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I think it's usually because someone asked for it, or the maintainers thought it would be wanted. Or to pad out the games section of the repos.

People will sometimes introduce themselves with pronouns, or sometimes wear little badges with them.

There are definitely people IRL who don't use the pronouns one might guess by looking at them. I haven't met many (any?) people who go by neopronouns, but they are around the Internet.

You can often just guess pronouns for people, but if you can't read the gender someone is presenting (is your new friend rocking a kilt, sports bra, and enormous beard?) it might be polite to ask, and/or to use "they" until you get the right one.

You don't have to want people to call you he/him just because you are a man. But he/him is overwhelmingly popular with men, so it's a fine choice.

If there is a field for pronouns, and you want people to know yours instead of them having to guess, you should put yours in there. The other reason to put pronouns in, even if people are likely to guess right, is to exercise the field for the people who often get guessed wrong.

Baldy.

Because I cannot resist shaving a good yak.

You might want to try Openstack. It is set up for running a multi-tenant cloud.

TIL China is a one-party system with English subs

Going "back to normal" is homeostasis. We don't do and have never done that. We do allostasis: adapt to the new thing.

People do indeed seem to be adapting to the new thing. You can tell because they are still here.

"baby i can read letters through walls"

the letters

I think it benefits the distro maintainers. They can vet and ship version 0.13.1 of some multi-player video game, and support that for two years without bothering to package multiple backward-incompatible releases from the game developers. People won't come demanding that they break their distro's stable version no major version upgrades rule because everyone actually playing the game can just use the snap/flatpak published by the developers.

Glad to hear it's someone's master plan.

Honestly? Stargate SG1. One of my favorite shows.

The whole theme of the first seven or so seasons was teching up and gathering allies to say "you're not my real dad/god" to the evil sufficiently advanced aliens.

But then having reached the end of that arc and wanting to keep the show going, they introduced some even more godly evil aliens who weren't just sufficiently advanced but were actual magic. I felt it deflated the point made in the whole first arc, that there ain't nobody better then you, to then trot out some evil canonically supernatural entities.

Does this house predate indoor plumbing.

Check to see if there is a power differential here.

Are you an established adult with a Real Job and a nice apartment while she is struggling to figure out how to get out from under the thumb of her controlling family? Or is she happily making her own way in the world as a small farmer or boat salesperson or something while you have been futzing around painting skateboards and playing in a minor punk band?

Older people dating younger people can be wrong because it is easy for the older person to have too much power in the relationship. If you have something she really wants or needs that you can provide or withdraw at will or as a condition of the relationship, you should not date.