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General thoughts 2024-04-11

Postby LongRunner » April 10th, 2024, 4:08 pm

Dancing
Unless the moves form a coherent expression (which they generally don't), I don't find much point in watching it.
So if people see it as just being an excuse to show sexy poses, I can't blame them :P

Cakes
Do they really need 1cm of icing? 1mm would be fine with me :shy:
Information is far more fragile than the HDDs it's stored on. Being an afterthought is no excuse for a bad product.

My PC: Core i3 4130 on GA‑H87M‑D3H with GT640 OC 2GiB and 2 * 8GiB Kingston HyperX 1600MHz, Kingston SA400S37120G and WD3003FZEX‑00Z4SA0, Pioneer BDR‑209DBKS and Optiarc AD‑7200S, Seasonic G‑360, Chenbro PC31031, Linux Mint Cinnamon 20.3.
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General thoughts 2024-05-01

Postby LongRunner » May 1st, 2024, 3:36 am

Australian manufacturing
It was great when the whole product was locally made; but newer products rely on more and more imported components, and our companies often haven't done an adequate job of checking those (see for example the circuit breaker in this, and the lampholder in many Westinghouse fridges).

Nowadays I only really bother for items which are simple enough to locally manufacture in their entirety: Beyond food/drink and basic building materials I have Clipsal 2000 Series switches and sockets (although many of the lower-volume items are offshored even there), Palm Outdoor cups and plates/bowls, a Koala bed and that's about it… For large appliances I usually go with European makes; small appliances I choose on their (observable) merits.

“Nonsense”
If you say the word without explaining why, then you have zero possibility of convincing any sane opponent.
(Providing an explanation doesn't guarantee anything, of course, but if you want to have a chance…)
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General thoughts 2024-05-10

Postby LongRunner » May 10th, 2024, 7:58 am

Aspergirls, part 2 (refer back to part 1 first)
Many parents express bafflement that their offspring identify as trans during or after puberty, without having been noticeably gender-atypical before then (and perhaps not even now). How could that be so? Easy, as it turns out: Aspergirls (at least) are often very shy and anxious, so many make their way into particularly-docile (and “feminine”) spaces such as art (which doesn't require much in the way of ambition or other conventionally-masculine traits which can be conflated with aggression), and can therefore seem “male” by comparison to their friends/acquaintances without necessarily being so in a broader context.

Perhaps also as a result, some Aspergirls might not get used to normal male behavior; they may erroneously assume they're “fine” there because they get along with the male regulars in their art/whatever community (who will tend to be unusually “feminine” compared to the broader male population), only to be slapped in the face (metaphorically, hopefully not literally…) by the real world and unable to figure out why :(.
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