Okay, so I have a friend who I’ve been working with on a project. Friend made a decision to host on a .io site. I’ve been seeing this crop up a lot, so I was curious:
What is the .io domain?
Let’s start with the basics: the internet is simply a way to describe how a bunch of devices are connected via a particular protocol (communications and networking is a weird beast). To describe where devices are in this complicated space, hierarchies of domains are used. Top-level domains just mean the highest and, therefore, biggest umbrellas in the Domain Name System (just a system that is used for naming things connected to the internet).
If you live in the United States, .com, .gov, and .edu are examples of top-level domains.
.io is a country code top-level domain. All this means is that the domain is for use in a particular area.
Aimed at people who don’t know where wool comes from, it’s 100% plastic. Yes, plastic.
So any garment you wash will release microfibres into the sea. It’ll never decompose.
You’re supposed to believe that sheep shearing is violent and cruel. There are imbeciles out there that work in an unprofessional manner while shearing, but that’s not the case overall.
Sheep don’t suffer from having their fleece removed.
Left on, the fleece can become a home for fly eggs and the subsequent maggots which can eat the sheep. Chemical treatments are available to prevent that happening. It’s much better for the sheep, the land and the farmer to avoid chemical use.
Don’t be fooled. Wool is a sustainable material, one we should make more and better use of.
Not everyone knows this, but the “Nine Noble Virtues,” or “NNV,” are not set down and codified anywhere in the lore. They were first created by members of the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists, the Odinic Rite, and the Asatru Folk Assembly.
All three of these organizations are made up of fascists and white supremacists.
When someone tells you that the NNV are a big red flag for racist heathenry, that’s why.
favorite story: apparently, while filming “black swan,” the director would try to pit mila kunis and natalie portman against each other, telling them that the other woman was doing a better job, in hopes of making their characters’ rivalry seem more authentic. but it completely backfired, since instead of getting angry or competitive, natalie and mila would just congratulate each other on doing such good work.
Directors who do stuff like this are pieces of shit
What men think women are like verses what women are actually like
also this:
Let’s name the director:
Darren Aronofsky. He has since directed mother! where he forced Jennifer Lawrence to reshoot a scene after she broke a rib or something. He is still really praised in cinephile circles, which is why I want to name and shame him.
And let us all admit that directors like Darren Aronofsky are not being praised DESPITE this behaviour but rather BECAUSE of it. They’re seen as edgy and willing to take risks and do what needs to be done, no matter the fallout, to get the perfect shot. They take risks for their art.
Except, of course, they don’t. They make other take risks, they push and damage other people, not themselves.
Darren Aronofsky banned bottled water on the set of “Noah”, and after a long day of filming, Emma Watson came back to her trailer so exhausted and dehydrated that she unthinkingly drank a glass of water that had been left sitting out for weeks, maybe months. The water had gotten filthy by that point, and it made her horrifically ill. When she told Aronofsky that she was sick, he refused to let her take a break from filming. He told her to “use it”.
Aronofsky’s a manipulative, abusive POS.
Tarantino, Kurbrik, Hitchcock – asshole male directors, but there’s a shit ton of them. Some are well known, some are not.
what my parents told me: you can do anything if you set your mind to it
what I wish my parents had told me: sometimes you will fail, and it will be scary and it will suck, but you will probably not die
I would also have appreciated: the fact that you can do something if you try very, very hard, does not actually obligate you to spend your life putting forth maximum effort to achieve it. It is okay to not be 1000% driven by life-consuming ambition and instead be satisfied with something less difficult.
Alternative title: workers are not paid enough to eat.
Likely one of those cases where already well off people are earning more money and thanks to bad statistics we’re meant to assume those gains are going to the poor
“Kissing Doesn’t Kill“ (Black and white postcard) from 1980’s ACT UP campaign for HIV/AIDS awareness.
This is the banner that was put up on buses to create awareness! a lot of companies cropped out the bottom so I thought it would be cool to share the full version
OH MY GOD whyyyy did no one tell me you’re supposed to send thank-yous after interviews?? Why would I do that???
“Thank you for this incredibly stressful 30 minutes that I have had to re-structure my entire day around and which will give me anxiety poos for the next 24 hours.”
I HATE ETIQUETTE IT’S THE MOST IMPOSSIBLE THING FOR ME TO LEARN WITHOUT SOMEONE DIRECTLY TELLING ME THIS SHIT
NO ONE TOLD YOU???? WTF! I HAVE FAILED YOU.
