SnigePippi

the x-mansion kitchen has seen far too much.

Job listings be like:

People harasser (0.4$/hour)

5000$ salary work now remote job! (scam)

Food industry (0.3$/hour)

Online scammer (0.3$/hour)

Help a Danish farmer put on his socks (4000$/hour)

Job that requires a degree (0.4$/hour)

Pick up dog shit (1.2$/hour)

Online remote job (scam)

Remote job (scam)

Job (scam)

design bombs to blow up babies ($1 william/hour)

The Danish farmer job is a cover, they actually need you to hide how much they break the law and that 60% of their income is tax money from swindling the state. It is just told as a feel good down to earth with cute wollen socks story.

once I did an Americorps position & I won’t get into exact details but two months in my one other coworker & I were rly frustrated bc we weren’t doing anything in our job description or the contract we signed whatsoever & instead we were basically being used as extremely underpaid retail staff and slowly the ppl in charge of us were cornering us more and more into that until I was finally like okay….what the hell? I opened up the work contract I signed and realized I hadn’t done a single thing listed in my role so I sent a long (professionally worded) complaint email to Americorps and they called me an hour later in total outrage because it turned out the work we were being made to do was explicitly prohibited by the program and we were being 100% exploited for cheap labor and the very next day we got a new supervisor and spent the rest of our year doing what we signed up to do and it rocked.

I ♥️ Complaining

”#it is very easy to confuse yourself with a Karen, #trying to shoulder on and not make a fussc #but sometimes Complaint is Necessary or else nothing will get better, #for anyone”

[ID: tweet by gianmarco @GianmarcoSoresi:

"Nobody likes a complainer but they're needed for a functioning society. You know how humanity gets compared to frogs in boiling water and everything is getting bad so gradually we won't even notice? Not if l'm around". End of ID.]

I have often been asked: "Why do Scandinavians complain and criticise so much? You have it so good!"

Answer is: "To keep it being good and push for even better. If you stop complaining, the greedy and the power hungry will slowly remove more and more of the good ideas."

making safe batteries is really hard because "box full of chemical potential energy" describes a lot of things and none of them are particularly safe

Your mitochondria are killing you slowly.

Happy Neil Day! Please enjoy the very rare alternate Neil images!

the rapid disintegration of rainbow capitalism pretty much encapsulates the problem with rainbow capitalism in the first place: it is and always was performative fair-weather allyship that evaporated in the face of any real political pressure

Problem? It was never a problem, unless you had unrealistic expectations for what it meant. It was a symptom, and a good one. — Be strategic and think about this deeper for a minute.

It was absolutely performative fair-weather allyship. But it was a bellwether that the pink dollar was worth taking over any hypothetical backlash a business might face for supporting the queers. For some, and at some times in the past, it was a reassurance that they would do business with you even if they knew you were gay, and that was a huge issue if you eg. wanted to buy a house or a car. And it helped make queerness both more visible and more normalised in society, instead of trying to sweep teh gays back into the closet.

You’re not going to get rid of cynical cash grabs so long as capitalism is around, so you might as well be clear-eyed about it and recognise that while rainbow merch is totally unreliable for actual support, it was a sign that the smart money was betting in your favour.

You can always trust a business to find a sort of middle space that's vaguely agreeable to most of its customers and sit there avoiding all controversy in the absolute most craven and soulless way possible.

This means that a business is in fact a very good indicator of what's vaguely agreeable to most of its customers and what counts as controversy.

Don't think of them as allies. They aren't people. They can't be. Think of them as a barometer. If the barometer is up, you've probably got sunny skies. When the barometer starts dropping, prepare for heavy weather moving in.

I often refer to rainbow capitalism as an indicator species. Not a keystone species, not a load-bearing organism holding an ecosystem (or an economic system) together. Rainbow capitalism is fragile like a frog species dependent on clean water and an abundance of insects. When its environment changes, becomes polluted, becomes fragmented, it vanishes. Its presence or absence indicates to observers the health of its surroundings just as a literal indicator species reflects whether specific environmental conditions are met.

