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Are there still people who think dowsing works? It used to be rampant in the UK and US... and lingered on for longer than you'd think (there are two Time Team episodes where they gently debunk it, rather than either ignore or body slam it as I'd expect.)
But I also know it was big in the US.
Are people still creeping around claiming they can find things with bendy sticks?
There is some lesson about LLMs in the fact that my cat didn't care about the plastic cat until I *treated* it like it was a cat.
Then she wanted to get involved.
It helps that I have a very faint natural white stripe and a few gray hairs around. But I want the full stripe.
Just re-did my white stripe dye job. My nephew said "you look like a mad scientist with that" and I've never been so complimented and pleased in my life.
It is NOT easy to dye black hair gray. I have to bleach it three times then do color correction. But it lasts for 6 weeks so worth it.
Gambling is destroying The Family and also why fast food is expensive.
"I can't use it anymore, identity theft."
Never had anyone push back on this one.
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Alien Clay has the most substance of his books and I was very impressed.
But don't assume he's always so serious. Many of his books are fun.
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I like most of the Adrian Tchaikovsky series, but I'm not certain what to recommended. Would you like more of a romp (he writes space pirates in a way) or something with a bit more meaning and depth?
What do the other people who read #AdrianTchaikovsky think?
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You see this is why I like an Adrian Tchaikovsky book. He has a thing for mean old highly intelligent somewhat terrifying women.
A Thing.
Um Ian are you trying to get me killed over here?
She was fine with it … until I petted it. *That* made her mad (tail puffed up ... ) so I stopped because she has enough drama in her life without simple humans making it worse.
To be clear I, personally would prefer immensely that they would win. Their inability to keep power has material real impacts on my life and the lives of people I care about. But, that isn't as true or as obvious to many people.
So, unless there is a tone shift what we have seen will only get worse.
Pica is not impressed.
my parents got us a Lego tuxedo cat to build over Christmas. We decided to introduce it to Pica today. #picathecat #lego #legocat #catsofmastodon #cats
There are many powerful interest groups in US politics. Democrats try to stay on good terms with all of them.
This makes it very hard to trust Democrats.
This is why people won't show up and vote even as the Republicans make this worse.
Pick a few somewhat powerful enemies. For example? The oil people and bosses (anyone who wants wages low and workplaces dangerous.)
Don't tell me you are "partnering with local business leaders" Disgusting.
I'm worried about the Democrats. I'm hearing some of them saying how delighted they are that everyone "even independents" hates Trump and they think "this means we win, right?"
WRONG.
Have ya'll learned nothing? You do not get to win just because Republicans are terrible.
Democrats need to pick some *powerful* enemies. You can't be friends with everyone and win. Trump understood this: picked liberal academia as his enemy.
They do have lockers, which are searched all the time, but still. Thing is his locker was full of food, medicine, essentials. The school cabinet was his "teen junk"
basically we don't do enough or think about "what would I feel like if I had to put up with this" enough.
You have people who really need mental health services, former hoarders mixed in with teens like my student, and so there is a "no stuff" policy.
But, everyone needs some space that they can *control* not having any place to put anything will make your lose your mind.
I had a chance later to talk to someone who works at a big city shelter and I told them about my student and how traumatized he was by having his stuff just vanish without warning. She swore up and down it didn't work like that, but reading between what she said I detected that there are just too many people, not enough staff and not enough space.
So, the people running the shelters have "trash out days" where they just throw things out. Otherwise the place would fill up with garbage.
But for most of that year he'd stay at the building from 5am to 7pm every day.