Merry Mass of Christ riven upon the four-fold way cut into deity and man at the crossroads in the witching hour. Sing praise of all things holy. Make us to see, feel that pain, horror of wrenching heart from spirit. Blithe, obliging demonic Angel Fate, each generation descends into fiery pits of abuse reaching, reaching into and out of the story, the warning. If Christ is love, if love is what we truly worship, eyes closed in holy communion, what keeps us riven on the crossroads? What keeps us from reaching out to bind each other’s wounds?
Another allotment trip out of the way. It got chilly as the afternoon went on.
We only came home with some sprouting broccoli this time ( unless you count a bare rooted blackcurrant bush \ plant we are giving to a pal of Sacha's).
The brassicas aren't looking great.
Got some weeding done and I started trying to get some of the bindweed out of the bed that's been covered all year 🤬
Sacha has finished tidying the strawberry bed and has made a good start on clearing grass from around some of the raspberries.
It was driving me crazy, so I had to do some research.
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Cyprus and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have taken a significant step in boosting bilateral economic relations with the launch of a joint business council
@cejjacobs Kult! Det er akkurat det jeg prøver å promotere :) Tror ikke det heter trespeil, altså, hehe, men noe må det jo hete. Interessant liste over språk som har en artikkel om dette på Wikipedia :)
@sandberg Interessant! Takk! Når jeg søker på det ordet får jeg inntrykk av at det egentlig viser til en slags "boks" som ofte brukes under bakken til å plante trær i og som resulterer i en slik liten jordflekk som jeg sikter til – men at den ikke nødvendigvis alltid brukes, og ikke er navnet på selve jordflekken…? Hva tenker du, tar jeg feil? Er det navnet på begge deler?
Hippos should not be underestimated, as they are among the most dangerous animals known to human. Hippos are relentless when it comes to their territory, and particularly irritable during mating season and extremely when they have young. Hippos will even kill adult and strong crocodiles or lions that come too close to them. Their character is almost like that of a badger: if you get too close to them, they will tear you to pieces.
So a friend of mine was telling me about this one strange thing his wife does. Whenever they get a gift of *food* and ONLY food (eg like a basket of cheese and crackers) she immediately goes about dividing it EXACTLY in half. "this is my part of the cheddar, this is yours" he isn't bothered about it just a little confused.
She told him. "If you had siblings you'd understand."
I suggested he may eat all the cheese and not notice.
Can those with siblings speak on this? Are you traumatized?
I have a sibling close in age but we were never food-insecure, and we had very different dietary preferences so we rarely fought about food
(I remember that I deliberately ate the vegetarian pizza slices first, though, because his vegetarianism meant that I could take my time on the meat-ified pizzas)
Now we've both moved left —35 years later, I'm a vegetarian & he's a vegan — but he makes *amazing* vegan pizza when we get together and I tell that story every time to apologize
It's not necessarily a siblings thing, it's more like a siblings-plus-shortage thing. If your family puts dinner into a shared plate that people take portions out of, and you don't eat fast, you may not get enough.
my ex would hide sweets all over the house because she was used to her siblings *and her mom* ransacking her room and stealing stuff. Her mom also stole and pawned her jewelry though, so that’s a fairly extreme case.
I mean, we all have our idiosyncracies! But I guess food is very symbolically charged for me, so that ‘this is mine and you may not eat it’ feels quite antagonistic in a way that, say, ‘I’d prefer if you didn’t use my scissors’ wouldn’t.
At our house it was my dad & his "only 1 kind of jelly can be open at a time" and since we weren't well-off he bought HUGE jars of jelly. Grape for months.
When my middle sister grew up, the very first thing she did when she got her own place was buy 2 jars of jelly and open them both.
Yeah. My parents would only let me use like two of the scissors and hid the nice ones and wouldn't buy the scissors I wanted as a gift because "you have scissors" (even told other people not to get them for me since I had them already)
They came over one day and noticed that I have a big vase and it's full of every kind of scissor, every color and size...
