This, right here.

Almost never. If I nap, SO knows there’s something wrong with me.

The fantasy being evoked has nothing to do with our comfort and everything to do with our perceived ‘availability’. Tee + panties is “only two (one?) article away from sex”.

Me, today, it’s warm so I’m in a loose pair of gym shorts and a loose tee. Which is “that’s so hot!” to the right breed of Neanderthal.

That’s what I said! 🤣

Ah. Vaush. The “leftist” who doesn’t think a fascination with non-consensual sex is a red flag at all, even when it’s drawn.

With leftists like this, who needs fascists?

何不两个都选？

Why do people continually hide the stupid people’s very public IDs on a very public web site?

The story behind pockets and women’s clothing is actually kind of funny. (Not “pockets” in the old sense either, of a belted pouch.)

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back when, only the noble women could have dresses. Now at that time, nobility weren’t the spoiled pampered things we have as a picture of them nowadays. Most had only very recently become nobles, and usually by force and violence. They were barely this side of pirates and brigands really. And they were super-practical.

So even the gowns and dresses of what amounts to medieval new landers had pockets. They were just concealed for the looks, so a casual observer didn’t see them.

As the merchant class rose and started wanting to be treated like nobles, they started to “ape their betters” in dress and language and such. But, here’s the thing, the clothing? That was copied from observation. And the noblewomens gowns didn’t have visible pockets so the new mercantile class assumed they didn’t have pockets at all and started making all women’s clothing without pockets.

And thus we have today’s ludicrous world: a bunch of nouveau riche aping the look of the class they so wanted to become part of have given us a world where women don’t have pockets.

I did some checking around. When in the context of deodorant, “mineral salts” almost always means “potassium alum” which means you’re using the same stuff I am.

I can’t afford the shea stuff here, sadly. (It’s an import and not a cheap import like the Aleppo stuff.) :(

I think your “mineral salt in water” may be another way of saying “alum crystal in water” honestly. It has the same ring for sure.

Pay them the money.

Then ban Tesla sales in Canada.

Did I miss an incel? I missed an incel, didn’t I?

Here’s how my healing has gone down.

1. I don’t shave. Period. We have hair for a reason and cutting it off with blades that can (and do) nick the skin, or pulling it painfully out by its roots, or dissolving it away with hazardous chemicals is not good for us at any level.
2. I don’t use makeup. (Well, OK, not entirely true. For very special events I might hazard some lipstick.) Most makeup clogs pores and makes the skin actively unhealthy. In response to this we’re meant to use a whole bunch of chemicals of dubious provenance to clean it off our skin?
3. I clean with just soap (yes, even my hair). Unperfumed soup. In my case I use Aleppo soap or a goat milk soap from Xinjiang. There are no perfumes, no harsh chemicals (like the laurel sulfates at the core of most shampoos, body washes, hand cleaners, etc.).
4. I don’t use commercial deodorants. I have a spray bottle (like the kind for misting leaves in a garden) 500ml in size into which I drop 1-2 teaspoons of alum powder and fill the rest with water. It lasts all day, typically, though on a really rough day I might have to apply it a second time. (I have a small sprayer at work for those rare occurrences.) It is a bit pricey, though. The last batch I bought cost about twenty-five bucks. After two years I’ve used up 20% or so of it…
5. I wash with the hottest water I can stand to clean out pores. (No need for harsh chemicals if you melt the sebum that traps dirt away.) Then I rinse with the coldest water I can stand. That cold water rinse takes getting used to, but it’s enervating and it somehow aids (I’ve had it explained to me but couldn’t follow along) in moisturizing.
6. On a very dry day I may use a neutral moisturizer (no perfumes) with a hint of petroleum jelly to help seal it in.

The result of all this is:

1. I feel better and look better.
2. I save a whole lot of money.
3. I save a whole lot of time.
4. I stop stressing about what I look like to other people; let them judge away. It’s a case of mind over matter: I don’t mind, they don’t matter.

Insecurity is the driving force behind all lifestyle marketing, especially clothing and cosmetics.

From biology. Or psychology. Or neurology. Or philosophy, even.

It’s pretty clear from their writing that the original AI researchers thought they were on the path to the “intelligence” talked of in these other disciplines and that it only became the very narrowly-defined field mentioned above years after their abject failure at actually capturing what anybody else would call intelligence.

And now the term “artificial intelligence” is essentially just a marketing term, with as much meaning as any other random pair of words used for marketing purposes.

Ah. So your argument is “we have defined ‘intelligence’ in a way that is literally not accepted by anybody but us, therefore we have made an artificial version of it”.

Anselm’s ontological proof of the existence of AI.

Bravo.

You’ve managed to recreate one of the most famous 11th century tautologies.

We can’t even agree on a definition for “intelligence” so it’s pretty obvious we haven’t got an artificial version of it yet.

Can’t make what you can’t even define, after all. “Artificial intelligence” is about as meaningful a term as “artificial geflugelschnitz”.

Well you have to be careful there. We can’t be putting modern western thoughts and modern western vocabulary into the mouths of people in Qing Dynasty China. But that little warning aside, yes. She fought back against a very patriarchal society and lived life (mostly) on her own terms successfully. She was a bit less successful in pushing back against queer oppression (in that no movement formed around her) but she definitively pushed back against people minding her business for her.

And despite pushing back against deeply-held cultural values, her art, even the explicitly sapphic stuff, was well-regarded in her own lifetime which is a miracle for Qing-era women even when not pushing back against society.

I’d answer, but I have to take a nap first.

I don’t mind strong cheeses.

…Limburger and Handkäse have entered the chat…

I just don’t like the “funk” of blue cheeses. There’s something about that scent that’s off-putting to me. (Which is weird because I love durian and “stinky tofu” which are often compared to blue cheeses.)