Limonene

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[–] Limonene 8 points 3 months ago

The hard work paid off, with Aftershock II returning safely with a trove of valuable flight data. You can dig into it to your heart's content through this white paper.

Link broken, unfortunately.

[–] Limonene 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Electronic women, giant mech women, women reenactments...

Space women?

[–] Limonene 42 points 3 months ago (16 children)

You know damn well this isn't about surgery. It's about hormones, and it says so right there in the summary. You didn't even have to click the link. Nobody is doing breast implants on trans minors (only on cis minors, which is perfectly fine for some reason).

Forcing a trans kid to go through the wrong puberty even though they know they are trans is extremely traumatic. It's life ruining. It alters the voice, the shape of the torso, the shape of the face, and facial and body hair in ways that either can't be fixed at all, or can only be fixed with expensive surgeries later on.

And if you want people to be absolutely sure about their status before going on hormone replacement therapy, then that is exactly what puberty blockers are for. Leuprorelin prevents puberty so that the kid can figure themself out for a year or two, and then make sure they go through the correct puberty. Even if they decide not to be transgender in the end, they can just go off leuprorelin and start puberty.

[–] Limonene 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Consider whether you want just Chinese numerals, or also Arabic (normal) numerals in the corner.

Consider which style of mahjong it will be used for. Depending on the style, there are different numbers of total tiles included in the set.

The feel of the tiles might matter to you, but unfortunately that may be difficult to judge when buying online.

[–] Limonene 216 points 3 months ago (51 children)

I just hope federal services (like applying for a passport) don't become Twitter-only after Trump appoints Elon as Secretary of Enshittification.

[–] Limonene 2 points 3 months ago

In my system, the raid arrays seem to do periodic data scrubbing automatically. Maybe it's something that's part of Debian, or maybe it's just a default kernel setting. I don't think it helps much with data integrity -- I think it helps more just by ensuring the continued functionality of the drives.

When it's running, you can type cat /proc/mdstat to see the progress.

That command will also show you if there is a failing drive, so that you can replace it.

[–] Limonene 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just about anything. IRC, XMPP, Discord, whatever you call the chat built into Steam. AIM is discontinued now, but it used to be better than Teams is today.

[–] Limonene 1 points 3 months ago

Yes. As far as I've seen, it never changes what gets sent to the server, which is why I'm able to get away with it.

[–] Limonene 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Violence is the solution to violence.

The threat of defensive violence can act as a useful deterrent to prevent violence.

Nuclear weapons are massively violent. Although they have caused harm in a number of ways (offensive use in WW2, experimental use, indirect harm from the threat of use), I believe they contributed more to peace in the world today.

Open carry in the US has successfully been used to deterr police from harassing innocent people.

[–] Limonene 18 points 3 months ago (4 children)

We need protections limiting the length and level of effect of clickwrap agreements.

For now, I will continue using "inspect element" to change the text "agree" to "disagree", and completely skip proprietary phone apps.

[–] Limonene 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Yes, most of them do, and that is why I complain about it. I want to have the choice. I don't mind if other people use systemd; I just don't want it forced one me.

[–] Limonene 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Epigenetics is black magic to me. The starvation thing is true, but it mostly happens in the liver and pancreas and stuff. The testicles and ovaries don't express the genes relating to starvation, even when starved. So how does the reproductive DNA pass on epigenetic data to the child and grandchild?

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