The pride flag was envisioned and flown for the first time in San Francisco. For better or worse, most of global queer culture is us centric.

Most of the flags are also copyrighted or copylefted, to some degree or another. It’s a jumbled mess. But in general no one is profiting unless you are literally buying a physical flag, as all of them fall into fair use or can be freely licensed for use in commercial products.

First, watch this video entirely.

Next, talk to your friend. If nothing like what is talked about in the video is happening. Then, cool. Adults and teens can have friendly relationships in the context of mentorship/sharing family ties/same social circles. But your friend needs to understand that he is and will always be responsible for anything that happens in that relationship, even if it is her who misunderstand things. He is the adult, and it is his responsibility to keep things sane and appropriate, draw healthy boundaries and make sure it is not misconstrued as creepy, and it doesn’t matter if it wasn’t intentional.

If your friend is indeed doing some of those things, even if not intentionally, then he is being a creep and grooming is grooming, no matter the intention. The developmental gap is a massive power imbalance that will always make other adults be suspicious of this risk. The healthy thing to do is to keep the distance and the relation in appropriate terms. Girl will survive, she surely has her own social group to cope, and adults have no need to be friends with teens. A well adjusted and mature adult would have no shortage of age appropriate friendship opportunities.

Yeah, like, there’s even a little leaflet that is the first thing you see when you open the box that just says “Don’t remove the screen protector. If it gets damaged, don’t replace it yourself, send it in for a free replacement.” Or some wording of that kind.

The flip and the fold come with a screen protector from the factory. It’s integral to the phone as the screen is flexible and soft, without it the screen would get opaque and dull. People forget that the point of cases and screen protectors is to be like rubber tires. They’re there to take weather (not damage) instead of the phone, and to be easily replaced on the regular. Samsung offers a replacement service for the flip that changes protectors regularly with the phone protection program.

The kobo colour goes for less than $160 regularly. It is water proof, has front ligths, usb-c, and it can display color. I’m considering it for an upgrade from my, bought used 8 years ago, kindle. With Kobo, and ereaders track record in general, it will probably last twice that and still work. I consider that extremely cheap, specially in a market that usually expects people to dump a thousand dollars every two or three years for a phone. E readers have some of the best cost to utility ratios of electronics.

Annoyed as all hell, but not fucked at all. The phone locks itself if snatched away. A phone call, and a brief access to android lock later and now the thief has a worthless paperweight. This can happen in a matter of seconds if theft protection works, or a couple of minutes while I find someone who would lend me their phone, faster if I have my smartwatch with me. Carriers on my country also disable IMEIs across all carriers and on the whole territory when phones are reported stolen. Everything on my phone is backed up elsewhere, so I won’t actually lose much, and my data would be fairly protected. They could disassemble it and try to decrypt the storage, but good luck with that if they are not law enforcement or doesn’t have the fancy forensic toys.

It was also a soft power tool used to assist and feed allied countries and keep diplomatic support from the good it did with starving and otherwise vulnerable populations. It’s not a net loss, but it is not a gain either. Its disappearance hurts millions of people who depended on the aid to feed their families or support basic economic production.

In general, no. It was a business transaction and whoever provided an appropriate dowry would get the girl. No matter their future prospects. The family didn’t care much for whatever happened to the girl afterwards. High class and nobility might’ve care for prestige and title inheritance. But otherwise it didn’t matter. We got so many historical novels with the plot point of a girl marrying a destitute nobleman and being abandoned by her original family that it is sort of a trope in the romantic period. Girl being sold by bankrupt father to save on food with one less mouth to feed was also a trope. You have to remember women weren’t valued much beyond their capacity of bearing children. They were little more than cattle for most western feudal societies.

It is very carbrain rot but I call them highway rules. On countries that drive on the right, the right side if for on-off ramps and cruising. Left side is for passing. No one expects to be passed on the right side, because that is the biggest blind spot on cars. Switch for countries that drive on the left side.

Generative AI. Source is an instagram page that posts these kinds of memes daily. The image didn’t exist before October 2024.

No, they weren’t. Class was much more important. There was no class climbing prospect. You either were born into a having family or you weren’t. Even amongst peasants, men weren’t suppose to “have a career” or a prospect. You inherited whatever your family had.

There was expectations of performance, of course. There was internal competition, but no peasant would ever realistically transform into nobility via merit or otherwise.

Those ignorant of history forget that our current worldviews and values weren’t always universal. The notion of a linear career, of having prospects, to be successful, to grow from a low place and climb the social and financial rings, accumulating wealth enough to retire early then leave a lofty inheritance to children and grandchildren. All that is modern construction that is not present before the 19th century. Furthermore, the expectations that all the other poor people are lazy scumbags, but my poverty is merely a circumstantial setback is a very American exceptialism view.

I really like QuollWriter.

No

You hate Java, you love Rust, noted.

Also:

SAP,

Graphics,

Data science,

Web.

Good day.

What bad rep? Being acclaimed as one of the greatest actors his age? He’s just playing a character. The kid doesn’t even look like the character anymore.

Java is still massive in corporate software. As in, internal software for corporation’s day to day operations. Machinery management, inventory software, point-of-sale applications, floor management, automated finance tracking. Stuff that isn’t really cool or talked much about.

And of course there’s Java’s most important job. Coming up with features and syntax that Microsoft can copy and steal for C#.

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It’s capitalism.

Men’s well being wouldn’t be tied to career prospects if it weren’t for the rat race we are all brainwashed into since birth that is capitalism.

You have worth as a human beyond your capacity to produce profit.

It’s a cycle all popular languages go through. First only experimental applications and super opinionated programmers use it. Then everyone wants to use it for everything. Then it finds a niche where it excels and settles.

I remember Java, C++, Python, and JavaScript going through those phases as well. Currently, everything is Rust.

There is, but it’s not fun or interesting. Just weight the pasta. The change in volume is irrelevant, just make sure it is between 25 to 75 grams of dry pasta. Then you’ll get between 50 and 150 grams of pasta per person. The weight gain is absorbed water.