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In this latest chapter of The Invisible Man it strikes me that Griffin actually takes great pains not to kill anyone--specifically the two men in the parlor!
Granted, he does steal their clothes, which is not ideal! And he roughs them up a bit.
But he could have taken them out at any point (like the multiple times they made noise). Hell, he could have just slit their throats or strangled them at the start and not had so much trouble! His diaries were right there, he didn't need their help to find them! He could have taken them and the clothes, and not had his crimes discovered for hours!
But he doesn't. He intimidates them physically, yeah, and tries to get across that "I totally WILL kill you if I have to." But he doesn't want to. He just wants some clothes, and money to buy food, and his books to try and reverse the invisibility.
He is hardly the embodiment of "science without humanity" that most people claim.
It took until chapter 26 of 28 for Griffin to commit murder, and that after being driven into a corner between stinging nettles and a gravel pit by a man who'd been beating at him with a stick. And he was heard afterwards "wailing and laughing, sobbing and groaning."
And it's not like he doesn't have a temper! He definitely tends more to Fight than to Flight or Fawning when pressed. But in this case he was trying to fly, and was backed into a corner by a man with a stick, and lashed out. Probably he didn't actually mean to kill the man, but being armed with an iron pipe (more likely intended for breaking windows and locked doors, to get at food, than for breaking heads) it would have been easy to misjudge the force he was applying as he lashed out, especially since he was, again, backed into a corner and so probably not thinking straight.
And, spoilers below the cut:
"There's no thought crimes and no thought heroisms" is honestly such a good piece of life advice.
You could be having the most fucked up problematic thoughts 24/7 but if you treat people with kindness, the good you do is the only thing that matters. But if you have only the purest thoughts and all the correct beliefs, it doesn't matter one bit if you spend most of your time being an asshole to people.
I volunteered with a Catholic non-profit when I was in-between jobs. The people there held all sorts of beliefs that I find despicable, they'd regularly open their mouths and say the exact opposite of everything I believe in. Even stuff that deeply offended me.
But they were the only ones in my old city preparing and serving homemade meals to anyone who needed them twice a day, while also providing showers, washing clothes, hygiene products, haircuts, helping people with their medications, re-dressing wounds, navigating the healthcare system and keeping track of appointments on people's behalf. We'd literally walk across the city once a week looking for people who were sleeping outside and offering them help. I was tasked with bringing fresh clothes to a man who was in a wheelchair and would've had a hard time coming to us several times. The impact we had was immense. So many people were happier and healthier because of us.
There were plenty feminist, queer-friendly, leftist organizations, activist groups and non-profits that I knew of in the city, but none of them were coming even close to doing that much. So I volunteered with the Catholics.
I wasn't the only anti-catholic there either. The laundry was on most days ran by me, a then closeted trans guy, and one of my favorite people there, an older butch lesbian line cook. But we bit our tongues and skipped the prayers because we were there to help people.
Despite their ideological beliefs, the people working and volunteering there were kind. They tried their best to help and even if they often stepped on people's toes because of their beliefs, they gave so much and wanted nothing in return. Things happened and it didn't even have to be said that we would not call the cops. We had no security. The people in charge were all middle aged mothers who handled the majority older male regulars expertly.
I'm sure there were plenty of people in the city with all the right beliefs about homelessness, addiction, poverty etc., but the Catholics with terrible ideas about everything were the ones actually doing shit.
This reminds me of that post from awhile ago that was like "Sure, your boyfriend says he supports abortion rights, but does he do the dishes?" You can spout all the left-wing catchphrases—and even genuinely hold left-wing ideals—and still be a hypocrite and shitty person.
One year during pride in my old city, a gay couple called the cops on a homeless man who called them a slur and I remember seeing it in the news and feeling conflicted about it. Now that I've actually met and talk to most of the homeless people there, I'm not conflicted anymore.
The Catholics didn't call the cops when a volunteer got strangled. He said it wasn't necessary and went right back to serving food. Sure, he'd regularly grumble about guys being shirtless inside on hot summer days with no AC because it's "immodest", but after that I had nothing but respect for him.
I think a lot of like discourse of what to focus on with this or that thing gets the end goal and things to ease newcomers into your ideas confused with each other.
Like yes perhaps the end goal is to get UBI going but if your Uncle Jerry is currently struggling with the concept of taxes maybe get him to understand the cost of road maintenance first before you start trying to get him onboard with free preschool.
Also just because someone is explaining the concept of taxes to Uncle Jerry doesn’t mean they don’t believe in free childcare.
Yes those ramps are for people with mobility aids. Able bodied moms with strollers can manage. But if you hear your neighbor Jessica complaining about how hard it is to get on the sidewalk with a stroller that can be an opening to be like ugh right and my sister can’t even get her walker up there either
Like yeah there’s other things more important to focus on but now you’ve got Jessica thinking about accessibility and she’s very good at writing angry letters to the city council.
Also I got my family to be politically anti-car by showing them cool technology like Dutch pedestrian-centric crossing lights and trolley busses because they’re people that are into neat technology and motors and things like that. The angry politics came later. Now they even take the bus once in a while in the car-centric city they live in.
Obviously neat little fun facts about crossing lights aren’t the end all be all of being politically anti-car but it’s a fun icebreaker for the right kind of person. And you shouldn’t assume that better crossing lights are my end goal just because I open with that.
The objective of this observation is to examine a small channel on an old crater wall. The channel has cut through the rim in two places, and this scene, located north of the Hellas region, is also visible in Context Camera data. (Image cutout is less than 5 km across.)
