Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back
I may have reblogged this one yesterday, but after a night shift I feel it bears repeating…
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Oh just this.
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NYPD Has a Plan to Magically Turn Anyone It Wants Into a Felon
NYPD Has a Plan to Magically Turn Anyone It Wants Into a Felon
On Wednesday, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton urged state legislators to consider increasing the penalty for resisting arrest from a misdemeanor to a felony. The change, he argued, would help New Yorkers “get around this idea that you can resist arrest. You can’t.”Why doesn’t this have more notes? The implications of this are world-stopping, and if you think it’ll end with NYC you’re dead wrong.
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A reminder that “male” armour usually works just as well with female bodies. If you’re trying to design something practical, useful and historical looking (or even just something the follows the laws of physics), never ever put in boob cups. Aside from the fact they give the armour a sort of “focus point” for swords, falling down on them would send the shock right into the sternum. Regular plate armour leaves enough space between the chest for small to medium sized boobs anyway. But say the girl underneath is a buxom lass, you can still avoid that cleavage, boob cup shape while leaving enough space for her melons.
But aside from plate, things like the top picture, chainmail and all sorts of leather armour are unisex. I know you might be thinking that the feminine thing to do when designing a female warrior is to show off a bit of thigh or neck or cleavage or something, but really, understand that if the goal of that armour is to protect completely, putting an obvious gap in it is a terrible idea and she’ll surely get stabbed very quickly.
And don’t feed me the “it’s magic, I don’t got to explain shit” line. Bollox. Magic armour and forcefields need to make some sense too. Show me something that LOOKS like it’s generating a barrier over the character instead of just saying “Oh the G-string of Invulnerability is just as good as wearing full plate anyway”. If that’s the case, everyone would wear it. And why can’t they just tie it around their belt? Make me believe that your magic armour and spells have logic to them. If not, please don’t play your world straight. I’m all for super stylised designs as long as they’re sold as such, but if you’re trying to make a world that feels real enough for people to believe and get immersed in, think this stuff out. If you’ve designed someone with sparse, gapped armour that shows skin, give your character a reason to wear it.
I’ve got some folks following my Tumblr who have a thing for women in (good) armor. Enjoy, guys and gals!
Even a fandom blog needs women in gorgeous, realistic armor.
I’m a woman and I make chainmaille armour (even made some plate back in the day). The only time I made something different for a woman was when I put ‘extensions’ into a maille shirt because she was pregnant and needed more room for her bump.
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capitalist: communism only works on paper
capitalist: we just need the rich to voluntarily give up their wealth, every individual poor person to fix poverty on their own, and the job market to function as a meritocracy despite the existence of nepotism and huge disparities in access to education, and capitalism will be fine -
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And on it goes
Amazingly it seems to be working. So long as I don’t do the ‘copy entire disks full of data around’ thing or ask it to access all the disks at once, the media server seems to be serving media. Yay.
It’s still working its way through cataloguing everything in Plex*, and LMS will have to rebuild its catalogue when that’s done. Then I can box it up and move it back to the server room where I won’t have to listen to the constant drone of the hard disks…
I managed to get Plex updated so I can access it from my phone (and I can ‘share’ stuff between myself and friends, which is nice), I just need to add the XBMC (aka Kodi) plug in for Plex, which I’ll do when I’ve moved the server bac, since it lands on a different IP address when it’s in the cupboard (because I didn’t floodwire upstairs, because I’m a lazy toad, so it connects through a wireless adaptor).
* It turned out that whilst the directories had access permissions set so that Plex could see them, the disk itself was set such that only I could see it. I don’t know why. None of the others were set up that way**.
** Also, I can’t remember how I set up my fstab before, because I managed to get it to happily mount a disk with both a hyphen and an é in the name (I know, I’m a bad, bad person) – but I’ve singularly failed to do that this time. I ended up renaming Guy-Blaché to Guy-Blache and it still seems to have a bit of a strop about that hyphen. Looks fine when using it, but looks bloody odd when accessed remotely. -
Read this story from Matt Pearce at the LA Times. Totally nuts. Truth stranger than fiction type stuff.
