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Some nonbinary people express as whatever they have always expressed. They might be okay with their colleagues referring to them according to how they express, but feel seen and respected if their nonbinarity is taken into account.

I would interpret “nonbinary leabian” as a person who has always expressed as female and at some point understood that they are actually nonbinary and who likes female traits attractive and male traits unattractive in a potential partner.

FluffyChat still doesn’t support showing threads as threads. I’d recommend using something that does. Basically Element.

Although, I will absolutely switch to FluffyChat once it properly supports threads!

They just always begin with the apple, not with flour or baking table or somesuch. You’re adding the flour into a bowl that is… Next to the apple.

Well, commandeering all the money from all bank accounts of people living in the Russia is quite a radical way to fund upgrades for a country. It will cause an unavoidable banking crisis that will destroy the country’s economy.

But 600 billion did indeed exist in cash and gold in early 2022. That could indeed have been used in the way you describe. But Putin had other plans.

At least 300 billion, that’s known. Or 600 billion, if you count the money frozen by western countries. That’s how much money they had in their development fund in early 2022, and all of that is now used.

But then, there are the preferential loans: The Russia needs cheap weapons, and that requires factories to sell their weapons far under the production costs. In order to enable that, the Russia has enacted a law that requires all commercial banks to give low-interest loans without any cautions to military industry. Those loans are not used for investing into anything, but only for paying for the workers’ salaries. That money will never be paid back to banks and apparently almost all the money of all commercial banks has been already used that way. So, you should add all the money any Russians have saved in their bank accounts in the number. I have no idea if that’s in tens or hundreds of billions.

It is not yet visible in the budgets, but eventually all Russian banks will go bankrupt because of that, and then it becomes a cost for the state. It is, de facto, money used by the Russian Federation as well. And it’s a lot.

I’d guess about one trillion dollar should be quite close to correct number if you also count the frozen assets and the preferential loans.

Oh no! This comm is not federated with some of the piefed instances I am on. You’ll have to add the p by yourself :/

“Esli by tol’ko bylo dostatochno poter nogu…”

Yeah, they’d just send that soldier to the its death on crutches.

Not terribly much, actually. At least if it kicks the bucket relatively soon.

In that case, JD Vance will automatically become the president, which is a horrible thing itself, but since he won’t be able to consolidate power very efficiently, there’s a good chance there will be presidential elections around when the 2025 presidential term ends, and then a president gets voted in, just as always.

Of course, that will either mean that a lot of Republicans will end up in jail. And if that does not happen, the whole political system will lose its credibility and all of USA gets massively destabilised.

But there are rules and if the new leadership bothers following them, things will roll as well or badly as they were rolling until 2024.

Stopping that deal would have made the world a lot better place, actually! N9 was awesome, and during the first half a year of Windows Phone based Nokia phones, N9 sold more than all of those combined. Even though N9 was never advertised anywhere at all!

It was simply a killer product that people wanted to use so much that no advertising was necessary.

Nokia’s leadership style grew increasingly more and more authoritarian. And disconnected from the user experience, or even dev experience. I don’t think there’s really something like that happening in EU nor Fediverse.

Somewhat. But when writing in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Polish, Croatian, Ukrainian, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Serbian, Russian, Madeonian, Bulgarian, Latvian or Lithuanian (and maybe Greek? And how about the Gaelic languages?), you do need the information about genders when writing an adjective about the person you are talking to. So in Spanish “you are lovely” is “eres encantador” or “eres encantadora” depending of whether you’re talking to a man or a woman.

Additionally, in most Slavic languages, whenever you talk about anything that has happened in the past, you must always tell the gender of the subject.

So, “Anna, you flew!” and “Michał, you flew!”
are in Polish “Anna, ty poleciałaś!” and “Michał, ty poleciałeś!”.

You almost always need to know the gender of the person when talking to them in a Slavic language, and you often need to know it when talking to them in a Romanic language. So, good info to have!

(…and of for me, as a Finn… In my mother tongue there is never any need to know the other person’s gender when talking to or about them. Except if you want to explicitly use the words “man”, “woman”, “boy” or “girl”. But even then you can just say “adult” or “child”, so whatever.
Every Finn lives their first 7 years without caring a damn about their conversation partners’ genders. They are all just people, and that’s enough for almost any situation.
It’s interesting how often you see children in English classes get angry at the teacher for having to differentiate between “he” and “she”. An argument I’ve often heard is “It is such a hassle for no reason!”
In my eyes, all these very visible gender declarations are programming my brain towards thinking more about people’s genders, while I would prefer just ignoring the whole concept of genders in my thinking.)

most people won’t read it since they’re conditioned to ignore this normally useless text.

They might actually very well read it, because they’ll eventually notice the information might be there and would know to look for it.

But the chosen solution with flairs will work very well, probably a bit better even :)