Rhaedas

I was told in posts from the last disaster that Spain has floods all the time and this isn’t a big deal. I’m beginning to think they might have been not telling the truth.

What’s worse is when the top is your self image, that you imagine others see, and the bottom being picture or mirror or whatever that shows the reality.

I enjoyed the first movie. In retrospect they could have expanded better within the movie instead of the outside novelettes to explain each character more in depth. I don’t think she’s a Mary Sue any more than Anakin is, even less so, but again I read the backstories and get why it feels that way without them. The other two movies stumbled for a lot of reasons, ruining what I think could have been a good story. Honestly from the very start, when Luke tosses the sabre away, I was like “oh no…” Not what I wanted or needed from that.

Something about pigs and lipstick…

When I first saw one pass by me in reality, my first reaction was “jesus”. And the colors I’ve seen on display (a Tesla store is nearby), wtf? Not that a good color would help a lot, it still looks very wrong.

One of my measures of how good a manager is would be how they come into a room. A good manager (I’ve had a few) will come in and silently assess how things are running (because they’ve already looked up info themselves) or ask specific questions that show they understand the state of things and are there to help if needed.

Pull the “how are things looking” crap, and the rating drops quickly. And the funny thing is, the ones who do that didn’t actually want to hear the bad news I will eagerly pull up to drown them in. The look on their faces is worth it.

Basically, I can glean how much a manager knows about an operation by what first comes out of their mouth, and way too often it’s not much that’s useful.

They are. For the shareholders. This is what they wanted, and how the economy is measured. Line go up, yay!

That’s an outlier because of Covid. I will grant that AFTER enabling the pandemic spread Trump finally got the ball moving for vaccines and some recovery, and Biden continued that. He gave credit where credit was due though and didn’t revise history, which is what this meme is all about. Trump does things only to get his name on it (recovery checks), and twists things to make it seem like he is the source of all that is great (and not of anything bad).

Don’t look up.

Going through that every morning will shorten your lifespan.

We’re going to develop or find some efficient life form to break down plastics quickly. Solve our waste problem. And it’s going to get loose into the wild and start breaking down plastics everywhere, uncontrollably. Straight out of Larry Niven’s Ringworld series (theirs was a superconductor-eating bug).

Probably not though, that’s just science fiction that never happens in reality. The nylon-eating bacteria that naturally evolved found long ago in waste areas never broke out to destroy all nylon. So at least there’s an example of it not happening.

I thought we had a good idea what was where in orbit. How is this a sudden surprise? I had first read it thinking that it had drifted recently for some reason, but it’s been in that place for 50 years. I get that as more satellites go up things become more risky, but this should have been a known problem a long time ago.

I would never say it out loud, but any time I hear a kid throwing their temper tantrum in public, in my head I want to tell them “just wait, it gets worse.”

Many discussion topics can be complex and are much more than one side or the other, so I’ve found doing this in the sense of replying that I agree on these parts, however…

Plot twist: she’s the biochemist.

Large birds look like predators. Small birds hide their nature in their cuteness. Do not let them fool you, if they were large enough they’d be tearing your guts out.

Question dodged. “What is ‘real’?” - Morpheus

Are they “woke”?

We need to heavily reduce consumption anyway. Remember the three Rs? Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. The first two quickly got dropped, recycling took off for a while as it was the more profitable and easiest to shift blame onto the consumer while maintaining consumption. Then we all learned very little could be or was being recycled, it was just being dumped elsewhere. Excess buying is one thing totally under our control. Maybe a better society can also come out of it.

Occupy Wall Street is a perfect example of this. It may be too old for some to remember now, but the fire was there to do something, people showed up. Because there was no organization, no central message, lots of in fighting on why they were there, it totally failed. People were there interviewing active protestors, asked them what they are protesting and what the demand for change were, and they had nothing.

A lot like MAGA crowds. The difference is that MAGA has organization, not for the messages (which can be all over the place), but because it’s a cult of personality.