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I find their suggestions for DIY glitter questionable, and I couldn't tell you if all the article's information is accurate, but Sustainable Jungle's evaluation of current biodegradable glitters is worth a read, if you're interested in glitter formulas.

Tl;dr There is active research into cellulose nanocrystals for glitter, which would still have some ecologically negative impacts, but otherwise everything on the market is likely greenwashing, to various degrees.

First of all, why would they want to do this? It seems like an empty spiteful gesture that profits them in no way and, if anything, prevents people from using their site.

It is unfortunately a very old legacy workaround for CSS scaling problems in some browser device combinations. It has historically been difficult to convince stakeholders they're actively hurting their user base. Thankfully, the law in many places is catching up.

Here is what you likely want to remove, if you know how to edit the HTML: ``

Old explanation: CSS Tricks

Edit: if you encounter this though, odds are the rest of the site will be pretty hostile to your needs as well though.

From a dictionary perspective, you're right. From a business legal risk-avoidant and financial self-protection perspective, you're dead wrong. Words are often used with a context-specific definition, and you're not supposed to use the word 'discrimination' at all in a workplace. Because it will cause the legal and HR departments more work, and therefore cost the organisation more.

Just let the HR rep do the script and teach you how to avoid accountability when prioritising profit over people. It's less painful that way.

Just because I loathe systems such as capitalism that reward antisocial and exploitative behaviours, it doesn't mean I can't have a nuanced take on language history and use. 😉

People don't understand how expensive having a disability is, and all the little ways it messes with your existence beyond the medical symptoms themselves. It creates additional unnecessary stress and suffering. Like, just for a small insurance example, only being able to find one expensive insurance company willing to sell you travel insurance for a work trip and having to negotiate that with your employer's HR department. Lucky I found that one company at all, I guess.

Discrimination is the insurance industry's entire business model.

Discrimination as a word doesn't mean a bad thing, it literally just means "to choose between 2 or more of something/someone". As long as there is choice, there is discrimination. If I needed a plumber, and two people wanted the job, I would discriminate against the one without a plumber's license and/or experience. I think that's probably sensible discrimination.

These days discrimination is used to imply some form of social harm, especially towards a marginalised community, and the word "against" frequently follows it. The question really is though: Is an act of discrimination harmful or not, to whom it is harmful, and do the harms outweigh the benefits?

Is the insurance industry's decision to choose prices for people based on their medical situations harmful discrimination? For the customers? Definitely. For the insurance company? Definitely not.

And then the choice really boils down to which of the two you think are more valuable, for whatever it is you value most. People, or insurance companies?

As someone who values less suffering in the world and thinks all people are worthy of dignity, safety and equitable experiences, and huge profits for a private business are not constructive in delivering those values, profit-seeking health and life insurance companies can burn to the ground for all I care. Bankrupting people for things they didn't choose causes far too much suffering in this world.

Stress drives people to suicide in the first place, and insurance companies feed on that to live like social parasites.

From XMPP.org, a couple of choice extension specifications:

XEP-0161: Abuse Reporting

Abstract: This document specifies an XMPP protocol extension for reporting abusive XMPP stanzas.
Status: Deferred
WARNING: This document has been automatically Deferred after 12 months of inactivity in its previous Experimental state.
Superseded By: XEP-0268

XEP-0268: Incident Handling

Status: Deferred
WARNING: This document has been automatically Deferred after 12 months of inactivity in its previous Experimental state.
Last Updated: 2012-05-29

Internet communication is not a simple thing, I greatly respect the need for standards to be defined and measured. And these specification documents provide really good guidance on considerations. But it is not feasible to find wide-spread success if there isn't even basic consensus on how to report spam after a hiatus of 10 years on v0.6 of a spec. There is a whole lot of process involved for a protocol that has very little decided.

Like... Cinnibar?

It's the red stuff used for stamps/seals/signatures in East Asia. The Olmec were also keen on their red pigment, as you can see from the Tomb of the Red Queen.

It's also mercury-based, so pretty fucking toxic.

Edit: Also for OP, the Wikipedia articles on Vermilion. Pigments were usually prized everywhere, and both China and India have very long art histories that predate most religions anyway but Buddhism is only 2000 years old.

I have no idea if this is the same as the one at the Montreal Symphony Orchestra but for anyone else who was curious about the specs on this beast:

• HEIGHT: 3.6 m (11.10 ft.)
• LENGTH OF THE SOUNDBOARD (uppermost board): 2.06 m (6.76 ft.)
• WIDTH OF THE SOUNDBOARD: 1.11 m (3.64 ft.)
• LENGTH OF STRINGS: 2.18 m (6.56 ft.)
• NUMBER OF STRINGS 3: (A-E-B)
• DIAMETER OF STRINGS: 5/16 in. (7.94 mm). 1/4 in. (6.35 mm) et 3/16 in. (4.76 mm)
• WEIGHT: 131,54 kg (290 lbs.)
• NUMBER OF PARTS: There are hundreds of parts, of which 237 make up the complex mechanism of this precision instrument.
• SPECIAL FEATURES: The octobass is the lowest-pitched and largest-sized instrument of the entire string family. The performer must climb up on a small stool in order to access the neck of the instrument, and it is only by means of levers and pedals - not with the hands that the strings can be reached and sounded. The octobass bow is longer and heavier than the bow of an ordinary string bass.

Apparently it can do as low as 25Hz. That would be badass to experience in person.

Always has been. Here's his drunk on-stage rant from 1976 in Birmingham.

