there was SWEARING! and i was right about something!
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nostalgiaOkay I am caught up on Discovery, pls link me to your posts that I have previously skipped to avoid Teh Spoilarz.
( the quorn show )
( the quorn show )
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Oct. 20th, 2017 12:32 amnostalgiawatched a bit of the star trek
( DISCOvery, like the second one maybe it was the last part of the first one though??? )
( DISCOvery, like the second one maybe it was the last part of the first one though??? )
today's xkcd
Oct. 19th, 2017 08:30 amvassResearch Risks
I have some thoughts:
1. Marine biology is low risk of misuse by supervillains? Come on! Sharks!
2.Molasses storage's low risk of breaking free and threatening local population: didn't that actually happen at least once? If we're counting trucks as facilities, I mean. Never mind, I should have looked at the mouseover text before posting.
3. I wouldn't put linguistics that low for supervillain risk, assuming the validity of the strong Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. (Yes, everything I knew about Sapir-Whorf did come from that one Delany book.)
4. But then, he put palaeontology low as well, and. Well. Do that right/wrong enough and you get both microbiology (bubonic plague! anthrax!) AND ornithology (dinosaurs!)
5. HE LEFT OUT ECONOMICS. And poli-sci (between history and sociology?) but imo economics is WAY scarier from both a supervillain and accidental escape perspective.
6. Really, isn't any discipline high supervillain risk if the supervillain has the right mental attitude?
7. If prosthetics is high supervillain risk/low escape risk, and dentistry is low supervillain risk/low escape risk, are dentures high or low supervillain risk?
I have some thoughts:
1. Marine biology is low risk of misuse by supervillains? Come on! Sharks!
2.
3. I wouldn't put linguistics that low for supervillain risk, assuming the validity of the strong Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. (Yes, everything I knew about Sapir-Whorf did come from that one Delany book.)
4. But then, he put palaeontology low as well, and. Well. Do that right/wrong enough and you get both microbiology (bubonic plague! anthrax!) AND ornithology (dinosaurs!)
5. HE LEFT OUT ECONOMICS. And poli-sci (between history and sociology?) but imo economics is WAY scarier from both a supervillain and accidental escape perspective.
6. Really, isn't any discipline high supervillain risk if the supervillain has the right mental attitude?
7. If prosthetics is high supervillain risk/low escape risk, and dentistry is low supervillain risk/low escape risk, are dentures high or low supervillain risk?
Melbourne Storm
Oct. 19th, 2017 05:48 amvassIt's been a week of 30 degree days (86 if you use Fahrenheit) and there seems to be a storm coming right about now. I have just realised that this might be why Dorian's been quite this excitable all day. The changing barometric conditions might be sending him into Anxious Soccer Ball mode.
Beatrice, being pounced on, responded to this by playing soccer.
Beatrice, being pounced on, responded to this by playing soccer.
Rec: Spinning, by Tillie Walden
Oct. 17th, 2017 03:37 amsasha_featherA beautifully drawn, honest coming-of-age memoir centered on the world of competitive skating. The drawings are fascinating and understatedly emotional. I read this fairly long graphic memoir in one sitting. Walden's social anxiety and coming out story are intensely relatable.
This author-artist is just 21, and I eagerly look forward to her future work.
Content notes: bullying, an incident of attempted sexual assault, dealing with homophobia
This author-artist is just 21, and I eagerly look forward to her future work.
Content notes: bullying, an incident of attempted sexual assault, dealing with homophobia
chrome zoom issue
Oct. 16th, 2017 10:00 pmsasha_feathercan anyone help me with a chrome browser issue? i followed online instructions regarding zoom but it is not applying my instructions. I also restarted the computer, and no dice.
I have Chrome zoom set to 125%, but when i load twitter and tweetdeck, it reverts to about 55% zoom. I have to adjust it with every page re-load. This doesn't seem to happen on random other websites, but I can't find anything within twitter that adjusts zoom.
ETA: went to tool bar, View --> actual size. This fixes the problem temporarily but does not save? I just had to do it again. This is just super annoying and frustrating!
I have Chrome zoom set to 125%, but when i load twitter and tweetdeck, it reverts to about 55% zoom. I have to adjust it with every page re-load. This doesn't seem to happen on random other websites, but I can't find anything within twitter that adjusts zoom.
ETA: went to tool bar, View --> actual size. This fixes the problem temporarily but does not save? I just had to do it again. This is just super annoying and frustrating!
Closing windows again ...
Oct. 16th, 2017 09:06 amrydra_wongThe Guardian: British courts may unlock secrets of how Trump campaign profiled US voters
The Daily Beast: Russia Probe Now Investigating Cambridge Analytica, Trump’s ‘Psychographic’ Data Gurus
Buzzfeed: Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled Nazi and White Nationalist Ideas Into The Mainstream
Vanity Fair: “I Hate Everyone in the White House!”: Trump Seethes as Advisers Fear the President Is “Unraveling”
The Daily Beast: Russia Probe Now Investigating Cambridge Analytica, Trump’s ‘Psychographic’ Data Gurus
Buzzfeed: Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled Nazi and White Nationalist Ideas Into The Mainstream
Vanity Fair: “I Hate Everyone in the White House!”: Trump Seethes as Advisers Fear the President Is “Unraveling”
A time to pull away the football
Oct. 15th, 2017 09:52 amrydra_wongSo rachelmanija is trying to start a campaign to pull the nuclear football away from Trump's grip.
I Google, and found Charlie Brown's Greatest Misses: Every 'Peanuts' Football Gag Comic. Some of the panels seemed ... strangely apposite.
Free to take, use, modify, do what you will. Pull the football, save the world.
rachelmanija is trying to start a campaign to pull the nuclear football away from Trump's grip.I Google, and found Charlie Brown's Greatest Misses: Every 'Peanuts' Football Gag Comic. Some of the panels seemed ... strangely apposite.
Free to take, use, modify, do what you will. Pull the football, save the world.
