OK, I am not surprised, but that’s not well known and kind of a taboo subject so not official, they were ‘guidelines’ and the policies were ‘encouragement’. Canada did similar nasty abusive sterilization in its colonial enterprise until the '70s, but hardly anyone knows.

I get the sense they are sticking it more to entitled guys and potential mothers-in-law than the government! Just going off one friend’s opinions there, though.

That was a PRC policy, don’t be ignorant. There were government recommendations to only have two kids, not a regulation, and it was over 60 years ago.

The problem in Taiwan stems mostly from women chafing against patriarchy in a modern world.

This flag has been used all over Asia by youth to express unity in dissatisfaction with corruption and a system that is stacked against them. I think it started in Indonesia, but I am not sure.

What others have mentioned here, plus seagrass and kelp. There is a lot of recovery to do of these once massive ecosystems, thus a lot of carbon to tie up.

I argue the tag is more obscure to a noob than an emoji.

An upside-down smiley face means nothing to you?

Neither am I?

You and I might have different definitions of waste and efficiency.

As someone who conserves water usage whenever possible, and is a long ways off from success, that’s simply not true.

Very few societies actually use water responsibly by design. Agriculture and industry are water-subsidized, removing incentives. Daily practices are wasteful, appliances are wasteful, plumbing and infrastructure is wasteful, policies are wasteful, the culture is disrespectful.

le sigh

Do you play chess with only the rooks?

Protests like this may be demonstrative for foreign governments and solidarity across borders, but it is pretty easy to identify the basic premise: stop using my tax money to fund genocide. Your decisions to appease that apartheid state do not represent us. Etc.

Protests are domestic, and effective internationally to the degree to which they change policy.

Your pessimism is born of a lack of civic engagement, I suspect.

Political hegemony requires a level of coherence that is threatened by mass protests. It is one MAJOR tactic in an overall strategy of moving government in a direction that reflects public will.

I just realized that I could have double-layered the m-dashes there, eh? Missed opportunity. Oh what the hell, I need to prolong lunch break juuust a little bit more, so

Well, full lulz as that was tongue in cheek although not wrong! And appreciation for the semicolon. Punctuators: Rise Up!

Ahem, edited for consistency.

It’s sad, because for most people the use-case for an m-dash is relatively narrow—a parenthetic interjection relevant to the topic (but not sufficiently off-topic for brackets), and needing a subtle call to authority—it mostly popped up in academic or pseudo intellectual non-fiction, or in faulknerian ponderous fiction, but also as a hapless crutch for endlesss neurodivergent layers of qualification.

So I am going to claim disability discrimination about this brutal and unjust sudden boycott, on behalf of crew #adhd.

Edit: shits and giggles

He’s what it takes to keep doing it for years. Relentlessly. The good kind of a nut. Might be hard to work with, I would not be surprised.

Nah, a lot of us around the world just use The Four Ingredients, and prefer bread that is simpler yet tastier. Your numbers might be very regional.

Nah, the commenter calls out Israel in other threads.

I thought it was just a troll account but madlian has posted 200+ comments on a 1 week account and is not agitating or a contrarian, is not even wrong most of the time, just contemptuous and enjoys being an asshole.

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Thanks for bringing that up, trying to justify atomic bombs that way is specious reasoning.

During his feature length interview in The Fog of War, MacNamara said explicitly that if they had lost the war, he and his team would have been tried for war crimes. He cries a bit at one point while describing the firebombing of wooden cities, at how it was worse than the atomic bombs they dropped.