I live in Finland, I’d be alright.

So the first thing I’d do is have a deep sigh of relief, probably.

Oh right yeah if you combine anti-abortion views like that with anti-science, yeah, I can definitely your point, yeah.

Well there’s religious nuts who oppose damn near everything, so I’m not surprised.

I’m just pointing out that they’re not traditionally against fertility treatments, although as some are anti-science (which is traditional for religious people), they are also coincidentally anti-IVF etc.

But like, their main point isn’t being against increasing fertility, it’s being against “unnatural science” or smth.

Keep trying to grasp it and just go back in the same physical space you were I when you came up with it.

That also often happens to me, and doorways are kinda literally mind-wipers. So you’re in the bathroom, balling that thought for a while, deciding to go and write it down, step out of the bathroom…

This is because our brains model reality based on physical locations. So a new room is a “new scene” and your brain starts a new chapter.

It doesn’t even need to be an actual room. A door frame is sufficient. They tried this with a memory test where there’s two tables, you have to remember what’s on one and then arrange the other to match. For some they put a door frame between the tables, for some they didn’t. There’s a very clear effect.

Monolingual people should be reminded that machine translation is still for rather basic conversation.

Until they manage to autogenerate even correct English subs on YouTube on English speaking videos, theres really not much trust I will have in it.

So yeah, cool function, definitely helpful, but machine translation isn’t dependable if you need to accurate with your language.

I have a few problems with this episode, but also it’s one of my favourites, because it’s trying to actually process the problems tech like that would have, languages is sometimes incredibly contextual.

For one AI is shit with idioms.

For things like the UN, you just must have an actual person — who’s proficient at a native-level — translating.

Society doesn’t only improve.

There’s advances and setbacks.

As a Finn I’m very worried about this complacency about authoritarianism. We Finns don’t have “In God We Trust” on our money, no, but it might as well say “In Bureaucracy We Trust”.

I genuinely respect those first amendment auditors. Like a third I see are prolly a bit too douchey, but that’s their right.

What’s the quote again?

Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.

— G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain (The New World #7)

Username checks out. Guy knows his space produce.

I jant one.

And correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t it the religious right that’s anti fertility clinic?

No they’re anti-abortion and anti-birth management, not anti-fertility. Religious nuts are hypocrites and what part of the Bible talks about IVF? Prolly none.

It might genuinely just be a bitter angry person. I don’t even like to call it an ideology, they just complain they had no choice in whether they were brought to this world, ans and since the world sucks, they pretend like if somehow they could’ve chosen, they would’ve chosen not to even live, which makes no sense, as then they’d never have been a person with the capacity to think that. It’s paradoxical, is my point.

I wouldn’t be surprised that just general whackos like that do exist, but yeah, you’re right, it wouldn’t be out of line to false flag it to create even further infighting in the states.

To be honest it’s probably not even much of a challenge for some Russian disinfo agents to convince someone to firebomb shit like that. When people are denied healthcare and housing and the streets are flooded with opioids and guns, it doesn’t take much to find a person easy to manipulate.

So it might be both “real” and also politically puppeteered. That would make the most sense, honestly, but we need to remember that these sort of ultraviolent psychopaths aren’t really… thinking straight.

We’d like to make it make sense, but acts of violence rarely do.

Nice

As always, the ancient Romans had that.

A nomenclator referred to a slave whose duty was to recall the names of persons his master met during a political campaign. Later, the scope was expanded to include names of people in any social context and also other socially important information about them.

Fuck yeh

Start standing at the entrance to male toilets in conservative meetups, demanding to see everyone’s (micro-) penis.

Looking at the picture this seems like another case of

Or pretend to be immigrants going home, get a thousand bucks, go on vacay, and come home since you’re a white American with several generations and definitely live there

Although if they fingerprint or smth idk that might be a bit inconvenient. But if they don’t and you as a full fledged American have a similar looking illegal friend, take his papers, go abroad, he seeems to no longer be in the US, then return with your 1k.

None of that will obviously work disregard everything don’t try fucking around the borders you’ll get send to the SA Gulags

It’s not even that much work, to be honest.

I wouldn’t run 6 fireplaces at once, maybe two or three at most, and aside from chopping and carrying the wood inside, there’s not that much work in it. Just set a few pieces nicely with a piece of paper (think jenga style more than a cartoon bonfire), se it alight. Let it breathe for a while, get a good flame, then fill 'er up once it’s going nicely. I mean, depending on how hot you want the room. I’d never actually shove them full, about halfway at most maybe. Then let it burn. Then fill it up a second and maybe third time in the winter, then just let it cool while stoking the coals.

It really doesn’t feel like work.

And now I’m nostalgic.

But yeah temperature would be the least of your worries as king imo. Perhaps not the least, but a small one anyway.

People don’t even need AC on the latitude I live in.

It’s basically two winters and August.

Literally for most of the year I wear the same amount of outdoor clothing, which is a lot.

Dc++ as well

Fireplaces create a wonderful soft warmth. Unless you live in some huge castle or it’s completely blowing through your house, warming the house with fireplaces is great. Even when there are some small drafts here and there in the house. Just wear warm socks as the floors are usually quite cool despite the room being toasty from the heat.

Then you tend the fire for some time, long enough for the fire to properly warm all the stone around it. (Even in wooden houses, the central chimney would be rather thick at the bottom where the fireplaces are, so the stones store heat during the night.)

You stoke the coals and then when it’s just red coals and no more burning, you can shut down the chimney, so the rest of the heat stays in.

It slowly dissipates through the night. (But you won’t get carbon monoxide poisoning, which is why it’s important to have the chimney open while there’s actual fire.) It might get a bit cool around the morning hours, but sleeping in the cool is actually pretty decent.

Waking up in the cold is a bitch though.

We had uhm… two chimneys and six fireplaces in the house I (mostly) grew up in. Was built in the 30’s.