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In my defence, it’s hard to get a towel that can withstand both daily use and a 100 million degrees Kelvin.
Not in blue, anyway.

Not in blue, anyway.
Do they have Williams Sonoma in the UK? They’re a little expensive but they carry everything in the way of specialty items.
This is bright blue and is good to 95-million kelvin, but might do in a pinch.
My wife has dish towels that are 25 years old and still look good.

“People like me are endangered and now they want to make me extinct.”
I think we have heard this before, what now ? First they came for the dwarves…

This view tends to be stronger in the US, where there is, says Joe Stramondo, a professor of philosophy at San Diego State University and a disability rights activist, “a more robust dwarf culture and identity…We recognise our situation as being one of oppression, and of being subjected to stigma as being the main source of our difficulty in the world. When you have that community, that sounding board, you’re going to have more pushback to a drug like this.”

Prevent kids from developing major medical problems later in life, or a more robust dwarf culture. Tough choice for Teh Party of Science!™. Oh well, I think the obvious thing is those of us over 6 feet (1.83€) can always identify as little people, or what ever the PC term du jour is.

[ Reactor throb intensifies. ]
Are you certain it’s your reactor that’s throbbing?

We recognise our situation as being one of oppression, and of being subjected to stigma as being the main source of our difficulty in the world.
As we’ve noted before, there’s a lot of displacement and denial among disabled activists – not least those in academia’s Clown Quarter. Apparently, we’re expected to believe that Professor Stramondo, quoted above, doesn’t resent being born a dwarf, and has never been particularly unhappy about his size and vulnerability, or the various issues and health problems that his condition entails, from difficulty walking and getting dressed, to arthritis and spinal damage.
Instead, we’re expected to believe that the professor is oppressed, but only by “stigma,” and, it seems, by the possibility of a cure, which could spare others the same misfortune.

But then neither of them is woke.
Aye, there’s the rub.
Makes all the difference, it does.

And so, a preference for not being disabled is construed, ludicrously, as “oppression” and “violence,” and a basis for woke chastisement.
It takes a lot of rhetorical sleight-of-hand to claim that being deaf or blind or morbidly obese is not a disability. Recently a severely autistic jerk insisted that being unable to perceive and empathize with others’ emotions was not a disability and that we should all celebrate him in the name of “neurodiversity”, even or especially because of how he had verbally abused various people.

pst
Your mention of deafness being considered a blessing puts me in mind of the film Children of a Lesser God and the performance of Marlee Matlin. Somewhat ironically her blessing severely limited her subsequent career and the inevitable transition to “activist” followed. In that one role though she was gorgeous.

Don’t call riots ‘riots’.
“Please stop noticing reality, citizens.”

Don’t call riots ‘riots’.
Enemy. Of. The. People.

Speaking of which: New York Times chief outlines coverage shift: From Trump-Russia to Trump racism
“We built our newsroom to cover one story, and we did it truly well,” Baquet said. “Now we have to regroup, and shift resources and emphasis to take on a different story.”
Manufacturing all the news that’s fit to print. One story at a time!

I offer these Aphorisms for an Antifa Age:
“Riots” is white-naming the act of POCs reclaiming their Being.
One man’s riots is another mans rights!
NFL football is the white masters’ way of diverting Black bodies from claiming their rights! The slow-motion riot of a football game substitutes for taking to the streets, and benumbs the masses through alcohol, fatty and sugary snacks, and TV.
The only vote that counts is a Molotov cocktail hurled into a voting booth!
Now you do some….

I may be biased, but I am just not getting a “Ride of the Valkyries” vibe here.
. . . . . “Professional” Wrestling fans.

That doesn’t seem like so much a secret plan as the inevitable result of putting malevolent fuckwits in charge of education.
Well, the problem of athletes being enrolled in non-courses so they don’t accidentally flunk out has been going on for decades. And I don’t think it’s so much the universities, as we tend to have similar problems here in Canada where NHL athletes are drafted straight out of high school and tend to have similar trajectories, although they tend to do slightly better in the long run.
The first variation on this lunacy that I encountered had to do with deafness.
Deaf culture is a huge thing. Deaf parents have refused to have their born-deaf children fitted with inexpensive implants because of it. The teen drama/insulting agitprop show Switched At Birth[1] was based on it.
[1] Despite what you might think, the show was not about the two female leads having been accidentally being switched at birth in the hospital but rather about deaf culture, growing up deaf, and how deaf people are just like everyone else except hotter and smarter. Yes, Marlee Matlin was in it.

Deaf culture is a huge thing. Deaf parents have refused to have their born-deaf children fitted with inexpensive implants because of it. The teen drama/insulting agitprop show Switched At Birth[1] was based on it.

I vaguely recall one of the Law & Order spinoffs (I think) having an episode with that premise, too.
MOPE (Most Oppressed People Evah) dwarves can take it up with Brad Williams.