I think it works best with an adjective that has 3+ syllables. E.g. You incorrigible turnip You reprehensible teapot You abominable spoon You acephalous sandwich

Step 1: someone says trans people are bad and wrong (subtext: and therefore we should do something about it)

“Oh, but I’m just expressing my opinion. What’s wrong with that? Am I not allowed to have opinions anymore? Surely you are the actually intolerant one, because I only implied that I don’t think trans people should exist by saying they are bad and wrong”

It’s frustrating because subtext does exist and matter. They only acknowledge the subtext in their bigoted assertions when it’s convenient for them.

Edit: accidentally a word

Yay learning

“In Sweden, having drugs in the bloodstream is punishable with prison”

Oh wow, I didn’t know that

What do you expect her to do instead?

What’s your favourite scent/scent note? (Either scent to work with if you make perfumes, or just something you personally enjoy for your own use)

I know of Chappell Roan because she’s recently been ruffling people’s feathers by asserting boundaries against fans’ parasocial weirdness; I’ve never heard any of her music, but this alone is enough to make me a fan.

I need to add that to my quotes book, it’s great

I have a Catholic friend who says she treats her body like a temple — full of red wine and guilt

If you like video essays, Dr Fatima on YouTube has a brilliant video about colonialism in astronomy which covers some recent Hawaiian protest movements

When I find myself becoming irked by someone offering help I don’t need, it helps me to think of things in terms of people who slip through the gaps: the system that the social worker is a part of strives to help those who need it, and you not needing that help makes you a false positive. You were likely flagged because sometimes when someone is living in their vehicle, this is a symptom (and reinforcing factor) of their life being in disarray. That is to say that some people who superficially look a lot like you are in need of support, and not catching these people would be false negatives. Bonus complication is that many people who do need this help may also be resistant to support (for a variety of reasons).

Given that no system is perfect, and the error rate will always be greater than zero, we can ask the hypothetical “is it better to have fewer false positives and more false negatives, or more false positives and fewer false negatives?”. Put a different way, when you’re bothered, that’s you slipping through the gaps in a system that has opted for more false positives with the goal of helping as many people who need it as possible.

Unrelated to everything else I said, I’m glad you’ve been able to find a way of living that you’re happy in — it is a challenge when the life that is best suited for us is one that society considers “abnormal”, so I’m happy to hear about anyone who has broken into what works.

I can’t help but wonder whether some people are aiming to scapegoat her. Like, this is a huge trial, with many defendants (I’m unsure whether anyone else besides her was sentenced to death at the first trial), but maybe pinning more stuff on her will make others (who may be more culpable for some of the charges than she is) less likely to get the death penalty.

This is incredible in ways I can’t articulate

Seconding this book recommendation. I started skim reading it a few months ago, and it was so entertaining it pulled me in.

“helping” seems like an odd word to use for “threatened at gunpoint”.

That’s very wise; I’m proud of you for recognising this

I think I saw a paper on this kind of thing over a year ago. Iirc, it said that engagement is lower on Mastodon, but higher quality.

TBF, that’s sort of my experience of pronouns due to finding queer community at university.

What have you found most useful from switching? I switched to emacs a while ago and still feel like a beginner (largely because I got too greedy with all the goodies at the beginning and ended up with loads of features I hadn’t learned to use yet and a messy init.el. I restarted and am adding features as I need them, to prevent that same complexity sprawl)

I’m not a physicist, so I’m unfamiliar with the particulars of how the detectors used work, but as I understand it, possible explanations like the one you suggest were initially considered as more likely than what was actually documented, but that’s where replicability helps out — if one research group observes something baffling that flies in the face of what is understood to be true, then maybe that’s an equipment or experimenter error. Not so much when a particular result has been demonstrated in countless different ways by many researchers, and when theories built to explain the weird stuff have predictive power for other, related phenomena.

Speaking of stuff that quantum mechanics helps us to understand, there are a few really cool examples of where quantum phenomena is relevant in my field of science (biochemistry), I’ll have a look to see if I can find the thing I’m thinking of.