Making your bed is, at best, a performative waste of time...
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Generally speaking, I agree with you, for many people... yeah there isn't really any real compelling reason to habitually do this.
However, there are fairly common circumstances where this does actually make sense:
Maybe you just have a tad of OCD, and well... this'll make you feel a bit more steady and comfortable, and it doesn't really hurt anyone, assuming you're not full blown OCD doing it over and over and over because its never perfect.
Maybe you are mildy to moderately depressed... and... just being able to have any kind of regular structure, regular task that you can accomplish... maybe that means you're not a completely useless piece of shit, and if you can keep up this good habit, and give yourself a pat on the back each time... maybe that means you can start to step up toward more, or bigger tasks.
Maybe you're a bit ADHD, and its... anchoring, helpful, to have that same just bit of predictable structure or routine, to help you get your day started.
Maybe you have a cPTSD / Trauma response to a messy bed from associating it with very shitty situations in your past, and... having a made bed just removes a trigger for you.
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Or maybe you have pets, or toddlers, and don't want to 'lose' them, lol, or have their uh, debris of whatever sort, just get everywhere in the bed.
Maybe you live in a studio and eat food on your bed, clip your nails on it, and you adopt a regular 'crumb removal from your bed' routine as basically just a hygeine pattern, like brushing your teeth or hair or what not.
Maybe your heat went out or its just fucking freezing, and having a properly made bed makes it just a bit warmer to get into for sleep.
Maybe you have very fancy, high maintenance bedding, that will wrinkle and deform if not regularly ... re normalized?
(Yeah I dunno, this is apparently a thing, I am apparently either too simple or broke a man to have ever entertained the idea of a high maintenance bed, but apparently people do?)
You know, I think I might make a cut of this, but... more somber, tense music, ... more relevant modern references.
I remember the gyroscopic weight stuff somewhat, but always sorta dismissed it since it felt like it was selectively used by authors and many of my favorites made little to no mention of it.
I completely get what you mean on that.
Personally, I wish it was more prevalent... I think the main reason it isn't, is that... its actually fairly difficult to write a description of ... what this would be like, and it is also difficult to depict this visually, both in still and moving images.
Again this I will freely admit is my preference/opinion, but yeah, I really wish they had actually gone a bit further into this...
Like with Frank Herbert, Dune, and the basically bizzare combat style that comes with the daggers and personal shields.
The slow blade makes the cut, in that universe, literally, because the shields block things moving at high velocities, but not slow velocities.
I just love the shit out of... physically based, but playing by different rules, martial combat, hahah!
I also really like in say, Enders Game, where Ender has to essentially just learn/invent an entirely new paradigm of combat to work with zero G and the suits that constrict and paralyze theb part of your body that gets hit with whatever kind of weapons they use.
Makes me want to go back and read some of the best of legends.
I think I am just gonna do that.
Somebody's gotta tend to the old, sacred texts =P
I fully support a reread!
=D
Also, because I am in nitpick mode:
Canon is a body of work accepted as legitimate, official, standard, etc.
Cannon is what you fire a cannonball with.
=P
Anyway, I'm off to go enjoy a dessert in a desert.
Yeah, they can just do whatever the fuck they want in the mean time, cops rarely ever get stopped by a 'reasonable suspicion' standard, which is much, much, muuuuuuch more lenient than an actual 'probable cause' standard.
Like here's how reasonable suspicion works:
We are looking for a brown guy.
We were near his apartment complex and saw a brown guy roughly matching his description go into an apartment.
This guy is wanted for... whatever made up bullshit immigration violation... so, we have 'reasonable suspicion' that that was the brown guy we were looking for, going into, i dunno, maybe his neighbor friend's apartment, maybe his, who cares, thus we are justified in breaking down the door.
And no, no it won't matter in court, its been a year and a half, brown guy died in GITMO or CECOT or Alligator Auschwitz 3 months before this case brought by his remaining US family actually got before and judge, and even if the ICE agents are found guilty, whablamo, Trump pardons them.
Get decently tipsy.
Sit down on bench.
Stem and foot break off, bowl shatters, there is now broken glass and red wine all over your pants, also possibly blood, also possibly glass at least partially embedded in your ass, if your 'utility pants' are actually made of mostly just cotton.
... I hope to god that's a plastic wine glass and not an actual glass one.
You are not cattle!
You are men!
You have the love of humanity in your hearts!
You don’t hate!
Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural!
Soldiers!
Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!
In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: “the Kingdom of God is within man” - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men!
In you!
Please keep in mind this is a guy who, quite seriously, this is not made up...
