Heh. Well, I got curious and double checked it anyway 😉

a Chinese state-controlled company has agreed to loan $245 million to mine developer PT Dairi Prima Mineral

“China-backed” is a bit of an overstatement… and understatement at the same time.

China is giving the loan to reap some interests… but it wouldn’t be the first time when they give out a loan, the local company is unable to complete a project staying inside the budget, then China refuses to increase the loan, but still requires repayment of the initial one, with interests, while the locals suffer from both a half-done project, and having to pay interests through taxes when the local company goes under… while it gets bought for pennies by the Chinese company.

As someone who’s never been into sexting… what’s the difference between “leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate”, and “actual sextimg”?

It’s a case of “parallel evolution”.

Burrito comes from the slang word used in Mexico to call a taco or corn tortilla, which can be traced back to 500 BC in Mesoamerica.

Dürüm comes from the Latin word durum, meaning a type of wheat artificially selected around 7000 BC in the Near East.

Since neither the Mediterranean cultures had corn, nor the American cultures had durum, it’s just a case of “can make flour, add water, slap a thin layer on a flat stone, and heat it up”.

In the present day, both can be made with wheat, and have similar fillings, except dürüm is filled with döner kebab meat which can’t contain pig, but a burrito can contain anything.

So, putting it all together… “Lord God’s little enshittener”?

Tracing the missing lines, is the real horror show:

How people got sold recycling works:

♻️. It all goes in a cycle. Circular Economy. Green = natural = good. No waste. Yay!

How corporations actually define “recycling”:

https://www.sika.com/en/knowledge-hub/can-concrete-be-recycled.html

That sound like a regular hat, with a regular bee… hiding inside.

Ouch!

Last time SWIM used a patcher, it came with a malware dropper. Is that still how this “free” works?

Also beehaw members had to “write an essay (sic)” to join, and that barely larger threshold seems to have people value it more.

When I say “based on”, I mean that there are some cases where overweight is actually unhealthy, and some otherwise healthy people can, for a series of reasons, become unhealthy.

The problem about shaming above-average BMI people, is that it has two extremes:

• on one hand, a thin-cult that leads to eating disorders
• on the other, “fat activists” and “plus size” models dying of heart attacks at ages of 40 and under

What I believe, is that the shaming itself is a bigoted take on a warning against the latter. My point was that it’s going to take extra effort to remove the bigoted behavior, when there is a valid reason to have a warning.

Ideally, we should get to a point where the root cause of unhealthy behaviors could be addressed directly, but we’re like two or three layers away from that.

Did you read what you just wrote? If they don’t recycle the labels, then… yeah, that’s not recycling.

Cherry-picking which part gets recycled and which not, then calling it all “recycling”, is where the brainwashing comes into play.

You may notice that in action on the web I linked, where they call “Recycling” whatever they want, but come up with a different name of “Circular economy” for… let’s see, “re-cycling”… where does that word come from, again?

With concrete it’s even more egregious.

Ty 😊

If you haven’t deleted your account, you can go to the Reddit app, search, “youruser -Deleted”, click on Messages, and it will show you all the lingering ones.

I had to run the shredder script with a couple GDPR exports until it stuck.

Fat shaming is likely to be the most difficult to combat, because it’s based on an unhealthy condition anyone can slip into, so it has a warning component similar to drunk-driving shaming, the Darwin awards, various “fails”, etc. where people suffer the consequences of their own choices.

I’m not seeing it… but it might be due to Reddit having become the R word for me, never having been into T (𝕏), refusing to go on TT or D, and FB still having wide whack-a-mole word filters (main issue being flerfers, and “praise God for the AI stairs” kind). Haven’t seen it on the fediverse yet, but that might be due to curation.

I’ve had people call it “strong” and even “overwhelming”, while to me it smelled like some weak dead grass. People smoking it, I barely register, unless they mix it with tobacco. Even freshly cut, it just smelled like cut grass, nothing more. CBD oil smells like grass sap.

Both:

dialog_error = Dialog_plain.create_modal(error_text)

Variable and class names go from more general to more particular, functions begin with a verb.

Global functions are either “main”, or start with one of “debug”, “todo”, or “shit”.

The only folk who have trouble identifying themselves when calling my private phone, are spammers.

Some as with truffles, and marihuana. I can’t smell either.