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It was kind of a weird day to get to this chapter.
It should be noted that Javert believes his cruelty in law enforcement is justified by authority and hierarchy and order, and he figures God agrees with him because earthly government is part of the same hierarchy.
— Reading Les Mis (@ReadingLesMis) June 14, 2018
Looking at the cosponsors of S.3036.
How the hell did “Let’s not tear toddlers away from their parents and throw them into camps” become a partisan issue?
Have you ever had the experience of hearing a song, not quite being able to make out the words, and your brain latches onto @alyankovic’s parody and fills in those lyrics instead?
I’m starting to do that with @missmalindakat’s Google Translate Sings series.
Every time someone complains about the Canto Bight storyline being pointless I have to wonder if they left the movie early and missed the final scene.
The last scene shows the spark of hope taking hold. Removing Canto Bight removes the epilogue, which leaves an unremittingly bleak story, bleaker than Revenge of the Sith…but only because we already knew where RoTS had to go.
For some reason I’m reminded of the dragon weyr ground support crew seeking out missed patches of thread and spraying them with agenothree:
Organic Farmers Are Using Flamethrowers to Weed Their Fields via @atlasobscura
The barricade is taken in the early afternoon of June 6. I just finished reading the chapter. In real time, apparently.
On modern computer UI
Nate Cull @natecull@mastodon.social:
Protip:
When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she’s clicking your app’s buttons and saying to you, as old people do,
“Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes
I’m not even ANGRY with you, I’m just disappointed.”
I’m sure it will be *impossible* to hack these “digital license plates” into showing a fake number. No risk of that whatsoever. 🤔
@readlesmispod Yeah, I really like how it shows her resourcefulness as she switches tactics repeatedly, and the “you think you can intimidate *me*?” speech.
And now I’m thinking of parallels with the chisel & powder keg.
Why do some people go ballistic over *other people’s* conversations in another language? Were they talking to you? Were you planning on eavesdropping?
‘My next call is to ICE!’: A man flipped out because workers spoke Spanish at a Manhattan deli
Is he afraid they’ll get a secret discount negotiated in another language? What?
His threats to call ICE make it obvious that he’s motivated by racism, but this sort of language freak-out is common enough in white people who *think* they’re not being racist. It’s like a gateway.
I want to believe we can short-circuit things like “OMG someone’s talking in a language that’s not mine!” before it progresses to worse things like calling the cops on a BBQ and threatening direct or state-sponsored violence against people they think are less human.
“Correction: An earlier version of this article misquoted the coffee shop supervisor. She said the man was being ‘very racist,’ not ‘really racist.'”
Well, good thing we got that cleared up.
In any case: Good on the employees, managers, and corporate response from Coffee Bean for kicking out the guy harassing someone instead of the person he was targeting.
Voters across party lines overwhelmingly approve of #NetNeutrality: 86% of all voters polled, 82% of Republicans. That’s not a partisan issue.
But congress is treating it as one, which is absurd.
Bring this up the next time the assholes who support this cruelty claim to be pro-family, or that they give a shit about children.
@Ragnell That’s one of the things that’s bugged me about Flashpoint since it was released. Barry wasn’t trying to change the timeline, but to repair it – and in 99% of time travel stories, that’s what the hero’s expected to do.
Malleability of identity: the two youngest Thénardier children swapped to Magnon, Thénardier becoming Jondrette, the obvious pseudonym of Mademoiselle Miss, taking up a new ID by moving a block away…
The problem with “move fast and break things” is that you’re likely to break things without regard for how important they are, or how hard it might be to fix or replace them.
I really appreciate that in the novel, Marius & Cosette have an actual courtship, not the love at first sight that most of the adaptations go with for time.
It’s also amusing how much of it is done stealthily, stealing glances at each other across the park.
And it’s really amusing to watch how clumsy Marius is when it comes to not being noticed, while Cosette manages to keep things secret from her father even after Marius starts visiting her in her own garden, months later.
OTOH, there’s also the awkward stalker stage in between.
I’d forgotten just how much fool he makes himself over the handkerchief! 🤣🤣🤣
Todo: It looks like I didn’t actually incorporate this into the blog. Check to see how much it retreads Stealth Courtship and Rue Plumet from the first read-through, and overlap with the Wandering.Shop version.
TFW you can’t decide whether spelling out the connections would be too obvious, or the only way some people would actually get the point.
What does Pruitt think “EPA” stands for?
Extra Petroleum Agency?
Enabling Pollution Agency?
Economic Protectionism Agency?
He sure doesn’t seem to be interested in protecting the environment.