... used to use a dead rat in his pigsty of a room as an alarm clock.
The sun would come in through the window, bake the rat corpse to the point of a striking pungent smell, and this is what would wake him up.
Again, I am not making this up, just a year or twoish back he earnestly explained this to all his viewers.
The man also very, very rarely brushes his teeth, and has frequent issues with his gums bleeding.
This is your basement dweller 4chan addict, who just so happened to win the streamer popularity contest.
On basically any topic other than World of Warcraft, he has no fucking clue what he is talking about.
Random LA judge composed entirely of horseshit, court of public opinion rules.
Hey uh, just asking Mr. LE man, what constitutes 'reasonable suspicion a person is violating immigration law?'
Oh, well, speaking as an enthusiastic Nazi, whenever they have the wrong skin color or talk funny, or have a wierd last name, I just make up some bullshit charge I think they might have done. Then I get the desk jockey dork to write me up a more technical and plausible version of that bullshit for when I have to go talk to you.
... Sounds good to me!
Damn, I thought you meant JavaScript itself was being replaced.
Ah yes, lets listen to Bill O'Reily's concerns about people being deemed guilty by mere association.
Yes, Bill "My Entire Career Is A Series Of Sexual Harassmnent Lawsuits" O'Reily, that's the unbiased, no spin zone, voice of objective reason on this issue.
Mrm.
Yep.
Certainly an unbiased opinion haver on this topic.
I generally agree, with some nitpicks.
The old canon several times mentions that wielding a lightsaber is actually extremely difficult and unintuitive...
...because the 'blade' is literally weightless, that alone would throw off a lot of wielders of more conventional swords...
... but also because the saber, potentially as a byproduct of the 'coherence field,'... produces strong, unituitive gryoscopic forces when moved or rotated at various angles and speeds.
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The old explanation I remember is roughly that force sensitives essentially just intuitively know how to counteract this, to varying degrees of proficiency, but a non force sensitive, a non force user... they'd pick it up and awkwardly flail about with it as it seemingly gains and loses weight, is being pushed and pulled in crazy directions that make no sense compared to just, a physical sword or staff.
Sort of like trying to use a very, very poorly balanced real world melee weapon, but the weapon's poor balance also actively changes, like its center of gravity just seemingly randomly alters as you move it.
Basically, a non force user fights the weapon, whereas a skilled force user understands it, and in a more physically tangible sense, literally allows the weapon to guide their combat movements and style, they know when to go 'with' it and when to go 'against' it, to achieve the actual desired motion.
This is kind of sort of depicted in the Mandalorian, with the Darksaber seemingly becoming exhaustively heavy, massive, and Mando has to... learn how to use it, how to work with it.
And also: yes, Han uses a lightsaber in the OT, but most of the early expanded universe did just explain that by saying he is actually force sensitive, that his absurd luck and piloting skill in various situations does mean he is actually a untrained force user, he just also is a stubborn ass who thinks the Force is bullshit, at least initially, lol.
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But anyway, yes, they used to make lightsabers out of a wider variety of crystals, not just 'kyber'... and yes, i also do remember many different variants of how 'kyber' was actually spelled.
For the life of me I thought its proper spelling was 'khyber' until i bothered to look it up in an actual wiki in the last couple of months.
That could be me misremembering, or maybe that was what I originally read decades ago now, or maybe what i am rembering got 'telephoned' through a bunch of people first, on some forum.
....Man now I kinda want to set up SWGEmu, hahahah!
Huh.
I do not recall ever reading or hearing about what is now the 'legends' version of the canon... that lightsabers form some kind of self recycling loop, in that manner.
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But anyway, that also makes no sense in our real world physics.
It... still net expends energy to maintain plasma in a contained space.
Said plasma would want to basically explode outward in every direction, and a real world magnetic field would have to be stronger than that (real world) force, and ... also... it would be absurdly thermally hot that any wielder of a lightsaber would basically oven cook themselves within seconds of turning it on.
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As of yet, nuclear fusion in a tokomak style, contained plasma loop... is still a net energy loss, and that is the closest real world equivalent to a 'self cohering plasma bolt' that I can think of...
Barring I guess 'ball lightning', maybe, which is theorerically proposed to maybe be some kind of naturally occuring instance of something similar, but to my knowledge, no one has ever like, made a ball lightning generator to test those theories.
I would also add that they tend correlate wealth as a sign of intelligence and hold wealthy people in the highest esteem.
This is the particularly infuriating/hilarious part.
Here's a graph from a 2016 meta-analysis of what contributes more to your mid/late life overall socioeconomic status, the general wealth of your society (shared environment, C), your particular wealth and social status at birth/childhood (nonshared environment, E) or, your assessed IQ (genes, A).
