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mountaingnomes · 2 years ago
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I was wondering what bands you liked? And out of them, which one inspires you to write music the most?
This is such a cool question to be asked, thank you! These actually feel like two pretty separate questions to me. The first one is too jumbled to answer in a Tumblr post and I don't have brain right now, but I'll try?
My first real music love was Evanescence. I was obsessed. The sheer fucking primal emotion in their music combined with Lee's aesthetic & the cinematic feel of it all was catnippp to me. My second love was Coheed & Cambria (I was in a cover band in high school), for similar reasons + they were my first exposure to concept albums. Anyone who hasn't listened to their first 3 albums *needs* to. The Dear Hunter was also an early love of mine. Their frontman (and Tanner Merritt of O'Brother, look up their first Audiotree session and sink innnn) are my vocal inspirations. Shout-outs to Panic!'s first two albums, 2000s emo in general, and especially MCR (confirming here that Helena & Gerard is an MCR reference). I was also in a Mars Volta cover band in college, which was how I started getting any kind of decent at the instrument.
More recently (in addition to frequent visits to my old favorites) I have been loving PUP, The Hotelier, Sarah & the Safeword (you all would *love* them), The Oh Hellos, Freelance Whales first album, Hozier (oh god Hozier), Typhoon, Jank (first album) O'Brother (first two albums), San Fermin, The Suitcase Junket, Devil & the Deep Blue Sea, Raccoon Tour, As Tall as Lions, Island of Misfit Toys, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Foxing, and Foxy Shazam (put on their self titled album for a fuckin' excellent time). The original Hadestown album also had a huge impact on me.
Who inspires me to write is a different question, because actually most of the songs I've written for Forgetmenauts all have specific feels of different artists that I intentionally wanted to incorporate. Imma go through the discography in order and see if I can pinpoint an inspiration for all the songs. Some are *really* specific, others just have a general feel.
Bestiary:
Leviathan- The Dear Hunter (specifically the song We've Got a Score to Settle)
Sirens- The Dear Hunter
Helena & Gerard- Freelance Whales' first album, or The Oh Hellos, maybe?
Tam Lin- Hozier
Charlatan in Red/Vixen's- mewithoutYou ("It's all crazy..." era)
Interlace of Bones- No idea. The banjo ones are honestly a lot harder to pinpoint.
GWMB- I blacked out while writing this song. I think that one came from somewhere special just for me. I got really, really lucky with that one.
Bats- I was just goofing around lol. Pick a punk band, any punk band.
Be Nimble, Be Quick
Jack- Guitar riff at the beginning is Explosions in the Sky. Lyrics, guitar etc. in the second part are The Dear Hunter x Hadestown
Card Shark- Tyler wrote the music on this one! My vocals are 100% The Dear Hunter tho
The Summer King- mewithoutYou, extremely intentionally
Bigfoot & Mothman- Foxy Shazam, baybee!!!
Persephone- O'Brother (Death of the Day era)
Dancing Plague- Thrice, I think
Wind in the Orchard- O'Brother again, I think
Thomas the Rhymer- 100% I was trying to write a Hozier guitar riff again. The screams at the end are Coheed & Cambria, a la Everything Evil
Faerie Queen- I was trying to write a Tiny Moving Parts riff. The vocals & melody feel pretty original to my own style, tho.
Truth be Told- Kit did all the lyrics & melody on this one. Guitar Moving Mountains (Pneuma era)
Ocean Song- Emma wrote this one! I had no input.
Unreleased (but in rotation):
Cottonwood- This one I really felt like I was drawing on the style that I've been cultivating over the course of this FMNs project.
Rusalka- I was trying to write a Typhoon song. Their album White Lighter is one of the few *perfect* works of art that I know of.
Persephone: I wrote this one back in college, actually, for a concept album I was working on at the time that never got finished. Some Hadestown in it, for sure, otherwise I couldn't tell ya.