Also:
Dear ______:
Thank you so much for the opportunity to sit down with you (&________) to discuss the [insert job position]. I am grateful to be considered for the position. I think I will be a great fit at [company name], especially given my experience in __________. [insert possible reference to something you talked about, something that excited you.] I look forward to hearing from you [and if you are feeling super confident: and working together in the future].
Sincerely,
@mellivorinae
THIS IS A LIFESAVING TEMPLATE
YOU ARE WELCOME
My brother got a really great paid internship one summer. The guy who hired him said the deciding factor was the professional thank you letter my brother sent after the interview.
should it be an email? or like a physical letter?
email, you want to send it within a few hours at max after the interview if you can so it’s fresh in their mind who you are.
Confirmed! I interviewed for a job right after arriving in NY. The interview went incredibly well, and I went home and immediately wrote a thank you letter and put it in the mail. I had a super good feeling about this interview.
I didn’t get the job.
However, a few weeks later, I was called in to interview with another editor in the same company, and I did get that job. I found out later from the initial editor (the one who didn’t hire me) that he had planned to offer me the job, but since I didn’t follow up with a thank you letter, he assumed I didn’t really want it. He offered the job to another contender–but when he got my letter in the mail shortly after the offer had already been made, he went to HR and gave me a glowing recommendation. It was based on that recommendation that I got called in for the second interview.
So: send an email thank you immediately (same day!) after the interview. If you’re feeling extra, go ahead and send a written one too. OR go immediately to a coffee shop, write the letter, and return to the office and give it to the secretary.
Either way, those letters are important.
Pro tip: If you really want HR to develop a personal interest in your application, publicly thank them on linkedin. Just make a short post telling your network about how X recruiter really went above and beyond to make you feel welcome, or about how be accommodating and professional they were, or whatever. Make sure to use the mention feature so they’ll get a notification and see it.
Flattery will get you everywhere… and public flattery that might make its way back to their manager, doubly so.
Obligatory plug for one of FreePrintable.net’s sites: ThankYouLetter.ws. They have a whole section with interview thank you letter templates, and a page with specific tips for interview thank you letters. (There are also tons of other letter templates if you browse around a bit.)
As a former professional recruiter and recruiting manager, I confirm, especially for entry-level positions, where you are competing with oodles of people. This little thing can make a difference. Also the fact that, maybe, you took time to google the “interview etiquette”.
SIGNAL BOOST
The post-interview thank you notes can be a good way to recover in case you got asked a question whose answer you either didn’t know or felt was super weak. So if you follow the above given template, jump in with something like “upon further thought to your question, here’s my revised answer.”
But yeah always send a thank you note after an interview. It’s a small thing but it makes a hell of a difference. And def send thank you messages to any recruiters who may have helped. And also after you get the job. Small things like that really go a long long way.
I was watching the news this morning and after CBS did a snippet on how reducing red meat consumption is better for you and the planet (which already started my morning off wrong), they followed it up with this.
Two things in this caused my blood pressure to boil: they are blaming pesticides and canned food as two reasons for hormone disruption. The “easy” steps they said it counteract this was: buy organic food… and don’t eat canned goods.
Issue #1: Buy Organic
I am a big proponent for a diverse agricultural market. I think there is plenty of space in it for a conventional and organic business plan. The number one goal should be providing consumers with affordable food. If we can’t provide everyone with affordable food, we aren’t doing our jobs as farmers and ranchers.
What this doctor and professor doesn’t address in his “eat organic and be healthier” message was that there are organic pesticides out there that are used on organic crops. He also doesn’t address the possibility of drift from conventional fields. The way the information was portrayed made it sound like conventional farmers and ranchers are not concerned about human or environmental health and I am not here for that.
It didn’t address that the work being done with GMO commodities is reducing the use of pesticides in America and that the end goal with that research is to eliminate the use of pesticides all together.
The average conventional farmer and rancher is conscientious in their use of pesticides and goes about and beyond to make sure they are using as little as possible to get be able to provide healthy and safe food to the world. The food they sell on the open market is the same food they are serving their families.
Along these same lines- he never addressed the fact that organic products in the store are more than double the cost to the average consumer and not something obtainable for most. The majority of Americans in the middle of the country do not have the disposable income to choose between organic or conventional. And the idea that some grocery stores even offer an option for organic vs conventional floors me. We don’t all live in populated areas- some of us are lucky to be able to get fresh fruit and vegetables in our stores.
Issue #2: Don’t Eat Canned Goods
This issue is more economical than agricultural, but because it is a big factor in my community I need to address it.
Don’t eat canned goods because the lining in the canned food is the cause for hormone imbalance. Instead of buying canned veggies, soup, fruit, etc… buy fresh or frozen.
