Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

idk I hate that I had to move to the most aggressively aggressively anti-pedestrian place I ever lived and I hate that everyone thinks this place is fine and normal, actually. And I hate that they’re right about it being normal even if its absolutely not fine because literally anywhere planned after the fifties is either exactly like this or worse

The frequency with which otherwise seemingly reasonable people complain about bikelanes or streeteries (park-lanes temporarily converted into outside dining as part of Philly’s COVID response, many restaurants put theirs in loading docks, aka not even legal parking spaces in the first place) because, bikes are *so* annoying & they’ve lost a few parking slots is unreal

If you thought that was oddly precise, I watched a near miss version of that scenario play out on Tuesday (the SUV swerved and almost hit the bus I was in) only to have to get off two minutes later & backtrack two intersections that were only marginally more safe before I could get to my doctors appointment

I can’t drive for medical reasons. There’s never going to be 3000 pounds of steel protecting me from other cars. I just have to live with this, and hope that maybe someday enough people will give a fuck that we can actually change things

okay if most people were driving arcimotos I'd probably be a lot more comfortable sharing the road with cars

like getting hit by one of those at 50 mph would still fuck me up, but it probably wouldn't kill me like a SUV

Okay but the real reason we write summaries in the present is because otherwise you're going to tangle yourself into a horrible conjugation knot

«Pravda has switched to mixing and bottling Molotov cocktails – small homemade explosives thrown by hand – in repurposed beer bottles to help repel the Russian army.

While the beer operation is down, Pravda launched the Brew for Ukraine campaign, sharing its recipes and brewing techniques online, asking anyone and everyone to make their beer for them.»

Two local breweries, the Stickman Brewery and Wilmington Brew Works are taking up the effort & donating proceeds to humanitarian aid in Ukraine

https://whyy.org/articles/philly-area-brewers-join-global-brew-for-ukraine-campaign/

Wehhhhh audacity pls just let me edit this audio :(

As a sort of tag to my friending meme promo (which is still going on btw!) Dreamwidth has posted some notes about successfully importing to Dreamwidth from LiveJournal: https://mobile.twitter.com/dreamwidth/status/1501280756068495361

The short version: LJ is intermittently blocking the IP addresses Dreamwidth crawls from, possibly because of people misinputting passwords. There’s not a ton they can do about that unfortunately but trying again later will usually work

If you’re on dreamwidth or want to be on dreamwidth & are looking for accounts to follow, there’s a friending meme going on right now!

Targeted at the current LJ exodus but welcome to all: https://friending-memes.dreamwidth.org/1083.html

Cannot believe I tutored stats without touching excel for two years only to get tricked into it by the library archives

if I get three layers of excel recursion deep you have permission to confiscate my computer

there is now a second excel sheet about the first excel sheet

This professor plans his classes like a Chinese drama

«One of the wildest sects of Communists in France proposes not only to hold all property in common, but to divide the profits not according to each mans in-put and labor but according to each mans wants. Now this is precisely the system of domestic slavery with us. We provide for each slave, in old age and in infancy, in sickness and in health, not according to his labor, but according to his wants. The masters wants are most costly and refined, and he therefore gets a larger share of the profits. A Southern farm is the beau ideal of Communism; it is a joint concern, in which the slave consumes more than the master, of the coarse products, and is far happier, because although the concern may fail, he is always sure of a support; he is only transferred to another master to participate in the profits of another concern…»