It’s about connection. You can feel it when it’s there with your loved ones, in art, in nature, anywhere you can find it. You can’t think it into being. You can only open yourself up to it when it’s there.

TIL 10% of Americans would beat an elephant in a fist fight.

Just wanted to say that our modern ideas of masculinity are far from universal and largely ahistorical. It’s okay to be exactly who you are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Male_Renunciation

Coined by British psychologist John Flügel in 1930, it is considered a major turning point in the history of clothing in which the men relinquished their claim to adornment and beauty. Flügel asserted that men “abandoned their claim to be considered beautiful” and “henceforth aimed at being only useful”.

Block the news communities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder

Learning about it was a life changer.

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Sounds unpleasant.

Cockroach milk is sourced from the Pacific Beetle cockroach, a type of roach that gives birth to live offspring and produces ‘milk’, which it feeds its embryos through a ‘brood sac’ (essentially a cockroach womb). There is, in fact, no actual ‘milking’ involved: scientists need to carve out the cockroach’s gut in order to access the milk, which is in the form of crystals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc_Digital_Audio

The format has also been influential in the progression of video game music, used in mixed mode CD-ROMs, providing CD-quality audio popularized during the 1990s on hardware such as PlayStation, Sega Saturn and personal computers with 16-bit sound cards like the Sound Blaster 16.

In other words, the quality was similar to CDs because the technology was the same.

Sure, I’d be happy to!

I blame the success of neoliberalism (perhaps confusingly, a distinctly conservative project driven by the likes of Reagan and Thatcher). Ever-widening wealth gaps and focus on individual responsibility for solving problems seems to have created an environment where people will jump on just about any bandwagon that tells them they’re inherently better than others. Unfortunately, evil will keep winning as long as there’s enough support (or indifference) for evil to keep winning.

One explanation I’ve heard is that it was cultural inheritance from the Proto-Indo-European Dyeus.

Eagle S is still being held by the Finnish police.

https://euvsdisinfo.eu/

The local Finnish Lemmy community is hosted on sopuli.xyz /c/suomi@sopuli.xyz

I don’t know how well the server is prepared to handle a large number of users, but seems like an appropriate place for a Finnish language community. I think /u/QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz is the instance owner.