🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦 @ ZDL @ttrpg.network Posts 48Comments 1,017Joined 1 yr. ago
The PUA types are hilarious as long as you don't get stuck alone with them. So easy to trigger; so easy to convert to MGTOW. ("Men Getting Triggered Over Women".)
If you're stuck alone with them, things get bad quickly. Don't let this happen.
No troubles, mate.
From the Wikipedia article:
Blackjack used the money she saved to take her son to Seattle, Washington, to treat his tuberculosis. She remarried and had another son, Billy. Eventually, she returned to the Arctic, where she lived until the age of 85.
It’s the usual not being taken seriously.
Oh, ugh, I hated that part of working in tech. Double-whammy here: vagina-bearer and in marketing. I had to push back on that so often…
Oh, you have NO idea. 😬 And there's a place literally a two minute walk away from my front door that makes them really well. It takes a force of will for me to walk past them when I go that direction.
I'm a big fan of noodles, but one kind in particular is a "can't walk away from" variety: 刀削面 (dāo xiāo miàn or "knife shaved noodles"). Where most noodle types around the world (including China) are pulled, cut, or extruded, 刀削面 are shaved from a noodle mass in strips. (This takes a significant amount of skill to do well; 刀削面 made by someone good at it can be pricey.)
So what makes them special?
The way they're shaved makes them of uneven thickness, usually a bit thick (like, say, lasagna thick) on one side but shaved down to a knife's-edge thickness on the other. This gives them a unique texture and mouthfeel. Further, the thin edge, when cooked, tends to "ruffle", making it hold onto spices and sauces better.
Traditionally these are shaved straight into a broth, cooked in seconds, and served as a soup. However they can also be served as "dry noodles" (noodles in sauce instead of a soup broth: Ragù alla Bolognese/spaghetti Bolognese would be classified as "dry noodles" in Chinese nomenclature), stir-fried, or used in any number of other creative noodle dishes.
I can't resist them. If they're an option in a restaurant, they are not optional.
Weird. I used to like chocolate fine, but it was never an obsession and now I can't really say I like it much at all. If it's VERY dark (like 80%+ cacao) then maybe, but most chocolate leaves me pretty cold these days.
Cake, on the other hand, if it's the right kind? Yeah. I'm not able to turn it down. What's the right kind?
You may be spotting a pattern in the cakes that turn my head, I think?
I'm with you here, if it's someone I like.
I worked in tech (past tense, doing marketing) for quite a number of years. I didn't do the technical stuff, but I did interact with the techies and I also spoke with the women techies.
My experience is that most techies are "my folk". (I like geeks because geeks show passion in the things they do, without regard for lame and pathetic things like accruing afterlife points—some call these "money"—and strutting around like peacocks. With "pea" serving double duty there.) Some are socially awkward and need guidance, but most are OK.
But there's always the really bad ones. The ones who got into the field because of the money and purported prestige. The ones we call "techbros" nowadays. Those are a completely different bag and you need to draw lines quickly and vehemently with them. And then redraw them constantly because those assholes do not take "no" for an answer and have no clue what "consent" actually means. (Summoning another post that you'll recognize: they're the "Hans" types.)
Managers in tech are almost all male and almost all absolute shit as managers, however, because they tend to be elevated techbros who think that the technical skills they have make them smart enough to do any job without formal study or training – and they're wrong. They perform really stupid basic management errors (like thinking everybody is motivated by cash) and wind up turning places into Hell holes. It's why I quit my marketing career in tech: not because of the socially clumsy nerds but because of the horrific predatory and incompetent techbros.
Atheist¹ here.
I disagree with you. First, not all religions are the Abrahamic variety that is the source of much of the negative rep of religion. For example you'd be very hard-pressed to find much objectionable from the Daoist camp. (You'll find superstitious belief in the religious-Daoist camp, obviously, but far less so from the philosophical-Daoist camp.)
Second, being anti-religious doesn't exactly have a great history itself. Communists, for example, have been anti-religious when at their most fervent and committed huge atrocities, both against religious people and against non-religious people. It seems that atheist (or, if you prefer, anti-religionist) camps haven't exactly been clean-handed themselves. Indeed these anti-religion types (the Communists) are responsible for more death and horror than all religiously-motivated death and horror put together.²
Third, some of the most irrational people I've ever seen are the self-proclaimed "rationalists". Take, for example, the entire LessWrong crowd. Though supposedly worshippers, practically, of pure reason, their output, if you dig a bit on their site, is ever-increasing gibberish with ludicrous conclusions, and the people who come out of that movement do crazy things (like the LessWrong alumni who formed that murder cult).
