Just went to the food cart pod, ordered, realized I could go swim at the neighborhood pool after getting home, recieved and ate a baked potato with fixins, and then extremely did not go to the pool
One thing about the new personality having a radically higher Charisma stat is sometimes I will make plans where one step involves some sort of social skill check and crit it so hard I render the rest of the plan superfluous
I’ve gotta start making plans with tougher checks, I guess
thanks @bmoharrisbankofficial but unfortunately i can’t focus on the very important message here because i’m too busy being confused by the fact that apparently if you send an ask with only one letter tumblr will bold that letter in the “asked you” notification text?? why the fuck would that be the case
Okay, yeah, the thing was my old orange scoop was some kinda fractional imperial measure close to but somewhat larger than the creatine-bin scoops that do 5g, so going from 5 to 5’ (I’ve measured with the old scoops for a while, so I’ll mark these ones as distinct) scoops was itself a step down already.
So all my weight loss predictions are kinda denominated in that, so it’ll take a while to reestablish my scale, but I expect the “overweight side of average” phase to start before the end of the month.
I’ve worked at big software companies long enough to know how this would play out as a bug. Users report the issue. Engineers think oh thats a simple fix. However this is Google so it’s likely these tickets are triaged in a way that someone like a project manager has visibility into it before deciding to dedicate time into it.
the project manager asks “is this a bug, though?” not because of homophobia but because they want to know how many users experience this as being an incorrect suggestion vs a valid suggestion. so they call the data scientists in and run some queries, and lo and behold because there’s more straight couples in the world of course the data shows this is only affecting a very small amount of users. this is working fine for most users.
but the engineers and other stakeholders point out why this isnt as simple as what the data days and it’s more of a UX thing. call the project managers in for whoever’s in charge of like, grammar analysis and not just the system that flags it. an epic is created in jira. meetings are scheduled. don’t forget experts in other languages
five weeks later you’re running an A/B test on not correcting users when they write “his husband” to see if DAUs drop when your grammar suggestion engine considers that gay people can be married
The only China-related blog I read posted something that deviates from its usual “just translate the top posts on Weibo” post format. It’s about the position of women in China:
It and the (extremely fucking dark) post it links to in its second paragraph have been on my mind for several days. I’ve kept the browser tabs open despite having finished reading & having no desire to reread them.
I found the feminism post illuminating – things I’d 80% understood about the CCP’s “strategy” wrt gender snapped into place, and I feel foolish for not having clearly seen that angle before:
The problem, of course, is that the gender ratio in China has been off for a very long time now. Inevitably, there are going to be a lot of men who will never find a wife. And inevitably, those men are going to be precisely the most unstable elements of society—the poorest, working the most menial of jobs, with the least hopes of ever getting promoted, with the least education. Under these circumstances, relying on market forces is not an option. Women would never willingly marry those people when they have perfectly good careers of their own.
So the first step, then, is to fuck women out of careers. …
China is in an equilibrium that it cannot coordinate to get out of: if you have a daughter, you don’t want to invest in her when the norms are that her husband will provide for her / that she won’t have a career after marriage. If you have a son, you need to to invest in him, because his marital/reproductive prospects aren’t great unless he has a job, a car, and an internal passport that lets him live/work in a city, where he can have a future.
It might be a little unbelievable to you, that a country can just sacrifice half its population to stabilise the other half. … China doesn’t pass laws or enforce laws to protect women for the same reason they don’t pass or enforce laws to protect sweat shop workers. China is competitive on the international stage precisely because it is willing to look the other way while you make a sweat shop of people work unpaid overtime 80 hours a week while you pay them a quarter of minimum wage and don’t give health insurance or retirement benefits. China is competitive on the international stage because it’s willing to look the other way while you dump industrial waste right into the ocean.
The bisexuality was a pretty important breakthrough even for boy-girl stuff for just being much better able to model the mentality of a partner attracted to men, just being like “oh I’m not making her orally pleasure me, I’m letting her suck my dick” changes dynamics a lot.
Like, maybe I should have figured that better extrapolating from how I had liked eating pussy in a way gay men found disgusting and straight women at least didn’t identify with, but that misreading isn’t coming from nowhere, if you’re not personally into it and going off secondhand sense sucking dick is pretty strongly marked as denigratory, “suck my dick” isn’t a friendly offer.