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This is the sort of question I always fantasized about getting asked back when I was first starting to write music in high school, it's really cool to have someone who only knows me from my work honestly interested in it. I love answer things like this, thank you so much again for asking! Hope it's a thorough enough answer, and I'm happy to elaborate on any, or hear what influences or echoes you hear in any of our songs.
Big love <3
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project1939 · 1 year ago
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Day 67- Film (number 1): Captive Women 
Release date: October 10th, 1952. 
Studio: RKO 
Genre: Sci-Fi 
Director: Stuart Gilmore 
Producer: Jack Pollexfen, Aubrey Wisberg 
Actors: Robert Clarke, Ron Randell, Margaret Field, Gloria Saunders 
Plot Summary: In the year 3000, after a nuclear war destroys most of the world, different “tribes” of survivors vie for influence and resources. The Upriver People are ruled by a war lord type guy, the Mutates are disfigured people with mutated genes from nuclear weapons, and the Norms, seemingly the most similar to people before the war.
My Rating (out of five stars): * 
Oh lord, this film was bad. I think it qualifies as the worst one I’ve seen for the project, out of nearly 70! Not only was it poorly made, badly acted, and hilariously C Grade, but it was boring, preachy, and uninspired. The running time was 64 minutes, but I’ve seen films three times that long that felt faster. 
The Good: 
Uh... um... Oh wait, there was a pretty impressive cat fight in this! 
The Bad: 
The story. It was a muddled mess. The plot seemed to be a product of some kind of nuclear mutation itself- like the script fell into a puddle of nuclear waste and sat in it for awhile. It was hard to keep track of who belonged to what tribe, what tribe to care about, or what anyone was even doing. It didn’t help that a lot of the actors looked similar. I was constantly confusing the two main female characters, and two of the lead male characters caused the same confusion. 
The jank cheap-looking sets. The trees and bushes were so obviously fake, they even sounded plastic. At one point in my notes I wrote, “Plan 9 from Nuclear Waste?” It was basically the same ridiculously cheap level of Plan 9 from Outer Space! 
The costumes. I didn’t know something could be so weird, so random, and so boring all at once. Most of the men looked like they wandered off a Robinhood set, while the women looked like they were screen-testing for Ben-Hur. There were some other male characters that either had Druid or Biker Gang vibes going on. 
The acting. It was an unpredictable mess of over-acters and under-acters. 
The moralizing. Some of it goes back to the tired old- “The US is better than the commies cause religion!” The beginning even mentioned that after the war, “science, education, and a true religion has been lost.” (Emphasis theirs.) We know which one they mean, of course. Then we find out the Norms worship the devil, but the Mutates still believe in Jesus. Cause there’s only one or the other to choose from, I guess? Blech.  
Somehow at the end, the characters becoming God fearing Christians is going to make world peace. Cause Abrahamic religions never ever start wars, silly! 
Hey, ladies, sexual assault is sexy, huh? You like it, don’t you?  (I'm being sarcastic, btw. The way the men treated women in this was gross.)
It was also funny how, a thousand years into the future, people are still bound to strict Puritanical views of sex. When a leader of the Mutates tells a couple they can’t get married because their offspring would be too horrible, the couple leaves, acting like they can never be together because they can’t get married. Why can't they have a common-law marriage? Or live in sin? Or just f-ck if they want to? Or even be romantic but asexual? Anything! In 1,000 years, people can't see past all that?
Another transparently lurid title that has nothing much to do with most of the plot.
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mamamittens · 3 years ago
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It's the boys!
Fun little facts about each of them, cause they're all quite different despite sharing the same name!
Ignore how lowkey jank their faces look, it's really hard to draw a sharp nose from the front and I don't usually draw exaggerated expressions. Also their muscles are probably wrong, but I don't exactly live with jacked body builders, so I worked with what I had (Google, I promise I'm not secretly jacked).
