Just finished submitting it to libgen, I think it needs to be accepted first before it’s available publicly but for now I think you can download it from here? If the download link on this page is no good let me know and I’ll try uploading it somewhere else.
The full pdf is on Anna’s Archive for those who can’t buy it, I couldn’t find an epub for free though. I’m probably gonna buy the epub from Monthly Review and share it myself soon though, since it definitely seems like a worthwhile read.
Both RDR and this DLC kinda stink in my opinion, but I like that it’s coming to PC so people can still access it in the future if they want. Unfortunately, it’s got the same nasty DRM RDR2 has, and that took years to crack, so piracy may be off the table.
These all seem like pretty typical signs of transness to me, but imo that doesn’t really mean a lot because feelings around transness vary quite a bit from person to person. I think since you are already questioning, the better way to see if it is for you is to experiment with yourself a little. If you have people you can trust to be cool, maybe explain your feelings to them and ask them to refer to you with a different name or pronouns in private, just as a test run. Or maybe try the same but by making an account online somewhere, if anonymity is a concern. If you’ve got the money, maybe pick out an outfit that you can wear for yourself. Or maybe try painting your nails or getting them done. If these things make you happy, that’s probably a good sign to continue, and if not, then you can just change back, no harm done.
Fuckin love Heaven or Las Vegas, there was a time about a year ago where I was just listening to that and Treasure all the way through once a day for, like, weeks lol
It is my big gay anniversary with my big gay wife
This reminds me of the people that performed A Midsummer Night’s Dream in FFXIV
decision overruled on the basis of i don’t care and the council smells bad
They did the same thing to a hacker in the 3DS scene years ago, I wouldn’t be surprised if they followed the same plan even.
i bought one of the classic tamagotchis like a year ago and these things kinda suck ass tbh. there’s only six things you can get and the “play” mechanic is just flipping a coin 5 times in a row, and if you lose the coin flip more than 3 times then fuck you, your tamagotchi’s happiness doesn’t go up. the 20th anniversary digimon was way better, there’s tons of creatures to unlock and you can raise 2 at once, plus you can battle them with others. plus the tamagotchis don’t have SRAM like the digimons do so if your battery is dying then say goodbye to your vpet. the eggshell design is a lot cuter though and also friendly to lefties so they have that going for them at least.
i wanted to get a v3 tamagotchi because i remember those ones being pretty neat when i was younger but i couldn’t find one for less than like $80 so i never got to find out if they are actually good
edit: oh shit wait a minute apparently they did a 20th anniversary tamagotchi connection? i gotta check this out
Hell yeah. Between this game and @Seryph@lemmygrad.ml’s dressposting, I can feel the elaborate outfits taking control of my brain
programming is really fun yeah! it’s like making puzzles for yourself to solve. and then you are done you’ve got your cool little things you made to use!
Wait maybe I just want to be able to pull off his outfit actually.
Need the HRT that makes you look like Alucard Symphony of the Night
I would also be interested in more sources on this topic. The wikipedia page on Vavilov links this source on the Soviet view of genetics, but it has a very clear anti-communist bias and some obvious nonsense. I only realized this most of the way through typing my comment but apparently the author joined the USSR branch of Amnesty International in 1981, and was the chairman from 1985-1988. My favorites are claiming 10 million peasants were arrested and exiled or shot during collectivization (source: Winston Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 4) and this line:
Thus, Party leaders began doing what scientists always tried to avoid: turning scientific sessions into forums for resolving political tasks.
Anyways, the article is interesting even if I’m skeptical of it’s accuracy. It seems as though there was a lot of debate around genetics in the Soviet Union at the time, which makes sense to me from a layperson’s perspective at least. From what I understand, modern genetics was a relatively new science at the time, and considering the role of eugenics and Social Darwinism in Nazi ideology, I think it’s reasonable that some Soviet scientists were skeptical. If I am incorrect here, I’d appreciate it if someone could correct me.
Vavilov himself certainly spoke highly of Soviet science. Here’s a telegram he sent to The New York Times:
The lie about Soviet science and Soviet scientists conscientiously working for the cause of socialism has become the specialty of certain organs of the foreign press…. On many occasions I gave reports in the press and orally in many cities of the USA about Soviet science, about the exceptional possibilities granted to Soviet scientists, about the role of science in our country, and about the tremendous progress of science during the Soviet period.
From a small institution during the Tsarist period—the Bureau of Applied Botany—the Institute of Plant Industry that I am in charge of has grown during the Soviet period into a most prestigious scientific institution having few equals in scale in the world. Its staff of about 65 people during the Tsarist period at the present time has reached 1,700 when all its branches in the outlying areas are included. The institute’s budget has gone from 50 thousand rubles to 14 million rubles…
We argue, discuss existing theories in genetics and in selection [plant breeding—V.S.] methods, we summon each other to Socialist competition, and I have to tell you frankly, this is a great stimulus, which significantly increases the level of work…
I more than many other people am obliged to the government of the USSR for its great attention to the institute I head and to my personal work.
As a faithful son of the Soviet country, I consider it my duty and good fortune to work for the good of my native land and give my entire being to science in the USSR.
Sweeping aside as vile slander of dubious origin your report about me and the fabrications that in the USSR intellectual freedom allegedly does not exist, I insist on the publication of the present telegram in your newspaper.
Academician N. I. Vavilov (1936).
As for his imprisonment, it seems like he was arrested for foreign espionage and sabotage? It’s pretty difficult for me to find a more concrete answer than this, as this story seems to be an anti-communist favorite and there are tons of articles propagandizing about Stalinism around it. Again if anyone has better sources, or if @GayTuckerCarlson@hexbear.net wants to link a source, I’d appreciate it. I got sucked into this and spent more time on it than I wanted to already.
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I’ve never really thought about it outside of the context of code, but I wonder if Git would be handy for this. Plain text and markdown would work perfectly, but there might be better version control systems for things like Office/LibreOffice.