Correct me if I'm wrong, but tomorrow 12:00 Finnish time is:

UTC        2024-06-26T09:00:00+00    (2024-W26-3, 2024-178) (1719392400 seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00+00)
LOS ANGELE 2024-06-26T02:00:00-07    (2024-W26-3, 2024-178) (PDT; Wednesday; Wed 26 Jun 2024 02:00:00 AM PDT)
NEW YORK   2024-06-26T05:00:00-04    (2024-W26-3, 2024-178) (EDT; Wednesday; Wed 26 Jun 2024 05:00:00 AM EDT)
LONDON     2024-06-26T10:00:00+01    (2024-W26-3, 2024-178) (BST; Wednesday; Wed 26 Jun 2024 10:00:00 BST)
HELSINKI   2024-06-26T12:00:00+03    (2024-W26-3, 2024-178) (EEST; keskiviikko; ke 26. kesäkuuta 2024 12.00.00)
SYDNEY     2024-06-26T19:00:00+10    (2024-W26-3, 2024-178) (AEST; Wednesday; Wed 26 Jun 2024 19:00:00)

Iʼd flee too if church leaders were matchmaking me in order to enforce racial divides. Mormon church example, emphasis mine:

“We recommend that people marry those who are of the same racial background generally, and of somewhat the same economic and social and educational background (some of those are not an absolute necessity, but preferred), and above all, the same religious background, without question” (“Marriage and Divorce,” in 1976 Devotional Speeches of the Year [Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1977], p. 144).

Source: Aaronic Priesthood Manual 3. (1995). churchofjesuschrist.org. Chapter 31 “Choosing an Eternal Companion”. Accessed 2024-06-13.

Context: This manual is what is currently taught to young men beginning at age 12.

Nvidia: I have altered the deal, pray I do not alter it further.

God, I wish I could have read Terry Pratchett's Discworld-themed take on LLMs and how they're an elf plot to use L-Space to zombify techbros and their money-making schemes.

Tolkien has been dead for over 50 years and the last Lord of the Rings book, Return of the King, was published 69 years ago.

Copyright should only cover 20 years, at most, in my opinion.

Keyboards were so nice when you wanted to accurately input characters without putting your faith in auto-correct. God help you if you need to input something not in its dictionary like someone's name.

Gross.

Shin Sekai Yori is an light novel / anime about what happens when these thoughts have power and how a society might develop to control the destructive consequences of said thoughts.

Their gender is “baby” and their identity is “stink”.

The Seattle police officer in the video didn't hit the woman with his cruiser. One of the people in his police union did, of which he is vice-president.

Excluding communities simply because you feel like theyʼre unclean is so... boring. Like, we as a species have done the whole / “racial purity” / “religious monoculture” thing for thousands of years now. Excluding people for non-violent reasons doesnʼt give you an advantage; you just get left behind as people with new ideas get poached by inclusive tolerant cultures that are intolerant of your intolerance. You can try to raise the switching cost by building walls and making emigration illegal, but sooner or later you get invaded; at best you get ignored and stagnate, dying an early death from silly things like tooth decay because you chased out all the dentists.

Yeah, transactional email service for password resets and message notifications isn't free. I'm all for paying a few USD a month; paying that now saves future me the hassle of having to find a new instance to join if this one goes down due to lack of funds.