peto (he/him)

Just tell everyone you use arch, even if you don’t.

So this is how that meowing nun thing started…

As per my previous thrown brick.

The lack of pain-empathy in healthcare is mind-blowing. I’m a white man in an excellent position to be listened to, but when I had appendicitis last year getting people to understand that no, I am in crippling pain and I think it’s urgent was far to much hassle for someone in crippling pain. I can’t imagine what it’s like for women.

I can understand folk getting jaded eventually but I often get the feeling that many people start out not caring.

‘vampire smut’ is almost, but not quite redundant.

You probably don’t want to know the details of any science done before… What? the 90’s?

For honour, for the hive, for things ordinary humans can not understand.

The real sad thing is after stabbing their opponent the winning beekeeper dies anyway.

It’s worse than that. Some folks actually reject the idea that those poorer than them should have nice things, or even OK things. This is why there are voucher programs, why so much social housing (when it was built) are ugly, plain boxes showcasing the worst of brutalism.

To add some evidence (from a basic internet search, skimmed but not read in detail):

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/science-blog/evidence-behind-putting-money-directly-pockets-poor

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5510957/

My point on art is that it can create an experience when perceived, rather than requiring you go there. If you listen to music, it will move you or it won’t, but you can’t choose (though you can lie). You can plug your ears but I don’t think you can sit there and just choose to feel nothing.

Calling someone a liberal when they are leftist is pretty insulting, even fighting words in some company. Though probably not in the way he intended. Many leftists consider liberals to be at best, placing their personal comfort over the need to take action, and at worst as complicit in and defensive of the structures as any fascist. An ‘I cant believe it’s not facisim’ kind of margarine.

Being called a leftist is only an insult if you base your politics on cruelty and hatred. And for such people the idea that you might think about someone else just doesn’t compute.

I’m sorry you are having to go through this, it is hard when we realise that our parents are not good people. Especially if they generally treat you well. And often these are the same people who first taught us the basic principles that matured into leftism. To share. To act kindly and be considerate. To tell the truth. To do what is right, not what everyone else is doing.

I’d like to say here is a step by step guide to help your father, but if there is one I don’t know anyone who has seen it.

At the risk of getting too mystic, creativity is the ability to explore the inner world, communication is the ability to path and map that world. Art is the ability to push someone into that world, potentially forcefully and against their will. All of this is quite separate from ‘value’ or ‘worth’.

That said, capital is willing to pay for this because it has no connection to the inner world (interesting considering how it spawns some of the most foul and evil egregors out there.) They pay for solutions where necessary, but mostly they want it to be decoration within their egregors, defined only in those terms. You see this whenever anything gets committeed or focus-grouped out of their art-as-product.

Limits are imposed by culture and language, but those can be broken through, it’s just hard. But the inner world is infinite and contains all possibilities there to be found and pathed.

It’s going to depend a lot on the design of the pen. If it has interchangable nibs then yeah, should be able to just get a new feed.

If that isn’t an option you might be able to get some milage out of super glue just make sure to not over-apply and to use tweezers or pliers so as to not get finger grease up in there. If you do that you will probably want to stick to water-based inks.

If she is she isn’t a very good one. You can generally tell when a writer has a solid grasp of the occult and magic and she just doesn’t display any of that. She is a fantasist, and not great at that either. Or maybe she is an excellent occultist and just doesn’t do any of it in her writing. She exhibits very static, very materialist thinking though so I don’t think so.

I’m not familiar with Liungman’s dictionary, and going by those quotes I don’t think I am missing out. He seems to just list all the meanings he has heard or imagined. Maybe it’s of use to an academic who wants to know what a certain mark could mean but I don’t think it has much use to the practitioner. Analysing a sigil this way is entirely useless.

‘No one is above the law’ is a bold statement for a US attorney. I hope her king didn’t hear her say that.

The best ones are when you scroll down the page and the video comes too. I wish suffering on no one but were I to meet that particular ‘innovator’.

A lot of the issue with this is that we are talking about a really energy-intensive way of solving this non-problem.

A better way is to train humans to stop falling for the bait. That is also rather hard though but I’m pretty sure you can already get browser plugins that identify click bait headlines and just, hides them.

If we can get the costs to read an summarize an article down (and get an AI that understands things like facts and source quality) then there are a bunch of things it could do for us. Interpreting contracts and TOS bollocks come to mind, but LLMs as we have them today can’t do that. They might end up part of the tool chain but they are presently insufficient.

I can’t prove it but I am more certain that the first bit of worn armour ever made was to protect some guys dick than I am about gravity.

I don’t know. Weight alone is likely a poor measure, and one we see exploited in combat sports to the harm and even death of competators. Working that specifically out is a question for sports scientists I think, rather than basing it on the feelings and biases of spectators.

What I am talking about is the cultural acceptance of sectioned competition, and that it doesn’t reduce the achievements and glory of competators.

I assume you mean something like weight classes in combat sports? No one expects a welterweight to fight a heavyweight. And the existence of either class doesn’t reduce the achievements of anyone not in it.