Female genital MUTILATION is a term used in UK law and is banned to ensure women and girls have genital integrity.

Circumcision for children/boys for non-medical reasons and who are not old enough to give consent is handwaved away.

Ghost in the shell: Stand alone complex

Love it

1996-1997, Watched a VHS tape of a Chick Corea concert from the 80s. Cheesy as fuck jazz on stage. Laughing at the bad hair, and dated styling.

Suddenly I’m into jazz and listening to all sorts. Opened me up to some great musicians and great songs.

“one mile at a time, just one mile at a time…”

Or the Maha Mantra

It might “oil the wheels”, so to speak.

Alastair Reynolds “Revelation Space” universe.

They’d only screw it up though.

Occult Anatomy poster. Reefer Madness poster. That’s it.

Edit:you also replied to OP and not the comment you were trying to reply to so there really isn’t any attached context for your anti-tone indicator rant.

That helps explain why I have no clue about what is going on. Though I still don’t get OPs image.

It bothers me that it takes 76 people to organise a wedding.

White person writing things dot com

That one guy in the back with everything saved as FLAC.

Because you live in a society shaped by a Millennial Doomsday Cult. The world is ending.

(no, not ‘the’ millennials, like the generation thing)

Same. Student debt so old it’s being cancelled (pre-2000 UK student loans), no credit card, no overdraft, no mortgage.

Zero assets. But still. No debt. Which is nice.

No. Just no. “anē budē”

budē. Really. Body. Any. body.

There is much difference between ˈbɒdi and ˈbʌdi. This system fall fowl of bad regional accents. Using phonetic symbols goes some way to managing and recording these differences.

Much like many US podcasters I hear reading out their domain names as

“dɒt kɑːm” (dot carm) not “dɒt kɒm” (dot com)

Descriptives and Prescriptives Assemble! this is a battle that eill never end well.

I do however agree 110% on thr date format. YYYYMMDD feels sensible using current calendar.

Manage your ‘dot’ files??

Been doing Linux since Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 and I don’t think I have ever bothered back-ups except pinerc and maybe ~/.i3/config

Forced emotional engagement using children or animals in peril.

Seven, Crusher, LaForge (from the end of Picard). Yep, that lot plus others. Just make it. It’d be great.

Libredirect is really nice. Question: Can it bypass the front page without being turned off, then back on for links opened in tabs etc? Can’t work out if it can.

Yes. Erred on the side of caution and just dumped YT and logged out.

Got me last night. Moved my subs to invidious.