I get so mad that syndicalism isn't a thing.
karmiclychee
joined 1 year ago
Not enough people consider the origin of these words, trying to use them divorced from the thing that actually makes it a pejorative. Growing up, "gay" was another one people tried to use as an insult "non-homophobically"
It's poisonous for a reason
Easy! Run it on fusion!
"healthy unemployment rate"
/me waves from that place
It's absolutely a thing. It was a game changer for me when I gave up fighting it and just accepted that "whelp, my brain's just gonna brain today." If you can, just try to give yourself what you need and slow down. It is what it is.
I also find something satisfying about doing a big methodical cleanup after I feel better from a slump, your milage may vary.
Misread "worm" as "woman" at first, was concerned.
I kind of lose the comparison to the same psychological manhole you get from pure numbers. I wonder if the effect would have been improved by starting with some arbitrarily sized pile of rice for bezos money and then trying to divide it downwards (to where you're scraping the side of a single grain with an exacto for some dust, or looking through a microscope)
Kind of like a "and then there's you" effect
MOAR: Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
Not too long ago I did a deep dive for non white male authors (as much as I love Asimov and Iain Banks) and it was really rewarding. Ann leckie, Kameron Hurley, Becky Chambers, Nnedi Okorafor, Lindsay Buroker, to name some, are all good for a spaceship. Strongly suggest NK Jemesin's Broken Earth, which isn't spaceships, but still great. It's been a bit, but I remember enjoying Samuel Delaney's Nova, as well.
"Stargate, but what if trains and capitalism"
Ooh, another operatic that comes to mind: 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
It's not one of the Culture novels, but The Algebraist by Iain Banks is one of my favorite one book cover to cover operas.
My family's language, Gujarati. I'm a third gen immigrant (UK/US) and for Reasons, I didn't get taught the language as a kid. It's not one of those languages you find on Duolingo or at the community college or anything either. It's a real bummer not being able to connect with your elders.
In the meanwhile, I studied Chinese in college and Spanish in high school, both in the US. I know (or knew, at one point) just enough to get myself around while traveling.