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Comment on In defense of embroidery in ~creative
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Comment on In defense of embroidery in ~creative
DefinitelyNotAFae Link ParentI'm definitely not going to say that every instance of this trope is bad, though the author makes the point that there are a dozen other crafts that women of the Regency Era or medieval times...I'm definitely not going to say that every instance of this trope is bad, though the author makes the point that there are a dozen other crafts that women of the Regency Era or medieval times (Anne being later) would have done. My issue is forgetting to sit down and knit (I have started cross stitches but never finished them) or abandoning projects rather than not being able to sit with it, because with an audiobook or TV show I do great. Which is why Anne would have benefited from the communal stitching groups had she, ya know, gotten along with her peers or had a family with more kids, etc.
But yeah, I get it!
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Comment on Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, hardline ally of Supreme Leader, killed in helicopter crash in ~news
DefinitelyNotAFae Link Parentoh no worries at all! I was realizing I had written it oddly. my brain does that.oh no worries at all! I was realizing I had written it oddly. my brain does that.
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Comment on Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, hardline ally of Supreme Leader, killed in helicopter crash in ~news
DefinitelyNotAFae Link ParentYeah I realized I wrote it in a more complicated manner, I meant it is possible it wasn't an accident.Yeah I realized I wrote it in a more complicated manner, I meant it is possible it wasn't an accident.
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Comment on In defense of embroidery in ~creative
DefinitelyNotAFae LinkI rather enjoyed this short piece on the importance of embroidery and needlework as art, and why the trope of the independent woman who doesn't like embroidery (and wants to do X instead) is overdone.I rather enjoyed this short piece on the importance of embroidery and needlework as art, and why the trope of the independent woman who doesn't like embroidery (and wants to do X instead) is overdone.
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In defense of embroidery
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Comment on Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, hardline ally of Supreme Leader, killed in helicopter crash in ~news
DefinitelyNotAFae (edited )Link ParentThey do, but it's factual to say it "could" have not been accidental. I'm not even claiming it's likely. I don't know He was the presumed successor to the Supreme Leader which creates a lot of...They do, but it's factual to say it "could" have not been accidental. I'm not even claiming it's likely. I don't know He was the presumed successor to the Supreme Leader which creates a lot of people who might be interested in killing him, including the Supreme Leader in certain circumstances.
Even more so, it'll be very easy to convince a lot of people that it wasn't an accident if it's politically advantageous to do so. It doesn't even have to be true.
But it's a fact that it could be true
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Comment on Police are not primarily crime fighters in ~life
DefinitelyNotAFae Link ParentSorry the article specifically called them fruitless and a waste of time not the study. Are the stops predominantly for speeding or for other things like brake lights, "improper lane usage", or...Sorry the article specifically called them fruitless and a waste of time not the study. Are the stops predominantly for speeding or for other things like brake lights, "improper lane usage", or "failure to signal". Which again, I'm not saying no one should care about. But my point is they aren't all speeding stops, they're not necessarily all high rates of speed and thus the stops would need several steps of causative correlation to determine if it actually increases safety or if it puts more people - both officers and citizens - at risk to be pulled over at the side of the road more frequently for minor offenses.
I'm not claiming to have the answer, just that I'm not convinced on the face that this is a truth.
More creative people than I have come up with solutions to having police stops for some of the minor offenses. Police contact is not inherently safe for everyone - and it's often being used as pretext for searches that are fruitless.
a routine practice of pretextual stops
Is a problem.
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Comment on Today is the UK courts decision day on Julian Assange's extradition to the US in ~news
DefinitelyNotAFae Link ParentI'm aware, I still think it's not really helpful as his death has been ruled a suicide. (And suicide itself can occur under pressure from someone that wants you dead, etc. ) Using his name as a...I'm aware, I still think it's not really helpful as his death has been ruled a suicide. (And suicide itself can occur under pressure from someone that wants you dead, etc. )
Using his name as a verb is still a problem IMO and it paints him as a victim in this light. Assange being "Epsteined" similarly paints him as a victim. I'd rather focus on the crimes the man committed and there are other ways to express a concern for Assange's safety.
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Comment on Police are not primarily crime fighters in ~life
DefinitelyNotAFae Link ParentIf the study says most of the traffic stops are pointless, and waste a lot of time for either no or minor enough offenses, then I think it's not just the correlation, it's whether the actual stops...If the study says most of the traffic stops are pointless, and waste a lot of time for either no or minor enough offenses, then I think it's not just the correlation, it's whether the actual stops are doing anything useful or just stressing everyone out.
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Comment on Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, hardline ally of Supreme Leader, killed in helicopter crash in ~news
DefinitelyNotAFae Link ParentI don't really have individual feelings about him. He was part of an oppressive government. Sounds like he sucked. It could have not been accidental. Even if it was it could be claimed it wasn't....I don't really have individual feelings about him. He was part of an oppressive government. Sounds like he sucked. It could have not been accidental. Even if it was it could be claimed it wasn't. Doesn't feel great.