Clubs:
One who took the most lessons from Garp, including fashion
His dream is still to see Luffy be the Pirate King but personally he wants to be a good man unlike what he (assumes) his father was like
Considered the weirdest pirate because of this, acting more like a marine in personality despite breaking the law (as it should be)
Is a bit stiff but is ultimately quite the softy
How he meets Whitebeard is through asking Marco what Roger was like
He absolutely didn't expect Whitebeard to take a shine to him and is very quietly thrown off about it
Doesn't really fight Whitebeard and gives everyone weird looks when they try and bond with him
No one realizes he has a devil fruit power cause he hides it for fear of losing control
Losing Sabo and the big fire really scarred him for fire usage
Therefore he has the least control, and anytime he does use it, it's in incredibly powerful explosions
He's terrifying when angry, just an unstoppable wall of anger coming right at you
The most accepting of his execution and the most shocked that Whitebeard came and rescued him
The best at throwing off any accusations of his heritage because he doesn't even look like a pirate on a good day
Best at conversation while lying because he just looks so earnest all the time "Sir, that's not how pregnancy works. I was actually born early"
Garp absolutely dies laughing about it later
Diamond
He's actually just the Ace I wrote for "Exquisite Control" tbh
The most insufferably confident one of the group after getting over his father
Smokes cause it makes him look cool
Yes, his boots are platform boots, because he's tired of tall bastards looming over him all the time
Very creative uses for his devil fruit in little ways
Will absolutely fuck with people, including little flickers of fire over the ocean to freak look outs on marine ships
He can't smile politely, he just looks like a psychopath
The least chill when pissed off
He doesn't really react to being Roger's son after he lets go of his baggage, it just doesn't matter to him at that point
He will strong arm his way into a conversation if he sees someone creeping on a lady/man, playing up his roguish charms if need be
He's always looking for a fight, but he's the only one that can get one just by smirking at any point in time
He does not handle disrespect well at all, not to himself or people he's fond of
If you think he's above bitch slapping people with a fire palm, you're wrong, though he might cheekily smack someone's ass (Marco) the same way if he's feeling feisty
Heart
The most Luffy-like, a constant joy and pain in the ass to be around
Very expressive and energetic, including with his devil fruit, often punctuating declarations with firecracker pops
The one that scares people by accident the most because he's either very loud or worryingly quiet, there is no in between
He looks the dumbest, but make no mistake, he's a terror with his observational skills
Card/pool/game shark and people fall for it every time, he learned from Sabo
Smiles the most like his late father but with enough sunshine child rays no one connects the dots except Whitebeard
Took the news of his heritage the best and seeks to enjoy life while waiting for Luffy to take the crown, thinks it's really ironic that his adopted brother would do it instead of the 'heir'
Is not afraid to take the piss out of people
Is really platonically/casually handsy with people and pretends like he didn't know how warm his hands are or when he 'accidentally' digs his nails into tickle spots
The more the person hates him the more he finds joy in making them laugh anyway
Any insult is remembered and you will never realize it when he gets his revenge, so from an outside perspective, he looks incredibly happy go lucky and forgiving
Do not be fooled, he has so much fucking spite
Challenged Whitebeard because he was genuinely curious about how he's stack up against him
Whitebeard obviously thought the feral sunshine child was adorable and wanted to recruit him immediately
Spade
If you're getting Bruno vibes, you're not wrong
His super power isn't his devil fruit, it's anxiety
He took the news of his heritage and the lose of Sabo the hardest
Now he compulsively makes so many plans and backup plans that no one realizes when his plan didn't go well because the transition between them was so smooth
He needs a hug the most, though Clover would probably also cry if you kept holding him for a little longer
He uses his fire in very spooky ways, little willow-wisps and crazy butterfly effect plans
Has a tendency to fondle his necklace and other jewelry as a nervous tick or when he's thinking
His baggy clothes hides a lot of secret mouse-ka-tools, like, so many tools you would not believe it
He never really started fighting Whitebeard because he was getting too stressed trying to plan around all of Whitebeard's allies
How did they cross paths? Well, he was executing one of his plans and ran afoul of Jinbe by accident
Naturally, it did not take Spade five days to beat him, and Whitebeard was quite impressed
The one thing Spade never planned on was honest interest and affection
He was spontaneously hugged a lot by the more fraternal Whitebeard Pirates and his expression was like a sad puppy without fail
His genuine smile has pulled out literal 'aww' sound from even hardcore pirates
The one that prevents Thatch's murder the fastest because he trusts but verifies things, and Teach did not pass the vibe check
He gets the tattoo on his wrist under the cuff bracelet so he can look at it and run his fingers over the ink anytime he gets too deep in his thoughts
Can you tell who my favorite is, lmao?