Content warning: Racism and racist slurs.

"Do we have any foreigners in the audience tonight? If so, please put up your hands. So where are you? Well wherever you all are, I think you should all just leave. Not just leave the hall, leave our country. I don't want you here, in the room or in my country. Listen to me, man! I think we should vote for Enoch Powell. Enoch's our man. I think Enoch's right, I think we should send them all back. Stop Britain from becoming a black colony. Get the foreigners out. Get the wogs out. Get the coons out. Keep Britain white. I used to be into dope, now I'm into racism. It's much heavier, man. Fucking wogs, man. Fucking Saudis taking over London. Bastard wogs. Britain is becoming overcrowded and Enoch will stop it and send them all back. The black wogs and coons and Arabs and fucking Jamaicans don't belong here, we don't want them here. This is England, this is a white country, we don't want any black wogs and coons living here. We need to make clear to them they are not welcome. England is for white people, man. This is Great Britain, a white country, what is happening to us, for fuck's sake? Throw the wogs out! Keep Britain white!" - Eric Clapton

Enoch Powell was a conservative party politician running for election, incidentally.

Clapton has always been truly awful and this is completely in character for him.

Poor little baby, I'm so glad you were able to help out. Long live Mr. Nutley!

I want to curl up with it and then mildly regret wearing black clothes when I wake up covered in white cat hair.

To be drugged is to be taken away from yourself and your core values. I’ve taken both meth and MDMA

And the same drug that harms one person can be used to heal another. For example, I take a small dose of amphetamines for ADHD, it helps me be human. For other people with different chemistry, it is bad times.

For me a drug is just a chemical you use with the intent of altering your current state. Meth, nicotine, caffeine, paracetamol, insulin, MDMA, all are drugs. Sometimes sugar too, if I'm eating it to try to get a burst of energy instead of just eating to not be hungry.

To me, drugs aren't inherently harmful or helpful. They all have different upsides and downsides for different people in different circumstances. I would not recommend amphetamines to non-ADHD people, even though it is medically helpful to me.

It is stupid how much time and money is invested in drug busts though when I can get maggot for $10 on a bottle of cheap grog within 15mins. The societal cognitive dissonance between drug types is why I'd love for the police to do something more useful.

They're more strategic than you might think. They'll flee to water sources and try to lure in their predators. Then, when the predator follows them, they pin them down with their strong back legs.

I wouldn't try to take on an Adolescent big red. That is like trying to take on a really ripped human teenager.

I could take a wallaby though... I'm pretty sure, at least.

Quokka don't stand a chance though. Unless it kills me with cuteness first. Adorable little buggers.

I just thought you must be the koala form of Snoop Dogg or something.

Of course you're exhausted, you must have worked extremely hard to find that stability. I'm truly sorry you were not able to enjoy play as a child like all people deserve.

Play is something humans do to regenerate and learn. It's still a very good thing for you to learn to do now, maybe even one of the most constructive uses of your time - you have already identified it as a gap in your experience and that you're tired.

Was there any play you wanted to try as a kid but weren't able to? It could be a team sport like football, or drawing, or chess, or building, anything. Collaborative, solo, competitive, or all of them. Now is a great time to learn to play and to rest, and it will do you good even if it's not currently something you consider 'constructive' right now. You can even help other kids in your community with similar experiences while you do it, if you like.

Good luck! It will feel weird and new at first, but there is a lot to learn from play and you don't need to be a kid to get the positive effects.

In total, 990 people were arrested on 2,052 drug-related charges.

Jesus. That's a lot of people. I wish the police would nationally collaborate on something useful though, like money laundering or paedophile priests. Or both! There are other worthwhile options too.

Drugs are just the self-medication for a disease, it's better to prevent the trauma and suffering that encourages the unhealthy coping mechanisms. If they want to bust syndicates, they can look into companies offering NDIS services who are exploiting their clients. But I guess they wouldn't be able to play with their guns as much.

I don't know, there's a lot of drag happening in that picture. Breasts don't just lift themselves like that, and those heels look painful to walk in.

No royalty, just drag.

This is true, and ultimately I think it captures the problems with all social interaction including this topic. How do we determine what is acceptable or even welcoming behaviour/content? Frequently by majority. And if the majority has started heavily skewed to one demographic, then anyone coming in afterwards starts as an outsider in some way. And if the tools are built by a skewed majority, the tools will fix what the skewed majority considers important.

I have no solutions for this, I'm just thinking out loud and you got me on this path. Sorry for the notification!

It's definitely slowly improving, but a walk through the toy section of my store has still saddened me on occasion. And I live somewhere that would be globally considered generally "socially progressive".

but I’m hoping that the more chaotic distribution weakens the willingness to internalize stereotypes

It will, but it's also going to be pretty obvious to them after a while that the girls at school always play dress-ups with dolls at lunchtime while the boys are playing with toy cars and trucks. Kids start really getting the hang of categories, associations and social cues with language development from around age 3 and up.

They especially will notice when one kid (or worse, adult) says "you can't play with that/them, that's for " Or "I'm not going to do that's for \s!". Then they have to try to figure out what makes their family so different and why they aren't like others, which can lead to some interesting hypotheses as a young child.

I vividly remember some boys objecting to singing in class at school when I was very young (6?) because singing was for girls. The teacher asked them what they thought about the most famous male singer of the time, and they uncomfortably shuffled around and grumbled as a response. It was clearly conflicting information for them, and I think it might have been the first time I encountered someone openly challenging gender expectations.