Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

Found out I will have to wait one more week to learn whether I am funded for the fall semester and my anxiety is so bad I briefly considered dropping out just to have some certainty, ha ha ha

Great 2020 joke look I started grad school in 2021 ok

Feel like getting a PhD does actually mean you're a Certified Freak

@kit literally he goes to a gold mine and is like "whoa"

Making a live action movie that feels like an anime (eg John Wick) is OK

This applies to pretty much every attempt to do live action versions of anime, I guess

Watching Ghost in the Shell and it is amazing anyone thought doing a live action adaptation was necessary

To be fair this book is basically "an economist just found out commodities are real things from places" my expectations should be lower

So after the author goes all gee whiz concrete can end poverty, he gets into the carbon footprint of it and all the negative impacts which to me reads as very like "we can solve poverty or stop climate change but not both!!" Seems like a bad way to frame this!

It may be both were true, huh

Also has lines like "Sand is what will help us pull millions out of destitution and poverty" re: concrete and that "us" vs "millions" makes some interesting assumptions!! Also he's talking about concrete which, my guy

I just. Think. If you want to write about silica just say that!! Calling it sand is sloppy!!

Oh no I'm reviewing a book about "the six raw materials that make civilization" and I'm already furious at it because it conflates sand and rock quartz

@phil a Nobel prize to whoever can answer this one

Once again facing the impossible to answer question of "are you the worst person in the world undeserving of any compassion or just tired and hungry"