I'm going to do an evening #AnswerMeThis. It's 9pm here, or 2100 if you're mathematically civilized.
Tonight's theme: be a curmudgeon!
Remember to QT your answers. I may not RT all of them just because it gets to be a bit much, but I'll try and RT a few.
1) What is one thing everyone enjoys that you hate?
2) What is a second thing everyone loves that you hate?
3) What's one thing from your youth that you wish would make a comeback?
4) What's one thing everyone is supposed to want in life but you just don't see the appeal? Like, weddings, children, family, or a Park Avenue apartment?
5) Which animal would be more obnoxious as a human? Cats or dogs?
6) What is one thing you wish everyone would shut up about?
7) Quote your favorite Bible / Quran / Torah / Other Holy Book passage.
If you have no favorite passages, quote your favorite line from any Star Wars film.
If none of that applies, find the nearest food container and list the first three ingredients.
8) Describe your reaction when reading question 7.
9) Which book that you had to read in school written by some old white guy do you most despise?
10) That's it! Please have a glass of water, take your meds, kiss your cat, and be a moose!
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Reminder that literally every argument supporting the straw ban has been countered by individuals who need straws. Every single one of your ostensibly helpful suggestions has already been addressed ad nauseam.
You just refuse to look for it.
"Buy your own straws."
Yes, one extra thing you have to remember to carry just so you can enjoy activities ableds like me don't think twice about. And it's yet another tax for being disabled.
Also, I'm hearing about environmentalists literally snatching straws out of hands so..
"Silicone or metal!"
Silicone is really hard to clean, metal conducts heat very well making it useless for hot drinks, and if you have Parkinson's, metal is a safety hazard even with cold drinks.
Part of my job involves hiding a microphone on a person to capture what they're saying. These are small radio microphones that I have to hide under clothing as well as the radio transmitter.
I also have to tape it down carefully so it doesn't pick up the sound of fabric rubbing.
Today I had to mic up a model. She was wearing a single piece very thin dress and no undershirt or bras. She also didn't have pants or a separate skirt to clip the transmitter to.
I offered her a choice of a thigh or waist strap for the transmitter. She went with the waist, which involved having to unzip the back of her dress and thread that through.
Look, we all understand conceptually that rape is bad. Doesn’t mean we understand boundaries, enthusiastic vs revoked consent, or some of the more subtle forms of predatory behavior.
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Like, we all understand that Edward Cullen popping into Bella’s bedroom to watch her sleep is creepy as hell, but we don’t understand how Ross Gellar’s entitlement and subtle manipulations are also quite predatory.
I think part of the problem is in film and TV (the most popular fiction of this century for better or worse), the machinations of the male characters always win the girl over. Like, without fail.
There’s been a lot of huppluh today about the changes to Patreon’s transaction structure. The TLDR is creators will lose a lot of lower tier patrons.
This will affect the one dollar pledged mostly, which seems trivial but they add up and often people making those pledges are themselves strained, so an extra 38 cents per creator adds up.
Like, if you support ten people at the one dollar level, it’s an extra 3.80. While it sounds trivial, I cannot stress how a lot of people in that payment range are pledging a buck because finances are tight.