Predominantly Erroneous (Exohedron nonsense blog)

It's interesting that the voter fraud/voter suppression issue is so polarized, in the sense that nobody seems to care if the Republicans are being accurately represented at the polls, under or over, only whether actual eligible Democrats are being thwarted or if fake Democrats are being counted.

 

I would like Out of Touch Thursday a lot better if the Lucky Star clip wasn't about two beats off from the song.

 

One of my favorite incidents in the A Song of Ice and Fire universe is when Rogar Baratheon asks if Jahaerys Targaryen will be demanding hostages, and Jahaerys just suggests that they visit his dragon.

 

So much for not just straight up drinking salsa.

 

How long until people start getting anon messages saying "cancel urself"

Note: if this actually happens please don't tell me; I don't want to be more disappointed in reality than I have to be.

 

In that awful state of "tired but not sleepy".

 

The sudden realization that the reason our experiences with these fics differ is because he's not reading them on AO3, he's reading them on FF.net. I wonder if I should tell him.

 

The rice cooker drama has me baffled. Mostly because I'm wondering who is on the other side. Who is accusing white people of being entitled for getting a device to automatically cook rice? Black people? Latino? Other white people? Russian trolls? Hell, if someone told me it was a bunch of Beida grads in San Francisco playing a prank I'd be less confused than I am trying to take this at face value.

There's a lesson here about internalized racism and not being able to move outside the framework that you're enculturated in and how the term "POC" is not nearly as coherent as the left likes to think it is, but all I've got for you at the moment is "???"

 

There are some genuinely interesting security holes in things, and the cheap-convenient-secure tradeoff is actual-facts hard, but generally any real security issue is due to the fact that security protocols are ultimately implemented by sacks of dirty water.

 

So, supposing that you've just accidentally swallowed a small fragment of bone

 

Learning that it's like at least 500% easier to do work in the office than at home, in that when I'm at the office I can concentrate for more than thirty seconds.

 

It turns out that I don't need to lie to my British friend about California. He's already so baffled by the US.

Today he was upset that American wasps come in colors other than yellow. So we reminded him that his people decided to colonize both the Americas and Australia, and so he didn't really have any room to criticize us for living here.
I'll miss him when he goes west to eat sashimi on nachos. The PB&J sandwich conversation will remain a highlight of his visit for me.

 

The difference between naming a cat and merely calling them something; really you can call the cat anything you want but if they don't acknowledge it then you haven't named them.
Also applies to people; you can usually get away with naming your kids, you have somewhat less power in other circumstances. If you have to follow it up with "hey, I'm talking to you", you've probably still not managed to name them.

 

I'm actually kind of tempted to make the Tower deck, with all of the Major Arcana being different pictures of towers. The Minor Arcana will have different styles of towers instead of suits.
Fortunately, this sounds like it would take effort to gather all of the images, so I'm not going to do it.

 

What the everloving fuck? Entitled for buying rice cookers? What?! The first (and so far only) time I’ve definitely used or even seen a rice cooker in use was in the kitchen of the school where I studied abroad in Japan. (I’m like 94% certain my host mother used a large, very nice rice cooker as well but it’s been so long I can’t be totally positive, and in any case I’m pretty sure I never actually noticed her operating it because I wouldn’t have been home most of the time when she was cooking, and if I was I’d have been in my room studying during that time of day.) I cannot fathom how it could possibly be entitled for a white person to purchase a cooking device that’s dirt common in at least one country with which we do a lot of trade and is populated by a vast majority of people who are not caucasian.

 

Does the Sphinx (as in the one that asks riddles, not the wrinkly gremlin that lives in your lap) count as a catgirl?

 

It makes sense, but I didn't realize that in the Star Wars PT one of the handmaidens who acts as body double for Padme was also portrayed by Natalie Portman.

 

It used to be that on weekends I'd stay up all Friday night, go to sleep around 3 or 4 on Saturday morning, wake up at noon, stay up until 3 or 4 Sunday morning, wake up at noon, and then try (and fail) to go to bed early enough on Sunday night that I don't feel awful on Monday morning.
So if I need something done on Saturday or Sunday, I try to schedule it for the afternoon when I'm pretty sure I'll be awake.
Unfortunately, now with these long stretches of not having a schedule, I can't even rely on being awake in the afternoon anymore. Instead I'll just stay up for 25 hours, and then sleep for 14 and then stay up for another 27 or so, and so on, until I have no idea what time or day it is or when I last ate and I certainly have no idea what would be a good time to call me three days from now because who knows what my sleep schedule will look like by then.

 

Given the spread of topics, the decent local community and the sheer volume of posts, it wouldn't surprise me if it were true, but consider that the tumblr user most featured in Buzzfeed listicles might actually be Argumate. Like, I'm sure there are people with tumblrs who might get talked about more, like writers or actors or such, but in terms of actual tumblr posts that appear, Argumate's got like 20.

 

I'm mostly neutral on dancing (specifically, me dancing) but I've never been to a party where the music makes me want to dance. There is music that makes me feel like dancing, but it doesn't seem to appear at the places where I end up (note: I am rarely at these places voluntarily, or at least I'm not there for the purpose of dancing). This is at least partly because the music that I might want to dance to is rarely popular, so unless I seek it out (and I don't) it's not going to appear.
But even in the cases where there is something popular enough to get played that I also might feel like dancing to, something happens. I'm guessing it's a mixing issue; I don't think I've ever been to a party with a decent sound engineer, and so everything ends up a bassy, thuddy drone because people don't seem to realize that there are rhythmic elements other than the kick drum.