As a side note, it's a shame Ace doesn't take more fashion cues from the people he grew up around, like sure he wears a necklace like Dadan, but imagine if he wore a closed vest or a button up? Maybe grew his hair out and pulled it back? idk, all I know is that anytime I imagine a gender bend Ace, she dresses more like Dadan instead of wearing booty shorts and a bikini top.
@secretsnailor
@marco--the--phoenix
Hope this was as fun for you as it was for me!
Don't forget about that February (2022) raffle!
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dorothydelgadillo · 6 years ago
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Monthly Web Development Update 1/2019: Rethinking Habits And Finding Custom Solutions
Monthly Web Development Update 1/2019: Rethinking Habits And Finding Custom Solutions
Anselm Hannemann
2019-01-18T12:40:24+01:002019-01-18T11:54:56+00:00
What could be better than starting the new year with some new experiments? Today I figured it was time to rethink JavaScript tooling in one of my projects. And since we wrote everything in plain ECMAScript modules already, I thought it would be easy to serve them natively now and remove all the build and transpilation steps. Until I realized that — although we wrote most code ourselves — we have a couple of third-party dependencies in there and, of course, not all of them are ECMAScript modules. So for now, I have to give up my plans to remove all the build steps and continue to bundle and transpile things, but I’ll try to figure out a better solution to modernize and simplify our tooling setup while providing a smaller bundle to our users.
Another experiment: Just a few weeks ago I had to build a simple “go to the top of the page” button for a website. I used requestAnimationFrame and similar stuff to optimize event handling, but today I found a way nicer and more efficient solution that uses IntersectionObserver to toggle the button on the viewport. You will find that article in the JavaScript section below. The reason I wanted to share these little stories is because I believe that the most important thing is that we review our habits and current solutions and see whether there are better, newer, simpler ideas that could improve a product. Keep playing, keep researching, and be sure to rethink existing systems from time to time.
News
Joseph Medley shows us the deprecations and removals in Chrome 72, which include blocking popups during page unload via window.open, HTTP-Based Public Key Pinning, and deprecation of TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1.
UI/UX
What Jesse Weaver is writing about here doesn’t sound like big news, but she shows how quickly we’re tempted to adopt a product strategy that works for others for our own products. Jesse shares why that’s not a good idea and why you should always try to find your own, custom solutions.
Web Performance
Jack Lenox explores how heavily website performance affects our planet’s climate and the effect which performance has for your visitors — beyond better load times.
Tim Kadlec explains why performance is an ethical point as it can include or exclude people, increase or reduce waste of energy, network traffic, and time.
JavaScript
How do we provide a “back to top” button? Well, here’s a very performance-oriented, efficient approach that uses an Intersection Observer to show and hide the button.
Ackermann Yuriy describes how we can use FIDO2 and the Web Authentication API to log in users without passwords.
Chrome is currently working on an API called getInstalledRelatedApps that lets you detect if a user has your native app installed. This could be useful to not show them the app banners by default anymore or to let them open a specific product feature in the app directly from your website.