"so, that really was a big deal I guess" my mom said ... I hadn't even really noticed the connection. But it WAS.
God only knows how I've scarred my kids. They're all still talking to me though, and I did get kudos for allowing them to experiment with eating pancakes in the bathtub. [edited to fix typo]
Oo I love the protractor scissors. Never seen those before.
Our scissors kept disappearing for years. When we moved out we found 9 pairs of them in our kid's room, behind the furniture, under the bed, in the closet...
From paper, cardboard, foil, cables, and strings to pizza and so much more; straight, round, or jagged. Put your fingers in the recess; create, make something; cut, shorten something; or give it a new look. Scissors, so simple, so ingenious, and we humans have been using them as a universal tool since invention. It accompanies us throughout our lives, but many don't really notice. We should remember the simple things in our lives much more than any high-tech junk.
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As far as I knew, there was only one pair of scissors ever in the house I grew up in. Finding them when they were needed a frequent source of drama, sturm, und drang.
It remains a thing of family legend how my sister, who was really into sewing, painstakingly saved up her babysitting money (allowances were not a thing in our household) until she could buy herself a pair of proper dressmaker's shears - and then my father, unable to locate the communal family scissors, took the dressmaker's shears out of my sister's sewing box and used them to cut fiberglass cloth.
I have a pair of scissors in every room of my house, two in the kitchen, three (each for a different purpose) in my own sewing box, and one more that lives in the box of gift wrap.
There were four pairs of scissors in our house and it always baffled me. There were more pens and pencils than you could count... there were many books and notebooks. But the idea of having more scissors just didn't compute for my parents.
I remember being at "SAM'S Club" as a tween and there was a set of like 8 cheap, but sharp scissors for 15 bucks, which was more in the 90s but not... "so much money"
@epicdemiologist Until my sister bought the dressmaker's shears, it had never occurred to me (I'm a few years younger) that there could be more than 1 pair of scissors in a household.
there was never any shortage of scissors in my family house, but my Dad (who always did a lot of DIY) would buy his own shears and cutting tools for any gnarly stuff (which in the 70s included aluminium mesh, used to patch up holes in the wing (fender) of his classic Mini van (these were prone to rust)
At work I get my own cutting tools rather than use the office scissors for unsuitable items (such as cable) but if I order them online whoever signs for the parcel gets carded (as its the law in my country). And you then need a pair of scissors, sidecutters or knife to open the packaging they are supplied in..
@Gorfram @epicdemiologist it is important to buy decent scissors (as opposed to Good scissors for eg dressmaking) The 8 pack was probably rubbish and wouldnt have cut paper within 2 years, and wouldn’t have been sharpenable #experience
I suddenly have the urge to send texts to my family of me holding like five scissors fanned out like a wad of cash with more scissors scattered around like some kind of scissors drug lord.
@Gorfram @epicdemiologist Now that you point it out I realize that yes, scissors were often the source of conflict/search/despair/hope in my family too! We need more studies on this.🤔
There's a Chinese superstition that dropping a pair of scissors brings bad luck. In "The Joy Luck Club," someone knocks over a whole table stacked with scissors; and her luck promptly goes straight to hell.
An Irish superstition holds that, if someone gives you a blade as a gift, you must give them a coin (at least a small one); or else the friendship might be cut short. (That's just a blade, though - I suppose for scissors, you'd have to give them two coins.)
In Greek/Roman mythology, the third of The Three Sisters of Fate cuts the thread representing a person's life - with, of course, scissors.
Western multi-tools have doubtful scissors and people question Swiss Army Knives because their scissors are functional. East Asian multi-tools have more variety, larger, and much more effective scissor setups including on-the-same-scale-as-the-pliers scissors.
I can only conclude that scissors are femme-coded and that it is thus wrong to treat them like they're important.
