What of the people who lived in Crimea prior to 2014? No peace for them? I thought these were supposed to be Ukrainians living under occupation, why is their own country threatening them?
What of the people who lived in Crimea prior to 2014? No peace for them? I thought these were supposed to be Ukrainians living under occupation, why is their own country threatening them?
Most figs you get in the store are not pollinated by fig wasps.
I thought Crimes was supposed to be Ukrainian. Why is Ukraine using cluster munitions on their own civilians???
The only thing the Hong Kong protests accomplished was allowing a murderer to go free https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Poon_Hiu-wing
Snapped at a coworker cause she wouldn’t stop making “all straight men dating trans girls are actually eggs living vicariously” jokes :(.
We have the best anarchists here, because Hexbear has a certain culture to it that makes our anarchists very acceptable to our marxist majority. Irl anarchists can be a mixed bag. Maybe because it’s more common for unread radlibs to call themselves anarchists rather than communists?
Queerplatonic sounds like it might be kinda what I’m going for here? This feels like a hard concept for me to express and I wish I had more aro/ace friends to talk about this stuff with.
Kinda miss my shiny friend. We would lay on her couch and cuddle and watch ghost tv shows. She’d believe it wholeheartedly, I’d crack jokes. Sometimes we would kiss a bit, then I’d go home and we’d go back to spending time with our partners. It was nice, but then she wanted a “girlfriend” and everything that goes with that so I had to stop hanging out with her :(.
Being trans and bi has really upended a lot of my conceptions about relationships. Even being monogamous is kinda weird to me - I mostly do it because I love my partner and consider “no sex with other people” a fair tradeoff, especially since he’s okay with me sharing other sorts of affection.
I haven’t read any Kollontai, but her name rings a bell. Any recommendations?
I’ve been meaning to make a post about her ideas of “love-comradeship” for a while.
Very interested in this.
Normalize holding hands and cuddling with platonic friends.
I just want someone I can do cute date stuff without sex or romance attached. I had a “shiny friend” for a while, but she wanted more and I already have a partner. Why not a bestie that I can be affectionate with in a safe way?
Some student loans did get relief - people who signed up for the public service loan forgiveness program 10 years ago. Biden people are celebrating that deal that was made back in 2007 under an entirely different, Republican administration.
(it didn’t, and student loan repayments have started again)
More good middles of trilogies: Mass Effect 2, The Dark Forest (Three Body Problem)
I wish I could dress half as cool as V.
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Slowly learning Mandarin, not as fast as I’d like, I should really put more effort in. I should be around a HSK3 level, but haven’t tested. I live somewhere with a significant Chinese-American population so at the very least I get lots of reading practice whenever I walk around the neighborhood or go shopping (using Pleco to figure out characters I don’t know yet).
Mostly using HelloChinese, and trying to get better with using HelloTalk. And lots of music, which isn’t terribly helpful I don’t think, but very easy to get into. I need to get back to working on it daily - I’ve slipped a lot.
Dairy and egg industries are also built on the mass slaughter of animals. No milk without killing baby cows, no eggs without grinding up baby roosters.
Paranoia was one of my first RPGs and I’m completely unsurprised that people have made Paranoia Fiasco playsets.
My gaming friends can’t decide if they want to play Cyberpunk Red or Fiasco this weekend, so I guess I’m making a Cyberpunk-themes Fiasco playset.
Regulating AI like this is very cool and good.