I’ve seen this Kamala 2020 ad a dozen times today. It doesn’t get old.
I never saw it when it first ran. It has aged amazingly and I hope they play it on repeat.
Ok we all need another #doomscrolling break!
Boop the chonky boi before continuing on your journey
Sometimes I'm like why did it take me so long to try R and realize it's not that hard and then other times I'm like oh yeah on one of the first big research projects I was ever on a tenured faculty sneeringly said "well do you think you can calculate an average? Can you at least do that?" when I asked if I could sit with the main author doing the modeling to learn and then they disinvited me from all the analysis meetings
My boss said a dumb thing today.
We were talking about my land and taking the decks apart and what I want to do with the cedar logs and so on.
And at some point, I can't really remember for sure, we were talking about me needing a truck at times, maybe? That my little Kia won't be able to manage some things, then she said,
"And there's times when you just need a man."
I laughed and moved on in my brain to other things so I would not offend my boss, but I want to say:
Um. No.
I love men, I love good men. I've never been successful at choosing a good one but in theory, I know they exist and I like the idea of them.
But I don't need a man so I have someone to do the heavy lifting. I don't need a man to have the home I'm working toward. I need me. I need my friends and neighbors. I need to work hard and hire help occasionally or even just do without if I can't do it myself.
For me to want a man in my life so he can open pickle jars and drive a truck and lift heavy things is no different than a man wanting me in his life to cook his meals and do his laundry.
I'm not doing that.
I don't NEED a man.
Can we please get out of the cave era where I can't be happy or have the things I want unless a man is there to help me?
Please?
Thank you.
@sshann @merileedkarr I hope that either of them can squeak out a win. I think there are reasonable arguments that she would be a better candidate coming out of the convention (not least of which is that Trump will be running against her either way like Nikki Haley did).
President Biden could try to stick it out but the downside is that if he wins the nomination and then has a McConnell style freeze on camera that the race is over.
It’s a crap shoot either way and I’m nauseated that Trump is anywhere near competitive but if I had to pick I’d say Vice-President Harris has a slightly better chance to win than President Biden
@merileedkarr @sshann There are also folks like myself who in all good faith desperately want Trump to lose in November and have reasonable doubts about whether President Biden is the most effective candidate to achieve that goal.
Here is probably the best picture of Doots I’ve ever taken. I thought maybe y’all needed to see it today too. I just took it last night while we were playing.
Go play with your cat. You’ll feel better.
If you are a cat, go play with your human.
Happy Dootsday!
#AllCatsAreBeautiful #Dootsday #DootsToots #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #Cat #LynxPointSiamese #OneEyedCats
This is bonkers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing_polymorphs Some pharmaceutical crystals can no longer be synthesised because they now spontaneously change to a more stable (but less medically efficacious) form. The more stable form acts as a seed crystal for the less stable form, and once this happens it creates a cascading effect, in which people who have ever worked with the stable form can contaminate an entire factory/lab and make it unable to reproduce the earlier form.
@steveleatherman @talia_christine So sorry for your loss. He looks like a real character
There are so many quotable parts in this lmao https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/
Father, Fiancé, Volunteer EMT, (conflicted) Veteran, Computer Geek, Perpetual Student. Command line kind of guy (he/him) Very amateur woodworker, crude sketcher, proud nerd, liberal, wished I knew more math and science.
I’m willing to be wrong, certainty often means that I don’t actually understand the problem