fiat_lux

Then I think they might be berry bowls https://www.epicurious.com/shopping/tiny-colander-berry-bowl

Letting water sit on soft fruit will speed up the process of them getting mushy and gross. So you wash them, put them in these, and the air circulates to help dry them off and they keep a little longer. I wouldn’t try these with blueberries, but it looks like they’d work for strawberries, cherries, small apricots, etc. the lack of a hole in the bottom is probably because they’re not for actively straining things. The size is probably about right for a single pint.

It would be good to add alt text to this image. You can do it by adding it inside the square brackets.

Yes, and lots of people in lower income countries do so using a Bluetooth keyboard.

Bless you for trying anyway. They’re truly precious, and I appreciate holding tiny sleeping babies takes absolute priority over photos.

I’m going to need more of these. Many more.

Interesting! I appreciate the education, especially with warnings about assumptions. The article says sprinklers weren’t operating, but also:

There was also no water pressure on fire hydrants located at the facility. The failure of the private water system “significantly impacted” the firefight, he said.

I’m guessing hydrants would be separate from the sprinkler/pump system?

A quick search implied that San Joaquin county private water systems have private wells they draw from. I saw one article along the way about controversy for how much deeper the wells were being dug for companies compared to the farm wells.

Either way, I don’t doubt you’re right about lots of fuckups.

I note there’s an Amazon data center about 1000 feet away. Amazon says they only draw water on the hottest of days, and it was 100°F today.

I wonder if that might be why there was no water pressure.

I check on Gab sometimes to keep tabs on what the most literal kind of Nazis are up to, and right now it’s all Belfast and Karmelo Anthony content (to ensure they also vilify non-white people who can’t be conveniently labelled as “migrants”).

They’re trying to use it as a flashpoint for similar violence in the US, with white people finally “fighting back” the “invading hordes” that Europe/UK has supposedly been overwhelmed by.

This isn’t just Reform. This is backed by the same rich fascists who have been working on a global scale for some time; some of whom you’ll find in the Epstein Files, like Steve Bannon.

Notice there is no double sig in there. Also note that Rodnovery is a neopagan religion, associated with nationalism. It’s the Slavic equivalent the Norse pantheon fetishism you see in the West in the form of Odinism.

You should assume they’re Nazi symbols because they are, even if Nazis stole a lot of symbols from everyone else. The sig was first adapted into the double sig in 1929 to be used as the Schutzstaffel logo

Sure, but they had an entirely different belief system, and those examples are up to a millennium later. Even the more voluptuous Graeco-Indian female statues from Gandhara got intricate drapery.

It’s possible that it is a more modern idea that we’ve attributed to being much earlier, that does happen a lot, but I’m inclined to think it’s not entirely baseless.

We know for example that the nude Aphrodite of Knidos by Praxiteles caused enough of a stir to become a tourist destination, and even she had a conveniently positioned hand covering her goods. Kore statues always had clothes on too, unlike their male counterparts.

I could maybe buy the possibility that almost all of the nude women sculptures were stolen and later destroyed, either intentionally or accidentally, but that doesn’t quite work either. To not find any older nude sculptures in modern times, plus the odd detail that none of the nude ones we do have (copies, admittedly, and I don’t know all the statues either) have anything other than Barbie-smooth instead of even a delicate line suggesting labia… seems odd for an art culture that progressively got more caught up with hyper realism.

They did get nuder and more realistic with time, but we’ve got nothing from the archaic period without at least a skirt on, usually more.

Phrasing. But yes, some of them - they seemed to prefer making plaster and metal fig leaves thankfully. Michelangelo wasn’t thrilled about being told to change his work either. Some of them were whacked off earlier than the Catholics, and some were whacked off by the Vatican even as late as the 1850s in “The Great Castration”.

Many of the lost appendages were accidental though, natural disasters and the like did a lot of amputation and decapitation, to the point where there are entire catalogue methods for mismatched heads on statues.

I wish I had both any cool ancient things and any basement to put them in. I think the oldest thing I own is maybe 100 years at best.

