely distributed as matters of etiquette, lest unsuspecting people cause migraines wherever they go. But tbh the only time I've ever gotten someone to wear less scent is when he wanted to sleep with me :P.
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Date: 2014-05-11 10:41 pm (UTC)Thankfully, my workplace is fragrance-free among employees because of a sensitivity. That doesn't stop the public, though, whether eau de toilette, eau de marijuana, or eau de unshowered is their preferred scent.
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Date: 2014-05-31 05:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-05-11 09:15 am (UTC)I jump on this one because there are so many proven and overt items with which to pillory this crew that all false items should be rigorously excluded to prevent their being used as 'examples of slander'.
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Date: 2014-05-11 01:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-05-11 05:26 pm (UTC)It seems the primary source of the story is Steven Horsford's letter to the Clark County Sheriff. Everyone has taken that and run with it. I have not found any evidence of checkpoints outside of that document.
And looking back at the letter (https://horsford.house.gov/sites/horsford.house.gov/files/Letter%20to%20Sheriff%20of%20Clark%20County%20Related%20to%20Bunkerville%20NV.pdf) now to organize my facts, I see that it is written in a 'plausible deniability' fashion. The letter itself is 'anecdotal', as in "My constituents have expressed concern" without any corroboration.
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Date: 2014-05-11 10:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-05-11 05:24 pm (UTC)And re: Brunei, the City of Beverly Hills has asked the Sultan to sell the two hotels that he owns there because of the Sharia declaration.
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Date: 2014-05-11 10:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-05-12 12:25 am (UTC)