I hope broader international recognition of Palestine helps spur more recognition of Kurdistan.

I want to be a Camus but most days I’m a Cioran.

We put Kalashnikov on Sergey’s rowboat, Ukraine cowers before invincible Russian engineering!

They’re sold for scrap. Just gotta go to a scrapyard and say “There was something wrong with mine, I replaced it, here’s the old one I’m selling for scrap.”

That or extract the previous metals yourself and sell them directly.

Some nicknames do a consonant shift for the first letter, like William > Will > Willy > Billy

Margaret > Meg > Meggy > Peggy

Hard to compete when the government heavily subsidizes the local industry while simultaneously making it very difficult for foreign companies to operate.

Tech news tells me that this measure ended up getting postponed. Not defeated, just postponed.

I’m sure it’ll end up back on the table when they think it has a better chance of passing.

Amazing progress. Hopefully the rest of Asia can follow suit in short order.

I met a number of LGBTQ+ folks in China who were wonderful, honest people, but most of them were afraid to publicly display or talk about their sexuality/gender identities due to the risk of social/legal reprisal, given the deteriorating state of policies towards LGBTQ+ rights in recent years.

While other countries in East/Southeast Asia have begun to open up to the idea of same-sex marriage like Taiwan in 2019 and now Thailand, a lot in China see this as a symptom of growing westernization to be opposed. Logic being that if the westernized countries who we don’t like start to embrace the idea, we should reject it. And unfortunately a lot of Asia follows China’s lead in particular.

Ah yes, the “We’ll pay someone else to be green for us without meaningfully improving our environmental policy” move.

Toss some money away, get a nice tax write-off, and don’t bother following up to make sure these supposed CO2 offset numbers are actually what they are advertised to be.

Some wear crop tops though

This used to be me when I used to work at a grocery store and I would go on break.

Then I learned how much sugar the industrially produced loaves that pass for baguettes in the US contain.

Ignorance is truly bliss. And about 1300 calories.

I am assuming it may be related to a couple prominent news stories.

There was computer scientist Lynn Conway passing away recently, and in the thread for this article, there was some concern about the LA times author opting to use male pronouns to refer to Lynn pre-transition.

Then there was the other recent news of Lia Thomas being barred from participation in the Olympics, and any time there’s a discussion about trans athletes in sports, it invites a whole lot of yikes.

Lemmy.world is the normie instance. Unsurprisingly, a lot of normies have bad opinions. If you run into transphobes, feel free to tell them what every transphobe needs to hear: “Go fuck yourself”. Or block 'em and let them scream at a wall. It’s good to nip bigotry in the bud before it grows, but it’s also not worth letting people with hate in their hearts take up space in your mind’s temple.

Not pay the thugs?

Whaaat? The US willing to stop supporting Israel? That is simply too big an ask.

Next you’ll tell me that the capitalists will voluntarily surrender the means of production to the working class.

But what would the US be able to use as an incentive during negotiations if they have no interest in making Israel stop this conflict?

Give us the hostages and…?

Give us the hostages or else…?

Yeah, the cover protects anything that the phone falls on.

This is funny to me.

Oh, it costs too much to educate kids? Just put them in schools at a younger age, rip off that bandaid sooner.

No, let’s not talk about the wound that bandaid is covering up in the first place, that’s completely unrelated.

“Windows, stop syncing my damn files to OneDrive.”

“Copy that, no more syncing. Just give us a moment to delete the unnecessary copies.”

“Great.”

“Ok, all done. All the local data is gone and now only the OneDrive backup exists.”

“Wait no stop”

Red bean is a staple of many Chinese desserts and it tastes sweet on its own. It makes for a good dairy-free popsicle and is quite common in China.

Vanilla and chocolate are made using beans as well; other than the fact that you can make red bean into paste and eat it as-is or frozen without milk or added sugar, it’s not that crazy a concept.