We may not like the result, but it proofed a point for the EU and the UK: The EU is a voluntary federation unlike the US and direct democracy is a thing in the UK sometimes (still largely symbolic though).

As an EU-citizen, I feel like this is a UK decision and not a US decision.

This is quite an individualist mindset; I was mainly talking about YT Trends-type of music - music likely listened to by millions, shaping the minds of millions.

Have you seen music lyrics? They’re full of advertisements.

People pride themselves to be walking billboards. I think it somewhat resembles wearing the coat of arms of your lord in the millennia before.

Smh @ ur fud

You might want to differentiate between Top, Bottom, Switch and Top, Bottom, Versatile, i.e. BDSM vs penetration positions.

I’d also say that this is less about physiology and more about the individual acceptance of the concept of position.

Top, Bottom, Versatile is not necessarily a queer thing, since (cis&trans) heterosex can have positions as well. That is to say, not all queer relationships regardless of gender follow the concept of position.

Fediverse and CSAM?

• Cracked Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 to full Minecraft Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5. (I don’t like Microsoft and Notch is a Nazi)
• Cheese (before I was vegan. I kinda miss free food sampling)
• Monthly countrywide public transit ticket (well 9€ wasn’t free, but for a net of 39,000 km railway alone plus every other PT except HSR, it basically is). 49€ now, 58€ in 2025 (=> Subsidy regimes are not on parity to motorised individual traffic)
• Library subscription

Wise people know when to adjust core beliefs to not get into a situation like this, but I’d say that there’s at least a bit of intention here.

Social division is quite the euphemism for racism.

How does that work exactly, fart_pickle?

OK. Iran now says that’s not enough - Israel is to be destroyed. “Equal and just peace” needs mutual de facto recognition.

How does justice coming to Israel look like?

Israel has more than just US interests on their mind. Proxy wars aren’t neutral battlefields.

Iran’s allies unites the nonrecognition of a) the Israeli people and b) the state Israel. The Israeli electorate and thus by extension the IDF doesn’t trust its neighbours (Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iran) to recognise Israel (a, b) anytime soon, which translates to them as ‘peace was never an option’. Occupation didn’t work, because internationalised guerrilla warfare muddies the waters of combatant status.

The binary nonrecognition is thus a recipe for wars to come, because the Israelis are highly motivated by what they see as an existential threat. Gaza has the same problem, but the 7. October translates to the Israelis as mutual agreement of almost anything is allowed now.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes, Iran. If Iran recognised Israel, diplomacy might be actually feasible.

Middle class was the owning class in feudal societies, the emergence of the working class and rule of law kind of deleted the status of the aristocracy and largely pushed the aristocracy and middle class into the owning and ruling classes.

Apparently Streptomyces are the cause.

Suffrage is one of those English language-internal false friends - you could easily confuse it with a personalised state of suffering, especially if English isn’t your first language (my bigger anxieties around this is finding out a word I used extensively has a different meaning than I thought)…

Radical disinformation is death, because matter itself already is information.

Try to make breakfast without encountering information.

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