Yes, we have a lot of wonderful adjectives in English. Swear, and be profane, for fun and profit. If you don’t want to use The Vulgar Tongue, then lean on the lexicon.

The black bar really adds no decency, it’s performative and viewed by many as a form of hypocrisy.

Since this is a textual medium run with adult behavioural standards, the rule that infantilizes profanity with absurd fucking censorship is cringeworthy and likely to be mocked or pilloried.

Dude, now you’re making it personal with totally the wrong person. What a dork.

Yes, this is all self-evident to anyone who recognizes overconsumption and premature or planned obsolescence.

My point is that advertising and other misinformation makes it extremely difficult for the average person to make rational decisions about technical issues when making purchases, so blame lies much more with companies, governments, and culture than the teeming hordes you look smugly down on.

Oh yes, advertising doesn’t work, which is why it’s fucking everywhere

Back in the ‘90s, my grad student roommate was studying how tanzanian chimps use certain plants only for antiparasitic effect. Quite effective and too small in quantity to be food. Medicine.

Logistics. But the resistant insurgency will carry on for living memory, even after this shit is put down.

Sit the fuck down.

Yes, this is The Great Filter. We fix it or fade away.

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?

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