Where do y’all take info on pronouns?

Haven’t seen anything in the official announcement: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/meet-kit/

No, I just don’t think enforcement is good at this stage of platform development.

I do support adding alt-text!

Yep

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With just how many posts don’t have alt-text, the feed may get to look quite empty.

This, in turn, would drive many off the Fediverse altogether, as it will be seen as a dead place.

Besides, we are not at the level of popularity where we can afford to exclude any creators.

Just my humble opinion

Recently also heard of Yarrowia lipolytica yeast-based supplements improving the quality of the bee colonies:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-develop-a-superfood-for-honeybees-to-fight-the-drastic-decline-of-their-colonies-180987234/

They REALLY don’t know where else to put their billions, do they?

Also Squidward, but in Russian

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Hehe alright!

Sure. But the demand is here on both sides, not just one.

Male contraceptives allow men to have reproductive agency beyond condoms and vasectomy, and they can be used in couples where women prefer not to use non-barrier contraception for health reasons or personal reservations.

How so? Unless you remove testicles, or your partner is also a trans person, you’re still 100% able to have offspring together

Mostly in sandbox games. This is where I’m going to interact with the environment the most, and I wanna know it feels good.

Also, I appreciate destructibility in shooter games.

Don’t be angry. Be pragmatic in pursuing the environmental policies we all need.

Social media loves widely directed anger and fear. It’s not particularly productive at making the change, but drives clicks and attention.

Absolutely. I don’t have a leader, but I do have you and others by my side.

Fuck the war. Fuck the so-called “leaders”

Daily life…it depends. Overall, things as running as usual, except for some things that cause everyone’s anxiety.

First is, obviously, heavy Internet censorship. Living without a VPN is so unbearable even older generations call the younger one for help. Government is currently high on pushing the state-controlled messenger Max, but no one, even the older folks, wanna join. So, they do everything in their power, from forcing government services to use Max as a communications platform, to blocking all other options. People keep using Telegram regardless, and find ways not only around blacklist, but even whitelist blocking. Max is nearly universally despised. VK remains a not-much-better alternative for those who didn’t yet find their way around whitelists. Unease grows about plans to use state-controlled apps to monitor VPN connections on Android phones and block respective IPs. iPhones are better protected in this respect, but other plans are devised as well.

Second is war. The last 2-3 years of it were relatively chill for most Russians, but with drone strikes appearing as far as Saint Petersburg, the war knocks back home. The unease is amplified by Russia turning mobile connections to whitelist mode when drones appear. The appearance of circumvention methods (bridging through whitelisted resources into the wider Internet), on one hand, relieves the anxieties of losing last bits of access to the world, but on the other, shows governments inefficiency at maintaining the drone defense.

Third is more broad and globally known - the cost of living crisis, which hits here just as everywhere else. Housing is practically unattainable for most, and rent goes through the roof. Food gets more expensive, and scandals arise about managing the existing supply, such as Miratorg claimed to push government’s hand in exterminating private farms’ livestock under the guise of disease prevention.

Overall, plenty of room for anxiety and sense of instability.

The Putin support has long switched from “go go Putin” to “who, if not Putin?” and then to “if Putin loses, the country is going to collapse”. So, over time it became less of actual support and more of added anxiety about war’s resolution and what it means for Russia going forward. Putin is often seen as a beacon of some, fainting, stability. But even with all that, support does indeed fade.

Iranian embassies already joked about it

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Me! And plenty others. Nothing’s wrong with pixel games, but sometimes people want strong immersion, and realistic graphics helps a lot.

Yay blue!

Yep, I went blue! Previously was purple, but blue are more chill

TL;DR A lot of historically important media is still stored on VHS, never digitized. Over time, VHS tapes can stick to the layer below them, so playing them directly will result in heavy damage to the tape.

Heating them up helps to soften the adhesive and play the tape safely, but there might only be one chance, and some of these tapes are very valuable.

That’s a curious device, but quite expensive at that. Starter array at near-$1000.