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adr wrote:omg it is so fucking cold now

i miss the summer already

RogueIce wrote:So my laptop gives me a message, saying my battery capacitor rating or whatever is now "Poor". I don't remember what it called the thing, but basically it says my battery won't hold a charge as well anymore, this is a normal thing for batteries...and oh by the way here's the website to buy a new one.

Infinity Biscuit wrote:like is tupping a word

Darksi4190 wrote:So i've decided to give the whole "creativity" thing a shot and write a fanfic. Would anyone be interested in doing some beta reading? Knowledge of the Star Wars and Macross franchises is recommended but not required.

Darksi4190 wrote:So i've decided to give the whole "creativity" thing a shot and write a fanfic. Would anyone be interested in doing some beta reading? Knowledge of the Star Wars and Macross franchises is recommended but not required.

The Spartan wrote:

adr wrote:omg it is so fucking cold now

i miss the summer already

FUCK YOU IT'S STILL HOT!

evilsoup wrote:SG1 was good before all the farscape people started turning up
I'm still annoyed that Carter wasn't made leader of the team

I wrote:Bruce Lerro's Power In Eden had some interesting commentary that kind of ties into this. It was probably women who invented and controlled early horticulture, as it was an extension of their gathering activities. As such, in these early societies, women would tend to be associated with culture and men with nature. You can see traces of this in how Enkidu is severed from nature and forced to accept civilization in Gilgamesh. But then you got plow agriculture involving heavier labor which turned food production into a more male-dominated activity, and with this you got our modern mindset that equates men with culture and women with nature. Culture was now seen to flow from man, the rational pinnacle of creation whose mission was to organize the world, while women were analogized to the earth; another irrational, natural thing that rational men had to control and impose order and utilize to enable his own higher purposes. Women are there to do icky natural stuff like have babies so the men can spend their days in the "higher" purposes of mental contemplation, philosophizing, engineering, ruling etc. This is the traditional schema of gender in Western civilization.

It's funny how well this scheme fits with the idea that men are biologically less susceptible to appeals to emotion because savannah ancestors, doesn't it? It's another re-iteration of the idea that men are superior in rationality (which historically has been used to justify the "need" for the men with their superior rationality to control the less rational and intelligent women).

I leave it as an exercise to the reader what this might have to do with why you see more men in a social group that prides itself on being "rationalist."

Dooey Jo wrote:man mine started saying the same thing a while back and now won't charge past 80%

however it can apparently stay at like 5% for an hour

Dooey Jo wrote:who uses laptops without power supply nearby anyway

Big Orangutan wrote:

evilsoup wrote:SG1 was good before all the farscape people started turning up
I'm still annoyed that Carter wasn't made leader of the team

After seeing a late episode of SG-1 one recent evening ("Bounty", an episode shamelessly cribbing from Grosse Pointe Blank), I get the impression the casting of Ben Browder and Claudia Black as not the root cause for SG-1 creatively collapsing in the final reason but more of a symptom of desperate producers attempting to shake up a flagging show (IMO the creative rot was slowly setting in by the seventh season, as it usually happens).

Infinity Biscuit wrote:So I'm reading about the takeover of Ottoman Egypt by Muhammad Ali