Harry Wolff shows how we can use React.lazy and suspense to split up the code in JavaScript apps. This is important to reduce the original load size of the application bundle and can make a huge difference for the performance and UX of a website.
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Passwordless authentication? The WebAuthn API makes it possible. (Image credit)
CSS
Una Kravets wrote a great piece on using Houdini and the Paint API for CSS. She demonstrates it at the example of a customized text-decoration underline style that isn’t available in standard CSS.
Eric Portis explains the concept of the intrinsicsize HTML attribute that will — hopefully soon — help us provide jank-free image loads in browsers by hinting the expected dimensions of the images to the browser before it has parsed them.
Scott Jehl updated the open-source custom appearance select module, and in this blog post he describes how we can style select today.
Chris Coyier summarized how to style a web component and decide whether we want it to inherit global styles or start from scratch.
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Una Kravet’s “super underline” example uses randomly generated underlines for each element. Made possible with Houdini and the Paint API. (Image credit)
Work & Life
“Feeling a sense of accomplishment is an important part of our sense of self-worth. Beating up on yourself because you think you could have accomplished more can dent your confidence and self-esteem and leave you feeling depleted at the end of the day.” Lisa Evans shares what we can do to avoid falling into that trap.
Itamar Turner-Trauring shares his thoughts on how to get a job with a good work-life balance when you’re competing against people who are willing to work long hours.
Is it a good idea to provide healthcare and treatment based on digital products like apps? And if so, what are the requirements, the standards for this? How can we ensure this is done ethically correct? How do we set the limits, the privacy boundaries, how far do we allow companies to go with experiments here? Would personalized content be fine? Is it okay to share data collected from our devices with healthcare providers or insurances? These are questions we will have to ask ourselves and find an individual answer for.
This article about how Millenials became the burnout generation hit me hard this week. I see myself in this group of people described as “Millenials” (I do think it affects way more people than just the 20-year-olds) and I could relate to so many of the struggles mentioned in there that I now think that these problems are bigger than I ever imagined. They will affect society, politics, each individual on our planet. Given that fact, it’s crazy to hear that most people today will answer that they don’t have a friend they could talk to about their fears and anything else that disturbs them while two decades ago the average answer was still around five. Let’s assure our friends that we’re there for them and that they can talk to us about tough things. 2019 should be a year in which we — in our circle of influence — make it great to live in a human community where we can think with excitement and happiness about our friends, neighbors, and people we work with or talk to on the Internet.
We all try to accommodate so many things at the same time: being successful and productive at work, at home, with our children, in our relationships, doing sports, mastering our finances, and some hobbies. But we blindly ignore that it’s impossible to manage all that on the same level at the same time. We feel regret when we don’t get everything done in a specific timeframe such as at the end of a calendar year. Shawn Blanc argues that we should celebrate what we did do instead of feeling guilty for what we didn’t do.
Going Beyond…
There are words, and then there are words. Many of us know how harmful “just” can be as a word, how prescriptive, how passively aggressive it is. Tobias Tom challenges whether “should” is a useful word by examining the implicit and the result of using it in our daily language. Why “should” can be harmful to you and to what you want to achieve.
“We all know what we stand for. The trick is to state our values clearly — and to stand by them,” says Ben Werdmuller and points out how important it is to think about your very own red line that you don’t want to cross regardless of external pressure you might face or money you might get for it.
Exciting news for climate improvement this week: A team of arborists has successfully cloned and grown saplings from the stumps of some of the world’s oldest and largest coast redwoods, some of which were 3,000 years old and measured 35 feet in diameter when they were cut down in the 19th and 20th centuries. Earlier this month, 75 of the cloned saplings were planted at the Presidio National Park in San Francisco. What makes this so special is the fact that these ancient trees can sequester 250 tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere over their lives, compared to 1 ton for an average tree.