Happy Neil banging out the tunes day!

I've noticed more and more in public bathrooms that people skip the handwash and just take a squirt of hand sanitizer from wall dispensers on the way out. hand sanitizer is NOT effective against most things that come out of your ass. i cannot stress this enough. i'm begging y'all. please. please please please please please use the soap.

i'm out here immunosupressed fighting for my life to not get naturally selected while people around me touch a public toilet handles and walk back to their tables to immediately eat a burger

Thank you for bringing this up! Many hand sanitizers and household cleaners proudly claim to "Kill 99.99% of germs."

In fact, this does not mean that the product kills 99.99% of all germs known to exist.

It means that, during product testing in a controlled environment, the product killed 99.99% of the germs it was specifically tested against. As you might imagine, Lysol isn't testing its kitchen disinfectant spray against millions and millions of unique microbes.

In the U.S., labeling laws usually require that companies actually identify somewhere else on the label which germs are being tested and killed. Next time you see a "kills 99.99% of germs" label, check out the rest of the label, and you'll find the small print which specifies that it kills 99.9% of one type of flu, or Covid, or E. Coli, etc. This is why many labels even include an asterisk, i.e.: "Kills 99.99% of Germs!*" Look for the companion asterisk elsewhere on the label for more info.

There are different kinds of germs, like Viruses; Bacteria, Fungi, and Protozoans.

The way we kill these germs to prevent infections varies based on the germs' structure. Essentially, we need different "weapons" (cleaning methods) to fight different microbes. A product that kills Flu Viruses and E. Coli can't necessarily destroy Norovirus or Giardia.

No product is effective against every type of germ, even common germs which regularly cause illness in households and communities.

Hand washing is effective against more germs, not only because it can destroy germs which hand sanitizer cannot, but because it simply washes them off your hands.

More on the many personal, community, & global benefits of hand washing.

Additionally, a lot of the germs that hand sanitiser DOES kill (which, as noted above, is DECIDEDLY NOT ALL OF THEM), many of them are only killed if you break down the surface of the cell.

As in: when you use sanitiser, it's not enough to simply coat your hands and then air-wave them dry. That's going to do fuck all.

You have to scrub the hand sanitiser the same way as you scrub with soap. The agitation of the chemicals against the cell is way breaks through the external shell of many germs and kills the bitch inside.

You should be relying on hand washing as a first port of call, but in the instances when your only option is sanitiser, at least use it properly. Squirt on a liberal amount, and then scrub your hands like you would if you were at a sink with soap, for 20 - 30 seconds. Get more sanitiser if you need to. Otherwise, all you're doing is drying out your hands and killing practically zero bugs.

I took my masters in the innate immune system.

When I give intro courses I will tell that our skin makes a mechanical barrier that is drenched in enzymes meant to kill bacteria and we also have prebiotic bacteria growth that protects us. So please don't be too overzealous with cleaning the skin. You are removing the protection. Clean regularly, but keep your skin intact. The enzymes and oils we make ourselves, are optimized for our own protection.

Except the hands!

Hands are everywhere. Humans are very thouch oriented and will unconsciously touch everywhere all the time.

And the only thing that get everything off, is soap and water. Water is the best solvent in the world. It can (with enough time) break down almost everything.

Antimicrobial liquids can only disrupt a bacteria or virus membranes, if they come into sufficient contact. Water flush everything off.

Please wash hands several times a day.

I can’t remember if I’ve said this before but I think that if you make a Batman 1920s AU then you have to take into account that Bertie Wooster often spent time living in New York and Gotham City is just New York Noir and Bruce Wayne would probably cultivate the acquaintance of Bertie Wooster because Bertie is exactly the sort of person Bruce wants people to think he is, so it’s both birds of a feather camouflage and because he wants to observe Bertie for behavioural ideas.