What is overlooked, again, is the fact that it is assumed that consumers can afford or have access to these options. At the base line, canned goods are consumed because they are affordable. I can buy canned veggies, sauces, fruit, etc. for $1.00 a can on a case sale. This sale allows me to stock my pantry full for low money and insure I’ve got food when the budget gets tight. These commodities are shelf stable, don’t require energy to store, consumable if we have no power for extended periods of time (which happens in rural America), and most importantly are affordable.
Yet again, this doctor fails to realize that there is a huge group of people in this world that don’t have food options because of location and income.
And I will take this a step further- I am a home canner. I can a lot of my own foods from fresh produce I grow or buy from local colonies. But I have been taught to do this properly. I bought the books, read the articles, watched women that have been doing it for years and took a workshop hosted by local extension. I was able to find the resources to teach me an important skill and also BUY the required tools needed to accomplish this.
The resources are not always available to communities- extension budgets are being cut and positions are being closed. Today’s average American doesn’t have the background knowledge about home canning safety and disease to safely provide a years worth of commodities to their families. We’ve cut the home economics classes from a lot of schools in favor of higher education, less students are involved in 4-H and the population is farther removed from the farm than ever before and have now created multiple generations of consumers that are limited to what a store can provide.
In a nutshell, this segment failed to address the two sides of agricultural production. It didn’t address why we provide a conventional and affordable conventionally grown product in grocery stores and reminded rural and low income America that the people who have endless resources at their fingertips look down on the lifestyle others choose or are forced to live.
@cbs is notorious for it’s one sided opinion on American agriculture, but if they want to run stories like this make them longer than 5 minutes. Show both sides of the coin. Point out that not everyone is privileged to have the options you are suggesting, maybe fund some rural community education programs so people can start their own community gardens and home eduction classes.
The single greatest and most fascinating “futurist” architecture movement in the world right now is happening in Bolivia, where national prosperity and a dedication to works for the poor and public housing led to an explosion of colorful styles inspired by Aymara Indian art. There should be more articles about this, the interiors are just as amazing. Incidentally, most of these buildings are not for the rich or in trendy neighborhoods, but are public housing. I’ve heard this style referred to as “Neo-Andean” but like most currently thriving styles it doesn’t have a universally agreed on name yet.
when the capitalists die out either thru global warming or revolution will we be able to start homegrown internet
been reading about dual power and how to grow my own tomatoes and i’m wondering how and if we’ll be able to start commie internet lol
like obviously the internet is this huge electric capitalist controlled hardware infrastructure thing so after all that shuts down is there a way to do it ourselves lol
i want to come home from a hard day on the communal allotment, kiss my Wife, crank up my generator, and start sharing meams!
GOOD NEWS: the homegrown commie internet is in the works! Across the world, people fighting against censorship and for a more democratic internet are building mesh networks (meshnets) of long-range wifi (LoRa)
Since wifi is just a standard for sending data through radio waves, and radio waves can go a pretty long way if you use ‘em right, it’s not that difficult to connect two computers by wifi from across town. Then you just keep adding more computers to the network and you’ve got internet!
As for sharing fresh mëmês, the network to go to is Scuttlebutt. Unlike most social media, Scuttlebutt posts are stored on your computer and sent directly to your friends’ computers (rather than being stored on the cloud and sent to a central server). It works just fine over traditional internet, but you can also view and interact with it offline, and it has protocols for connecting over any means that two computers can share information - that includes LoRa, as well as hardwired connections, sneakernet (basically mailing a USB stick back and forth), etc
What that means is you always know that your info is just as safe as the network it’s sent on and the computer that receives it - no one even theoretically has the ability to collect and sell it all. And, since it’s all run on your computer, there’s no servers to go down or companies to go out of business that could destroy the whole thing
You can read more about this kind of stuff here (or here if it’s cloudy in Barcelona)!
there’s also the work being done by the DCPT, left-behind Detroiters meshing together their neighborhoods to share overpriced high-speed connections among the community and producing these good good educational documents, especially this rad resource page. building meshnets to share a global uplink is very similar to building meshnets for the purpose of intracommunication and these resources are useful in both cases
I’ve had a couple people ask about how to join/organize something like this, which is great! The best list of active projects I know of is here, though you should also do a search online if you don’t see one in your area in case they missed it. For those without a nearby group, put a pin here and try contacting nearby pins as well - you can use the instructions on buildyourowninter.net as well as the DCPT’s resources as linked above to get set up!
Please reblog this version so others can get involved!