The ongoing technological development and strive to build new services that automate more and more things make it even more critical to emphasize human connection. Companies that show no effort in improving things for their clients, their employees, or the environment will begin to struggle soon, Ryan Paugh says.
We usually don’t expect much nice news about technology inventions from the car industry and their willingness to share it with others. But Toyota now has decided to share their automated safety system ‘Guardian’ with competitors. It uses self-driving technology to keep cars from crashing. “We will not keep it proprietary to ourselves only. But we will offer it in some way to others, whether that’s through licensing or actual whole systems,” says Gill Pratt from the company.
Thank you for reading! I’m happy to be back with this new edition of my Web Development Update in 2019 and grateful for all your ongoing support. It makes me happy to hear that so many people find this resource helpful. So if you enjoyed it, please feel free to share it with people you know, give me feedback, or support it with a small amount of money. —Anselm
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nancydsmithus · 6 years ago
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Monthly Web Development Update 1/2019: Rethinking Habits And Finding Custom Solutions
Monthly Web Development Update 1/2019: Rethinking Habits And Finding Custom Solutions
Anselm Hannemann
2019-01-18T12:40:24+01:002019-01-18T11:54:56+00:00
What could be better than starting the new year with some new experiments? Today I figured it was time to rethink JavaScript tooling in one of my projects. And since we wrote everything in plain ECMAScript modules already, I thought it would be easy to serve them natively now and remove all the build and transpilation steps. Until I realized that — although we wrote most code ourselves — we have a couple of third-party dependencies in there and, of course, not all of them are ECMAScript modules. So for now, I have to give up my plans to remove all the build steps and continue to bundle and transpile things, but I’ll try to figure out a better solution to modernize and simplify our tooling setup while providing a smaller bundle to our users.
Another experiment: Just a few weeks ago I had to build a simple “go to the top of the page” button for a website. I used requestAnimationFrame and similar stuff to optimize event handling, but today I found a way nicer and more efficient solution that uses IntersectionObserver to toggle the button on the viewport. You will find that article in the JavaScript section below. The reason I wanted to share these little stories is because I believe that the most important thing is that we review our habits and current solutions and see whether there are better, newer, simpler ideas that could improve a product. Keep playing, keep researching, and be sure to rethink existing systems from time to time.
News
Joseph Medley shows us the deprecations and removals in Chrome 72, which include blocking popups during page unload via window.open, HTTP-Based Public Key Pinning, and deprecation of TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1.
UI/UX
What Jesse Weaver is writing about here doesn’t sound like big news, but she shows how quickly we’re tempted to adopt a product strategy that works for others for our own products. Jesse shares why that’s not a good idea and why you should always try to find your own, custom solutions.
Web Performance
Jack Lenox explores how heavily website performance affects our planet’s climate and the effect which performance has for your visitors — beyond better load times.
Tim Kadlec explains why performance is an ethical point as it can include or exclude people, increase or reduce waste of energy, network traffic, and time.
JavaScript
How do we provide a “back to top” button? Well, here’s a very performance-oriented, efficient approach that uses an Intersection Observer to show and hide the button.
Ackermann Yuriy describes how we can use FIDO2 and the Web Authentication API to log in users without passwords.
Chrome is currently working on an API called getInstalledRelatedApps that lets you detect if a user has your native app installed. This could be useful to not show them the app banners by default anymore or to let them open a specific product feature in the app directly from your website.
Harry Wolff shows how we can use React.lazy and suspense to split up the code in JavaScript apps. This is important to reduce the original load size of the application bundle and can make a huge difference for the performance and UX of a website.
Tumblr media
Passwordless authentication? The WebAuthn API makes it possible. (Image credit)
CSS
Una Kravets wrote a great piece on using Houdini and the Paint API for CSS. She demonstrates it at the example of a customized text-decoration underline style that isn’t available in standard CSS.
Eric Portis explains the concept of the intrinsicsize HTML attribute that will — hopefully soon — help us provide jank-free image loads in browsers by hinting the expected dimensions of the images to the browser before it has parsed them.
