1. knows sign language for "all done." moon originally taught it to her for being done eating but baby quickly generalized it and now whenever she finishes playing with eg a toy she signs All Done to herself as she wanders off to play elsewhere
2. fear. she fears my microphone, she fears a broom, she fears excessively-lifelike victorian dolls, she fears grass
3. aggression. at the mall a boy larger than her was crying and she walked up to the guy and straight-up slugged him. last night she chased the cat around the room by pushing a full-sized clothes drying rack after her
4. imperfect social manipulation. she noticed we pay attention to her when she (i) bumps her head and (ii) cries.
however, she hasn't realized she can separate (i) from (ii) so she'll deliberately bang her head on a wall and THEN cry when she wants us to notice her
5. the urge to Lift. baby has discovered she is powerful and has come to enjoy trying to pick up the heaviest or largest object in an area and try to carry it strongman style. no injuries yet but its only a matter of time
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wonder what the overlap is between people who are cool with this guy at work vs people who want to see ppl who use slurs on anon accounts fired, and vice versa
the stable compromise point is "actually dont take your whole self to work. at work you adopt the same bland and inoffensive work persona as everyone else because your job is not a vehicle for political expression. keep that shit off-hours and we pretend that self doesnt exist"
i dont want to know what my coworkers fetish preferences are in exactly the same way that i dont want to know about the way they vote or what gods they worship or how they make love to their wife
i just want them to be good at shipping code and responding to emails
there are effective ways of responding to this from female strangers in front of an audience but a certain amount of panache and a willingness to potentially come off as a dick is required
basically *performative* hysteria is generally a bluff, a demand to take an emotional framing seriously backed by nothing
if you call that bluff there are no good backup options for the performer. often it will result in a pivot to rage which only makes them look more unhinged
yes i spent years in relationships with women who had unexamined personality disorders why do you ask
in monetary economics, greshams law states that good money drives out bad
ie: if there exist different currencies with the same _legally-mandated_ value but different market values--say, quarters made of silver vs zinc--people will pay using the shitty ones and hoard the others
this is almost trivially true, but an easy check of the law can be conducted by looking at the number of quarters in circulation from the years after 1965 and comparing them to the number of quarters from 1964 and earlier, when quarters still contained silver
oh yeah sorry baby is running amok
greshams law is "bad money drives out good"
anyway i have a related hypothesis about science that i dont quite trust but perhaps seems under-considered
ok real talk. is this a feasible strategy. just send your (replaceable) head of state for a diplomatic summit wearing a gun or better yet a s**cide vest.
think about it. you dont make a HEAD OF STATE go through security right? no way youd pat them down.
france has an immediate replacement for macron anyway because its a republic, leaders change all the time, etc
russia by contrast convulses!
diplomatic suicide is *only possible for republics.* a competitive advantage against over our peers!!!
the guy who replaced putin would put on a show of being mad but who cares. wed privately explain that he owed his new elevated position to france. and we have plenty more expendable NATO leaders to send to him if he gets our drift
ok so maybe im still not calibrated. everyone is mentioning polls here but poll threads while i try to make them fun are really usually the result of me interrogating an idea and are partly a map of a discourse space, partly a conversation with myself