If you’re ever read Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, you were probably a bit surprised by how common-sense Mr. Tzu’s advice was. Of course you need to feed your army. What idiot wasn’t feeding his army? The thing was, nobody had actually written this stuff down in one place yet.
Think of Rhazes like the Sun Tzu of Alchemy. The Kitab al-Asrar is full of ancient occult wisdom like “make sure the room you’re doing alchemy in has windows so you don’t inhale metal fumes and die.” Rhazes assumes the would-be alchemist has access to five things: Literacy, technical knowledge, space, financing, and reproducibility. These standards would become so influential, people would quote Rhazes as an authority on alchemy and medicine well into the 17th century.
The oppressive Ivy League strata are fucking losing it in their desperation to keep us subservient to employers
Seeing a lot of tags on this that point out the basic idea is that having a routine and socialization is the underlying principle. Yes, this is true. But we can get routine and socialization and satisfaction of accomplishment from many many many other sources than employment
Think critically about why this person is not saying that. Think critically about why they are saying explicitly this is about going to work. Why this is framed around employment. There’s a reason for that
“what’s your dream job” im so glad you asked. picture this. i am the lone employee of a strange and mysterious tchotchke/bookshop in the middle of nowhere, full of fun and interesting things that i am allowed to take for the low low price of free of charge. i get one, exceedingly interesting, customer per hour. i work no more than twenty hours a week and am salaried 3 million dollars
like I’m sorry but I will keep posting about this until people stop being cunts and shitheads so I think we’ll be here a good while. every time I talk about the colonial framing of australia and how colonialism is at work in modern day understandings of this country I only need to count to ten before every european and usamerican in sight starts spouting complete bullshit. why don’t you all take a deep breath and examine why the fuck you’re so wedded to the idea of australia you have in your head
“suggesting that Australia has uniquely hostile flora and fauna isn’t wrong” FACT CHECK:
what do you mean by “uniquely hostile”? is it based on amount of harm to humans? because I can tell you now. horses killed more people in 2023 than spiders did. how would you feel if I said that europe introduced the uniquely hostile horse to the australian environment?
can you please give me a list of examples of flora and fauna that you would place in this category?
“aboriginal tribes” FUCK OFF!
if you can capitalise Australia you know how to capitalise Aboriginal
“tribes” is not the right word here even remotely. try again next time. “Aboriginal people” would be a great start. being able to name even one country or language group would shock me to death. give it a go though
“marsupials reign supreme” don’t make me laugh
CHECK: why are you using language that inherently ascribes a particular morality to animals? what motivates you to frame Australia as uniquely ‘ruled by animals’? what else might this imply and where might this framing have come from?
“most venomous and hostile” why are you putting those adjectives together?
Australia’s most venomous snake (the inland taipan) has not killed a single person in recorded history because of how rare it is for that snake to come anywhere near humans. again, refer to the stats above
“hostility” is another example of ascribing negative moral values to an animal where it is not at all appropriate
“one of the less hospitable places on earth” colonialism check!
hospitable to whom?
you mean that pre-colonial Australia didn’t follow western ideals of housing and agriculture don’t you? (<- there very much was agricultural practices in First Nations groups for the record)
you’re implying that the land had to be tamed by colonisers, aren’t you?
Okay okay okay so I’m changing like every recognizable detail of this for privacy purposes but yall need to appreciate this
So I know how to retain CCTV footage, right? It doesn’t come up everywhere but I know my way around- and if someone gets jumped in a parking lot or whatever I can go backwards and see whodunnit
So I’m at this one place, right? And I get a call that an older woman in a wheelchair got hurt somehow and we need to see what happened.
Nobody remembers the exact time, because of course not, but they tell me she was wearing like a massive hot pink jacket and she’s in a wheelchair and she left with a medic round 09:45ish, so I figure I’ll start there.
So I find the incident itself no problem, but they need ALL footage for liability and insurance and stuff, so I have to keep going
And about ten minutes backwards, I lose her. She comes into view past a single shelf on one of the worse cameras and vanishes.
like. VANISHES. Hot pink jacket, big bulky black chair, gonzo. No idea where she came from.
So, I pull up entry cams. Zoom backwards till I see her come in… at like 06:15.
THREE AND A HALF HOURS EARLIER.
So first off, this is gonna take me like two hours minimum to write down, forget retention. And I’m kind of dying in my soul a bit but I start over there, watching her come in and meander and whatever.
At about 08:30ish she disappears.
Doesn’t leave. Doesn’t head to a bathroom. Doesn’t take her coat off. Her trail just stops.
Now, I’ve done this before. Typically, a location only has the mandatory minimum amount of room for a chair or walker to get around, so a person using one can only go forwards and it’s hard to 180. That limits options and makes it easier to follow, whereas a little unattended and fully mobile kid will zoom around in circles and shit and go who the hell knows where.
Then I see her again on the other ass end of the building, and I have to go back again to see how she GOT there.
My guys.
Her two and three-point turns are INCREDIBLE.
She’s popping on the wheels, flip, zoom, she’s out somewhere I didn’t think she could even GET to. I’ve been planning my search for places that fit a wheelchair or least-resistance fast-paths from A to B and she’s like… doing some Tokyo Drift shit.
I don’t know WHY. The whole place is basically completely accessible so long as you put up with having to reverse, but no. No, she goes where she wants.
I’ve been at this for half the day, and I still have no idea where she went for like an hour and a half.
what they don’t tell you is that after you turn 30 you have ocasional but powerful bouts of home ownership fever, which is like baby fever but instead of randomly really wanting a baby you go on zillow and look at modest properties you will nonetheless never be able to afford. and then it passes and you’re like wtf was that about. yay time for another $6 coffee to stave off the dread
There are particular points of life wherein one finds themselves with a surplus of time and a scarcity of means that causes one to gravitate like a magnet towards large grocery stores, malls, and parking lots. Specifically teens, elderly, and the homeless. And for this I ask. Where go
People need to socialize and be loud and annoying and yes even be messy and talk to themselves take a nap and have a good solid cry without spending money and if you do not allocate space and resources for that in your community then a place will be found and you better hope to god there’s a public toilet already there
this is ideology eating itself it’s so amusing to me.
Like what kind of manufacturing base do you think America has right now? we’re going to bring Factory Jobs back to Detroit, girlies. It’s going to work, because we’re Fighting Woke. Woke will Die and its death will usher in a new age of American Prosperity. By way of. Uh. Oh. Oh no. Is it supposed to do that?
“We’re going to get companies to build factories in the US!! We’re going to bring manufacturing back here!!” Are you?
Trump heard that Biden set money on fire with the CHIPS act and said. We can do that but with everything.
Most intelligent graduate of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Above image is a pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.
Thank you for including the details of where everything came from, I love that!
i think it’s fine to attribute some desire to biology, like wanting to have kids. like yeah I’m sure a lot of it is the living creature need to proliferate. it doesn’t bug me. same as acknowledging that love is dopamine or whatever. a cynic saying love is just chemicals in our brains isn’t a gotcha. like ok we as humans were so driven and fascinated by our capacity to love that we found the exact juice that produces that feeling and gave it a name. that’s awesome, actually, i dig that, i love that. with my chemicals.