Scott Jehl updated the open-source custom appearance select module, and in this blog post he describes how we can style select today.
Chris Coyier summarized how to style a web component and decide whether we want it to inherit global styles or start from scratch.
Tumblr media
Una Kravet’s “super underline” example uses randomly generated underlines for each element. Made possible with Houdini and the Paint API. (Image credit)
Work & Life
“Feeling a sense of accomplishment is an important part of our sense of self-worth. Beating up on yourself because you think you could have accomplished more can dent your confidence and self-esteem and leave you feeling depleted at the end of the day.” Lisa Evans shares what we can do to avoid falling into that trap.
Itamar Turner-Trauring shares his thoughts on how to get a job with a good work-life balance when you’re competing against people who are willing to work long hours.
Is it a good idea to provide healthcare and treatment based on digital products like apps? And if so, what are the requirements, the standards for this? How can we ensure this is done ethically correct? How do we set the limits, the privacy boundaries, how far do we allow companies to go with experiments here? Would personalized content be fine? Is it okay to share data collected from our devices with healthcare providers or insurances? These are questions we will have to ask ourselves and find an individual answer for.
This article about how Millenials became the burnout generation hit me hard this week. I see myself in this group of people described as “Millenials” (I do think it affects way more people than just the 20-year-olds) and I could relate to so many of the struggles mentioned in there that I now think that these problems are bigger than I ever imagined. They will affect society, politics, each individual on our planet. Given that fact, it’s crazy to hear that most people today will answer that they don’t have a friend they could talk to about their fears and anything else that disturbs them while two decades ago the average answer was still around five. Let’s assure our friends that we’re there for them and that they can talk to us about tough things. 2019 should be a year in which we — in our circle of influence — make it great to live in a human community where we can think with excitement and happiness about our friends, neighbors, and people we work with or talk to on the Internet.
We all try to accommodate so many things at the same time: being successful and productive at work, at home, with our children, in our relationships, doing sports, mastering our finances, and some hobbies. But we blindly ignore that it’s impossible to manage all that on the same level at the same time. We feel regret when we don’t get everything done in a specific timeframe such as at the end of a calendar year. Shawn Blanc argues that we should celebrate what we did do instead of feeling guilty for what we didn’t do.
Going Beyond…
There are words, and then there are words. Many of us know how harmful “just” can be as a word, how prescriptive, how passively aggressive it is. Tobias Tom challenges whether “should” is a useful word by examining the implicit and the result of using it in our daily language. Why “should” can be harmful to you and to what you want to achieve.
“We all know what we stand for. The trick is to state our values clearly — and to stand by them,” says Ben Werdmuller and points out how important it is to think about your very own red line that you don’t want to cross regardless of external pressure you might face or money you might get for it.
Exciting news for climate improvement this week: A team of arborists has successfully cloned and grown saplings from the stumps of some of the world’s oldest and largest coast redwoods, some of which were 3,000 years old and measured 35 feet in diameter when they were cut down in the 19th and 20th centuries. Earlier this month, 75 of the cloned saplings were planted at the Presidio National Park in San Francisco. What makes this so special is the fact that these ancient trees can sequester 250 tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere over their lives, compared to 1 ton for an average tree.
The ongoing technological development and strive to build new services that automate more and more things make it even more critical to emphasize human connection. Companies that show no effort in improving things for their clients, their employees, or the environment will begin to struggle soon, Ryan Paugh says.
We usually don’t expect much nice news about technology inventions from the car industry and their willingness to share it with others. But Toyota now has decided to share their automated safety system ‘Guardian’ with competitors. It uses self-driving technology to keep cars from crashing. “We will not keep it proprietary to ourselves only. But we will offer it in some way to others, whether that’s through licensing or actual whole systems,” says Gill Pratt from the company.