Which is supported by the use of "shears" for anything in a trade; tailor's, pattern, etc.
@graydon @epicdemiologist The femme-coded scissors comment stuck with me, hadn't thought much about it before, nor in a multi-tool context.
"Western" would be the small scissors on Leatherman? Compared with some of the offerings by Roxon or Nextool?
I have a couple of pairs of electrical scissors, they are sold as KEVLAR SHEARS, which always amused me, and feeds into what you are saying. (I've never cut Kevlar with them.)
Or the adjective TACTICAL being sprinkled gaily and joyfully over decidedly mundane items to make them hard and manly.
@mediaevalfishsandwich Western would indeed be the scissors on a Leatherman (or SOG) where by default, there aren't any. (RAPTOR or PARASHEARS if you insist), and yes, compared to Roxon or Nextool where the scissors are the same scale as the pliers or if they're not they're a main secondary tool on the same scale as the knife blades.
So far as I can tell this is broadly general; better things are expected of default general purpose scissors in East Asia.
There are excellent trauma shears (presumably for EMTs though the better companies admit nurses might want some and produce a range of handle colours broader than red and black) and odd corners of trades (e.g., pattern shears) but just in general scissors are a lot worse made and worse designed than they ought to be given the prevailing constraints of technology.
Let me reference something that works; the safety razors produced by the Timeless Razor company. It's pretty obvious it's a company run by engineers because they quote you blade projection in hundredsth of a millimetre. (Razor blades are not made so accurately that there is a practical difference between 0.95 and 0.98, but their CNC machinery can tell and they tell you.)
These are not products being produced with marketing input. (None of those companies make safety razors.)
The companies that are making commercials and so on have come up with something that costs much more and works much less well and taken over the market because their primary product is insecurity. Convince people they need something better, and keep them from being aware of options.
And as you keep noting, advertising works. And the US has been absolutely saturated in it for generations, and the core point of advertising is to create or expand an insecurity so you'll spend money.
So you've got a bunch of people who lack the skills to say "what do I do? what do I actually need? is this story I'm telling myself consistent with my recent experience?" who are being fed a very specific narrative of how to be useless because, well, some vast inhuman thing wants to parasitize their economic output.
@graydon @mediaevalfishsandwich @epicdemiologist pardon my European naïveté, but I thought all products actually made in the USA these days were designed by urban marketing people and accountants, without any input from engineers or from anyone who has ever walked up a hill or seen a tree, and then assembled in sweatshops by cheap migrant labour using American-made tools?
@simon_brooke There's an awful lot of that, but there are exceptions.
There's an implicit essay about how it's impossible to get financing for anything new, how this cripples an economy long-term, and how part of the solution is to abolish either money or banks and money is useful in ways banks are not.
In the meantime, the US has local manufacture of excellent knives and rocket stoves and other stuff on that scale, should you find it.
@simon_brooke @graydon There's a lot of artisanal stuff made in the US, often from imported bits. It's challenging to sell those at a profit, but people do it.
Same in every rich country, but the niches and market size vary. Exporting that stuff is even more challenging, you need to be really good ("swiss watch" territory)
Scaling is hard because cut rate copycats actively work to destroy those products.
@graydon @mediaevalfishsandwich @epicdemiologist Sewing scissors, especially cloth shears, are both femme-coded and VERY IMPORTANT. Exercise extreme caution when expressing other opinions to sewists.
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@moz I have an entire drawer in a dedicated cabinet full of sewing scissors. I am aware of these points.
(My threshold for "good scissors" is not reached by anything with plastic handles. I am perhaps a bit persnickety about that.)
And, really, two days is not a long time. If it'd been two years old, ok, maybe, but people can reasonably just not be near their computing device for two days, or even two months.
Usually the hate is on support forums. Someone adds something to a thread that's 5 years old, the software has long since moved on and fixed bugs and changed the way it works etc, thereby deflecting attention to old/out of date/broken tech instead of questions relevant to current users.