ID: ESP_075323_1555 date: 21 August 2022 altitude: 255 km
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
May 24-31 2024
Bonus: Today, May 31st 2024, is the last day of the Affordable Connectivity Program. The program helped 23 million Americans connect to the internet while saving them $30 to $75 dollars every month. Despite repeated calls from President Biden Republicans in Congress have refused to act to renew the program. The White House has worked with private companies to get them to agree to extend the savings to the end of 2024. The Biden Administration has invested $90 Billion high-speed internet investments. Such as $42.45 billion for Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment, $1 billion for the The Middle Mile program laying 12,000 miles of regional fiber networks, and distributed nearly 30,000 connected devices to students and communities, including more than 3,600 through the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program
Hello everybody with summer fast approaching here is your regular reminder that:
Okay, people are clowning in the replies, so let’s try this again:
Sunburn is an uncomfortable short term problem caused by being out in the sun for too long without sunscreen. Some people are more susceptible to it than others. Melanin does protect you from sunburn, so people with dark skin are less likely to get burned, but also sometimes people just have a natural resistance to sunburn (or lack of resistance) - I’m white as hell, and literally the only time in my life I’ve gotten a sunburn was when I spent a whole day outside in a swimsuit without putting on sunscreen when I was a kid, and all I got was a minor burn across my shoulders. Never experienced that whole ‘peeling’ thing y’all are talking about, sounds super gross and uncomfortable tho. Rip to all the rest of you but i’m different.
Skin cancer is fucking cancer. It has nothing to do with sunburn, apart from both being caused by a lot of unprotected sun exposure. If you have skin, you are at risk of getting skin cancer. I have little to no risk of getting sunburn, but I still wear sunscreen, because I am protecting myself from fucking skin cancer.
If someone is basically immune to sunburn, then that’s awesome, but we still need to use just as much sunscreen as everyone else. Because we can still get skin cancer. Immunity to sunburn is not a sign that you can go easy on the sunscreen. And honestly, if you’ve got dark skin, you should probably be extra paranoid about applying sunscreen, because the majority of information on recognizing skin cancer is meant specifically for recognizing it on white skin. If you’re black/brown, it will probably take you longer to be diagnosed if you get skin cancer. And cancer is one of those things that you want diagnosed and treated very quickly, so you should be extra motivated to not get skin cancer in the first place.
Everyone needs to wear sunscreen. Wear your fucking sun screen.
“You know…Link…There’s something I’ve been meaning to talk to you about…”
(Big thank you to @newtsnaturethings for the crash course on how to color wings!)
WAIT THIS HAD ME ON THE FLOOR WHERE ARE ALL THE NOTES??? EVERYONE GET ON THIS!!! COME ON!!!
that was everything I was hoping it would be. marvelous
I love this because you know exactly where it's going and you're not disappointed
I was so looking forward for the Jupiter gravity and it didn't disappoint and THEN THE SUN GRAVITY MADE ME HOLLER
The Heron Galaxy, Arp 84 // Brian M.
The two galaxies are NGC 5395 (larger, center) and NGC 5394 (smaller, lower right).
Two globular clusters: M53 (right) and NGC 5053 (left) // Dale Penkala
Two globular clusters: M53 (right) and NGC 5053 (left) // Dale Penkala
The Question Mark Nebula, NGC 7822 // Denis Peter
The dot is a separate nebula, Sh2-170, from the question ʔ part is NGC 7822 or Sh2-171.
Sky is having a calm morning with Aryl, telling her about Skyloft. Wind and Wild.... Quite the opposite.
Twi doesn't have light clothes, most of Wild's clothes are magical but one red shirt, fortunately it fits Twi even if it's tight. Twi didn't want to get in the water, Wind pushed him in, so now he has to ask a shirt (again)
Wild is immortalizing Twi's misery.
Legend as well refuses to go near the water. Wars decides to take care of it.
Now they know why Legend didn't want to go in the water. Four is starting to think that everyone in this group has a secret transformation. Wild asks the real questions. Legend is thinking to kill all three of them.
This are all fun quick sketch so they may not look the best (Four was fucking hard to draw) I have other ideas for the Chain's "Beach Episode" so maybe I will do more, maybe not. Depends on my inspiration.
or, Billy Batson's Unwilling Observation of his Adult™️ Coworkers Love Lives
actually you know what? i absolutely love tusken sign language. i think it's fucking fantastic how we're able to see that type of thing, especially with characters that we don't see expressions for most of the time. as a person who knows (american) sign language myself, a lot of signing is based off of non-manual signals, relying on a lot of facial expressions and often times exaggerated movements in order to get things across clearly. the tuskens way of signing doesn't rely on facial expressions, which i think is so interesting. the tuskens understood din as he signed, and since their facial expressions aren't perfectly clear either, i think it's fascinating how their language doesn't rely on non-manual signals. the creator of the tusken sign language (troy kotsur!!) is Deaf and his development of the language is so interesting to explore, especially since he said that he created TSL to be completely different than ASL. he said "My goal was to avoid ASL. I made sure it became Tusken Sign Language based on their culture and environment." and that's BEYOND interesting to explore more into. i wish to see more, and even expand on tusken culture or just signing and the cultures surrounding it in star wars. i think we could've gotten so much more if disney weren't cowards, and i just love to think about how diverse the star wars galaxy really is and how much inclusion we can see in that.
