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Sick!

Only tangentially related but I just recently found some of the best chiptune I’ve ever heard by an artist named jefftheworld, and his music is criminally underrated, it has SO few plays

Hes on mastodon and I found him via radiofree.fedi before it shut down, which is extra cool. Highly reccomend “HH” and “Crazy &E” by him, they’re two of my favorites (HH takes a moment before the melody shows up and the melody is what makes it really special in my eyes)

Apparently this was reported on in 2018 so I assume thats when it came to light

The investigation found that in this year’s entrance exams the school reduced all applicants’ first-stage test scores by 20% and then added at least 20 points for male applicants, except those who had previously failed the test at least four times. It said similar manipulations had occurred for years because the school wanted fewer female doctors, since it anticipated they would shorten or halt their careers after having children.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/08/tokyo-medical-school-admits-changing-results-to-exclude-women

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When I was drawing over the boys face I wasn’t aiming for “the stuff of nightmares” but thats what I got lol

Yo, what the fuck…

Yeah, though I also meant that for me challenges with getting off are relational, or at least mental. I get off just fine by myself but usually can’t with a partner. Which is less than helpful lol.

Not female but thats definitely true for me as well

Hmmmmm, I could have considered that a little more before I chose to post 😅

Look, I’m very lonely okay, sometimes you’ll take what you can get 🥲

Lmao, thats a very silly story. That’s like 14 tampons a day 😅

Thanks for filling me in!

Tf did NASA do with tampons?

Holodomor Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor?wprov=sfla1

The Holodomor,[a] also known as the Ukrainian famine,[8][9][b] was a massive man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1930–1933 which affected the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union.

The Great Purge’s Wikipedia page (redirect from “Stalin’s purges"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge?wprov=sfla1

The Great Purge or Great Terror (Russian: Большой террор, romanized: Bol’shoy terror), also known as the Year of ’37 (37-й год, Tridtsat’ sed’moy god) and the Yezhovshchina (ежовщина [(j)ɪˈʐofɕːɪnə], lit. ‘period of Yezhov’), was a political purge in the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1938. After the assassination of Sergei Kirov by Leonid Nikolaev in 1934, Joseph Stalin launched a series of show trials known as the Moscow trials to remove suspected dissenters from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (especially those aligned with the Bolshevik party). The term “great purge” was popularized by historian Robert Conquest in his 1968 book, The Great Terror, whose title alluded to the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror.[9][10]

Katyn Massacre Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre?wprov=sfla1

The Katyn massacre[a] was a series of mass executions of Poles carried out by the Soviet Union between April and May 1940. Though the killings also occurred in the NKVD prisons in Kalinin, Kharkiv and elsewhere, the massacre is named after the Katyn forest, where some of the mass graves were first discovered by Nazi German forces in 1943.[2] Nearly 22,000 Polish military and police officers, border guards, intelligentsia, and prisoners of war were executed by the NKVD (Soviet secret police), on Joseph Stalin’s orders.

Thought I’d do my best to provide context even though I don’t know as much about history cause I’m always excited when theres info in the comments ☺️

Thats one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen, thanks

God damn. Kinda makes me rethink the color android ereader I’d been thinking about getting in hopes something like this comes along…

I read lots of webcomics and a higher refresh rate would be hugely helpful when I’m reading webtoons (though I much prefer old school indie webcomics)

I think people love to hate proton but also they are very much deserving of scrutiny. Given they have voiced some sentiments in the past that many read as “pro-maga” they should be be scrutinized

And also, my impression has generally been that when scrutinized (which happens VERY regularly) they dont really seem to be doing anything nefarious. But we keep having things crop up that create scrutiny, which I feel is equal parts concerning, and also likely somewhat a product of hypervigilance

Here’s someone contemporaneously scrutinizing those "pro-maga" comments made around the beginning of trumps second term, and with some grace shown to proton (you can decide if they deserve it), concludes the comments are understandable, even if its clear how divorced from reality they are in retrospect (that many could also see as such at the time they were made). But the author makes the fair argument that the CEO of proton reasonably may not have had that perspective at the time and may have been caught off guard by a anti-big-tech pick for trumps cabinet. I don’t think the interpretation they explain is wrong.

But we keep having concerns with them. Sometimes hollow (they turned over a Stop Cop City organizer’s payment data when legally required by the country theyre incorporated in, which is what what literally any company would do), sometimes a bit less so, like making pro trump comments that may be true but that feel shortsighted, and failing to scrutinize who they partner with as an influencer

I think it may be worth asking yourself why a company would spend that money: They do so in the hopes that it makes them more. The only reason they exist is to make money.

Whether you think this was an honest mistake or sign of something nefarious, the idea that a company spends money on advertising just to throw money into the void and see no return is a bit silly 😅. The hope is that some subset of folks advertised to join their service, and some subset of those pay money for it. If they don’t make more money from gained paying customers than the ammount they spent on advertising then it was an objectively incorrect business choice…

Cuuute!! ☺️

Who are the Scythians?