A friend of mine had a party for her official gender change last year and I was so happy for her!

Just knowing she felt safe to come out in front of her family and friends and was able to start HRT and change her gender marker in official documents felt like a huge success. Not just for her, but for progressive politics in our country.

Glass easily bends

“Give me liberty or give me coin” 10k gold on AoE3

Reality: $1000/month and $40k minimum down payment.

I cut the piezoelectric speaker off of mine. It now doesn’t make any beeping noises, which is nice.

Porque no los dos?

Why shouldn’t fusion not be good for consumer energy? If they find a way to produce electricity with it the grid doesn’t care who uses it.

Why don’t we use mirrors to heat water with sunlight and spin turbines with it? We do! But photovoltaic cells are more space efficient and have gotten really cheap. Also you can just plop them on almost any roof and call it a day. Also converting light to heat to electricity is kinda dumb when you can just convert it directly to electricity.

We also use the sun to make tap water warm.

I take the 25 cents per step, thank you very much. Being paid for going on long walks with my girlfriend and friends? That sounds nice.

But week 4 will start with a bang.

Steel is cheap, scrap steel even more so, but labour isn’t.

Scrapping a ship in Germany costs money, it doesn’t generate any.

Tiktok definitely reduces the attention span of its users. Same goes for YouTube shorts, instagram reels and all other short form content. But more ADHD cases being diagnosed comes down to better detection and generally more awareness by the public for the symptoms.

The License To Kill

If your phone and early warning systems support cell broadcasting you will still get notified. Cell broadcast alarms are always at full volume, regardless of your settings.

We don’t have one like that. Though most of our kitchen is well organized in drawers.

Their high speed train network is impressive, but none of it was new technology when they built it. The first train sets they bought were Siemens Velaro D, a mature high speed train system that has been around in Europe for almost a decade prior.

It ISN’T cost effective, but in China that doesn’t matter: what the state wants the state gets. No matter the cost. And I’m willing to bet that in 10 years time a lot of the stuff just doesn’t work anymore, line speeds get reduced and stops cancelled due to infrastructure not being maintained.

We have seen chinese prestige projects fall into disrepair time and again, and their extensive transport network will see the same fate.

Russia had some until the 90s as well.

I’m fundamentally against capital punishment. This could be an acceptable exception though.

Eat the rich!

Start with asking yourself why this relationship is a problem, but the last one wasn’t. If your son dated that girl for a year she must have been 15 (or younger) when they got together. This in itself is kind of a red flag.

I personally think that this specific age gap (with one partner being in high school and the other in their late 20s) is really problematic. Not due to the difference in years but the difference in maturity.

I have never heard this bloc being called “BRIC”. Until recently the members were Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. BRICS. Why did they lose the S?

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