Something that happened a year or so ago, but that I only found out today: the publisher of the Aarne-Thompson-Uther index has made all three volumes of it available as free PDFs downloadable from their website!
Unbelievable tag. I diagnose you with 480C “Transporting White Bread to Hell”
An interesting internet culture thing I’ve never seen discussed is the “shared unstated”, where someone will say an incomplete sentence leaving out the most crucial information and yet it conveys an idea or emotion that everyone just. Gets.
An example of this is when people are reacting emotionally to something and they just say “I’M” and then leave off any verbs or anything else in general. We started out with “IM SCREAMING” or “IM DYING” and then evolved just into “I’M” which holds almost no information and yet, we get it.
Another example is the recent “one of the most of all time” phrase. The first time I saw it was about a very strange looking little creature, like maybe one of those rodents with the elongated snout, and one of the comments was “one of the most animals of all time.” The crucial adjective is missing but the Vibe is present. Is it one of the most beautiful animals, the best animals, the coolest animals, the weirdest animals? Certainly not. And we all know it’s not. But it definitely is one of the most animals, which is a separate thing. Idk. It just is. We just get it. It’s the shared unstated.
hey @markscherz what kind of beast is this and why does it have bell bottoms
This is Cruziohyla craspedopus, and basically it has evolved to look like a leaf and not like a frog when sitting still during the day (they are nocturnal). Apparently bellbottoms break up your outline and make it harder for predators to recognise you as a tasty morsel.
Someone at an old job asked why I wanted to write up the meeting minutes for our team and I said ‘i wanna control the narrative’ and they were like ‘what’ and I pointed out that no one was gonna remember what we said in six months and so my interpretation of the meeting would dictate the assumed reality of what happened
“none of you ever send corrections when I offer the draft so y’all have consented to my version”
“we don’t read that shit”
“you must trust me implicitly to create our shared reality that’s so sweet”
That’s how several coworkers decided I was a supervillain and how I learned several coworkers didn’t understand record keeping as like a CONCEPT
I thought the “The Resnicks control 60% of California’s water” claims were… dubious, but didn’t have a good source. Not that it stopped the people making the claim, but…
An alternate place that the 60% could have been misapplied from is that 60% of California’s water usage is for irrigation (all irrigation uses: crop, pasture, landscape, etc). Again, this is for all irrigation use in the whole state, not directly tied to the Resnicks’ companies.
Also, the focus on pistachios and almonds and lack of talk about animal agriculture is always a little weird. Irrigating orchards takes a lot of water, but way less water than growing alllll the annual crops that cows need to eat to produce milk. (I also have a few quibbles with how the agricultural water use is broken down in that last link. “Trees and vines” are one category, which includes nuts, citrus, grapes, etc… but “corn” and “grain” are separated. Looks like cooking some numbers to me!)
The weird focus on this one couple, who are part of a larger problem to be sure, at the expense of… you know, actually focusing on the larger problem, is a bit weird. And speaking of the larger problem, when it comes to landowners in California, they aren’t even in the top 5. The largest landowners are all timber industry, which has a much more direct connection with fire, so it’s odd that we aren’t seeing more about them!
And again, most of this doesn’t actually have anything to do with firefighting anyway. The problems with water delivery to the fires aren’t from a shortage of water, but because urban water infrastructure isn’t made to deliver water at the volumes necessary for fighting wildfires.
It can be cathartic to spread posts that are the “right kind” of inflammatory, but people looking to spread misinformation are very aware of that and good at crafting the kind of messages that will make people just mad enough to share without checking. None of this is defending the messed up water rights/usage system in the US, but important problems are worth addressing with correct information.
I don’t live on my reservation nor do I live in the state its in so I miss a lot. But I just found out like-okay let me give some context.
I haven’t posted about this a lot because it’s been incredibly rough on my family, my mom especially and also because honestly, the internet isnt kind to natives.
I havent even mentioned this except for maybe once or twice on my old blog in fact. But I feel like in honor of my cousin and to showcase how you can push support for MMIW locally and federally, I should do more than just mention her.
I’ve been so focused on world events and my own mental health that I just saw this news and I’m sobbing. She was my cousin and she deserved so, so much more than she got. She should’ve raised her baby. Her death shouldn’t have been what it was. It shouldn’t have been made into a true crime videos.
But her birthday is a holiday after pushes from her family and not just within the tribe, but for her city.
She also has an act that was created in her name to help make sure other indigenous women, girls, and two spirits don’t go through the same thing.
More than 4 in 5 indigenous women have been subjected to violence, and Alaska Native women report assault rates 12 times higher than the rest of the U.S. On some reservations, Native women are ten times more likely to be murdered.
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Savanna’s Act clarifies federal, state, tribal and local law enforcement responsibilities with respect to missing or murdered Indians; aims to increase communication and coordination between federal, tribal, state, and local law enforcement agencies; improves tribal access to resources and information such as the federal criminal information databases needed to respond effectively to missing and murdered Indian cases; requires data collection related to missing and murdered Indian people, regardless of where they reside; and directs U.S. attorneys to develop regionally appropriate guidelines for responding to missing or murdered Indians.
All that said, please educate yourself on MMIW. This site is a good starting place. And mark May 5 (the official day of awareness for MMIW) & August 9th on your calendars for me and all the indigenous women who can’t use their voices anymore
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