I have nothing useful to add, ya know
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Comment on The lonely work of moderating Hacker News in ~tech
DefinitelyNotAFae Link ParentI don't think that makes it any better at all?I don't think that makes it any better at all?
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Comment on Today is the UK courts decision day on Julian Assange's extradition to the US in ~news
DefinitelyNotAFae Link ParentWe need to stop using "Epstein" as a euphemism for suicide or "assassination to look like suicide" because I literally had to have a conversation with a student about it this past year because he...We need to stop using "Epstein" as a euphemism for suicide or "assassination to look like suicide" because I literally had to have a conversation with a student about it this past year because he made a "joke" that sounded more like being suicidal himself, and it's not the thing we should remember that guy for either way.
Assange, idfk, he's one of those people whose personality does not assist in advocating for their innocence. I am not sure he didn't cross the line to doing more than reporting on the classified material. I also think that the US government is probably too obsessed with him at this point to be making a rational decision on that.
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Comment on It’s time to bury the defective detective in ~tv
DefinitelyNotAFae Link ParentI'm not sure that this is actually at the heart of the trope, but I see where you're coming from. I'm particularly thinking of the addict subtype, they don't really seem to be needing the...I'm not sure that this is actually at the heart of the trope, but I see where you're coming from. I'm particularly thinking of the addict subtype, they don't really seem to be needing the addiction to do the thing, it's just their personality flaw.
As ever, Pratchett is perhaps my favorite in subverting this. Vimes gets off the bottle and out of the gutter, Carrot is at worst naive (and not for long) Angua's er .."condition" is not a defect, etc. Colon and Nobbs are mostly alright, and Nobby is even a certified human.
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Comment on Meryl Streep: it’s ‘hardest thing’ for men to see themselves in female characters in ~movies
DefinitelyNotAFae Link ParentExactlyExactly
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Comment on It’s time to bury the defective detective in ~tv
DefinitelyNotAFae Link ParentAll of the law was, essentially, existing just to thwart the good police from stopping the "bad guys™"All of the law was, essentially, existing just to thwart the good police from stopping the "bad guys™"
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Comment on Police are not primarily crime fighters in ~life
DefinitelyNotAFae Link ParentI'm not sure there's a causative correlation between police stops and traffic deaths. Unless those are deaths from officers shooting the person(s) they're stopping which has a clear causation.I'm not sure there's a causative correlation between police stops and traffic deaths. Unless those are deaths from officers shooting the person(s) they're stopping which has a clear causation.
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Comment on It’s time to bury the defective detective in ~tv
DefinitelyNotAFae Link ParentI thought a lot about Monk but idk that it ever crossed to the UK. It's definitely not the first though, just a particularly popular versionI thought a lot about Monk but idk that it ever crossed to the UK. It's definitely not the first though, just a particularly popular version
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Comment on It’s time to bury the defective detective in ~tv
DefinitelyNotAFae Link ParentI don't know if I think that is ingrained in the model that you need to think like the criminal. Sherlock Holmes doesn't act like a criminal, he does cocaine and acts an ass sometimes. I don't...I don't know if I think that is ingrained in the model that you need to think like the criminal. Sherlock Holmes doesn't act like a criminal, he does cocaine and acts an ass sometimes. I don't think the Vicodin addiction gave House his superpowers. And I don't think detective Stabler "had" to cross multiple ethical lines over the years either
I think it's honestly a lot of pulling from autistic traits and noir "alcoholic detective" type tropes where if you mix them up enough you get the defective detective.
Sometimes it's that they're a genius without their "defect" and the world is holding them back. Sometimes the defect is their genius and they wouldn't be a genius if they weren't OCD, autistic, whatever.
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Comment on Raw milk easy to obtain despite bird flu warning, FDA interstate ban in ~food
DefinitelyNotAFae Link ParentThanks, I'd read a lot of kids historical fiction: Little House, American Girl, the Dear America diaries, and the Royal Diaries so I was trying to figure out if I'd read these or not. Pretty sure...Thanks, I'd read a lot of kids historical fiction: Little House, American Girl, the Dear America diaries, and the Royal Diaries so I was trying to figure out if I'd read these or not. Pretty sure not. Praise to my Catholic parents that didn't do fundie stuff!
I think it's also worth considering that it was a social task for children and women in the winter not just a task for the rich or their servants. Laura Ingalls wrote about doing hemming and embroidery both iirc (she was not a fan), with her mother and sisters. And samplers were a thing long past ladies maids. But yeah it was how you'd decorate your linens, or the linens for your daughter to take when she was married.