Relationships aren’t about being realistic on the future, they are about caring for each other, having fun. I think she’s not caring enough about you when she says these things and expects you to stay

As an Italian, my grandma surely would have made anything on the replicator better

Including New York style cheesecake

Tbh it could just be that the dems are doing a China move: do nothing and win

Right now trump can either reference Biden, knowing people are sick of that, or he simply doesn’t have a definite target, “the radical left”. An emerging leader of the centre would give him a target. So it makes sense they stay quiet.

I’m not a us citizen tho, I know that there is a lot of political activism, especially around the DSA, and the recent big protests are good signs. What I expect is that whoever ends up being the democratic leader will have a very hard time being a centrist. The demo-socialists have a big chance, but corporate media is also going to play its role in supporting a rethoric of “now that we’ve seen crazy let’s go for someone respectable, not another crazy”.

The opposition, in the wide sense, is basically Sanders and the DSA, in my view, because they are popular and they are winning some local elections, including NY. But I still doubt they are going to be the face of the dem strategy for 2028, let alone the midterms.

Yeah, what I meant was more like the pronunciation, especially some English accents have more to do with French than with Scottish or Irish

As an Italian, I have no trouble understanding Spanish and reading French and Latin words in English. But listening to French and English accents is on another world to me 😅

The English imitate the French language a lot, so I’d say they are worst for keeping away from France

Pong

For sports, we spend all our lives saying that victory is not the goal of sport, then we separate by gender so victory feels fair

I also think we should not separate by gender, and instead have multiple tiers of experience at the Olympics.

But there is some truth on those who argue that having women’s sport encourages women to play sports in general, as less women play sports than men (I think). Even if there was no measurable general difference between the biological sexes, males would still generally outperform just out of statistics, because there is more of them.

So the deal is actually cultural. Society needs to abandon the idea that gender has anything to do with sports. Just like we do for skin color or height. So that when a girl sees a football match with 18 men, 3 women and 1 nonbinary, she doesn’t feel like football isn’t for her out of gender.

Like, I myself like volleyball, but all throughout my experience I’ve noticed how I had to struggle far more than my peers simply because I was short and physically weak (struggles eating during teenage). I also did Judo for a bit, there are tiers by weight, meaning I competed with 10yo children as a 14yo. What I mean is that while I can agree a child would notice differences out of gender, it’s not like this is something new, acknowledging physical differences and accepting them is a key part of personal growth in sports already, gender would be just yet another element.

That’s right!

Pizza is not a dish French people eat

She’s recharging for the next hiking trail. She looks very determined

Imagine not giving a fuck next to a delivery truck

As a user of both, I’m now getting repelled by reddit’s AI bots spreading AI and polymerket propaganda

I guess the feature here is not being bombarded with suggested communities and posts. Everything here is basically intentional choice, a double edge sword but surely a healthy one

But I do go back from time to time, I do want to chat with people with different political views

I think this small experiment simply demonstrates that ditching cars is not a matter of personal preferences, but a community effort

In Italian we have both “biscotto” (double-cooked) for cookie and “ricotta” (re-cooked) which has no translation, both are also done cooking something twice

If your only digit is pi, I believe it’s {1}

I refuse to believe lawmakers around the world are genuinely convinced you can prevent children from accessing porn

Sure not all children will be that tech savvy to circumvent the limits, but then they could access it like I was shown porn for the first time before breadband: a random kid during a school trip had a porn video saved on his phone. Only a few phones had video capabilities at the time, now it’s commonplace.

So yeah I will never believe the good will of such bills

Huh, so it’s not just Palermo…

Since last summer i put a series of repeating activities on my calendar, one for every day of the week. Their main effect is reminding me that my free time could be spent on personal prpjects that do not necessarily need to lead to something public.

It also encourages intentional boredom, as opposed to scrolling. I don’t know if it improved my life a lot, i end up ignoring the suggested activities most of the times, but it helps me keeping that frame of mind, and it probably allowed me to put effort in a few things i care for.

Breturn?

https://f-droid.org/packages/name.boyle.chris.sgtpuzzles