I Would Be 5% Less Insane About Good Omens Season 2 If I Hadn't Heard "Nothing Gold Can Stay" In Malevolent

Just watched the last philosophy tube. It is excellent, but there is a minor point that bugged me a little, so I thought I'd exorcised it by making a post. (Yes, I know, random tumblr user has notes for extremely successful youtuber, more at 6)

So around minute 9, she talks bout how a strict legal definition is not necessary in order to protect women. The example given is the one of hate crimes: If an applicant for a job is rejected on the grounds that they are perceived as a woman, it does not matter whether or not they are a woman. The employer is still guilty of illegal discrimination. Good point. A bit later in the video, she brings up the fact that in the UK, trans women are jailed in men's prisons. The point made is that trans women are labelled as dangerous to other inmates without any evidence of this danger. Also a good point.

But this is an example of when one does need a working definition of women, since prison are segregated by gender. Moreover, a definition is needed in order to protect women, since as she puts it "this policy makes prison significantly worse for a segment of the population".

I started typing about how we use categories as shorthands for the diversity of humans experience for practical reasons, even though no strict definition will work 100% of the time, and about the consequence of this, which is that any defnition used should be chosen while keeping in mind why this gender segregation exists, what does it seek to accomplish, and whether or not gender is the most appropriate criteria.Then I remembered that Mia Mulder has an excellent video on this about women's sport, so I'll just put it there.

I find it hard to write about this subject without getting sucked into tangents (which perhaps explains why it is glossed over in the video). Just writing this, I looked up how the gender segregation in prison worked in my country, then the overpopulation in women's facilities, then the overpopulation in general (114% occupancy rate, third worse in the EU), then the rise in the carceral population and its de-correlation with the crime rate, then the expeditive measures being adopted which will without a doubt make things worse as the Olympics Games loom ever closer (no prizes for guessing which country that is).

I also know that I am getting a bit internet-poisoned because I fought the urge to pre-emptively answer every bad faith argument that could possibly be made, so I'll cut it short. Let me reiterate. I fully agree with the points that are made in the video. I understand that time is a factor in what is and is not included in a video. I just wish this particular point was made a little better.

It seems like the SAG-AFTRA has a deal too !

So the trailer for Our Flag Means Death Season 2 just went live on youtube, and this is the top comment. I agree with it wholeheartedly.

The insanity of French politics in the last few days is re-kindling a deeply buried instinct to start a podcast.

But those are the funniest options!

Spotted in the wild yesterday.

I started listening to the critshow. Spoilers for everything until season 4.

Names for time-travelling Nash:

Grand-pire (Canon)

Vamp-dad (Canon)

Family-friendly supervillain

Cautionary tale of the crypt

Nashpocalipse

Greg

I just think the PCs are giving him an easy ride considering that he killed everyone in his timeline, and I would love some light bullying.

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I love people at grocery stores.

I have been looking for ground coriander for an embarrassingly long time. I have moved my cart out of the way 7 times for people who actually know where stuff is. I move to the side, looking thoughtful so people know that they should say “excuse me” and grab what they need instead of waiting.

Someone stands beside me. They stand beside me for a couple of minutes, which is 10,000 years in grocery store time. “What are you looking for?” I ask. “I’ll look for yours if you’ll look for mine, we’ve been standing here long enough to look at everything except what we’re looking for.” They almost immediately find my ground coriander, and I find them their ground whit poor.

I go up to two young women. “Excuse me, I know this is weird,” immediate suspicion, “I know you don’t work here,” relaxation, “but do you have any idea where the crushed tomatoes would be? It’s not in with all the other canned tomatoes.” Relief. And I’ll be damned but it was in the pasta aisle like they said - turns out, there’s more overlap between “tomato” and “tomato sauce” than you would think.

I am 5’5”, looking at something on the top shelf. A man about my height stands next to me, looking up. I ask him which one he needs. He knows more English than I know Spanish, but we end up mostly doing charades. I scoop our [cereal, soup? can’t remember] off the top shelf using a packet of spaghetti I picked up earlier as leverage.

I love you, everyone I’ve met at the grocery store.

I don't remember the context, except that it's definitely in a book by either Neil Gaiman or Terry Pratchett, but there was a hair salon that went through a litanie of names, all of them some sort of pun. I also don't remember any of the puns in English, but one of them in French was "Je fais ce que Cheveux". It's been my answer ever since when someone asks rude question about my hair.

Anyway I want to know all of the puny coffee shop names now. They're second-hand names. They should be in a pun shop.