How did Skype become the most popular IM and call application when it is possibly the most ornery and broken software I have ever willingly interacted with
I had the great pleasure today of being the Google doodle artist for Google Canada! It is for the birthday of Henrietta Edwards, a kickass lady. See more info on it, and on Henrietta, here in the doodle archive! It can only be seen on Canadian homepages, but the archive is from everywhere!
We lump the Famous Five in together for obvious reasons, but in recent times, people have called them out for their racism and views on Eugenics. These were all affluent white ladies! To be sure. But these were five separate women. When you talk about those views, the shadows of Nellie McClung and Emily White, better known than the rest, loom large and on top of everyone else. Their opinions are uh, hard to miss. And it’s good indeed that their less noble views are well known now, instead of conveniently “forgotten.”
Henrietta Edwards was a good 20 years older than the rest of the Famous Five, and she was no advocate for eugenics or selective immigration in the same way. She fought for women’s right to property, to health, to work and to education. Here is an article I just read, for example, about her relationship with First Nations communities she lived in where her husband was a doctor. It’s definitely written in her favor, but provides some more context for her life and views beyond “Person’s Case” which is where most Canadian history texts will pick up her name and drop it.
I thought it was an important note to add, because it was important to Google when they contacted me about doing a doodle of one of the Famous Five.
this makes so much sense but it makes me so uncomfortable
i wish i hadn’t seen this
One time my bf was telling me about people who argue about intelligent creation by saying “the earth is perfectly round!” And I said “but it isn’t!” And he was so proud of me
wtf is this true????
gloucesterroad It looks round in pictures because it’s covered in water! This is a dry Earth, and the water distributes around it (almost) evenly because of gravity and spinning and stuff, and because flowy things tend to flow down into the dents. If you look closely, you’ll see that the continents are on the highest bits. The rest is ocean. (That’s my not-so-very scientific explanation. It works kinda like that, though.)
That’s actually a geoid! It’s basically what the Earth would look like if everything were shifted around to have the same gravitational potential, and you ignored the effects of everything except its own rotation and gravity.
Speaking as a person who is edging up on middle age in the adulthood department: this applies to life in general. You see those adults around you who are adulting and making it look easy? They’re totally faking it. No one knows what the fuck they’re doing. We’re all just shredding the boring shit and hoping we don’t fuck up too badly.
This is 6000% true. It was the most amazing realization when I figured out that the most competent person I knew was actually just making it up as they went along half the time.
Being an adult is actually just learning how fake everything (taxes, buying stuff at the grocery store, half the stuff you do at your job) and making it look like you know what you’re doing.
