Ada

It doesn’t sound like calling yourself blue eyed in that circumstance would help you exist in and navigate the world…

They didn’t enter the machines date of birth…

At least it’s not too grubby

Labels are meant to help you navigate and exist in the world. If it’s achieving that, it’s the right label!

It’s all down to the way the brain works. Our brains use up something like 20% of our calories when standing still doing nothing.

Grass does not supply the amount of calories and micronutrients needed to keep the human brain running, simply because it is low on both of those things.

Grass eaters have multiple stomachs, slow digestion and graze pretty much the whole time they’re awake, and because their brains use a lot less energy than human brains, the balance works out.

Corporate control

I don’t have any other family members aside from my mother. I don’t have a son either…

Ideal? No. Reasonable? Yes.

21C is a bit chilly for me. Not chilly enough that I need to rug up, but enough that I notice the cool tinge to the air

I don’t consider it a new point. I consider xenophobia and racism two slightly different manifestations of the same underlying mindset, and don’t consider the difference between the two really matter in this context.

Against Mexicans/Latinos. ie, the bit where someone throws all hispanohablante folk in to the “Illegal/Mexican” bucket, irrelevant of where they come from.

If you want to argue that’s xenophobia more than racism, sure, that’s probably accurate. But it doesn’t really change my point…

Racism.

DRM is still a thing, as is region locking

Lots of Youtube videos can’t be seen in some countries for example. Netflix and other streaming platforms show different things on different dates depending on the region.

I remember when it was a thing, because it’s still a thing!

Naive searching for a dating coach is likely to land you in the lap of a red pill/manosphere grifter

You can buy yourself flowers, write your name in the sand, talk to yourself for hours, say things we don’t understand, you can take yourself dancing and you can hold your own hand…

But you can’t roll your own linux distro?

Your first two options contradict each other

1. It adds fat
2. It doesn’t add fat, because your body burns up fat when you sleep

Native english speaker, B1 spanish.

Because I missed the niche that reddit filled and I wasn’t willing to return to reddit or any other corporate, centralised social media/community platform.

I saw the writing on the wall, but I believed that something would happen for us to change course before we got there. The reality check is that not only did we not change course, but we accelerated towards it

The rise of fascism

I grew up in Australia. My cultural heritage (3 to 4 generations back) is mostly Irish and English. It’s safe to say I don’t particularly relate to either of them because until I did my family tree, I couldn’t have told you which sides of my family come from which part of the UK.

And that leaves Australia. But I don’t particularly feel drawn to an Australian identity either, because mainstream Australian culture mostly feels like a generic “Western” culture, with the edges rubbed off. I’m also well aware that the country as it stands today was founded on invasion and genocide, and to this day, is unable to let go of the racism that lead to those events.

So yeah, I’m Australian, but I don’t feel emotionally attached to that identity.