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ˈsɪmpl̩ ɛks

you can hear this pronunciation in this talk from Evgeny Poberezkin, the author of the whitepaper.

my experience is also primarily with tired parents with mortages… who blame minorities for their unhappiness (so they vote right-wing) and get all of their social and emotional fulfilment from work (so they willingly buy into the C-suite cult).

they are also usually so tech illiterate that they have the vibe of someone who never learned a trade and fell for the 'learn to code' advice at some point in their life.

in written Spanish if you want to denote gender ambiguity you can use the ‘x’ letter, @ symbol or any other generic enough symbol.

Hearing someone say latin-“x” in English can be jarring to hear though, that’s as much as I’ll say.

i prefer -e for this reason; it's pronounceable.

tell you that violence is a terrible thing that can never be excused or condoned.

aha! but they say violence has no place in the so-called United States (if you ignore wage slavery, prison labour, the police, and the entire capitalist system). violence overseas always serves their interests, until it doesn't.

checkmate tankie /s

i think it would be more symbolic to extend the rainbow peace flag over it.

growing up, the most common 'counterargument' (read: dismission) to 'global warming' i heard was 'great, i love summer!'

i had to become a singer before i had the lung capacity to sigh hard enough.

I’m not disagreeing, but it seems to me I’ve known of white supremacist groups that do want other races to exist, but as subjugated classes.

not OP, but at least in Europe the raceless racist trope is more common, particularly among liberals. in one breath they'll say that the concept of race is pseudoscience (true), but then conclude that this means racialisation doesn't happen (uhhh). then in that same breath they'll say that people from Muslim countries are destructive radicals who are 'incompatible' with European culture, which is almost neo-racist, until you realise that they don't know what a 'Muslim' 'looks' like, and that in practise it's 'anyone with dark hair and/or a von Luschan index higher than 20'.

it's not that they want to subjugate brown people: it's that they wish they had never existed, and that they could never see them again. but the people they vote for to accomplish this do want to subjugate brown people.

before you know it: the group of 'incompatibles' has grown to encompass 2/3 of the world's population by hair colour and skin index alone, and antisemitism is back on the table. but they believe in nonviolent democracy and the 'rule of law' and eat organic so it's ok.

sidenote: this is why a lot of far-right supremacist groups in Europe tend(ed) to be more about (national) ethnicity than race. historically, even people from neighbouring countries were parasitic 'others' to be corralled and expelled.

Did you look for a nest or another bird in the original shrub?

i didn't see anything in the bush at first glance. i tried to see if it was leading me somewhere, but it didn't seem like it. i didn't want to stress them out by approaching them too quickly or digging thru the bush.

they did seem very small, so it's possible they don't know how to feed themself. it's not too far, so i can try checking on them sometime soon. i don't want to invade their home, tho.

my guess is it was trying to get you to help one of its friends or something.

that was my first guess, but it didn't seem like it was leading me anywhere.

i'm a little worried now.

I’d have had a good search around the area befriending crows can actually bring you some benifit like shiny gifts

when i was homeless, i shared my food with a crow. i got them to bring me coins by feeding them double portions when they brought monies.

or in some cases crow bodyguards as they actually recognise individuals as friends etc.

that's my current relationship to the corvids in town. a long time ago i rescued a magpie from two seagulls, and since then all the corvids no longer fly away when i come near them. the magpies even defended me from a seagull one day!

but they otherwise don't approach me, and we don't 'communicate'.

that was my first guess, but after i tried getting back on the path they only kept putting grass on my feet. i tried holding still, backing away, moving toward them, moving back into the grass, making noises, and checked in the bush — it just kept putting grass on me. i didn't immediately see anything. i was afraid of scaring or upsetting them, so i left.

someone else suggested they're a juvenile that doesn't know how to feed themself.