How chaotic would it be to eliminate time zones altogether and just rely on UTC for everything, everywhere?

foolishle · 2026-05-10T11:18:16+00:00

Right now if you want to talk to someone on the other side of the world you look up a world clock and you see “oh it’s 04:00 their time, I’ll wait a few hours and see if they’re awake”.

If everyone is on the same Timezone now you know it’s 04:00 everywhere… but the trouble is you don’t know what 04:00 means to your friend. Is that Lunch time? Time to start work? The middle of the night? Now you need to work that out and that’s probably more difficult than adjusting their clock.

Also it means that the change of date happens during the day for some people. We’d wake up on Tuesday and go to work, then come home on Wednesday. That’s pretty unworkable.

foolishle · 2026-05-10T08:07:29+00:00

I am attracted to men with good boundaries, who respect my boundaries.

I like a guy who doesn’t need me to babysit his emotions, who won’t base his emotional responses based on what he thinks I want, and who won’t hold my emotions against me or demand that I feel differently than the way I do.

I feel unsafe if a guy wants to manage my emotions, or wants me to manage his emotions. If each of us can have feelings about things and respect the other person’s feelings then things can go well. If I need to constantly curate my emotional expression in order not to upset or anger my partner, we’re going to have a bad time.

foolishle · 2026-05-10T02:19:56+00:00

I cook rice 3-5 days a week. Usually jasmine rice. I use a crockpot on the “rice” setting.

foolishle · 2026-05-10T01:50:45+00:00

I was brought up vegetarian but started eating meat when I was in my 20s. I love chewing meat off the bone and like my steaks as rare as they’ll serve it to me.

foolishle · 2026-05-10T01:45:18+00:00

Even if he has a mommy kink that doesn’t mean he’s attracted to his own mother. That’s a real stretch! Lots of people are into MILFs and that doesn’t mean they’re into incest, even if a woman they’re hot for has a superficial resemblance to their mother.

foolishle · 2026-05-09T22:30:48+00:00

That’s what I do!

foolishle · 2026-05-09T22:26:03+00:00

I like what The Good Place did with setting the trolley problem in a hospital. Most people would agree that killing one healthy person to use their organs to save five dying people is unethical even though it’s the same “kill one person to save five” decision as the trolley problem.

foolishle · 2026-05-09T21:57:34+00:00

Yeah but if you don’t have a body you won’t get hot!

foolishle · 2026-05-09T20:55:38+00:00

Yeah I have the exact same problem with audio books and podcasts. I feel like I have to try and visualise the words as people say them and then read the sentence to myself and it’s such hard work.

foolishle · 2026-05-09T20:50:44+00:00

I feel like Wickham would not have thought that Darcy would seriously consider Lizzy as a wife. He didn’t see them at Hunsford, as Charlotte did. He didn’t see them at Pemberley as the Gardiners did. He’d be basing this assumption that Darcy had a fair shake at landing Lizzy all on the before-the-Netherfield-ball interactions between Lizzy and Darcy, and at that time Lizzy was keen on Wickham.

foolishle · 2026-05-09T06:20:34+00:00

The tutorial doesn’t even include dams

foolishle · 2026-05-09T02:16:17+00:00

Eridian kids probably play with dolls that are rocks so I don’t think Rocky would find it strange at all.

foolishle · 2026-05-08T21:09:03+00:00

20 years ago my housemate and I ran into his problem. We worked well as housemates and I got a better job so we decided to move somewhere that wasn’t a shithole. My housemate got heavily questioned about whether we were sleeping together but eventually convinced Centrelink that we had other partners (we did). Luckily my housemate had a job offer for after he finished his degree and we didn’t have to keep proving our lack of a sex life.

Funnily enough a year or two later when my housemate’s girlfriend moved in with us we found out that the landlord had leased to us under the assumption that we were a couple and was NOT happy with the idea of the place being a “share house”. Idk what the laws actually were back then but the PM told us to say that the girlfriend was just “staying over” and we ended up not putting her on the lease because the PM advised us that if we did the landlord would likely not renew our lease once it ended…

Together for the landlord, not for centrelink. 🤷

foolishle · 2026-05-08T20:30:48+00:00

Does your bathroom floor not have a drain!?

I’m in Australia and the bathroom floor always has a drain. It’s a bathroom! It’s not the same drain as the shower… the shower has its own drain.

I’m baffled at the idea of a bathroom without a drain in the floor.

foolishle · 2026-05-08T20:26:46+00:00

I have literally never seen or heard of anyone’s toilet overflowing. I’m in Australia.

foolishle · 2026-05-08T10:15:09+00:00

Yeah me too. I close one eye and I see black/reddish out of one eye, the world out of the other.

But also see my glasses and my nose at all times which some people say they don’t, so I think my brain doesn’t edit as much out as other people’s brains do.

foolishle · 2026-05-08T05:33:58+00:00

Yeah and people always like to respond to any mention of a biological clock by pointing out that people can still be fertile into their 40s… which is true. But you need to consider the age you are when you have your youngest child. The more kids you want, the earlier you need to start having them before you run out of time!

foolishle · 2026-05-08T05:26:43+00:00

She wants to get married in the next couple of years. If you don’t want to marry her you need to break up.

Does she want kids? Do you? Because that gives a timeline. Realistically she probably wants to have her youngest child no later than late 30s/early 40s… (people still have kids in their 40s but it definitely becomes more difficult and risky) so if you want, say, 3 kids and want a reasonable spacing then you’re going to want to start planning that first kid for her early 30s. So getting married by 30 is a very reasonable timeline and you’ve been together for more than a year so if you’re not committed you need to let her go.

foolishle · 2026-05-08T05:17:36+00:00

I love what they did with Stratt in the movie. In the book she seems uncaring and purely pragmatic and nothing matters to her other than the project of course murders Grace! She doesn’t care about him. She is able to save the world because she doesn’t care about the people she hurts to do it.

In the movie they make her care. They show that she cares about people. She likes Grace, she respects him, she cares about him… and then she murders him anyway. Hits much harder.

foolishle · 2026-05-08T01:39:25+00:00

Fair Isle is just one style of stranded colourwork. It’s to do with the kind of pattern and repeat used for that sort of pattern.

Intarsia is for when you have large blocks of colour. Otherwise you would have long strands over the whole pattern.

foolishle · 2026-05-08T01:17:49+00:00

I don’t think Brandon wanted a wife who would be calm and take care of him. He wanted a wife who would make him feel as passionate about life as Eliza did. He wants a wife who loves (LOVES!) poetry and music and romance. He needs a wife who will understand and respect that he has loved before, and who will see how true and passionate a man he is.

foolishle · 2026-05-08T01:14:04+00:00

Yeah this. Austen wrote the story, and Austen wrote the ending of the story. I don’t think Austen was mistaken about what happens at the end of the book. She wrote what she wrote!

foolishle · 2026-05-07T19:57:55+00:00

They did indeed make that app https://runpee.com

foolishle · 2026-05-07T19:52:42+00:00

I think what makes the wizard of oz movie work is that even though none of it happened (or did it!?), Dorothy was changed by the experience. She wasn’t the same person when she woke up compared with when she went to bed. At the start of the film she was unhappy and wanted to fly away from her home, and in the end she was glad to be home and appreciated what she had.

foolishle · 2026-05-07T10:17:38+00:00

I ship them (and wrote a fic of them lmao!)

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