Estonia is something else. They canceled a Helsinki-Tallinn tunnel project due to Chinese funding. Not sure if it was part of Belt and Road Initiative or just a private entrepreneur. But that would have been great, as right now it’s about €40 each way on a ferry.

I continue walking because I don’t want to normalize a mindset that pedestrians need to beg to use public paths. It should be drivers that feel mildly uncomfortable moving huge equipment through areas designed for pedestrian use.

activity = (forProfit) ? “Work” : “Hobby”

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The image of Pluto from New Horizons gives me similar feels. People have been fascinated by Pluto since its discovery in 1930, and only a few years ago we managed to send extremely high res photos back from a probe that took a decade to travel there.

Most of the Cassini probe images of the Saturn system are incredible. One of my favorites

Granted, I think this post about the moon takes the cake, since humans have wondered about the moon for millennia.

I don’t even remember why I thought it wasn’t cool.

A lot of music itself was meant received/marketed to reinforce binary gender norms, the auditory equivalent of pink Barbie dolls juxtaposed with Hot Wheels or whatever. If you’re a kid who has internalized these norms and is afraid of being seen as non-conforming, the answer is to reject those artists whose have cultivated a brand targeted at the other gender. It is a bit more relaxed today compared to the 90s.

After posting this comment I found a relevant article about the Spice Girls who did not actually want their music to be specific to girls.

That’s kinda the same as making an account on an instance which has instance-level white/blacklists. Though I guess the difference is that others can immediately identify and potentially block that account, because it belongs to that instance.

Probably what will end up happening is there ends up being a few generic instances (analogs to gmail.com, icloud.com) which will host anyone who follows some basic TOS. Then it would be very hard for any small instance to block the generic instances.

That, or users are encouraged to create their own private instances and control their federation that way.

it immediately made me think of that meme too lol