I think I’d be terrified to own anything much older too, conservation is hard.

The penis thing is pretty hotly debated, but savagery comes pretty close to my understanding of the theory you mention. It’s not a hugely different concept from some of the manosphere stuff you find today though.

Basically the idea was (it’s theorized) that thinking with your dick leads to making hasty and bad decisions, but you want to be like the cool smart intellectual philosopher rhetorician dudes ruling society who are strong enough to control their urges. You want to be the civilized powerful master strategist, not the uncivilized weak-willed destructive glutton. So… because art needs to be about reality and be educational (there’s no place for that creative abstract shit), we’re going to de-emphasize the body part associated with urges that are difficult to control. These are powerful rational dudes afterall.

The biggest difference with modern manosphere bullshit is maybe the part where they shrunk the pps on the ripped marble dudes to make that point. Instead we get… social media statue and peacock “science” analogies.

I think Nemesis is Roman, but probably a copy of a Greek statue. I might have chosen to forget because the “restoration” work on her head breaks my heart - but I know that’s a common problem. Such a pity because the drapery is gorgeous.

Looking at this Diana/Artemis, who was much luckier than most statues by having her original head reattached, you can see how different it is. The proportions make much more sense.

Image text description below image:

Photo of a marble statue of Artemis (aka Diana), which lives at the Louvre. Artemis is mid-step reaching for an arrow in the quiver on her back. In her other hand she’s pulling on the antlers of a small deer that she has caught. She’s wearing a short and practical belted tunic (chiton) appropriate for hunting, functional sandals, and an equally pragmatic hairstyle with her wavy locks in an up-do. Her arms and legs are neither skinny nor super muscly, they’re very average looking. But, being a goddess, she’s got a tiara. Not an ostentatious tiara, a simple solid tiara. A utility tiara, if you will. And being a female goddess, you can still see her nips pushing on the intricate drapery of her chiton. She’s clearly got some sex appeal carved in, but the statue is of a capable person who is independently getting shit done.

I love her because she basically looks like the kind of woman a modern conservative commentator would condemn for subverting gender roles. Also with a proportional head.

Diane de Versailles - Louvre catalogue

Very. Different people have different bodies.

Even if the premise were undebatably true that being fat is an avoidable consequence by eating all of the “right” things in exactly the “right” quantities, which greatly oversimplifies the immense complexity of how bodies function, the target of intolerance should be:

• The companies that pump out garbage masquerading as food
• The regulatory environment that allows those companies to do so
• The systems which deprive people of the time, finances and ability to access adequate nutrition or medical support

By buying into anti-fat-acceptance, you:

• Place the entire burden of systemic issues on individuals who don’t have the power to fix them, and who have their own unique circumstances
• Go to bat for exploitative companies
• Enable damaging ableist tropes about superficial aesthetic ideals

I hope that helps!

Guess they’ve never seen all of the statues of Athena, Artemis and Aphrodite. You don’t get as many nude female statues because it was usually considered obscene for women to be naked in public.

But the Greek male statues were fully nude and depicted ripped mortal men because they were made in line with Aristotle’s idea of good art being educational. Those were arguably the marble version of “git gud, scrub”.

If there were more male “perfect” body statues at the time, which we can’t establish because many have been lost over the millennia, it might actually be evidence that men were considered less attractive and they needed more body shaming to fix it?

No problem! The extra fun part is that ch can also be the abbreviation for child, although the spacing and context obviously settles that ambiguity. So, you could maybe read this as “do not toutchild” if you wanted to be silly.

It’s valid contracted Braille. The last two characters are out/ou and ch.

Newstarget is part of Natural News, a far-right outlet. They publish pieces that include anti-vax, HIV and Sandy Hook conspiracy theories. Right now on their home page they’re pushing videos like “Mike Adams Joins Alex Jones to Discuss AI World Simulations, Digital Gods & the Data Center Takeover” - Mike Adams owns both Natural News and Newstarget. This is not a site you want to use as a source of information.