urshanabi @urshanabi@schelling.pt

wishing all of my kings and queens a good weekend

h/t @gravity_levity

mom: "ian this is really good you gotta write down the recipe so we can eat it again"

me, having measured precisely nothing and not remembering what spices i used:

im here to chew bubblegum and inflict psychic damage and im out of bubblegum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8zWWp0akUU

it has been one month since i got my new job, and IT just built a mostly functional development environment

due to Exciting Legal Reasons (tm) i cannot look at the code i am supposed to be working on

i have been paid for four weeks of "reading documentation"

maybe someday i will work in a functional workplace, but today is not that day

#noxp

hmm i bet when honey is filtered (and then cut with hfcs) so that it looks nice for store shelves it loses its magic

some quick searches confirm my suspicion

furious googling of "are bees magic" reveals that bees have powerful magical properties according to internet witches and also that there is a minecraft mod with magic bees

like, its close enough to hfcs that a lot of honey in stores is actually cut with it, and the regulators cant tell the difference https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/11/tests-show-most-store-honey-isnt-honey/#.Ud8ATBZpctt

okay what the fuck is going on with honey

it has antimicrobial and other medicinal properties despite being literally sugar (ie microbe food)

it is almost chemically identical with hfcs but is healthy somehow

look at this shit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey#Medical_use_and_research

as always, all roasts are directed first and foremost at myself

"you can only write who you are" is a pretty standard writing tip

hot take: the influx of stories about stories and bland everyman protagonists is because many writers dont know anything outside of stories

dudes rock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_of_Croton

my exalted players are trying to use sympathetic magic to convert a molehill into a mountain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE37e1eK2mY

my general opinion of the domestic unrest lately is disappointment at the sheer incompetence of it all

people burning down random small businesses instead of government buildings, no politicians being hurt in the dc raid

sloppy. disorganized.

but also things have gotten bad and our leaders should feel real fear of the populace

and i only sense contempt coming from them

i feel like theres some bad incentives going on here, wrt media environments - something something emperors clothing

pondering my increasing extremism

ive always been partial to people with principled objections to the status quo, but im leaning more and more in the direction of bitfd

i dont think destroying the system will make things better, mind

hmmm

https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/aR9gCYRGjd7KBWpTe/the-dangers-of-digital-vaccines-1

my interaction with farms has largely been in driving past them - ive not dealt with agriculture firsthand outside of gardening and the neighbors pet chickens

but ive seen a lot more cows spending their time in pastures than ive seen anything else

this updates me significantly towards eating cow being generally fine, especially given my problem with meat eating being about the factory conditions rather than meat itself

im fine with killing animals, which also blunts the original argument i guess