I can only imagine how great that must have felt. As a kid I didn't like the beach at all, I found the sand annoying () and it felt like a body show, which felt awkward and made me feel worse over how pale and skinny I am. And that's without any gender anxiety.

But in recent years I have nurtured a wish that my life and self-esteem improves to the point that I can have an experience like this too. It's become a kind of final proof of how much I would have grown as a person.

I have no idea what any of this is about, as per usual

I sometimes think about getting the game to do things like this. I just want to explore, the game itself doesn't interest me that much.

Why should we bother to reply to Kautsky? He would reply to us, and we would have to reply to his reply. There’s no end to that. It will be quite enough for us to announce that Kautsky is a traitor to the working class, and everyone will understand everything.

To my knowledge the Kyle Rittenhouse trial was like that too, as in the prosecutors messing up big time.

A few years ago, I learned that the official typeface used by the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is called "Bandera".

I remember when the family separation/kids in cages story blew up during the first Trump administration, a woman defended her description of the detention centers as concentration camps by saying:

"Do we have to wait for an actual Holocaust to happen before we speak up?"

That stuck with me.

Bismuth-209 was long thought to have the heaviest stable nucleus of any element, but in 2003, a research team at the Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale in Orsay, France, discovered that 209Bi undergoes alpha decay with a half-life of 20.1 exayears (2.01×1019, or 20.1 quintillion years), over 109 times longer than the estimated age of the universe.

Due to its hugely long half-life, for all known medical and industrial applications, bismuth can be treated as stable.

The Mandarin-language videos are modeled on a series of videos the agency made in recent years asking Russians to spy for the United States, appeals that previous C.I.A. leaders said helped develop new sources.

Sure...

Last year the C.I.A. released instructions in Mandarin [on Youtube] about how people in China could safely use the dark web to contact the agency. The text-only instructional video was viewed 900,000 times. While the Chinese internet is locked down and censored, American officials believe that more sophisticated Chinese officials know how to work around those controls.

Aren't VPNs very common in China?

Here is how NYT described the videos:

As a history fact, Iranian Azerbaijan (which includes the provinces of East Azerbaijan, West Azerbaijan and Ardebil, sometimes Zanjan province is also included for being majority Azeri) is the OG Azerbaijan, with the modern country of Azerbaijan having historically referred to by other names:

The name Azerbaijan was first adopted for the area of the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan by the government of Musavat in 1918, after the collapse of the Russian Empire, when the independent Azerbaijan Democratic Republic was established. Until then, the designation had been used exclusively to identify the adjacent region of contemporary northwestern Iran, while the area of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic was formerly referred to as Arran and Shirvan. On that basis Iran protested the newly adopted country name.