This is for the US, and measures variance, the variability of how important those factors are.
As you can clearly see, red line go up.
What this means is that the wealthier you are, the more of a total crapshoot it is whether you are a genius or a moron.
Reality is the exact opposite of how idiot rightoids believe it to be, and how the smarter ones project onto everyone else as a means of social control / gaslighting / propagandizing:
The correlation between wealth and intelligence gets markedly worse, the wealthier a person you are looking at.
(I can find the link for the paper again if you wanna read through it, be warned though it is pretty stats heavy)
Apparently the cockpit voice recording caught one pilot asking why they shut off the fuel and the other denying it.
Welp.
So, yeah, sounds to me like astounding levels of incompetence from the idiot pilot.
All they had to do for the Sequel Trilogy was adapt the Thrawn series.
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Absolutely you do not have to be 100% faithful, absolutelty you can change some bits and bobs around, overemphasize a character's trait, underemphasize another, spend more or less run time developing certain people, relationships, etc.
Adjust and rewrite parts of it to make more sense with the old cast of actors being older than their characters were in the Thrawn series... and/or use all that fancy de-aging / re-voicing / face transplanting tech they have used all over the place with many of the same actual actors on other projects.
Its got new and old characters.
Its got Mara Jade, a new main female character, who is actually compelling and complex and fleshed out.
It respects the old characters, acknowledges their flaws and highlights their strengths. You actually see them face new struggles and have new failures in the actual temporal continuum of the plot... not as shoehorned momentary flashback/retcons to explain why someone is a completely different character now.
Its got more mature and serious themes and character arcs.
Its got an actually compelling main villain.
Its got a secret shadow fleet of ships... but with an actually competent explanation for them.
It got big ass space battles, and personal upfront altercations, its got strategizing and politics and intrigue.
It even ends on a victorious... but not a 'final' victorious note, leaving the gate open for you to really try and do your own thing from then after.
Its even already been functionally story boarded by being adapted into a comic book series.
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But nope, we instead got a bunch of disrepectful hacks who were convinced they could outdo everything prior, cast it all aside initially, and then started trying to copy parts of it after they realized how badly they'd fucked up.
Fucking hacks.
I'd argue Firefly, Cowboy Bebop, and also Trigun are more 'Space Western' than StarWars is.
Cascadia Subduction Zone super-earthquake.
Imagine an 8.5 to 10 mag earthquake, but instead of at one localized point, its basically continuous along about 500 to 1000 miles of a line about 250 miles out in in the Pacific, where one tectonic plate is diving under others, but has been building up friction tension for ~300 years.
And it normally snaps roughly every 250 years, the last time it happened it caused a tsunami that hit Japan, and is the origin of many PNW Native People's flood stories.
So we're ~50 years overdue for that happening again.
When I was a kid, they said it was a 1 in 20 chance happening in this century. Now they say its a 1 in 3 chance.
After this process is over, after everything gets shaken to all hell, and tsunami'd... well, in many areas, the coastal plates actually end up something like 10 to 15 feet lower than it was previously...
So those areas are now just permanently flooded, now under the new default water line.
And if we are all super duper unlucky, this massive of an event could trigger other fault lines along the NA West Coast, in say, California...
... and the Cascade mountain range...
... yeah a lot of them are actually volcanoes, which were formed by this very same plate dynamic that would be snapping in a CSZ rupture... they have just been dormant for a long time... they could potentially become more active or even erupt.
So yeah, that would/could basically destroy most of civilization roughly west of I5, on the West Coast.
I get that, sort of, that... some kind of supernatural/extradimensional energy is essentially drawn into, and then focused by the kyber crystals and the modulation systems of a light saber...
I just had not heard that they involved a mechanically spinning component.
???
Is... a personal preference... that is not universally or widely shared...
How is that not an opinion, a potentially unpopular opinion?
Like uh, in my opinion, Hawaiian pizza is great.
Many people do not agree with this opinion, do not share my personal preference.
Like, yes, generally speaking, an 'opinion' is often more broad, more wide ranging, has prescriptive solutions or suggestions for more people than just a 'personal preference'...
But OP pretty explicitly says that they have no problem with people who do regularly make their beds... they just wish people would realize its largely a cultural artefact derived from disciplinarians and military regimentation.
That last part, that's the broader opinion.
The part of your response here that I've highlighted... that is, in my understanding, a 'small' opinion, which is functionally totally equivalent to a literal 'personal preference', that does not extend beyond them, does not instruct or suggest others behave or think in a different way.