He’s the sort of man who thinks “I think I’ll go for a walk” means “I want to kill someone, but I’ll do it at a good time so it’s not inconvenient for anyone else.”
well, if you wanna talk with the-haiku-bot, you'se gotta write a haiku first. that'd be a single post or reply that is seventeen syllables long. you aughta give it a try sometime.
Weird reminder but double check where your fire extinguisher is just to make sure it’s where you last remember it, just in case it got moved around or something
??? I don’t mean to be too harsh, but house fires did not stop happening at the turn of the century. A house can still burn down, and we invented something that can prevent that, they’re fire extinguishers. They’re the reason house fires aren’t a guarantee that you’ll lose your house. You should have one.
You should also have one in your car. Also if you’ve never used one or have ever been taught, here’s how you use a fire extinguisher:
When operating a fire extinguisher, tell residents to remember the word PASS:
Pull the pin. Hold the extinguisher with the nozzle pointing away from you and release the locking mechanism.
Aim low. Point the extinguisher at the base of the fire.
Squeeze the lever slowly and evenly.
Sweep the nozzle from side-to-side.
Fire extinguishers can be helpful on a small fire. Consider providing a checklist to help people prepare to use a fire extinguisher on a potential fire.
For example:
Have I alerted others in the building that there’s a fire?
Has someone called the fire department?
Am I physically able to use a fire extinguisher?
Is the fire small and contained in a single object (like a pan or a wastebasket)?
Am I safe from the fire’s toxic smoke?
Do I have a clear escape route?
Use a fire extinguisher when all of these questions are answered “yes.” If you’re unsure about whether or not it’s safe to use a fire extinguisher, and for all other situations, alert others, leave the building, and call 911 from a mobile or neighbor’s phone. It is not recommended that children use fire extinguishers.
There are five primary types of fire extinguishers, each designed to put out different kinds of fires.
[Image is of a Green Triangle with the letter A in white in the middle]
For use with ordinary materials like cloth, wood and paper. These are often found in homes and businesses.
[Image is of a RED Square with the letter B in white in the middle]
For use with combustible and flammable liquids like grease, gasoline, oil and oil-based paints. These are often found in homes and businesses.
[Image is of a Blue Circle with the letter C in white in the middle]
For use with electrical equipment like appliances, tools, or other equipment that is plugged in. These are often found in homes and businesses.
[Image is of a Gold Star with the letter D in white in the middle]
For use with flammable metals. These are often found in factories.
[Image is of a White Circle with the letter K in black in the middle]
For use with vegetable oils, animal oils and fats in cooking appliances. These are often found in commercial kitchens (restaurants, cafeterias, catering businesses).
There are also multipurpose fire extinguishers that might be labeled “B-C” or “A-B-C.” Most home improvement stores carry multipurpose fire extinguishers that cover Class A through Class C.
Keep yourself and your belongings safe and invest in a fire extinguisher. Keep them in an easy to access spot, such as your kitchen. This information is directly from the FEMA website.
So a weird cross-product of the classic weight/gravity multiplier effects and the steroid-like testosterone? reduced barriers to muscle growth is that after I go through a day of doing nothing in particular but feeling like it was 1.3x weighing on me is that then I’m sore and gain muscle as if I had been doing the entire previous day carrying a 30% bodyweight weight?
Like maybe part of it was my first-line muscles were just washed for whatever reason and I had to bear weight on and train up my backups? But I just dunno, man
According to Yossef Rapoport, in the 15th century, the rate of divorce was higher than it is today in the modern Middle East, which has generally low rates of divorce.[42] In 15th century Egypt, Al-Sakhawi recorded the marital history of 500 women, the largest sample on marriage in the Middle Ages, and found that at least a third of all women in the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and Syria married more than once, with many marrying three or more times. According to Al-Sakhawi, as many as three out of ten marriages in 15th century Cairo ended in divorce.[43]
In the early 20th century, some villages in western Java and the Malay peninsula had divorce rates as high as 70%.[42]
This is pretty interesting if you’re used to a Western perspective where higher divorce rates and lower stigmatization of divorce is seen as a progressively “modern” thing. I wanna check out the cited sources bc I hope they get into some details about these divorces and if there’s information about social class, stated reasons and which spouse tended to initiate the divorce etc
I suspect that in many societies, “marriage” is/was basically the equivalent of what we would today call “serious dating” or what have you; it was certainly less bureaucratized at basically every point in history than it is today. In light of this, “divorce” might have been more akin to just… breaking up. Divorce as we know it today, the convoluted legal process, may be the exception rather than the rule.
