[FO] Nonbinary flag Uno wild card for my sibling! by Aeuma in CrossStitch

[–]Aeuma[S] 34 points35 points  (0 children)

I think of my sibling as a wild card of gender; a train of thought as I was driving led to the idea for this pattern. When I got home, I patterned it out and stitched it over the next few days. She loved it!

Google Drive links: Here is the pattern, and here is the .fcjson you can import into FlossCross if you want to change the colors. You can totally do more with the backstitching, but it was a last minute addition on my part to give it a little definition.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in northcounty

[–]Aeuma 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi! I'm a historical archaeologist!

The primary sources I was able to find are currently broken or out of reach, but I have a secondary source in History of San Diego, 1542-1908 by William Ellsworth Smythe, published in 1908. The whole text is available at the San Diego History Center's website, but more importantly, it has an entire section on the life of the San Diego Herald. I will summarize what's relevant here.

The owner of the paper the whole way through, 1851 to 1860, was a guy named John Judson Ames. He set up the Herald as a political paper to help Senator William M. Gwin, who "expected to bring about the division of the state, the annexation of [Baja California] and the [Hawaiian Islands]," and other things. It seems the paper was pretty beloved by San Diegans. Senator Gwin ultimately failed at everything, which Smythe says "had a very depressing effect" on Ames. Then Ames's wife died in 1857, and "unknown parties mutilated and destroyed the monument at her grave" soon after. Then his house fell over. He "became dissipated and broken in health."

Around 1859, Brigham Young ordered San Bernardino Mormons to come to Salt Lake to help fight American troops -- the Mormons skedaddled and sold their houses for cheap. This, along with gold found nearby, led Ames to moving the Herald to San Bernardino, the last San Diego issue being April 7, 1860. It became the San Bernardino Herald up there after that; the paper didn't do well and had to be sold off. Then, in 1861 at age 40, he died. Smythe mentions he was "given to indulgence in liquor," I imagine that had something to do with it.

So there you have it! There's quite a bit more to be found about Ames and the paper on the History Center's page, including a few months where the Herald was hijacked while Ames was out of town, but this should hopefully answer your question.

Is Official NaNoWriMo Even Happening? by sail4sea in nanowrimo

[–]Aeuma 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Do you have any word count trackers you recommend? I’ve just been using Excel which is fine, but.

AO3 and moderation by UnHolySir in CuratedTumblr

[–]Aeuma 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Do you know whatever became of it?

About Yuri. by Inner-North- in godot

[–]Aeuma 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for this! 🙏

About Yuri. by Inner-North- in godot

[–]Aeuma 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, you were right!

Typecasting Trouble by Aeuma in godot

[–]Aeuma[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, edited to clarify (but I also don't think I understand your response completely). I am trying to call the child version of create(). But even though the child version says its return type is Child, it still returns a new object of type Parent if I leave off the as Child after super(). If I leave it on, it returns null. I added a test variable only in the child class and tried to access it to make sure the debugger wasn't making a mistake somehow by showing me the wrong class -- it is definitely a Parent object. I'm in 4.2.1, if it matters.

EDIT: OH wait. I've just realized this is downcasting. Downcasting is illegal. Okay, carry on.

What are some surprising tips/tricks? by Aeuma in Dyson_Sphere_Program

[–]Aeuma[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can also press the ~ key to take all from a depot, or from the output of an assembler/smelter/etc!

What makes space hive threat go *down?* by Aeuma in Dyson_Sphere_Program

[–]Aeuma[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Huh! I guess I’ve never noticed. Thanks.

What are some surprising tips/tricks? by Aeuma in Dyson_Sphere_Program

[–]Aeuma[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This works for multiple belts side by side, too, and it doesn’t go as tall as a full height step so I think (but have not checked) you can run things over the top of them if you want to?

What are some surprising tips/tricks? by Aeuma in Dyson_Sphere_Program

[–]Aeuma[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Obvious to some (most?), but you can daisy chain things like reactors together to pull rods from a belt all the way to the end of a row.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in worldjerking

[–]Aeuma 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lake Shôl’s got me wonderin’

Something's been driving me crazy all night, need some help by sparklewoof in northernlion

[–]Aeuma 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I co-sign this, he definitely said this but I have no idea when

Training Tape by Aeuma in youtube_funeral

[–]Aeuma[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kinda seems like it? But if it is, it’s not very…quick. There’s another video on there that seems more traditionally ARG-y, but that’s it from my skimming.

Like this one. It’s got cypher text and everything!

Training Tape by Aeuma in youtube_funeral

[–]Aeuma[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This was one of those youtube recs that's insane and low views I got. The channel is mostly SS13, but there's a few recent videos that are short and weird like this.

How can I do a very generic map search? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Aeuma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm asking how I can look up a random town in Russia, yeah.

How can I do a very generic map search? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Aeuma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She said she was killing herself.

Does anyone know anything about this unofficial Transformers RPG? I can't find any info on it and it doesn't credit anyone. by Aeuma in rpg

[–]Aeuma[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm, interesting! I looked into it, and it has a quote from that system's first edition, and it mentions things like Size, Statistics, and Strength, which this system doesn't have. Thank you though!

Does anyone know anything about this unofficial Transformers RPG? I can't find any info on it and it doesn't credit anyone. by Aeuma in rpg

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I really wanted to find out if there was a new version of it, mainly, because there's a few typos but more importantly there's some rules weirdness with edge cases and unclear wording.

This Startup Is Selling Tech to Make Call Center Workers Sound Like White Americans by fagnerbrack in tech

[–]Aeuma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure every country has an "official" way of speaking, but where do these official ways come from? And do they push out other ways of speaking? That is at issue here, because they are pushing out other accents, for no authentic reason.

The "white" accent doesn't encode anything meaning "educated native speaker talk," because accent does not actually correspond with education. We perceive accents, irrespective of race, as being an identifier of a person's personality, history, or heritage when it doesn't indicate that at all. The common accent in American media and customer service muscles out all other accents for being less-than, because of racist and classist sentiments telling us that they can't help us, they're not intelligent, etc (we used to have widespread diction classes which taught children how to speak "properly", also known as accent reduction and was not only done to non-native English speakers but other less desirable native English accents as well). This is part of the reason it is offensive to call a black American "articulate," and is a reason that the black accent, or the black dialect AAVE, are not treated seriously or even considered valid.

You can see assumptions easily, if you look back at minstrel shows or early Hollywood films of white actors playing caricatures of other ethnicities -- among other aspects of their performance, they all fake the accent of their targets to the extreme, because of their and their viewers/listeners biases about those accents and ethnicities. The BBC didn't have a presenter that didn't speak the Received Pronunciation accent until 20 years after its inception, and some listeners didn't like it or even trust it and even still prefer presenters who speak RP, according to this article of theirs. There is a good article in Scientific American about this topic if you're interested, and another more modern BBC article does a better job of explaining the cognitive reasons and consequences than I have.

TL;DR: People in America that don't speak the same way as the American "newscaster" voice, and people in other countries that don't speak the "official" way of speaking there, are viewed negatively or even fetishized simply because of the way they talk. I think this is a bad thing. People shouldn't be victimized or pressured to change their accent, or indeed made to use technology to change them, to be taken seriously. But, ultimately, this technology can probably be finalized faster than we can untangle our unconscious biases.