The First National Website Dedicated To Documenting ICE License Plates Is Here, from #LATaco (I posted this yesterday, click thru for OP)
@quadrivial @thatfrisiangirlish
It's apparently from The Salmon of Doubt, which I have never read.
The full quote (emphasis mine):
This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!'
This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.
@rnd Yeah, very much agreed. I've also had issues with not being able to rename things, and uploading sets requires doing stuff in CLI...
@quadrivial @thatfrisiangirlish
Poke me if you haven't heard of Douglas Adams's "sentient mudpuddle" thought-experiment...
Good news you might have missed: Researchers in South Korea have developed a new eco-friendly recycling process that recovers more than 95 percent of nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries with almost perfect purity. https://interestingengineering.com/energy/recycling-nickel-cobalt-ev-batteries
@ObsidianUrbex Such an odd mix of grandeur and industrial grimness! (I'm thinking in particular of that central courtyard -- maybe it was more cheerful when there were people and decorations around, or maybe it seems more claustrophobic in the photo than in real life, or something...)
@StillIRise1963 Yes! Quality, exactly! Sometimes a brand has a reputation because of quality, but too often it's just because of some social affinity-group nonsense.
(Somehow, I don't think the kids were dissing on JCP because they'd researched shoes in Consumer Reports.)
@BruceMirken They're just cultivating the seeds of their own demise. It takes a little time for that particular crop to bear fruit -- but they've been watering it pretty consistently.
Their power only exists because we let them have it.
@BruceMirken @ElizabethEiler @janetlogan
SCOTUS may side with Trump, but that just makes them illegitimate.
(That said, they recently blocked him from sending troops into Chicago -- so maybe they won't.)
@StillIRise1963 I had an early education in the stupidity of fashion when the other kids at school made fun of me for wearing shoes from JC Penney instead of Adidas or whatever the current "hot shoe" was.
The idea that my shoes were somehow vastly inferior to their nearly-identical shoes was so obviously bullshit that I never could take fashion seriously after that. It's all just "am I wearing the right brand of shoes".
(To be fair, being neurodivergent probably helped.)
🎵 ...and the papers want to know whose shirts you wear... 🎵 -- David Bowie
@BruceMirken @ElizabethEiler @janetlogan He can go ahead believing that all he wants. To quote another well-known fascist, "facts don't care about your feelings".
How can they create a "bounty" for a thing that isn't f🍴:trans_knife:ing illegal?
And how do they think they're just going to make "trans activism" illegal? Laws don't come into existence just because the President wills them into existence.
Be sure tö get some qūality lap-time this chrimbûs-eve :blobcat:
#cats #MastoCats #FediCats
@Longwing An ancient relic of the long-lost America Online Empire, which crumbled when the cable internet trade-routes opened up and rendered their waypoints obsolete (like a fuel-stop town after the interstate came through).
@riley Depends which chicken they were using to come up with new cuneiform symbols that day, I guess...