I thought of that too, but if so it’s remarkable the junction of the cracks ended up right at the surface of the rock.

Not impossible, I’d take that before a fault like someone else suggested, but if there was a way it deposited after to stone was out that would explain it really well - one ring formed, then the rock got knocked out of place and another ring of accretion formed at the new boundary.

If it has a fault inside it’s a very cool rock, so I’d be cautious about the possibility.

Hmm, it’s very interesting how they’re angled relative to each other. Anyone have ideas on how that could happen?

There’s never-ending drama in any significant FOSS project, if you go looking for it, so I have to ask.

Ah. Thanks.

These also have no real inputs and outputs, so it’s hard to see how they could have some kind of consciousness. Still, brain organoids have been a source of ethical debate since the beginning. The assembloid things mentioned sound a little riskier yet.

Yes, I’m thinking this was the real issue.

Maybe put up a nice instagrammable leaderboard to gamify it, and so people will be driven to virtue signal, and anyone who can’t looks as bad as they’re being.

How much do you earn compared to the average rural Nepali, and do you ever do anything bad for the climate?

This isn’t even a climate change issue, it’s just garbage that can be picked back up, and which is only ever seen by other climbers.

The real trigger is always in the comments replies.

It’s just a more enjoyable experience.

Which decision was this in reference to? I’m guessing this was parodying something there was drama about.

Most European languages have no equivalent, since everything is gendered, not just pronouns. Efforts to embed equality in those languages go the other way - adding female gendered terms for male-dominated professions and vice-verse, as opposed to removing gender which is just too hard.

Russian in particular is spoken in places where they’re hostile to the whole idea. They have a neuter gender, and you might see it used in a mocking “it” kind of way for queer people of all kinds.

For languages outside the Indo-European and Afro-Asiatic families it’s usually a moot issue; 3/4 have no grammatical gender features at all.

You do have “regions” already kind of filling that niche. MENA, Europe, Central Asia, East Asia and so on.

Wow, very cool! Absolute poggers.

“It’s an end-to-European solution,” says Alessandro Giovannini, an ECB official. “All the engineering will be 100pc European, and it will be distributed by euro banks.”

Hmm, I should open a European bank account. It could help if I’m every visiting family out there, anyway.

No way it would fit into those two decimal points, though.

No, not usually. IIRC the only births ever were at a Chilean outpost, and they were trying to make a nationalistic point.

And then at that rate, Greenland could be counted, or Australia and Antarctica left out.

Wow, Asia’s still ahead, I wouldn’t have guessed that.

Which open source projects have large expenses? Buying the creator a coffee is nice, but if money is actually required for something to exist I’d rather give there.

Right now I’m extremely poor, but maybe someday I’ll be in the same boat as OP. My Lemmy instance and Tor come to mind, and then maybe Wikipedia, although I know their aggressive fundraising has already worked.

Edit: Oh shit, the Invidious instance I use should probably go first.

Two out of the five never got real political power, though. Meanwhile McCarthyism blew over because it was just a component of a larger panic within a healthy democracy, and the Contract with America looks like it amounted to a slight reorganisation of congress in the end.

The whole racist South thing is a more reasonable comparison. Although it was a time when things went by region a lot more, and the larger north could apply pressure. I can’t really see a Lincoln or fifteenth amendment coming to the rescue the same way this time around. Just, who’s left to stand up to MAGA?

I should probably throw in the Gilded Age too as it seems to fit with our current situation nicely. We had a decent progressive push after the last one.

Sort of? Inequality took on a different character after Teddy, but the roaring 20’s is often lumped into the gilded age anyway. That’s because it wasn’t really a political (or spiritual) movement so much as wealth self-accumulating like it always tends to in agricultural civilisation. You were right to leave it out.