We ended up going and um my girls are going to be plastered over every news service

https://twitter.com/RizomaSchool/status/1920571718533275719

I was just telling Pat something I've never said explicitly on here. I am of the opinion you should be as gentle as possible to infants and once they hit the toddler years it should switch to rules and expectations with zero deviation. They are testing you and you need to show them who is the boss and what the rules are at this age. They WANT rules and WANT you to be the boss! If you successfully pass this test then ages like 4-12 are amazing because they trust you and want nothing but your approval so all you need to give is a sideways glance and they'll know what they need to do. They love you so much they will behave, they don't want to disappoint.

Went to a party last night and of course find a man who worked in energy his whole career. He is telling me these horror stories about wind mill assembly. They need 19 semi trucks to bring in the crane needed to assemble one wind mill. It's so heavy they have to wait until the ground freezes in winter. He said they just straight up lie in the studies that claim wind mills make back their power in 7 months or whatever. Just literally leave out all these steps and how energy intensive the whole thing is. He was also telling me there are these weird psychological effects of people who live near them who experience the constant flicker of the sun passing through the blades almost like a strobe light. And often the blades get a little nick in them and start to make a constant sound

I just discovered something called accidental baroque which are photographs that feel like baroque paintings.

I love this as a genre so much. Send me your accidental baroques.





Caravaggio but it was just your Samsung and people were being wild

Wait is this what's happening Omfg

I read a life cycle analysis article in some engineering journal like 10 years ago on the embedded energy in wind power and how it's insanely net negative energy and I brought it up at a Sociology conference and everyone got mad at me so I don't talk about it anymore really

https://twitter.com/FlyFifer10/status/1805269329266802795

Anyways just take a look at this and try to imagine the energy involved in not just this but also the manufacture, transport and recycling of all materials involved

I remember back before we moved to Uruguay I'd be at the park with my kid (she was around 2 at the time) and I'd let her do her best on her own on the playground equipment, while other moms would be like standing behind their kids the whole time in case they stumbled at all. And everyone once in a while they'd make a passive aggressive comment about like "oh do you need help sweetie you're all on your own here" and of course if she needed help I was watching the whole time and would jump up. But the universal helicoptering was shocking.

Aw man I started reading essays by anti-sufferagettes today and I can't believe I am sympathetic but their arguments are extremely interesting I'd have to explain it long form but the TLDR is that fundamental 9/10 women at the time were against it and it's because they saw the private, informal, civic sphere as their domain. They saw the man's sphere as industry, business and formal politics.

Being against the machine can take many forms, but sometimes the backlash leads to worse culture than we're running away from! It's not so cut and dry that we're allies since we both hate globalism or whatever. There are many types of backlash cultures that are understandable, given what they're reacting to, but I don't like them and don't want to see more of them.