Kara Dreamer (obsolete) ⚧ @kara_dreamer@witches.town
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a brief word on Kamen Rider Build, the new Kamen Rider series, which I've watched with the whole polycule up to episode 5. Gravis, who doesn't like most tokusatsu we've tried to show him (with the curious exception of ToQger), is loving Build.
It's going at a breakneck pace. I'm a bit astonished by how much has happened in five episodes, compared to some series (cf. "Ghost", in which nothing much happened even by two-thirds of the season.) we get to meet the second Rider in the second episode! usually they take a bit longer to work up to that.
@Efi oof! looking it up quickly, it looks like Duralex is soda-lime glass (basically your standard window glass, the most basic glass formulation you can get) and so, yeah, that wouldn't withstand much heat.
BTW I once shattered a "Pyrex" bowl in the microwave >_<
New tarot card - "Death". Happy Friday the 13th. #art #illustration https://sylviaritter.deviantart.com/art/Death-709557938 https://mastodon.social/media/zY4EXljY03j9R-cM5cY
ok, I _was_ gonna stream, but then I got sidetracked into making lunch and ate too much and now I just want to lie down >_<
@sydneyfalk "but how can we have innovation without patents??" (turns around and gets rid of the actual innovation that was in the original product)
The greatest trick intellectual property ever pulled
was pretending it was for the direct benefit of lucky individuals, and not for the direct benefit of corporations
(somewhat figuratively, at least --
book publishers were collecting human efforts and benefitting from them for a long time before proper IP laws got in place, IIRC)
@Kyna got profoundly mixed feelings about the whole affair...whatever my dreams might be, human is what I _am_ and I'd better learn to live with it because I'm not gonna know anything else as long as I'm alive.
one of the little results of capitalism that continues to piss me off whenever it comes to mind (which, to be fair, isn't often), is how Pyrex-brand cookware isn't actually Pyrex, i.e. borosilicate glass of low thermal expansion any more. Corning spun off the consumer-goods division to some satellite company decades ago, who stopped making the cookware out of borosilicate, switching to tempered soda-lime (i.e. cheapass shit) glass.
That's the great thing about Brands™. Their greatness dies, but the Brand™ lives on, the lingering stench produced by the rotting corpse of a technological achievement. https://witches.town/media/j_P1U_9pL_wlNOC7n_g
@djsundog @cute_weeds ah, well said!
For example, various pop-science media say that Feynman had the idea that the Periodic Table has to stop at element 137, because (the reason varies from one version of the story to another).
Nope. That was Schiff, Snyder and Weinberg in 1939: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.57.315
They saw that a crude calculation implied something wacky happens at element 137, *and* why the approximation involved in that calculation shouldn't be taken too seriously.
@cute_weeds @djsundog ah, Gibson...did any of his later work really come up to "Neuromancer"? I followed him for a bit but nothing else he wrote really stuck with me.
doesn't matter, Gibson is still a minor hero to me (too bad the false prophet Stephenson came along to steal his glory)
`It's not like I'm tooting,' Case heard someone say, as he shouldered his way through the crowd around the door of the Chat. `It's like my body's developed this massive meme deficiency.' It was a Fediverse voice and a Fediverse joke. The Catsubo was an instance for professional shitposters; you could lurk there for a week and never see two words of Discourse.
hi, i'm kit, i'm a huge nerd who spends all her time thinking about functional programming, category theory, and how language plays into all of this. except i'm not very good at it lol
i also spend all my time breaking this server i'm on
Joining the #introductions train.
I'm Mara (she/her); I'm bi, Jewish, autistic, arthritic, and anxious;
My education is in linguistics, and I'm on a short term contract doing linguistics for a tech company. Always looking for more permanent work; let me know if you need an editor or a grammar person.
I read and review diverse fiction (esp #sff); I relax with #loadingreadyrun livestreams; I knit as a coping mechanism. Dating @Canageek, currently at long distance.
@Canageek hey, well done! sweet sweet credit
Follow Friday
It showed up about two weeks ago, a figure at the corner of your eye as you walked to the library under the yellowing leaves and light rain. Indistinct, slightly stooped, a couple blocks back and moving your direction. You saw it again on your return, out of the ordinary but not alarming.
You saw it again a couple days later as you ducked into the cafe. Same slouch, same gait. Since then you've seen it three or four more times, slightly closer each time.
Is it still there?
#FF
@cute_weeds @green oh, really! this is new to me
@green three volumes are available through Amazon, and the Kindle versions are quite reasonably priced. gonna buy the first one later and give it a look. as Daria pointed out, it's probably worth the $4.50 just to find out XD
Eternal frustration of the writer's mind
oops, meant to tag @green on that one: https://witches.town/@kara_dreamer/98822853670925106