Thank you for reading! I’m happy to be back with this new edition of my Web Development Update in 2019 and grateful for all your ongoing support. It makes me happy to hear that so many people find this resource helpful. So if you enjoyed it, please feel free to share it with people you know, give me feedback, or support it with a small amount of money. —Anselm
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plac3h0lder · 8 years ago
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12 for mun rant
Let Mun/Muse RANT!                        
We all get a little ticked from time to time. Now is the time to know what makes US ticked!
Send 🌕+ a Number to hear Mun rant. Send 🌑+ a Number to hear Muse rant.
12 - A character they love.
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//OH. OOOH HO HO, DO I HAVE SOME RANTING TO DO ABOUT THIS.
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//CAN WE TALK ABOUT THIS MAN FOR A MINUTE????
I joined the Overwatch fanbase like, NOT EVEN TWO WEEKS AGO. And i have already seen that Soldier 76 is??? Like??? Really hated??? Because of his comic/story role??? Like, i get it, both Jack and Gabriel do the exact same jobs, and it’s SO JANK that Jack got the big promotion, the praise, the credit, the STATUE, and the position while Gabriel has to stand by and WATCH while he does the EXACT. SAME. JOB. FOR BASICALLY NOTHING. NOW. HERE IS WHERE IT GETS KIND OF BOGUS.
I don’t read the comics. Nor do i even CARE for the actual story. At all. But what i DO KNOW is that some people are really upset that Jack got the job and blames it on... Are you ready?... Him being white. NOW. NOT EVERYONE DOES. BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE DO. I’m not jumping into anything racey here myself, but, i honestly don’t think his higher ups would select him for being WHITE apart from a soldier who does the same. Job. The same. Way. But his skin is darker. I honestly do NOT believe that for ONE. SECOND. I feel like, NOW, I LOVE GABE, I LOVE GABE SO MUCH YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW, but i feel like Jack may have been just.. A bit more suited for the job. This doesn’t mean Gabe doesn’t deserve credit for anything, i just think he wasn’t ENTIRELY PREPARED/READY to take on a role like that himself. This doesn’t mean i think Jack is doing the best job in the world, but, i just believe myself that he’s doing a bit of a better job than Gabriel would have done.
HOWEVER, as i said, i stay away from the lore, THIS IS WHERE THE ISSUES COME IN. Just because of his story character, some people are refusing to enjoy even the in-game Soldier 76. Now, it’s okay to not like a character for one reason or the next, but if you are LITERALLY TARGETING anyone who plays Soldier 76 or trying to convince S76 fans that he’s an EVIL MAN and deserves DEATH AND PUNISHMENT, that’s not cool. The game versus the story are two ENTIRELY. DIFFERENT. THINGS. And have B A R E L Y any connection to one another. Crap, you can even be playing as Gabriel next to a Soldier 76 if you have the Origin version, doesn’t that seem just a BIT OFF TO YOU??
Jack and Gabe deserve their OWN recognition for their OWN roles and i don’t believe the one Jack got is right for Gabe. If it were, that’s how the artists/storytellers would have wrote and imaged it. But? They didn’t. It has nothing to do with the fact that Jack is their white character. It has nothing to do with the fact that Gabriel is their black character. Heck, if you’re someone who disagrees with that, good for you!! I feel happy that you can see what i can’t!! But PLEASE don’t degrade the actual VIDEO GAME CHARACTERS because of the comic/lore!! IT’S REALLY MESSED UP AND BURDENS EVERYONE ELSE!! There’s no reason to make someone feel like a MESS because they like to play Soldier 76 or like the character in general. If you’re shaming someone for a liked character, shame on YOU. Don’t insult gameplay over visuals. ENOUGH SAID, I’M DONE.
//This is a simple Panda rant venting our her frustrations. If you disagree with her point of views or opinions, please just turn the other cheek, as spreading negativity doesn’t do any kind of good and has little chance of making you feel better. Thanks! ❤️
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