“Why should your right to freedom of speech trump a trans person’s right not to be offended?”
"Because in order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive. I mean, look at the conversation we’re having right now. You’re certainly willing to risk offending me in the pursuit of truth. Why should you have the right to do that? It’s been rather uncomfortable.”
“Well, I’m very glad I’ve put you on the spot.”
"Well you get my point. You're doing what you should do, which is digging a bit to see what the hell is going on. And that is what you should do. But you’re exercising your freedom of speech to certainly risk offending me, and that’s fine.”
— Jordan B. Peterson reminds reporter that it goes both waysNaked Venus
Whenever a “wacky Japan” story appears, people will pop up who swear that it’s not really like that over there, and that you could live there for months without seeing anything weird, creepy, fetishistic, or batshit insane.
Old-school potpourri
It doesn’t say whether it’s an English or an Aromatic, but I’ve often thought that a good pipe tobacco would make a better potpourri than the usual overpowering seasonal mixes. People seem to like the room note of Captain Black; wonder if I could get away with a little dish of it in the living room when the family comes out for Christmas.
Or maybe I should sprinkle some on my kō incense burner.
Western food is destroying Japan
No, really:
Building a modern Ghostbuster...
University of Maryland announces portable particle accelerators. No word yet on crossing the streams.
A better world...
You know the one thing that’s really, truly gotten better about system administration? Now, when you’re sitting in the computer room poking at a sick server and checking the status of hours-long processes with lsof, strace, and tcpdump, you can watch Doctor Who on your phone.
"Wake up, sheeple!"
Actual caption to this picture at The Seattle Times, of a group protesting Amazon’s “corporate greed”:
Protesters gather at Westlake Park on Guy Fawkes Day. All three masks were purchased from Amazon for $6 each using the Amazon Prime account of gold mask’s mom. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)
Dear Hello!Project Costume Designers,
Yes:
No:
