When no one was looking, China

built forty nuclear power units.

They built 40 nuclear power units.

That's as many as four tens.

And that's awesome.

Keep a consistent schedule, always engage with chat, keep talking even when chat is dead. Can you keep up a stream of interesting observations and stories for an hour, just talking to an empty room? (Record yourself trying, ding yourself if you go 30 seconds without being engaging.)

Honestly, the people who manage to build up a successful variety stream from the ground up by doing that kind of freak me out. The alternative is to win a championship at something or get world record on a speedrun, so those people show up to see you do your thing, then start the consistent and engaging grind, and slowly pivot to variety content. (Maybe it says something about me personally that "simply become the world champion at something" sounds easier than talking to an empty room for hours a day.)

nazi germany was before you were born

still feel cool about liking old things now?

If you're able to do the work, go home, and just completely forget about it and do something else, that's a very cushy job. The people who get completely invested in CS projects get chewed up and discarded by the industry.

It's the 90s and you're a business ghoul trying to claw your way up to entrench yourself further and claw your way up above your peers. You shop around for fringe ideologues whose ideas would end up advancing your position, and invest some money to get them into into think tanks, advertising firms, talk shows, and the like. The reach of broadcast media explodes, the industry expands and everyone who got in early rises to the top, including your useful idiots. The propaganda industry gets better at its job, and you're still listening to the TV. You bought these messages because they were convenient to you, but they're so good at their job now that they've convinced you too. You're now a true believer in whatever nonsense was tactically convenient to you 30 years ago.

(As fun as this narrative is, I'd like to point out that adding more details makes a story less likely to be true while making it sound more likely to be true.)

The sectarian BS is symptomatic of a deeper problem - no modern western left wing movement has a viable theory of victory. If some group puts together a set of tactics that advance a strategy that repeatably provides material victories, then everyone will fall in line because that movement keeps winning. Until then, we'll all argue over which idealistic horseshit is a more palatable excuse for why we're not winning but some day we will be.

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I'm linking to their US tag, because I like it, and it's somewhat buried on their website. The US is not their core area of coverage, so it does a nice job of filtering out coverage the latest media circus. Their reporting is even-handed, and their biggest recurring bias is elevating the importance of US-South American trade deals (which, like, yeah, understandable).

Their world coverage is also good. Doesn't have the same layer-of-removal that the US coverage does though.

If you took all your DNA, straightened it out, and put it end-to-end, you would die.

Mushroom foraging can be safe, but the rules are:

• Always learn from a local guide first. It's not transferable to other regions. Which makes books a bad way to do it, and the internet a horrible way.
• You don't rule out dangerous mushrooms, you identify a specific edible mushroom.
• Never trust a little white mushroom.

A bollard isn't edible, even once.

Google search peaked in 2014 - that's when it'd let you do "that movie where [horribly vague summary of an incidental scene]" and get you the answer.

But the complete dropoff started in 2019, when they started letting the ad team remove anti-spam features to game their numbers.

I hope they get all the skins working, and it becomes popular on Linux.

It's also easier area. Cheeks and neck are way flatter than chin.

I've been meaning to set up a self-hosted RSS feed aggregator, but the install instructions for FreshRSS were extremely confusing, and then I got busy.

Skinflute.

They're clearly not doing it out of the goodness of their hearts, they're just trying to get the achievement.

in my partícular case is I literally don't care which ones they use. Hm. Not sure what that means.

Some people don't have internal gender feelings and just go with whatever they were assigned at birth out of convenience. I actually started that way and slowly drifted to feeling like my assigned gender much later in life.

Other times, someone realizing that is the first sign they're trans. If you ask a group of trans people, that'll probably be some of their origin stories. But I don't think it's actually that common overall (trans people are rare!). So what I'd recommend to you, and the other five people reading this that identify with your statement, is that you all sit down and think about your gender feelings a bit, so the trans one can get on with her life.

But anyway, pronouns options for the "assigned male but I don't care" crowd are he/him, he/them, they/them, he/him/any, and any. For that last one, in a crowd where people are saying pronouns, you'd just say "any pronouns are fine". (Long time hexbears know I used to rock the he/him/any.)

Are my pronouns he/him?

Probably. Your pronouns are what you want them to be. If someone says "I saw shapis at the park yesterday, but he looked busy so I didn't say hi to him," are he and him what you want in those positions?

(I'm going to assume you're a he/him for the rest of this, but if you want something else let me know and I'll edit the post.)

Is that how I should tell people?

Yeah, you'd say "my pronouns are he/him."

Do you actually tell them as you meet them? Do I have to wait for a certain social cue?

In person, it comes up in group meetings where people are making an effort to be inclusive, typically gender diverse or far left crowds. Someone will mention it, or people will just start doing it. You don't have to be the first person to start adding pronouns. But if you're in a crowd with someone you know would appreciate it, it'd be nice to start it on your own (without singling them out).

The most awkward option is that you introduce yourself without pronouns, then it goes around the room and people start; in that case just pipe up and say yours are he/him.

How about online. Should I tell people or have it on my personal profile somewhere?

Having it in your profile online is a good idea. Online it's way more important, since it also combats "there are no girls on the internet."

And about respecting other people's pronouns. How do i figure them out? Is it a big faux pas if I don't before I know them? Is it a faux pas if I refer to someone I just met and I assumed to be male as he/him?

If someone has a gender presentation you can't figure out, ask. If you're pretty sure, guess. It's a minor faux pas to get it wrong, but it's within the realm of the inevitable awkwardness of human interaction, just say sorry once, correct yourself, and move on. Think of it as being as rude as accidentally stepping on someone's foot. (Think about how rude that'd be if you kept doing it though.)

I've never seen anyone referring to anyone irl by non conventional pronouns. Is it an actual thing or is it currently being pushed to make the world a more inclusive place?

It is very rare, but they're out there. People with really unconventional pronouns (I've met a fae/faer) are going to understand if you have to slow down when talking about them. Generally they're chosen by people whose gender identity is nonconventional enough that they're willing to put up with the hassle to get something that feels more right to them.

Pretty sure this image is older than image AIs. I think it's a photoshop whoops, most likely they were painting something out in that corner with the clone brush and missed that they made a building float.

Yeah but this one has a giant fox in the way.