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I don't know. I think that this was supposed to be the red meat to calm the people who want all the vaccines banned "give them something" as as far as things go it's not doing that much.
Whereas if you really do what the anti-vax crowd wants people will die, including people of wealth (or whatever it is we are calling them now)
Even worse (as they see it) it is bad for business.
What is even more funny is this just made the antivaxers even madder.
So what about an app where you have an open (crypto obviously) bidding marketplace to purchase various government officials and politicians? It can be confusing to navigate the current landscape! One guy wants his stuff in cash in a sack behind the bleachers, the next one wants a red envelope in a chips bag. Who can keep up?
Join me friends. Let's disrupt bribery!
@unchartedworlds @amPennyfeather
Consider the famous "little black dress" which people always say is "so simple" when really it's not.
First, like with all clothing you need to have the fit right. The hemline must be right for your build and being off by more than two centimeters is a problem. You need to match your undergarments to the cut of the dress, shave, have lotion it's a whole elaborate production.
Pants are just easier. Or at least I think so.
@unchartedworlds @amPennyfeather
Penny feather mentioned "modesty" in the original post, and on that I'm on the same wavelength. I don't like to show a lot of skin, so that's part of the attraction to "old man" style, it's always very covered and often more comfortable than it looks.
You don't need to worry about how you sit or if a bra strap is showing.
Women's fashion when it's "dressy" it's also like playing a dangerous game where you try to keep your underwear hidden from the world.
@unchartedworlds @amPennyfeather
I will take any excuse to post photos of cute outfits. The door was open.
My husband calls my style various things:
"boring fancy"
"newise-core"
"tiny old man inspired"
I don't mind being comfortable, but I hate (for me) clothing that looks comfortable. I like timeless clothing items and if I could wear historic costume pieces all the time I would. As it is I "get away" with a few fun things.
I like clothing that's fitted and neat. Very tidy and somewhat gender neutral and/or "classic menswear" re-imagined to be cute.
I'm attracted to bowties and feel very bad about this.
A few people have suggested it was meant to be "seen from a distance" and "in candle and torchlight for reflections"
And that's an OK theory... but if someone said that about my face I would not think it was a compliment.
I'm watching a video about "the crown of St Wenceslas" which is from 1346 in Prague. All these comments and the guy in the video keeps saying how 'beautiful' it is and I'm just not seeing it? Ugliest thing I've ever seen in my life.
I guess it's "beautiful" that it's from 1346 and so well preserved. And naturally it's not made for the "modern eye". But... good lord. It's like someone broke a stain glass window and cleaned it up with tape.
Am I being unfair?
mmmm I should write a little "chain pharmacy" themed level for the #backrooms wiki. I've never contributed before but this might just motivate me.
(But only AFTER I complete "the short story I'm not allowed to talk about until it's done")
NYC chain pharmacies have always felt like portals to purgatory, but ever since the lockdown days there has been something wrong with “Duane Rede” on a deeper level. They feel like those stores in Cuba that have no product and no customers but are open for obscure tax reasons or something. It’s really noticeable since they are huge, and always the most run down thing on the block even in the most gentrified hoods.
Ant mimics look like AI generated ants. Both of the following photos made my "is that AI" sense twitch, but these are both real photos of ants along side a rove beetle mimic in the first and a spider mimic in the second.
Maybe the way that AI is adjacent to mimicry is part of what makes it creep me out so much.
*angry old lady noises*
You'd hardly think it to look at me
that a cat like me could be so hungry
But it's time it is said.
I have never been fed.
never been treated right!
Not once in my life.
You'd think, for a cat like me,
life would be so free and easy!
I'm loved and praised
but you'll be amazed.
When you see my bowl so bare
there isn't any food there
I've never been fed.
I've never been fed.
And soon I'll be DEAD.
Because I've never been fed.
Replacing every search engine with a 30s paper boy who doesn't really listen to what you ask for, runs off to get it before you get done explaining, and always gets waylaid by flimflam men who pay him a nickel to bring back something other than what you asked for along the way.
"Bugsey said yous might like to read this paper better miss, aw wontcha least take a look miss??"
Time to take a closer look at the textures of #ants (and some other insects) and the fantastic variation of the exoskeleton.
It'd be so neat to model these & 3D print them at a larger scale. These textures are all optimized through millions of years of #evolution to make insects strong, hygienic, stealthy, hard to attack... and who knows what else. So much to learn from them!
(Thanks to cnestus at tumblr for showing me this paper! https://www.tumblr.com/cnestus/742527231977455616/source-harris-1979-a-glossary-of-surface?source=share)
Ants could also be used for pest control in enclosed spaces. Army ants sweep over the forest killing most arthropods in a region. What if they could sweep over your apartment, or restaurant every few weeks and eliminate unwanted guests?
Larger ants could be used for search and rescue. Equipped with small trackers or cameras (The larger ants could wear the cameras) they could sweep over a destabilized building and find missing people.
4/
Some species of ants grow fungus gardens and practice weeding to keep the gardens free of inedible fungi and plants. Ants that live in mutualistic relationships with trees and gourds meticulously trim and kill all unwanted plants that grow near their host plant. Domesticated herbicidal ants could collect seeds from weeds and clip seedlings.
3/
They would be excellent for agriculture.
Weaver ants are already used for pest control in orchards, farmers place silk cocoons to attract queens & connect branches of adjacent trees to help ants expand their territory.
The weaver ants naturally attack most arthropods that enter the tree.
But what if ants could also help with tasks like controlling unwanted weeds? 2/
