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In my experience, just consuming more media is a good way to become more familiar with the facial features that we might not pay enough attention to differentiate between people. When I first started watching Japanese movies, I had a bit of a hard time grasping who was who, but as time went on it became easier.

Lovely this happened because someone complained after being banned from the piracy instance for being a transphobic asshole.

Equating Nazi symbolism with Soviet ones just feels like such a weird thing to do, there's a reason Nazi symbols are banned in several (if not a majority) of European countries, but is not the case at all when it comes to soviet symbols. I think it's specially disappointing because the image that was originally shared was a reference to the "spectre" line in the communist manifesto. The hammer and sickle symbol has a long history that supersedes the history of the Soviet Union as a state, even my "third-world country" in Latin America (I'm sure you can see in the logs where I'm posting from) has a history of using the symbol for liberatory causes.

That sucks, I was hoping it was some random mod from a random comm, but the only mod for meta is the lemm.ee admin. Looks like he lives in a country that had a complicated history with the Soviet Union.

oof What comm was this one?

yea, I would just give Soulseek a try.

I also recommend reading "Is Gender Necessary? Redux", an essay by Ursula that deals with her relationship to feminist critiques to The Left Hand of Darkness (for example, using male pronouns to signify genderlessness) and how her opinion of those critiques changed throughout the years. It's one of my favorite pieces of writing by her.

This guy has like 6 different projects going on (Pixelfed, fedidb, Kbin app, Messenger app, etc.). I just wish he would focus on like one or two things instead.

I guess.. I have read the Nausicäa manga, which is my favorite work by Miyazaki. I would recommend it if you haven't read it, the movie only covers about 1/4 of the manga.

I also started reading Wizard of Earthsea, which I haven't finished, but I have so far loved. Ursula is one of my favorite writers, but this is my first time delving into her fantasy work.

Howl's Moving Castle is on my to read list, hopefully I get to it one day!

It's not just bitrate but how good the retail encode of a Blu-ray is. There are certain movies where a smaller bit-rated Blu-ray is actually the best option. Private trackers are filled with comparisons between all the available Blu-rays to figure out of which one is the best in terms of video/audio quality. Buying a Blu-ray may still not get you the best quality.

Didn't want to make a whole post just for this, but looking at the sidebar,

Men at the top of society enforce a system (patriarchy) that ends up repressing the average man.

I don't agree with this statement. I don't think patriarchy is enforced by "men at the top of society", but by most (if not all) men. Sure there is a spectrum of how much of a.. patriarchy reproducer a man can be, but that doesn't mean it's only men "at the top" hurting the "average man".

My namesake!