After 25 years of writing Japanese and trying many cheap and expensive options...
「Zebra Clip-on multi」
is my forever pencil (+pens).
This is Piaget's conservation of volume test. I did this experiment at school (we went to the elementary school next door and ran tests on the kids). Most of the kids said the higher one held more liquid because it was 'taller', though some said the short one had more because it was 'fatter'.
A further complication is that the aluminium is considerably thicker on the base and the top.. so there's more thin metal, and less thick metal.
Day 3170 here.. that's still what I'm doing... But in Athens, and mouse+keyboard.
💯. I also got Discworld vibes!
Ah, the best game I got for free from work.
My company's giant publishing overlord handled distribution (in our region) for the giant publishing overlord that handled distribution for the giant publishing overlord that owned Monolith. (THQ, Sega, Warner)
Ah, what a shitshow of an industry. Happy days.
I find usually when I can't articulate something clearly, it's because I haven't thought about it/researched it well enough, and I should stop trying to contribute on that topic until I have a better understanding.
That's why I often end up writing long comments, but don't hit post. Not a waste of time though, as it helps me identify areas in which I'm more ignorant than I thought I was.
In the Saigon women's museum I read about a older lady who would create mines from unexploded US ordinance and blow up US tanks with them. That's pretty badass.
My point is, by looking at one of the replies, that people might just be misunderstanding the argument being presented, as they have a different understanding of what 'inherent' means, and if you look up a dictionary definition, you can understand why.
For example: in "existing in something as a permanent, essential, or characteristic attribute.", the first two clauses are immutable, but third is mutable.
As last names are a social construct, their characteristics and usage can change over time. Just because they started as, or are predominately used as a tool of patriarchy, doesn't mean that's what they will be in the future. If you believe that something 'inherent' is an immutable trait, that you would disagree with the premise of the argument, but if you think it's just a characteristic trait, then you would generally agree - if I change my last name to 'Orange' to signify my love of the fruit/colour, it is still a last name, but has nothing to do with patriarchy, proving that patriarchy is not an immutable trait of last names.
Personally, I think that both marriage and last names are predominately used as tools to enforce patriarchy historically and currently, but can imagine that changing in the future. But when I initially looked at the OP's statement, I disagreed, because I understood 'inherent' to be an immutable trait.
I'd buy that for a dollar!
(that guy is 100% the Robocop version of Trump)
I think the downvotes come from a semantic disagreement, based on a strong or weak definition of the word 'inherent'.
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Pre-home internet I remember running a line-in to my soundblaster card from a clock radio and recording Tool's Sober to my HDD.
The wav file took up a good chunk of the HDD. After a good amount of funking around with encoding it was barely comprehensible and still took up too much room. Was exciting and felt like a glimpse of the future.