This inspires me to again note that what we know as “dating” was basically what the mid-20th century would know as “going steady”, and what they would have known as “dating” is probably closest to our “hooking up”
jousting is the most human thing ever invented, to me. lets ride on the back of horses and hit eachother with sticks as hard as we can for sport. i think that thought process is what the human spirit is all about
According to Yossef Rapoport, in the 15th century, the rate of divorce was higher than it is today in the modern Middle East, which has generally low rates of divorce.[42] In 15th century Egypt, Al-Sakhawi recorded the marital history of 500 women, the largest sample on marriage in the Middle Ages, and found that at least a third of all women in the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and Syria married more than once, with many marrying three or more times. According to Al-Sakhawi, as many as three out of ten marriages in 15th century Cairo ended in divorce.[43]
In the early 20th century, some villages in western Java and the Malay peninsula had divorce rates as high as 70%.[42]
This is pretty interesting if you’re used to a Western perspective where higher divorce rates and lower stigmatization of divorce is seen as a progressively “modern” thing. I wanna check out the cited sources bc I hope they get into some details about these divorces and if there’s information about social class, stated reasons and which spouse tended to initiate the divorce etc
I just realized for the first time that people who didn’t grow up around Philadelphia have no idea of Mummer’s Day
Okay so every New Year’s Day we’d have a parade that was like ¼ New York’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and ¾ New Orleans Mardi Gras, with all these krewe-style groups that had been passed on for decades upon decades fielding sections with drumlines and men in the most extravagant feathered costumes
this was all downstream of a big historic Lord of Misrule costumed marching tradition that all of the 1st through 3rd Ku Klux Klans were drawing on, in different ways
I just realized for the first time that people who didn’t grow up around Philadelphia have no idea of Mummer’s Day
Okay so every New Year’s Day we’d have a parade that was like ¼ New York’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and ¾ New Orleans Mardi Gras, with all these krewe-style groups that had been passed on for decades upon decades fielding sections with drumlines and men in the most extravagant feathered costumes
Alright, got Darwin back from the shop and drove for the first time in 2 years…
Nice I’m back to prerationally recognizing red and green lights in the middle distance as meaningful but wew, ALL the habits and instincts by which my vehicle had been an extension of my body are dead, and if you have to do all of moving-through-space-as-an-automobile consciously in a city it’s terrifying
So now that she’s written a best-selling, award-winning memoir, Jennette McCurdy no longer fits the criteria for my “no discourse valence, only fulfills the traditional role of you wanting to fuck them” celebrity slot, any suggestions for a replacement?
hello, sincere EAs who work very hard to make the world a better place!
ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated
a second semi-secret luxury real estate acquisition has struck the Effective Altruism movement
fun fact, I know someone who knew the person who is running this thing, who is presumably about to discover why a former “luxury hotel” housed in a 17th century mansion in the middle of nowhere was selling for “only” 4 million EUR
I hope one of the GiveWell employees that spent years trying to figure out how to do the most good with the least money stabs this dude with a knife
I know I’ve been saying the next frontier is a return to smaller, distributed power centers in a way that might resemble feudal manorialism, but this and the VDare castle are really on the nose
One time when I was playing minecraft, in order to justify stealing a village’s crops all the time I decided to build a house near them, and spend a lot of my time improving the village and defending the villagers from monsters. took me a while to realize I had accidentally become a feudal lord
