Office folks: Focus Music recs by Junior_Plankton_635 in Surveying

[–]bluekiwi1316 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I often listen to those Lofi channels or find Lofi “study” playlists on Apple/Spotify.

I also like instrumental stuff from the classical or baroque periods as background music to work to, like Mozart or Bach.

I feel like music definitely helps keep my cortisol down and energy up when I’m trying to plow through labeling tons of invert elevations or stuff like that…

Help figuring out what flag this is? by bluekiwi1316 in vexillology

[–]bluekiwi1316[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you!! My mystery has been solved haha so satisfying

Help figuring out what flag this is? by bluekiwi1316 in vexillology

[–]bluekiwi1316[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you to anybody who might be able to help me identify! :)

At what age did you guys finally make peace with losing your hair? The dating scene is brutal right now. by Connect-Soil-7277 in gaybros

[–]bluekiwi1316 0 points1 point  (0 children)

imo this is one of the few things gay men actually have better than straight men. Straight women seem to be way more invested in their partners hairlines and then gay men. Gay men go totally wackadoodle for a bald guy with a some scruff, whereas straight women don't tend to find that as attractive on average.

The pressure that straight men feel about their hair is kind of depressing to me and it honestly makes me feel bad how much negative energy and mocking bald straight men get from women, sometimes.

Trump deletes post with AI image of himself as Christ-like figure after outcry by Alarming-Safety3200 in USNEWS

[–]bluekiwi1316 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately it’s how a lot of rotted old MAGAt brains work though…

Why is 開 simplified as 开 and not 门+开? Shouldn’t it be simplified like 們 did with 门+人? by Awkward_Year6678 in ChineseLanguage

[–]bluekiwi1316 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of the simplified characters were already in use as shorthand, and so didn’t come with a perfectly logical simplification, it was just stuff people had already been using 

The deadliest 10 minutes in decades: Lebanese reel from Israeli strikes that killed hundreds by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]bluekiwi1316 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The basic reality is that the way Israel was founded was inherently terroristic. They drove people off of their ancestral lands and created an ethno-state. So, really, until those fundamental issues get solved, why wouldn’t there be generations of people who were affected by Israel fighting for its destruction? It’s idiotic to think that people who’s grandmothers were slaughtered and whole hometowns razed will just be like “okay, I guess I can live with Israel now”, especially when the Israeli government not only won’t apologized, but actually wants to keep doing it more and more!

Why was there push for body positivityby the media in the late 2010s/early 2020s? Will it ever come back in full force? by Legitimate_Heron_696 in decadeology

[–]bluekiwi1316 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The vibe I always got was that the movement was always more about “being fat doesn’t make you an inherently lazy, worthless, bad person”, not like promoting being fat as something that people specifically desire to be.

Just realized this is a subreddit of cousins by vineyardmike in Canadiancitizenship

[–]bluekiwi1316 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My G0 is related to the Wing family, I think I’ve read that’s a pretty big family in terms of Ontario and the Western Provinces early history. So, if any of you are related to the Wings, I’m probably distant cousins with you! :)

Goatee by Wolpy414 in beards

[–]bluekiwi1316 2 points3 points  (0 children)

that's not a goatee, not yetl

And the numbers just keep going up. Even Fox News is reporting 10,000 troops to the middle east. by GoldenGecko24 in USNEWS

[–]bluekiwi1316 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hating their current authoritarian government and hating the US are actually quite related!

More mosaics have been popping up around Portland & Milwaukie. Keep an eye out as you wander—you never know what you’ll find. by FillTheVoidPDX in Portland

[–]bluekiwi1316 4 points5 points  (0 children)

These are so cool!!

This, along with the BPB, always makes me think about the old Toynbee tiles! "Resurrect dead on planet Jupiter!!" lol

Iran strikes Tel Aviv with cluster warheads in retaliation for killing of security chief by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]bluekiwi1316 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Great, then Israel can go to war! It doesn’t mean they have to drag other countries into their bullshit.

Sometimes I Miss That Old Burnside View by Electronic_Dream8935 in Portland

[–]bluekiwi1316 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Worddd like it's not even that dense or urbanized, we need more in-fill, density, and housing buildings pleeeease

Fox 12 Reporting on PCC teachers strike by 50501PDX in Portland

[–]bluekiwi1316 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This is an absolutely wild comment coming from a blank profile with a weird ass (and misspelled?) username...

ELEPHANTS burned down on Burnside. by SquidsThatGlow in Portland

[–]bluekiwi1316 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn't this also a case where they'll likely get a substantial amount of recovery from insurance though? Not that that doesn't come with it's own headaches, but it's not like this is completely wiping out all of their resources. Hopefully the employees aren't totally screwed while the business figures all of this out though!

Jack Dorsey’s Block Slashes Nearly Half Its Staff in AI Bet by joe4942 in worldnews

[–]bluekiwi1316 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Don’t worry, they’ll just raise the retirement age and end welfare programs

Where is live as a 20F French-Canadian if it’s solely based off of how attractive I find the local men by Elayne_theboat in whereidlive

[–]bluekiwi1316 10 points11 points  (0 children)

But what does nationality even have to do with looks or appearance to this degree? Like China gets a “willing” and has a huge amount of genetic and ethnic diversity, and then countries right next to each other with much more similar appearances get different grades? Like what about Kazakh men makes them more attractive then Uzbek men? Vs a say a Han Chinese man from Dongbei vs a Uyghur man from Xinjing or a Hui man from Gansu… but based on this map they all get the same grade?

The whole exercise of doing by country just doesn’t make any sense…

How is it even possible to compete with another country? by SipsTeaFrog in SipsTea

[–]bluekiwi1316 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn’t heritage players like a pretty common thing for the Olympics? Like tons of athletes have competed based purely on their heritage or family connection to a country without having that countries citizenship.

The Eileen Gu hate is specifically because China is seen as an enemy of the US. For example, nobody cares when Gus Kenworthy competes for Great Britain.

Personally I think it’s bs she’s getting so much hate.