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rydra_wong said about ways it's OK to use DW:
The things I prefer about Dreamwidth include that it's more text-focused (not inherently better, but it fits better with how I think), and that it seems to promote interaction and Tumblr seemed to discourage it. "I like that photo" is interaction.
I sometimes make posts with cut tags that have labels like "details cut to avoid boredom," and someone I know occasionally uses the subject line "don't be interesting, just post" to deal with the mental "is this good enough to share?"
A thing I like about almost all blogging platforms is that each user chooses which blogs/bloggers to read. The fanatic with the megaphone doen't drown out the quiet person talking about geology or old books; I don't have to watch a police drama before getting to see the Muppet Show or a detailed discussion of the weather.
On DW, I also have reading filters, with labels including "priority" (if I'm short on time) and "lower stress" (because some days I can't deal with news and politics(. "What should I have for lunch?" and "here's a photo of a tree" are low-stress; at least a third of my own posts wouldn't be, from someone else.
I looked at a KOMO story about people frantically stocking up, and what I said tocattitude is "they don't have the idea of a French toast storm, they're busy stocking up on snow shovels and de-icer." Stuff that might be sitting near the cash register at Target here, but most people who need them have, because we need them more frequently.
But "I didn't bring a snow shovel when I moved here, and this is the first time I've needed it" isn't a weird thing, and neither is having moved to Seattle from someplace where it seldom snows. I left my snow shovel behind when I moved into this apartment building, because we're not going to need to shovel while we're here, and will get a new one if/when we move to someplace where we do have to shovel. The tradeoff of "what will a new one cost?" versus storing it, and paying to move it twice, meant it wasn't worth it. (Movers charge by the hour and/or the pound; either way, a snow shovel doesn't add much to the price, but it's not quite zero, either.)
kaberett posted about the point, or lack thereof, of stretching, with an emphasis on how it affects them as a person with EDS (which I don't have):
I read (an earlier version of) the linked article several years ago, and decided "OK, stretch after the workout, not before." And that seemed to work at least as well as stretching before I exercised, as I saw some people doing.
Then I had a bunch of PT (a couple of places, at different times, for different things) and am now stretching beforehand, because that's what they had me doing at the PT places. And wondering whether that's because the physical therapists were using old methods, or because in PT (at least this PT) the stretching is a thing in itself. I had stretching-only sessions before they started on strengthening exercises, at all the PT places.
I think more research may be called for, and I don't know whether Ingraham addresses this. Anecdotally, there is one of the PT-derived exercises that has hurt when I did it without stretching, but that's not even "this exercise requires stretching first," it's "one of the several times I've done this without stretching, my muscle cramped."
(If I do find anything, I will probably post on my own journal, unless it's today or tomorrow, in which case I'll come back and comment here.)
conuly was grumbling about an sf story in which human explorers keep asking the other species they meet what gender prnouns they use, without ever considering that there might be other ways to choose pronouns, because another culture or species might find (say) eye color more significant than gender:
Yes. If you know that the aliens use pronouns at all, it's reasonable to ask "what pronouns should I use for you?" That at least might get you a useful answer for (among other things) species that use pronouns for female, male, and "child who has not yet decided what sex to be," but also for "we just met, so we should address each other as Usted" or ""I'm calling you 'tu' because my religious practice means I use that for everyone, please address me that way."
Both of those might lead to a follow-up of "I will do that, and would also like to know how to refer to you if I'm talking to other people. My culture uses different pronouns for women, men, artificial intelligences, and children, plus one to use when we don't know the person's gender." And then the person from the other culture can give an answer in those terms, or "we use 'zie' for all people, biological or otherwise, and 'it' for animals, rocks, fire, and water."
Spinning off something
rydra_wong said about ways it's OK to use DW:The things I prefer about Dreamwidth include that it's more text-focused (not inherently better, but it fits better with how I think), and that it seems to promote interaction and Tumblr seemed to discourage it. "I like that photo" is interaction.
I sometimes make posts with cut tags that have labels like "details cut to avoid boredom," and someone I know occasionally uses the subject line "don't be interesting, just post" to deal with the mental "is this good enough to share?"
A thing I like about almost all blogging platforms is that each user chooses which blogs/bloggers to read. The fanatic with the megaphone doen't drown out the quiet person talking about geology or old books; I don't have to watch a police drama before getting to see the Muppet Show or a detailed discussion of the weather.
On DW, I also have reading filters, with labels including "priority" (if I'm short on time) and "lower stress" (because some days I can't deal with news and politics(. "What should I have for lunch?" and "here's a photo of a tree" are low-stress; at least a third of my own posts wouldn't be, from someone else.
I looked at a KOMO story about people frantically stocking up, and what I said to
cattitude is "they don't have the idea of a French toast storm, they're busy stocking up on snow shovels and de-icer." Stuff that might be sitting near the cash register at Target here, but most people who need them have, because we need them more frequently.But "I didn't bring a snow shovel when I moved here, and this is the first time I've needed it" isn't a weird thing, and neither is having moved to Seattle from someplace where it seldom snows. I left my snow shovel behind when I moved into this apartment building, because we're not going to need to shovel while we're here, and will get a new one if/when we move to someplace where we do have to shovel. The tradeoff of "what will a new one cost?" versus storing it, and paying to move it twice, meant it wasn't worth it. (Movers charge by the hour and/or the pound; either way, a snow shovel doesn't add much to the price, but it's not quite zero, either.)
kaberett posted about the point, or lack thereof, of stretching, with an emphasis on how it affects them as a person with EDS (which I don't have):I read (an earlier version of) the linked article several years ago, and decided "OK, stretch after the workout, not before." And that seemed to work at least as well as stretching before I exercised, as I saw some people doing.
Then I had a bunch of PT (a couple of places, at different times, for different things) and am now stretching beforehand, because that's what they had me doing at the PT places. And wondering whether that's because the physical therapists were using old methods, or because in PT (at least this PT) the stretching is a thing in itself. I had stretching-only sessions before they started on strengthening exercises, at all the PT places.
I think more research may be called for, and I don't know whether Ingraham addresses this. Anecdotally, there is one of the PT-derived exercises that has hurt when I did it without stretching, but that's not even "this exercise requires stretching first," it's "one of the several times I've done this without stretching, my muscle cramped."
(If I do find anything, I will probably post on my own journal, unless it's today or tomorrow, in which case I'll come back and comment here.)
conuly was grumbling about an sf story in which human explorers keep asking the other species they meet what gender prnouns they use, without ever considering that there might be other ways to choose pronouns, because another culture or species might find (say) eye color more significant than gender:Yes. If you know that the aliens use pronouns at all, it's reasonable to ask "what pronouns should I use for you?" That at least might get you a useful answer for (among other things) species that use pronouns for female, male, and "child who has not yet decided what sex to be," but also for "we just met, so we should address each other as Usted" or ""I'm calling you 'tu' because my religious practice means I use that for everyone, please address me that way."
Both of those might lead to a follow-up of "I will do that, and would also like to know how to refer to you if I'm talking to other people. My culture uses different pronouns for women, men, artificial intelligences, and children, plus one to use when we don't know the person's gender." And then the person from the other culture can give an answer in those terms, or "we use 'zie' for all people, biological or otherwise, and 'it' for animals, rocks, fire, and water."
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