The etiquette there is to start a new thread, reference the old thread if needed
@epicdemiologist I still resent the fact that my father taught me to play chess almost 75 years ago, and then, when I beat him once, never played with me again. This was about the time when Bobby Fisher was making headlines as a quite un-nice prodigy, and my parents were afraid of a similar fate for me.
I wouldn't need to do that, because even if I divided it in half and my sibling would eat their half, my parental unit would tell me not to be so greedy and share what I have with my sibling
Its called resource guarding in dogs, and it is generally caused or made worse by resource scarcity or a tendency of the other participants to snipe resources or gobble them quickly. my wife sometimes divides things and makes a separate piece for herself. my kids rarely do it. we are very resource secure. and if my kids want something they usually can have it, there isn't much gate keeping etc. every so often I wish my older son would leave me a few oranges though.
We didn't have many things that got divvied like that, but it definitely did happen. Egg nog was caused the most fights. Mom eventually resorted to buying a carton for each of us each year and put our names on them. Once the one with your name on it was gone, that was it until next year.
And of course we had to mark the sides of the cartons with the level of egg nog so they couldn't pour some of yours into their container.
@michael_w_busch One of my older sisters once attacked my older brother with a hammer when he wouldn't shut up while she was babysitting us. The ER doctor said he'd seen it before - including in his own family when his sister almost caught him while chasing him with a baseball bat because he was laughing so hard at the prank he'd pulled on her.
My brother's ankle wasn't broken - just badly bruised.
@realtegan @michael_w_busch My aunt stabbed my uncle in the face with a fork when he was stealing her chips! He still has the scar. They’re in their late 70s - boomers in the sense of post-war rationing.
I have four sisters and two brothers, and I can say without reservation that this is very much something I could see myself doing.
I tend to hide chocolate from my hubby, still. It's been years since I lived in that madhouse I grew up in, and I still worry that things will just... vanish. Because someone "borrowed" it.
My partner is an only child, but does this with everything, even home-cooked meals. I grew up with a close-in-age-but-older sibling and think my partner doing this is baffling.
My human porter at some point bought two identical "good scissors", and their spouse claimed them both. It wasn't even some kind of stewardship or organization thing. It was just a silent usurpation of all property interest. So they then bought dozens of identical cheap scissors, and planned for sad-cutting and tool-attrition.
Porter and spouse are each the youngest of their siblings. This might not be a "has siblings" thing, but "how awful were your siblings to you" thing.
I'm a little more talky about it. Do you merely really like the cheese; while I really, really, *really* like the cheese? -- I'm gonna negotiate for more of the cheese. Are the crackers the cracker equivalent of catnip to you, but "I mean, they're nice" to me? -- You're gonna get some cracker concessions. Etc.
FTR, I have three siblings, two of them older than me.
I'm mostly past it now, but I grew up with the rule "one of you cuts it in half, the other one picks which half to take", which actually worked well to make sure we split stuff fairly.
@IanMoore3000 this never happened at home with any food but there is 8 year difference between me and my sister so we've always got on well.
When she started cooking in her 20s, I did however start to meow with our half-Siamese cat when we were hungry, we'd make so much racket she would feed *both* of us and couldn't prove who first started the noise..
I told her it was a cross-species male bonding exercise, to try and make the cat braver (I did also meow against the neighbours cat who had been bullying him and chased him away)
Me and the cat meowed together for some years until the mid 2000s when I had to move away to Ipswich (where I still live), for some weeks after I left he hung around my old room wondering where I had gone as he missed the meowing sessions 😸
My sister and I definitely fought off and on over the years. I remember one big thing we fought over that made the parents really go nuts was one of the cats. We wanted to hog him, lol. Another was consoles — in particular a Playstation (1) system. My sister demanded it was her turn to have it for a while once while I had been installing an, uh, chip to fix it. (Yeah, to fix it.) It was in pieces and my parents were like "no, give it to her right now" so I didn't even have time to get it all together again right and a ribbon cable got broken during the transfer.
