rozennkeribin.bsky.social
Not that much of an artist or dog-lover and "avid reader" unfortunately went the way of the Internet
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She thinks a significant percentage of accounts verified by Molly are scams, otherwise they have no disagreement and she has no reason to weigh in when the open letter is specifically about the treatment of accounts Molly thinks are real people.
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You assume they're the same people who have a completely different modus operandi? In fact a modus operandi that pointedly appeals to atypical payment methods, when the people we're talking about here pretty much all talk about mainstream fundraising sites or payment methods?
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Yeah that's the main solution the people behind the open letter settled on a year ago; the result has been not only people like Rahaeli still thinking all those accounts are scams, but some even accusing the self-appointed vetters of being on the take.
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Oh girls nooooo. They SET UP that shit. So many guns (non-metaphorical) on so many fireplace mantles (ok those are metaphorical) !!
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I rewatched it recently and it was nerve-wracking because she dies so much later than I remembered. The movie also doesn't dwell on her death much.
I really enjoyed it, it's charming and very different from more standard stories. All told I still probably prefer the remake:
bsky.app/profile/roze...
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"Expulsion" is not obviously possible, not obviously ethical, and not obviously desirable, and people who actually give a shit about Eastern Europe need to stop fantasising about it and think practically how we can arrive at a point where there is a Hungary without Orbán
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However like I said in another comment I think child-only spaces are a false solution because I do think part of the issue is adult tolerance, which requires familiarity, which child segregation prevents.
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I think there is a legitimate point to be made that the modern world is inherently stressful to children in a way child-only spaces are an attempted solution to, not a cause. Like a parenting book pointed out, having to behave in an overstimulating environment like a store isn't what we evolved for
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I agree shrieking children annoying adults is an issue but the solution isn't to exclude children from society as if they were burdensome consumer choices and not people & future nursing home employees. It's to ensure all adults have enough experience with children to tolerate their presence.
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If you're making an argument that invokes concepts of cause or motion or energy or whatevs *and your ancient philosopher is using apples, water or rocks as illustrative examples*? They're talking physics, not metaphysics, and the thing they're saying about physics has almost certainly been disproven
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The absolute funniest examples are those I've seen in the Christian apologetics sphere that will go entirely on works by Augustine or Thomas of Aquinas or whoever that have been superseded by *basic physics* and they seem to have no idea.
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Right! Kids test limits. It's normal for them to do so. It's their learning process. But the tests will result in them learning only the limits that other people (or, like, physics) set and enforce!
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Aw thanks :)
Disclaimer : I might have cheated on the "countable" part. I don't know how Latin would distinguish that. I'm assuming the singular declension implies countability too.
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It means "have[it's we that has] pope[one of them and it's countable]"
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But for the Microscopy Enjoyers among us, you may also then appreciate these recent images of these Hodarchaeales within phylum Heimdallarchaeia
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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I assume that's a book about human gender and not, like, a book on biology at a general level, or about the evolution of eukaryotic sex or something?
Like, discussions of anisogamy in the literature don't always have paragraphs reminding the complexities of specific cases & I'm not sure they should
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I come to ye with Good News: the Nature paper this article is about is open access!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
You loved LUCA; you thought LECA made good sense to talk about too; Well now meet the new member of the family, LAECA!
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I wonder if there could be a "global" feed that sort of gives, like, the top X% of the firehose for all languages/areas, weighed some appropriate way to see some of what's popular in each.
In the meantime there are feeds or hashtags for various major languages/areas/communities worth checking out.
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I've been pretty aggressive about following accounts from non-anglophone countries, including some in languages I don't speak, and I've seen results. The translate option is a godsend, although it doesn't catch everything (some hilarious-looking memes & comics in Korean I had to give up on :( )
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... more likely to read & therefore repost unusual stuff that's otherwise outside your network, than things in language they don't speak, unless they're someone who makes deliberate efforts on that. Meaning you'll get some thematic but little linguistic variety)
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There's some French too. This might also be a consequence of the non-algorithmic "Following" feed (if that's what you're using): it's hard to see things outside the network of your follows, and language can make for a harder constraint than others in that area (by which I mean ppl you follow are...
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Sure, this isn't a judgment of individual Indian users on this site. It's an observation about this platform's current lack of global reach and global-north-dominant POV. There's no doubt that this site has negligible Hindu supremacists, accidental positive of not having many Indians.
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Bluesky is very far from being a global social media app at this point.
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It's funny how blatant and obvious this is in the OT and how much it's ignored/retconned/de-emphasized in the cultural memory of the films. Like, we "know" it's a blend of SF and mysticism but the cultural memory still metabolized it through a purely SF lens
Prequels didn't help there obvs.
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Yes, but also only sort of. I rewatched the original trilogy recently - loved them - and it was striking how much mythic weight it had. By which I mean the films work at the level of archetypes, of vibes, of myths. In that way the empire vs rebellion thing can be seen as a setting more than a theme
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Like, say, Jurassic Park's relationship to science vs a movie that was more directly about the practice of science
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I guess it was political in the sense where most everything is political... However I think your OP phrased it better and less ambiguously (not so much as not to draw disagreement mind, I just thought it was easier to see the distinction you meant) when you said the prequels were *about politics*
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... Because the reason I invented the word "plausiblest" there (it wasn't for wordcount I swear) was to highlight it's different from *plausible*.
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I agree that with an obviously unrealistic fact like this it's a brain reflex to seek the plausiblest explanation, even if it's unrealistic too. I won't argue if genocide is in fact the plausiblest explanation; not sure it is tbh. But even if it were... If we hate it we don't in fact have to pick it
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...the planet and people in question are a very low-density settlement, which also makes genocide harder (bc 1) you need lots of people to do it, 2) if there's tons of space for everyone why would you want to do it & 3) if there's tons of space your victims can easily escape beyond reach if you do)
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IDK if we have to go there tbh. Like, let's accept that "one planet one people" is a completely unrealistic trope that could never happen. I think it's also true that genocide *is one of the ways it couldn't happen*. Genocides are never that clean, don't prevent in-group splitting, and IIRC...
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It really depends how long ago the colonization was.