Bertie, ray of sunshine that he is, thinks Bruce is jolly good fun and really quite barmy, but he already has a friend called Barmy and he can’t manage two Barmies so he affectionately dubs him Batty.

Consequently Bruce exists in a state of nagging uncertainty as to whether Bertie is the golden-hearted silly ass he so transparently appears to be, or is in fact one of his villains, knowing who he is and taunting him.

Jeeves would get to feel a little smug toward Alfred. He's not judging the violent vigilante justice or the obvious need for therapy (much). But he thinks the batsuit is ugly af and the fact that Alfred let's him go out in public like that is rather embarrassing. Alfred agrees.

get peer reviewed @strangetikigod

I just talked with a neighbor who was terrified of dreaming during anesthesia because she worried the surgery would have an effect on her dreams and basically make her feel like she was awake even though she wasn’t.

The first time I was in general anesthesia I didn’t dream at all but the second time I was so confused when I woke up because I did dream so I thought I was just taking a nap. I dreamt about a Mediterranean-like town with blue skies and a huge glittering ocean.

So if you want to turn dreaming during surgery into a creepypasta about dying on the operating table and being revived then I got bad news for you because in that case the afterlife is very pleasant with a nice view.

Bismarck is a subject in History where I come from. Because he colonised Slesvig which is still something many Northern Slesvig will talk about. The German occupation of Slesvig tried to suppress Danish language and culture, by outlawing any kind of Danish schools, confiscate land to give it to more German minded people from the south, and generally using agressive policing agains everyone who spoke Danish. Also many Danes died in the Franco-prussian war, on the side of France.

very funny to me when people act like animal farm and 1984 are revolutionary anti government texts that the Powers That Be dont want you to read when they have literally been a part of every standard middle/highschool english lit cirriculum in the usa and beyond for decades. precisely because theyre such convenient primers to propagandize that Commies = Bad. the government is quite literally making kids read them

also, animal farm is not just anti-communist, but anti-revolution in general. the whole point of the story is if you overthrow your oppressor the new order will just become the same as the one it replaced! the story offers no suggestion of how the animals could have overthrown the farmer without the pigs becoming exactly like them, it just seems to begin and end with "never overthrown your oppressor because you'll end up right back where you started anyways." bleak and ugly story.

Not to be super English major about it, but Animal Farm was NOT an “anti-revolution” story. According to Orwell, it was inspired specifically by the Russian Revolution that led to the Stalinist regime. The story of animal farm is essentially what happened to the Russian people: they had a revolution against the tyrannical ruling class, only for the very people who had promised them freedom to turn into tyrants themselves.

The moral of the story is not “don’t have a revolution,” it’s that you should always be suspicious of those who promise you this utopian idea of freedom while still aiming to maintain power. The pigs never wanted to actually make everyone free, they just wanted to be the ones in charge. The novel details every small instance of the farm sliding further and further into fascism until it’s too late for anyone to do anything about it.

And 1984 doesn’t have much to do with communism at all. It’s about totalitarianism and fascism. There’s nothing pro-capitalist about the book. A totalitarian government like Big Brother’s could exist in either a capitalist or communist society. The point is the control they have over their people, and how important the flow of information is to that control.

George Orwell literally risked his life fighting fascists, so I think it’s pretty unfair to reduce his books to “anti-commie” propaganda. He was intensely critical of any state that maintained too much power over its people, and at the time, one of the worst examples of that was the recent communist revolution in Russia, which deposed a monarchy to install a dictator in its place.

orwell didn't pick up a gun to shoot fascists in spain alongside anarchist revolutionaries and write The book on it just so y'all can pretend the man favored inaction and the status quo.

It's always interesting to see what other countries taught students that classic books were about.

It’s Flat Friend Friday; reblog with pictures of your pet being flat and comfy.

Cookie was in the sun all day yesterday.

She’s close to 12, so she’s like a 70 year old great aunt napping in the sunbeams

Doing some practice with shadow.