I don't remember much about fighting over food, but I do think we did once or twice have occasion to get upset if either thought the other was getting more. It was rare, but not never.
@tkinias no siblings, but it’s a thing i do with shared foods because otherwise i will forget how much i’ve taken and then devour 3/4ths of a tasty thing that was supposed to be shared in halves.
I'm an only child, but I think I may have traumatized my spouse and child when it comes to pomegranates.
(If left unchecked, I will simply eat them all. We now have rules, with the alternative being that I maintain a ready supply of pomegranates while they're in season.)
I grew up with multiple sisters at different age differences but altogether relatively close, and while we did have a tendency to be quite rigid about portioning in our younger days, we've mostly grown out of it. The youngest does seem to be still a bit hung up on that though.
@tkinias yeah if she’s like me what it says is she can be a bit gluttonous, and this is basically a mechanism to avoid that causing problems. alternatively she’s not like me but has had siblings who were…
I kinda wish my wife would do this. Instead, I'm just supposed to leave the right amount. If I eat too much of it, I get chastised. Moreover, she will never eat her part because she likes to hoard things. So I always have to sit and watch her part go bad.
I mean, growing up with siblings not all sweetness and light all of the time, but I honestly don't think that any of my weird, obsessional or perverse behaviours are due to my siblings.
@tkinias (I wonder what my very Republican parents would say if I pointed out that they taught me a very socialist way of thinking about food. I never will, of course.)
@datarama English uses "snips", too, and splits it between spring (rather than pivot) mechanisms, tiny examples meant for fine thread, and tools meant to cut sheet metal ("aircraft snips", "tin snips"). I'm sure there's a history to it somewhere.
Multitools are useful for materializing narrative; what kind of thing do you say you expect to do? Kinda like the SAK package hook; it's useful if you've got a use for it, but hardly anyone does.
@datarama So not at all trying to say that multi-tool scissors are a first choice, or even an appropriate tool choice if there are dedicated options; more looking at the materialized narrative and concluding stuff from that.
@tkinias It's interesting. My wife and I differ in our treatment of food in a different way. In her thinking, things are often purchased or made for specific people, and that means nobody else touches it. For me, food is food; it's communal, and you eat it if you're hungry, unless someone has specifically told you that they're saving it for themselves. In the past it occasionally led to some conflict because I would eat something innocently (I thought) and then she or one of the step kids (who were raised to think of it the same way before I came into the picture) would get mad at me. Likewise, I would sometimes get upset because I didn't know the unspoken rule that you have to specifically ask for it in advance or you can't have any. We've learned over time, though. Now she lets me know in advance if something is pre-allocated, and I ask first before I eat anything that might be remotely special or treat-like.
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Voters ousted a mayor who oversaw a surge in encampment sweeps, and a Republican prosecutor who pursued punitive policies toward homeless people and drug users.
The frankly depressing thing isn't just the stupidity; but the constant, eager, attempts to push the bounds of the possible on 'stupidest'. This isn't the almost comforting stupidity of the lazy and the incurious; but fervent, frenetic, worst-are-full-of-passionate-intensity stupidity.
...and then comes other timeline and overpasses this. Humans have plenty of creativity put in doing stupid things --- sometimes for good, sometimes for bad, sometimes for horrendous.
C’mon #Europe, do this please! i’m praying they make the right choice on Thursday.
“Russia’s military is exhausted. Its soldiers in the Donbas crawl through trenches under drone fire to seize a few hundred metres of ground. Their losses are catastrophic. Putin is relying on western fatigue and on Ukraine running out of bullets. If Europe unlocks this money, that calculation collapses. Ukraine could hold the line for at least three more years — long enough to force earnest negotiations rather than performative stalling to manipulate Washington.”
And thank you Bill Browder for your untiring efforts!
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