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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • “Blue to the light of day” = um, “Blue of daylight?”
    No, wait… “Daylight Blue?”
    No, wait… “Blue like Daylight?”

    Bah!

    The dialogue is sparse, making the big, silent panels even more exaggerated in their quietude.

    Thank you so much for sharing this, speaking as a fellow French-learner! It sounds really promising, because I love stuff like L’ours Barnabé that’s almost specifically designed for A1/A2 idiots like me. 😅

    Also, silhouettes in general really send me… <3

    Hmm, at first I didn’t think I’d heard of this (Spanish) artist or tome, before, but then I checked out some SAMPLES, and I think I did read either the ENG-version of A Gift for a Ghost, or maybe Nuit Couleur Larme.

    Yeah, I’m gonna try tracking down this book, and thank you again for taking the time to post and share. ^^


  • Wow, is that right…?
    In any case, I feel like something evidently messed with the previously (and yes, theoretically) equanimical, vital relationship between the sexes. I mean sure, the obvious culprits were along the lines of early agriculture and lucre-based societies.

    But one thing I really loved about The Power of Myth series is that it showed us via many examples that societies led by women could be completely healthy & functional. For example, the ones I saw seemingly didn’t need to be in power *themselves*, but could have heavy influence in appointing the right chiefs to lead the clan/tribe!




  • This was already touched on earlier, but I wanted to add on a bit:

    The idea comes from how Reddit handles it (MultiReddits) but from my experience it’s a feature not many people made use of, and it sounds like a pain to have to constantly create and manage new multi-communities to group together duplicate communities. This shouldn’t be a task that users have to manually do.

    This is a pretty bad or maybe just naive take that IMO doesn’t sum things in a productive way upon Multi-Reddits. That is-- 1) it arguably doesn’t matter a bit how many people make use of it, as each person’s MR is going to be a custom affair, and it works at the individual user level anyway, 2) on the contrary, it’s no trouble at all to build your MR’s either quickly or painstakingly, and you can spread that effort across weeks, months and even years. In the end, I find MR’s fantastically useful as super-custom feeds that you can use to stay focused on a tight range of topics.

    Unfortunately, these kinds of half-baked conclusions tend to suggest to me that OP doesn’t have a whole lot of familiarity with either platform at this time. That said, there’s a lot of interesting ideas in the article, it’s just a little disappointing in various places.


  • This is a myth. You actually don’t.

    No, I think that’s what OP’s question is all about-- more than ever, many/most people DO need to stay informed to a baseline extent. That’s because laws, policy and legal interpretation are changing hard and fast in the USA for example, and citizens who aren’t informed can be critically blindsided. That may result in their jobs suddenly vanishing for no good reason, discrimination being ratcheted up against them, their rights suddenly eroding (as we saw in the wake of Roe vs. Wade being revoked), and/or they’re now facing deportation or being held in a facility ‘just because.’ Or for example, many people depend on Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA and/or SSI to stay afloat, and those are all going to be cut down, evidently. So certainly, you’d want to be as prepared as possible for stuff like the above, while still retaining a healthy mindset.

    Or for example, if you were in Great Britain and weren’t paying attention to the Brexit background, you may have been part of (and directly affected by), the voting disaster enabling the plan to go through.


  • Gonna take a detour here and mention the time that I tried to make tofu from scratch, starting with making soy milk from dried beans that I’d ordered just for the task:

    The soy milk turned out surprisingly well, with the help of a semi-automated device, but I realised on the spot that most commercial soy milk has a tonne of sugar added to it, and I didn’t want to go down that route. In fact, it just about turned me off of soy milk permanently.

    Anyway, I moved on to the tofu-making stage, and realised that both coagulants I tested (lemon juice and nigari powder) imparted a huge, unwanted taste to the tofu, on top of neither being all that great at coagulating the soy milk. In the end, I think I could have improved on this cooking disaster, but my motivation was gone at that point, and I wanted to move on.

    There’s also the fact that no matter what a versatile food tofu is, it’s also a significantly processed one, and I wanted to move in the opposite direction. That said, I understand that fresh-made tofu in Japan and other places can be incredibly tasty, almost worth wolfing down straight with no cooking or spices.





  • Gooottt iiiitttt!

    Okay, when logging in again just now, I realised that last time I seemingly made the mistake of filling in the instance field with my community name, instead (i.e. !eurographicnovels@lemm.ee). So then-- seems to be working properly okay, now. :D

    @rikudou@lemmings.world

    If I may-- I would suggest that the service check to see if at the very least, the field entry for “Instance” looked like a proper URL. Even better I’d think would be to actually ping the entry, or something like that.

    Because you know… careless idiots like me. ^^

    Not just that, but I’d think it really useful to check that stuff right up front when a user logs in, including checking their ID & PW to see if it successfully logs in. Otherwise I suppose users are bound to see these “500” errors if they screw part of that up, I guess.

    EDIT: Nah, even when I seem to schedule things, the tool just doesn’t seem to work anymore in terms of known time-differences.