The local places are out of the blade steel I like, but there's a place in the US that stocks it. Shipping is a pain in the arse, but it's flat rate so it becomes reasonable if i order a few meters...
Windows Recall, enabling the AI assistant to “access virtually what you have seen or done on your PC in a way that feels like having photographic memory
puts on family violence policy hat :blob_cat_ohnoes: :oh_no_bubble:
puts on IT hat :blob_cat_ohnoes: :oh_no_bubble:
puts on medical ethics hat :blob_cat_ohnoes: :oh_no_bubble:
puts on data analyst hat :blob_cat_ohnoes: :oh_no_bubble:
puts on anarchist hat :blobredpandanarchist: :oh_no_bubble:
If switching this off on my work laptop becomes an administrator-only option, I might just quit. (I don't look up anything personal on my office laptop, but if they don't trust me to do my work after seventeen years of doing my work, I don't trust them.)
From the creator of that thing you haven't seen
Written by some dude you've never heard of
Starring that fuck wit you hate
Now, exclusively on a streaming service you don't subscribe to
@Dangerous_beans see also the current-generation Mustang, where every car reviewer says the EcoBoost turbo donk is better than the 5L V8 lump for approximately the same reasons
I was thinking the other day how police forces in western societies are an example of scope creep. Which causes a lot of problems
They started as a way of recovering stolen property*, and additional duties have been added on over the last few hundred years
Having people trained to turn up to accidents and organise things is probably useful, but they don't need guns or powers to arrest people
Our current society needs people trained in de-escalating family violence situations, but that needs a specific set of values that police aren't chosen for
Likewise with detective stuff
If you listen to them police officers don't become cops to do a lot of this public service stuff and resent having to do it. I think people who are willing to do that stuff are discouraged because they don't want to be cops
Anyway, that's why the organisation needs to be scrapped and anything important reorganised
*I should explicitly note that the concept of property here often included slaves
I think it's really important for us trans women, especially us white ones, to learn about how womanhood has been used in other systems of oppression. The roles of white women in upholding white supremacy, richer women in class structures.
These are patterns of behaviour that I don't think we should recreate
We come to womanhood from a different place to cis women. This gives us a different perspective to build from in finding better ways to be women
I've heard multiple cis women talk about learning about womanhood from the trans women in their lives
Basically if you're a white trans woman look up some Black women's critiques of white womanhood and ask yourself if you really want to do that shit
(taken from somewhere else that also took the idea from somewhere)
So we have sisyphean tasks and herculean tasks, which suggests there should be some others
Cassandrean task: it'll obviously end in tears but no one believes you
Pandorean task: it'll cause all sorts of problems but you do it anyway
Sapphean task: sweet mother, you're too gay and cannot do it
Hmm, looks like COVID directly killed 3x as many people as vehicle accidents in Australia in 2023
So I guess we can conclude road deaths are over and I can go do wheelies!