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@kavi.bsky.social

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PhD student posting about politics while I wait for experiments to run. endorsements != endorsements. min flow is max cut they/them Developer and operator of urbanstats.org 📍 Cambridge Mass

1984 calendar meme where it says "a senator who died is being succeeded by his sibling who he had previously adopted" with the page being turned to "January 84"

Okay genuinely whoever decided the design of a box of Band-Aids should be imprisoned Why do they have a bunch of tiny ones that could only be useful for the kinds of injuries where you don't really need one at all Like if I'm reaching for a Band-Aid it's because my injury is big enough that can't stop bleeding without it And like, why is the design of the package such that to open it you need to very carefully and dexterously tear the packaging that is roughly the same size as the content, with basically no padding whatsoever, or perforation or anything Like in this situation your hands are covered with blood ldk it just feels like either an insane product or they're microoptimizing it for not very serious situations where frankly you can just dab the blood away and move on with your day
Anyway the part of my apartment near where store medicines now looks like a crime scene

(34] Trajan to Pliny.
You have conceived the idea that a guild of firemen might be formed in Nicomedia on the model of various others already existing. But it is to be remembered that your province of Bithynia, and especially city states like Nicomedia, are the prey of factions. Whatever name we may give to those who form an association, and whatever the reason of the association may be, they will soon degenerate into secret societies. It is better policy to provide appliances for mastering conflagrations and encourage property owners to make use of them, and, if occasion demands, press the crowd which collects into the same service.