So I'm afraid I don't see religion as especially deserving of ire, despite not being religious (and being atheist). Human beings are irrational at their core, and the veneer of rationality that supposed "rationalists" apply on top makes them, in the end, not that different from the religious people they sneer at.
¹ Small-a atheist, not Big-A Atheist: you know, the asshole variety like Dawkins and company.
² Now I'm not saying that anti-religionists have any kind of extra force behind things here. They just happened to be in power when the technology to do mass extinction of human life was possible. Any of the problematic religious groups would cheerfully have done the same had they had the organizational and communications technology to pull it off.
It's a good call.
There's a picture I saw of a man who got swarmed by them. A survivor. (These are rare.) As a joke he stuck a cigarette in the hole left in his arm where one of the stings hit.
It melted a hole. In his skin and flesh. That you could stick a cigarette in and have it stand by itself.
I was riveted to the election results for the Carleton riding in Canada's last election.
Because that's the riding of Mr. Maple MAGAt Himself: Pierre Poilievre, leader of the Conservative (a.k.a. Maple MAGAt) Party in Canada.
The results are summarized thusly:
I wouldn't pay 肆块两角钱 for a Tesla ever, anymore, regardless of who the CEO is or who holds the stock.
And an insult to Anne Frank's memory and legacy.
I'm curious where you see people glorifying promiscuity. In most pop culture being "the slut" is a negative trait in a character, to the point that there's an entire genre of entertainment (slasher flicks) in which being "the slut" is a death sentence.
Lets start with Mother Theresa then, shall we?
Poverty is freedom. It is a freedom so that what I possess doesn’t own me, so that what I possess doesn’t hold me down, so that my possessions don’t keep me from sharing or giving of myself.
Yes. She really said that.
Asian giant hornet venom is natural too. So natural it literally melts your flesh on contact.
They're not screaming in pain and terror. They're shouting out "THIS LAND IS MY LAND AND ONLY MY LAND I'VE GOT A SHOTGUN AND YOU AIN'T GOT ONE" ... or the equivalent in bird speak. They're threatening to kill anybody who gets near their space, basically.
娑婆诃 (or 太好了 if you're more Daoist-inclined).
Or if you absolutely must, Amen!
🤭
Warfare.
I routinely get into arguments with fellow metalheads over a specific band called "Sabaton". Here's a typical song from them. I just picked one at random because I really don't know their full discography; I just hate their general vibe: the glory of war.
Almost every song by Sabaton is a perky up-beat pop metal sound that's pretty competently executed, but invariably it's about "history" (by which is meant, naturally, warfare because apparently it's not history if you're not destroying things and killing people). The song I linked to, for example, has a history page on their web site.
Album after album, song after song, Sabaton produces a perky pop metal piece about some aspect of warfare. (When they're not doing a slightly less perky pop metal song about the Holocaust, I mean.) And while their fan base claims they don't glorify warfare, I call bullshit. They're always there to praise the bravery and gloss over the horror. Their sound is relentlessly upbeat and they're always there with the praise. There's no other word for this than "glorifying".
Now is this me saying you shouldn't do songs about warfare? No! Of course not! There is really no topic that isn't suited to art. But at least try to represent the truth of the topic? 'Cause, thing is, we have examples even in the metal community of doing it right. Consider Iron Maiden's Paschendale. The song opens like a funeral dirge. When the hard and heavy starts it's in a minor chord, full of discordant power chords that jar the nerves. The lyrics begin with an individual before spreading to the horror around him. It's unsettling. It's raw. The guitar solo is like the scream of an overloaded banshee trying to announce tens of thousands of dead at once. The music alone threatens to yank the tears from your eyes before you even catch the lyrics. It states the facts of the battle like every Sabaton song, adding some philosophical musing about humanity in the process, and it does so with music that's appropriate to the horror. The pain. The futility.
That is warfare done right in art. Further, brutal as this is, it's the "lite" version of doing warfare right in music.
Because then there's also this song from Black Kirin about the Nanjing Massacre.
This is going to sound like clickbait, but it is not intended as such. Do not follow that link if you are in any kind of a vulnerable place.
The music will shred your heart. The screaming vocals are the tormented souls of the dead screaming at the futility of humanity. This is warfare done right in art, but with all the dials turned to 11. The band holds nothing back and the raw anguish and dread and rage is laid bare, even though you're very likely not going to understand the words at all (being in Chinese and all that). Then on top of it you have … that disturbing video. All very tasteful, but filled to the brim with a nightmare-like reality that will haunt your own nightmares.
Iron Maiden and Black Kirin did warfare right in art. It's unvarnished truth. It's horror. Death. Tragedy. It's everything that war is in real life. Not fodder for upbeat pop metal riffs.
Stop glorifying warfare.