Notices by Ricki Crush Bandicute Tarr (rickitarr@beige.party)

So, I was watching this video by a historian I like on YouTube, and the video was about how high the infant mortality rate was in Medieval times, and I commented that a lot of women died young in childbirth as well. Seems pretty innocuous, and demonstrably true, right?

Apparently, I angered the men of the internet who raged that MEN ALSO DIED!

I had no idea so many men died in childbirth!

@2something @helplessduck That's his problem, not enough Commandments lol

@helplessduck They are always ready to help

@helplessduck He promised no more floods, super volcanos maybe lol

Imagine if Jesus turned out to be real, and came back to find the seat of his religion in Rome.

Like what, you mean those dudes that helped crucify me, that Rome?!

The thing with being on and posting on Mastodon a lot is we get weird windows into what we are all thinking about, or at least what we are distracting ourselves with, so we aren't in constant panic about the world.

You don't hate vocal fries, you hate change. Oh no, people don't talk the same anymore!

Also stop being weird about how young women talk, it's gross.

William McKinley's campaign slogan was "Leave well enough alone!"

I grew up with parents that were hoarders. We moved a lot when I was a kid, and it would astound me that they would haul, what seemed like trash to me, from place to place. It's taken me a long time to realize that this wasn't something they did to me, that mentally healthy people don't do this. They had built this identity around their pain, and didn't know how to heal. I'm still working on this myself, trying to turn anger into compassion, and see depression for what it was. This isn't to let my parents off the hook for the ways in which they failed me. Forgiveness and understanding is something I have to do for myself. If you can't forgive other people, you probably won't have compassion for yourself either. I haven't got there 100%, I probably never will, because this is a journey where every day I have to ask if what I'm holding onto is serving me. We probably all hoard something in the end, maybe it's not physical things, but it's there nonetheless. I hope you all find the healing you need and deserve in life. I love you all, have a great day.

@Uair ❤️
You're right, anger can be great to get us motivated to work for better things. It's the anger that sits and turns to bitterness that gets you.

Y'all...knives don't go in the dishwasher.

Fantastic job, AI!

I've gone back in time!

The weird thing about the idea of participation trophies is that it is somehow blamed on the children who got them, not the parents who clearly chose to give them, the exact same parents who are now complaining about them.

The Tolkiens knew how to party!

This isn't a diet, it's a cry for help:

If you're lucky, one day, you might meet someone you want to spend your life with, and they will load the dishwasher in a radically different way than you.

Welp...

Gödel's Loophole is a supposed "inner contradiction" in the Constitution of the United States which Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and analytic philosopher Kurt Gödel postulated in 1947. The loophole would permit the American democracy to be legally turned into a dictatorship. Gödel told his friend Oskar Morgenstern about the existence of the flaw and Morgenstern told Albert Einstein about it at the time, but Morgenstern, in his recollection of the incident in 1971, never mentioned the exact problem as Gödel saw it. This has led to speculation about the precise nature of what has come to be called "Gödel's Loophole." It has been called "one of the great unsolved problems of constitutional law" by American constitutional law scholar John Nowak.

The basic theory is that a series of Amendments over a long period of time could destabilize the Constitution, and then combining that with Gerrymandering would quicken the descent, and...I'll let you come to your own conclusion. But this is probably true of any Constitution no matter what, there always has to be room for change, but that let's all kinds of people in the door.

Thinking things will always be good isn't logical, but thinking things will always be bad isn't logical either.

You need your hope and joy, the world needs it. Love you!