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My most upvoted answer in Quora is me talking about China.
«Officially:
There is only one China. China includes mainland China and Taiwan. There are two political entities that claim to be the rightful government of all China (both mainland and Taiwan): they are the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and the Republic of China (ROC).»
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The answer was posted in 2017, and it had a peek of views in early 2020. I wonder why.
Land grabs shall not be tolerated.
There are a few other things in international politics that while accepted in the past should not be allowed in the present given or current understanding of nation-states and self determination of the peoples.
Land grabs are one of these. Genocide is one other.
I'm a little ambiguous about making a principle regarding the forceful removal of leaders by international coalitions or foreign powers, as well as the support of separatist movements.
Have your cats en ever thought that your pants make a good hammock while you're sitting in the toilet?
So our kid is worried because one of her friends had a fight with her parents. She wanted us to go rescue her last night late.
One first question I had for myself is what kind of intervention would we perform. It is not like I can go to somebody's home, people whose only relationship is through our underage daughters, and tell them that they have to let us take her daughter. Calling social services? Doesn't seem a good option, particularly if we are not completely aware of the situation. It is not that I have plenty of confidence in social services or the police in this country.
Later this morning or kid told us (well, she told her mother) that her friend was in “the community” and get parents didn't accept that.
Now I wonder, which spaces or instances are the right ones for bringing a girl in her early teens protection in these situations, particularly if I'm not fully aware of how dangerous is it. Is the kid in real danger or is she just being grounded by intolerant but otherwise harmless parents? Or just well intentioned but ignorant and misled parents scared of their kid being gay?
Are there LGBT* support groups in the area that have some ideas to deal with this kind of situations? People who can assess the right kind of counseling and protection? Who can work with the parents if we'll intentioned but misled, or to rescue the kid if parents are an actual danger for her?
I s'pose that frustration will kind of be my constant for now on.
tl;dr: I knew it, but I had to say it.
I can barely live with myself and the high expectations I do have for me and the poor performance my life has been so far. Chronic procrastination had become a way of life as if ignoring my problems they will vanish themselves; a situation I'm aware enough to understand as wrong but I still fail to solve.
I don't blame the world. I don't recognize any agency in the universe or any external situation that I could blame. Fate? Fate barely as a descriptive state of the affairs not as something that was written. I have felt inadequate to what people expect from me, my family, my friends, my school mates and coworkers. And yet no blame. I can't blame myself for the cards live have me, neither can I blame life, or the universe, or some god, for handling me those cards.
And a great deal of this frustration is sexual in nature. I think I need someone to be vulnerable to. Someone I can surrender to, and feel protected. Someone that will embrace me with her skin. Someone I can humble myself as this little perv I am.
Also someone who can be vulnerable infront of me, who surrenders herself to me, so I can embrace her, and protect her in my arms, and for this little while, while we are making love, or just having sex, only we both matter to each other.
I haven't shared this physically with anyone in the last 34 months, nearly 35. I haven't shared this with anybody except the woman I once married and I once believed I loved. The woman I share a flat with, two teenage kids and three cats, but no intimacy and no physicality.
And I'm stuck. Too much a baggage to bring into any new relationship. I don't have much to offer to any possible new partner. Fear of rejection. Fear of not being enough. Fear of being a fraud. Fear of failing.
I'm probably too wrong in what to expect. Sharing being vulnerable? Who thinks like that? Probably not even me.
But I don't know shit. I don't even know how to flirt. I don't know how to pick. I don't know how to reach. And, probably, I don't even know who to reach.
Some people you should probably be following: @pezick , @Maysan@col.social , @mujerforestal , @asmodeo , and @wondertypa
When people attempt to revert an argument that doesn't fully understand, the conclusions might be... weird. 
https://www.quora.com/If-atheism-is-true-why-cant-atheists-explain-this-contradiction-Let-Christianity-be-defined-as-a-doubt-in-atheism-Everyone-has-some-degree-of-doubt-so-most-atheists-are-somewhat-Christian-and-so-atheism-is-unlikely/answer/Carlos-E%C5%AD-Th?ch=10&oid=398531226&share=85d8be37&srid=Ubl&target_type=answer
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Twitter users are all like “I don’t know if I can trust a bunch of career sysadmins and network engineers to run their own Mastodon instances” — meanwhile Elon is just running around the Twitter data center going “what’s this button do?”
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A reminder for anyone new to mastodon who might not be happy with some of the racist and bad actors out there on other servers... Just import the fediblock list to your personal blocks and you will be safe from the vast majority of bad actors.
I took all the domains from https://fediblock.neocities.org/ block list and put it in a csv file that can be imported so you can block all hateful ...
[The sexiness of female bass players...]
[Attempting to understand what actually happened in Kherson this morning.]
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RT @lukaseder@twitter.com
BREAKING: JavaScript has been banned from Twitter for impersonating a real programming language.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/lukaseder/status/1590301562525876225
Creationists and flatearthers are a good excuse to better understand how the universe is really made beyond just what your learned at school.
Yo barito, tu baritas, vos baritás, ella barita, nosotros baritamos, ustedes baritan, ellos baritan.
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Let’s try this again. Where you at #fediverse? Boosts welcome so we can get the best sample size.
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I mentioned this in a private message to someone recently about why a small handful of servers block qoto. I wanted to reiterate it here for the new comers on QOTO who dont know the history:
So there are some servers out there that demand every server int he network block every instance they do, and if a server doesnt block an instance they block then they block you in rettatliation.
Their reason for this is quite flawed but it goes like this.. If we federate with a bad actor instance and we boost one of their posts then their users will see it and defeat the purpose of the block. The problem is, this isnt how it actually works. If they block a server and we boost it, they wont see the boost, thats how blocks work.
The issue becomes even more complicated when you consider the fact that these servers, by virtue of their policy, have huge block lists where they block tons of major servers. So in order to satisfy them we too would have to block a huge number of servers.
This means you have a choice, you either join a server that isnt blocked, but has a huge block list themselves, or, you join a server that doesnt block and be blocked by a small handful of servers. Obviously that means on QOTO you will have bigger view of the world than you would on any of these others servers. In fact QOTO has onne of the largest federation footprints of any server in the network.
I want to also explain why we choose the decision we did. Years ago when this controversy started and servers across the fediverse started blocking there was a divide of people taking sides. WOTO was one of the few servers that didnt take sides and allowed people read content from any server (but with strict hate speech rules). This caused a huge influx of people,s pecifically from the LGBTQ community, onto our server. It turns out many people relied on us not-blocking for their physical safety. There were big name biggots (like milo yanappolus) who were on the network. They used their accounts here to watch his account for doxing so they could warn themselves and their community and protect themselves accordingly. In fact we added a feature just for them called subscriptions which allowed them to monitor accounts without following them so they could do so anonymously.
In tthe end for the safety of the LGBTQ community here we refused to engage in mass server blocking and instead encouraged our users to block servers on an individual basis and provided access to block lists for them to do so. But some really misguided servers blocked us anyway.
Thankfully the servers blocking us are few and far between and are limited to only the most excessive and aggressive block lists. As I said, QOTO has one of the largest federation footprints on the fediverse,
Fega älskande blir inte älskar eller berättelser; de stannar kvart.
Varken påminnelse kan rädda dem;
Eller den bästa talaren kan konjugera dem.
