It's grad season! Which, if you move industrial quantities of furniture at a convention centre (like I do), means changing over massive setups repeatedly from ceremony to meal to next school, often in the same day.
I have done a good day's work today, and it's only lunchtime.
As someone who uses "folks" a lot because I grew up in a hick Alberta village of 600 people (named "Mannville", no less), I love the fact it's been widely adopted as inclusive language.
Not least because that usage would've irritated a notable chunk of said hick village back in the day.
I don't always think about ancient Rome, but when I do, I think about how chariot racing was vastly more popular than gladiators, to the point that mobs wearing the colour of their preferred stables had riotous brawls, politicians were heavily involved, and more.
Stinking hairy man-creatures with only a patch of pale skin around their bright eyes, dressed in layers of filthy rags with a few furs crudely lashed on - untrustworthy, often spiteful, but offering and trading in marvels.
I'm just saying; early colonial traders as monster-men works way better than the "savages" they traded with.
@LeviKornelsen I especially like the idea of this explaining why they were referred to as "devils" in indigenous languages - it wasn't anything personal, it's just that they were smelly, self-serving monster-men from another world that traded in cursed wonders and Faustian pacts and wanted to convert you to a religious structure of tithes, blood sacrifice (Jesus and mass), and enslavement.
I mean, throw in a pair of horns, cloven feet, or barbed tail, and you've got a textbook fiend from Hell.
@LeviKornelsen "Hail, mortals. I am Hernando Cortes, 1st Marquess of the 3rd Layer of Hell. I come on behalf of the King of Hell. Brimstone is my incense, and my troops spit fire."
My hopes that we'll eventually see actually ethically sound AI are consistently undermined by the people who are in charge of the main organizations in the field.
"Guilty pleasure" really should mean like "Excitedly getting packages from Amazon, despite knowing how shit they are", and not like "Eating delicious cake".
Not an original thought, I know, but seriously, it'd be so much more useful that way.
Today, pouring theoretically much better clay slip into theoretically much better plaster molds. We'll see how much better they actually all end up being?
At minimum, this should give me much paler results, which'll make for brighter colours when glazed. I hope.
@ladylakira - Oh, yeah, the horrible shitbags of the setting (or one type at least) would almost certainly be heavy on the "bent medical abusers" family of tropes.
Apparently Solar, lead singer of the K-Pop group Mamamoo, would like to take you to a gay bar, and this is causing some.... Consternation in certain circles over there.
Quality level: Weird stuff found at an import store (And, to be clear, I am perfectly fine with this. Will seek improvements, but this clears "I would not be ashamed to sell this".)