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Currently between olives

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Jupiter is awesome in the original "inspiring awe" sense. The star that never was, possibly the first planet to form, and hugely influential in how the solar system turned out.

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Yeah they generally seemed very chill, but I wouldn't want to be on the business end of a walrus with a chip on its shoulder

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This might be more at home over on https://beehaw.org/c/creative. Gorgeous picture in any case, I especially like the colors.

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Aww what a heart-breaker

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Yeah pretty much the same. Washing pants after every one or two uses seems like madness.

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Ha, I wonder how that works. Maybe the alcohol kills off, err, "aromatic" bacteria?

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Dune is about as difficult a book as you are ever likely to encounter

Gravity's Rainbow would like a word.

But on a more serious note, great list of suggestions. I'd add Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's anthology called https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?573105. It's a great collection of both less and more widely known authors, including eg. a 1905 story by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain from what's now Bangladesh. I personally liked the variety, and I trust Jeff VanderMeer's taste

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I mean wasn't it Spez who's gone off the survivalist deep end? If I recall right he had some pretty interesting ideas, something along the lines of how he'd rule over us plebs after the collapse comes and he and his private army emerge from his rich person doomsday bunker. Supporting Space Himmler is par for the course

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Honestly no idea, I don't really know anything about him except that he killed people. Wasn't there some sort of group too?

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Anyway, supposedly the Manson Family had this idea about a major race war (predicted by The Beatles’ White Album, of all things).

People believe the darndest things

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Heh yeah I think it's superior to Space Karen

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Just as a note, but you can check which instances a Lemmy instance is federated with by hopping on the /instances list, eg. https://beehaw.org/instances (the link is on the bottom of every page)

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Carbon removal and other geoengineering solutions to climate change just don't sit right with me. They seem like they give polluters a permission to keep on going as they were, and leave dealing with CO^2^ output to a magical future technology that may or may not ever even actually exist on a large scale

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Interesting graph. Surprising that sequestration in agriculture is projected to have such a big effect, but apparently at relatively high cost per CO2 equivalent.

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Unfortunately renewables won't quite get us there, because many of them have seasonal outputs and we don't have any good ways of storing energy on a large scale. Wind, solar etc. can't produce energy 24/7, and when there's overproduction we can't store it anywhere. There's some interesting solutions like this Finnish company working on a sand battery but nothing that's good to go right now.

Right now nuclear energy is the only good solution. I'd bet on small-scale modular reactors, at least if we can collectively get over the irrational fears many have about anything nuclear.

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Heh, probably not just because of mushrooms, but I'd bet they have a nonzero effect.

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Yeah there's "relatively bleak", and then there's The Road 😁

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I've understood that the problem with Lemmy's moderation tooling right now is that if an instance has a lot of problematic users, the only way to handle that is to totally defederate.

Eg. the possibility of blanket blocking all users from instance X from commenting on instance Y without taking away instance Y users' ability to interact with communities on X would be useful. I've understood that Mastodon has something like this nowadays.

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I'm Finnish and in my 40's, AMAB. Grew up in a bit of a rough neighborhood (at least by local standards 😅) that had the classic combo of poverty and substance abuse, so attitudes were pretty conservative in addition to it being – you know – the 80's and in Finland, which is still fairly conservative compared to our neighbors. As a kid I liked dresses and having painted nails – although that could only really happen when we were spending our summers with specific family friends – and I never really fit in with boys.

Getting that sort of a reputation of course meant that I regularly got the shit kicked out of me for being "gay", which is pretty much the only label we had at that point for anything out of the normal cishet box (and I'm pansexual if anything). Growing up in a really toxically masculine environment meant that I internalized this idea that I'm some sort of a failure of a man, and it took me up until my 30's to start to think that hey maybe I'm not the problem here. I think it was last year that I finally realized that I'm nonbinary.

So it's been a bit of a process. I really don't know what my labels are, I just know I'm definitely not cis and I'm attracted to "feminine" people of all kinds, and I'm not all that much into sex but not straight-up asexual either.

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Sometimes it feels like I’m stealing a label because I never got the chance to explore before I was married, and I’m not about to cheat on my wife.

I'd say that eg. pansexuality is just something you are instead of something that you acquire by acting on it, so I wouldn't worry about "stealing".

But regarding exploration, I guess my question is whether you would like to explore the other aspects of your sexuality?

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Honestly so am I. I'm much happier.

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Yikes, that does sound like a conundrum. I haven't come out to my parents either, they're in their 80's and I've figured I'm getting off easier by not telling them and basically haven't bothered. But I get why someone would want to have their family know, too.

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