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I rsync my home folder across installs. These are my standard extra folders.

~/Books, with subfolders by topic.

~/Comics, with subfolders by publisher, then by title, possibly with an intermediate folder for author or franchise.

~/Programming, with subfolders by language, then project.

If it’s dark and I see a light at just tge right angle, I see an image of the blood vessels inside my eyes.

Do you have just a few minutes to chat about our lord and saviour Richard Stallman?

Linux and BSD had package managers before Mac did!

Ethanol, caffeine, mushroom, and cauliflower

No, he has his own bizarre approach

I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it.

The ultimate goal was to transition Mandarin to Roman letters (which had happened naturally in Vietnam, so there was precedent).ao’s party realised that going straight from Chinese characters to Roman letters would be too abrupt, so took a first step of swapping out complex characters for characters that look simpler but are easier to write. This was surprisingly well-received, and became standard in mainland China (but Taiwan did not adopt the new system on the entirely reasonable grounds of fuck the CCP). The CCP intended to do a second round of simplification, but the people balked at this on the grounds that it made the written language to difficult to read, and so they stopped at the current set.

Tabhairfaidh mé mo vóta duit.

UBUNTU, from Zulu.

Ubuntu is a concept in Bantu philosophy which is commonly translated as humanity or humaneness, but those are rough and don’t capture the nuance.

In a bunch of SciFi stories, a robot or alien joins a group of humans. The humans are initially wary of the alien/robot, but they spend time together, bond, and realize that they’re not really that different after all. A human says that, while their new friend might not be Homo sapiens, they’re definitely human.

Ubuntu captures that whole concept in one word. It refers to the subtle, ineffable qualities which “make us human”, as exemplified by our social bonds and how we interact with each other.

That’s my guess. I had the same experience tge first time I followed a hashtag, and I’ve seen it happen to at least one other person.

America does not have a national age of consent; each state sets their own. It’s 16 in 30 states, 17 in nine states, and 18 in 11 states.

Yes, the age of consent is 16 in the majority of the USA.

Several of the states which set it at 17 or 18 also have close in age exemptions (AKA Romeo and Juliet laws) which cover the case that OP raises. In such cases, it is legal to have sex with somebody slightly below the age of consent as long as both people are sufficiently close in age; some states, such as Texas, also require them to have been dating since both were under the state age of consent. This means that, in most of America, it is perfectly legal for a 19-year-old to have sex with a 16-year-old.

The misunderstanding most likely comes from the fact that the majority of entertainment media is made in New York and California, where the age of consent is 18 with no exceptions, and pop culture writers act like this is the case everywhere.

Also I should clarify that bringing a minor across state limes to take advantage of a lower age of consent is a felony, for obvious reasons.

You can tell everybody involved knew they were making a movie called Snakes on a Plane and just embraced it.

Also, the blonde flight attendant who is long of leg and short of skirt? Pretty cool she spends the entire movie being effective and competent, and is never a panicky damsel.

It also too about 100 years to reach the modern design of rubber tyres and a drive train, with the rider sitting slightly forward of the rear axle and well behind the front wheel.

Snakes on a Plane

A polycule of n people should have at least n toothbrushes.

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They call it Parker because it’s almost, but not quite, the right thing.

Geography and circumstance.

I’d recommend reading Why the West Rules - For Now by Ian Morris. The book is controversial and definitely not the last word, but is worthwhile for its grappling with the big picture.

Relevant to your question, Morris makes the case that there was economic pressure on Europeans to sail west. Everybody wanted silk and spices from India and China. For Europeans, this meant trading with Arab, Iranian, and Turkish merchants, and so spices were expensive. Finding direct routes to China and India meant people would be able to buy silk and spices more cheaply, which would make people rich. So lots of people were very interested in sailing all the way around Africa, or going west to get to the East.

Hence Columbus stumbling onto the Americas. And then colonialism happened.

But this isn’t a uniquely European thing. When Columbus arrived, the Quechua were already doing very European-style colonialism, and the Aztecs had a form on imperialism quite similar to the ancient Greeks. Carthage, Greece, Iran, and tge Arabs all engaged in imperialism and colonialism, but the European powers won.

Which, to be clear, doesn’t mean it’s right for anybody to do it.

Maurice tends to have connotations of effeminacy.

Perhaps a gender-neutral name like Sam or Alex would work. Hilary is also technically unisex, even though you won’t find many men named Hilary nowadays.

Francis is a masculine name that in most modern English dialects is pronounced the same as the feminine form, Frances. Francisco might also work if you want to be more clear it’s a masculine name; Francisco also calls to mind an expensive city in California with a very prominent queer community, and you can always shorten it to Francis.

The enemy of your enemy is your enemy’s enemy. No more, no less.