To add for others, electrons orbiting is a convenient assumption - really they’re more a delocalised cloud of negative charge that exists in various bits of space known as “orbitals”.
Not orbiting in the way we’d understand it from planets.
Capitalists have capital, which they invest in legislative capture to create a more favourable environment for capital.
It’s capitalism unrestricted, since there is no restriction on what capital can do once enough has been accumulated.
I don’t know if it’s true, but I think I heard that in terms of transitions in the last decade, FtM outnumbers MtF.
Absolutely should.
But the EU would like to continue to benefit from US military power and espionage while getting to pretend it is more moral. If the EU were to more overtly break with the US it would have to dramatically reformulate its neo-colonial economics.
Yes, they should.
Trumo’s threat to impose new, higher, tariffs on EU for starting to legislate against US tech monopolies and support local startups show how it would go.
But better to put it forwards under the chicken taco and make headway, and then future US leaders (if any) would have to make open moves against environmental measures.
Imperialism always comes home to roost.
The technologies and techniques used to oppress the other get justified and moralised, and then get deployed in the metropole against the working classes.
About 20.
More if you include oral, manual, and the like.
If you’re living in one of those very conservative on women’s dress Islamic nations (i.e. Middle East or Central Asia) then there are cultural limits imposed beyond the baseline of the religion.
A Senegalese Muslim woman in colourful patterned headscarf and matching dress is following what Islam requires.
Some places have kept, or imposed, much stricter controls on women’s dress (amongst other things). And while they might choose to wear more colourful ones, many of these countries (i.e. Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Bahrain, through to Pakistan and Afghanistan) turn a blind eye to femicide and are plagued by honour killings.
Socially constructed idea varies by society.
Who’d’ve guessed?
You’ll find very colourfully yet modestly dressed Muslim women in Indonesia, India, Kenya, Senegal, and more.
Aye, I don’t consider myself especially sensitive to such things but a world where hunting and cannibalising babies is par for the course means there’s a lot of horrific moments of very horrific things.
It is a book/series that continues to bother me/come to the front of my thoughts often enough. Albiet sometimes in fun or non-traumatic ways too.
I enjoyed them, but felt at some point in Book 3 that I didn’t care hugely about most of the characters. But then things somewhat redeemed themselves, although I think something with the climax and Wormwood, but can’t quite recall what irked me specifically. Mostly fun romp, however. Sadly did mean I recognised a necklacing in a news headline while browsing International news, however.
Which makes it easy for me to compare and contrast with the not Sci-Fi but actual grim crapsack fantasy world of Red Wolf, Black Leopard (probably racistly since they’re both African inspired stories), where I stopped reading because of how grim and horrible the world and setting was, but the picked it up again a week later because it was so compelling and I wanted to find out what happened.
The horrors and atrocities get worse in Moon Witch, Spider King, and others more cerebral, which made it easier to keep reading.
Do you plan to only do things with romantic partner?
Why do you think you need a romantic partner?
… A better question would be: “what do you define as a friend?”
Camping (UK, 2016) - hope to finish it this weekend.
Great if you love horrible and/or awkward people being cringe inducingly terrible/awkward.
If you know Julia Davis, then you know what you’re in for and whether you’ll be down with it.
The book is considered very hard to impossible to adapt, but they said that about LotR.
That said, OHYoS is aware is it is a book, and I’m not sure how some parts would work being watched rather than read without some large changes.
Aye, only Protestantist Christianity (if it can be called that) and mormonism are worse.
The True Church of our Lord Father is Ethiopian Orthodoxy.
There’s a surface level understanding that racism is bad.
But that’s seen as having no impact on holding strong, negative, stereotypes about other ethnicities and cultures.
And tends to be, in many cases followed up with “it’s not a prejudice/racism, it’s a fact!” =(
Sadly there’s a lot of anti-African, anti-South East Asian, anti-Japanese & Korean, anti-Turkic, antisemitic, sentiment floating around in general in the PRC.
White man who lived in China here chiming in.
The racism, or at least prejudices and a lack of understanding that cause racism, are very real.
Asia benefited from being near the top of the racist hierarchy of lies that Europeans instituted in the 19th century and also mostly learn about Black people from Hollywood films. (There’s also a really odd trend of New Right and crypto-fash talking points getting popular and spread around Chinese social media.)
In China at least, dating is seen as valid only in the path to marriage, and family and kids is an expected and socially impressed upon goal. To the point where plenty of women in China have kids they don’t want because of familial and social pressure.
At the same time, Asian society is very colourist which combined with having ingested the racist hierarchy somewhat and only really knowing Black people and culture from Hollywood isn’t a great start.
Rounding it off, I China at least is a desire for in group marriage. Foreigners are seen as a risky choice, who could leave and don’t share the same cultural values (regardless of the truth of it).
White people get more of a benefit of a doubt, but there’s still pressure against a Chinese-White relationship. I’ve heard of plenty of families putting pressure that ens inter-ethnic relationships, and there is definitely more pressure against Chinese-Black relationships. (Both cases also, sexistly, exacerbated when Chinese women, foreign man.)
Don’t think this is anything new or not know, sadly.
If the family is supportive, things work a lot better - unsurprisingly. But with Asian value of family, if the family are openly against it, it’s very unlikely to work out.
I thought it was a common first name because of all the fooling around in the Cyberdog dressing rooms?
If they were real has no implication on the reality of any diety (or deities) let alone the Abrahamic God, Yahweh.