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I usually download Eurovision, as the politics isn’t new… Just more apparent.

Maybe find a Eurovision community and ask about alternate viewing methods? I’m sure there are other ways to watch live, which if you’ve got a gathering is the way to do it.

Which was activated on Oct 8th, with an, as far a I know, historic first of also authorising killing Israeli civilians instead of letting them be taken hostage.

It’s called the “Hannibal Directive”.

Aye, only Protestantist Christianity (if it can be called that) and mormonism are worse.

The True Church of our Lord Father is Ethiopian Orthodoxy.

There’s a surface level understanding that racism is bad.

But that’s seen as having no impact on holding strong, negative, stereotypes about other ethnicities and cultures.

And tends to be, in many cases followed up with “it’s not a prejudice/racism, it’s a fact!” =(

Sadly there’s a lot of anti-African, anti-South East Asian, anti-Japanese & Korean, anti-Turkic, antisemitic, sentiment floating around in general in the PRC.

White man who lived in China here chiming in.

The racism, or at least prejudices and a lack of understanding that cause racism, are very real.

Asia benefited from being near the top of the racist hierarchy of lies that Europeans instituted in the 19th century and also mostly learn about Black people from Hollywood films. (There’s also a really odd trend of New Right and crypto-fash talking points getting popular and spread around Chinese social media.)

In China at least, dating is seen as valid only in the path to marriage, and family and kids is an expected and socially impressed upon goal. To the point where plenty of women in China have kids they don’t want because of familial and social pressure.

At the same time, Asian society is very colourist which combined with having ingested the racist hierarchy somewhat and only really knowing Black people and culture from Hollywood isn’t a great start.

Rounding it off, I China at least is a desire for in group marriage. Foreigners are seen as a risky choice, who could leave and don’t share the same cultural values (regardless of the truth of it).

White people get more of a benefit of a doubt, but there’s still pressure against a Chinese-White relationship. I’ve heard of plenty of families putting pressure that ens inter-ethnic relationships, and there is definitely more pressure against Chinese-Black relationships. (Both cases also, sexistly, exacerbated when Chinese women, foreign man.)

Don’t think this is anything new or not know, sadly.

If the family is supportive, things work a lot better - unsurprisingly. But with Asian value of family, if the family are openly against it, it’s very unlikely to work out.

I thought it was a common first name because of all the fooling around in the Cyberdog dressing rooms?

No, that’s Europe.

The PRC days off are appalling in comparison. And the previous comment didn’t even mention make up days.

Generally they’re not, provided they can keep it low key.

And since within the PRC it’s quite easy to fire people, and courts and settlement is about how much 面子 you can make the company lose without pissing off local authorities vs. the 关系 and pressure they can bring to bear to have you drop it there’s not much to be done.

“ask” that people do overtime, and then fire them for not being a team player, or downmote them into a stressful deadend if they don’t take the voluntary overtime.

I appreciate the choice made over X-ray fish, Xantops, and Xerus.

Going hard, and I wonder what other letters have.

No, the age of America is over.

The Trump preaidencies aren’t a radical break from the past, he’s just an unveiling of it’s darkest, ugliest, impulses and the logical conclusion of its ideals.

Maybe European mainstream leaders can convince themselves to get back into bed with US imperialism, as we benefit from it so much, but US in the eyes of the people never recovered post Iraq II, and across the whole world the US is now primarily seen as the demagogic bully that it is.

The US must learn to get along with its neighbours and treat other nations and people with respect.

Suicide only stopped being a crime in many parts of the world recently… Euthanasia is much larger step beyond that.

Let’s give things time.

Other guy did a good job on the main points, but I’ll add something I saw in a study on a kind of bird in the US:

The birds realised cigarette butts had an antibacterial effect, and made efforts to collect and use cigarette butts in their nest building for eggs and chicks.

Learning and making use of novel materials.

You’re not wrong, but I’ve also seen people calling Pluto-Charon binary dwarf planets.

But yes, the IAU tends to only pin down definitions when one is becoming unworkable - in this case the ever larger numbers of trans-Neptune objects that were potential planets.

The arbitrary cutoff size being to ensure continuity of the scientific consensus in popular awareness when I was a child isn’t a stupid rule.

Not even when a larger kuiper belt object is found.

Not even, when since mass is the primary means of estimating size until we fly a probe out there, we estimate a smaller but much with much more mass object to be larger and we debate a 10th planet yet again.

I watched the side boobvideo on invaneko, for science, to ensure no barriers to the video.

But I agree, they’re at best inconsistent.

Yes, that they don’t/didn’t have enough freedom is always a legitimate reason to invade an occupy a nation.

You could try Invidious, or another alternative front end.

https://docs.invidious.io/instances/

I’m only down with the “Pluto is a planet” crowd, if they rep Ceres and at least one of the others (Eris, Hamuhea, Makemake, or one of the others I forget) too.

So there’s no version of the solar system where there’s only 9 planets. It’s 11+ lads.