in many ways AH is one of the highest quality and most valuable subreddits on the site. it's such an important organization that really should live on outside of reddit, but obviously it only got so big because it was part of that ecosystem. I think I might mourn AH more than my smaller niche subs even though I don't go there often if it does end uo disappearing. I really hope they can migrate successfully somewhere else.

I'll use common names in conversation, but I prefer taxonomic naming when labeling things. Some things have no common names, some have many, and some share common names with other things. to me that's reason to avoid them for identification

I don't think it's fair to say nothing is changing, but "dying" admittedly seems like hyperbole.

Organizations can die slowly or not at all but still be gravely damaged. They are almost certainly making these moves to capture the least critical (most profitable) portions of their userbases and hunker down for survival. Even if the change is extremely painful, they're (likely) planning for the specific goal of avoiding total death.

I'm not a very social person so for me the worst part is feeling left out of the community. I'm very happy to be queer. But I also live in a place where I don't always feel comfortable being visible - those experiences make me hate my surroundings, not my identity.

this is what representation looks like

I've had a hard time finishing the game because of #2. DE is such a weird blend of "the devs thought of everything" and "all conversations are railroaded into insanity". What at first felt like a game allowing the player to explore and develop political views in an alternate universe is actually more of a hamfisted, cynical parody of all possible idealogies. I think the moment I got South Park vibes (not from the writing, but from the " everyone is stupid " vibe) is when I was doomed to never finish it. That said, I actually love so much about the game, I want to enjoy and finish it. I just find it so tiring.

wait, I've never used quora. whats bad about it

I get a ton of this near creeks in my area too. It's delicious, but watch out for a poisonous lookalike (not smellalike) that can grow in the same spots.

I'm in a very similar boat as you, and I often feel frustrated with how much there is I'm not keeping track of. But I don't really like coding side projects in my free time, so I just learn as deeply as I can about the frameworks my works teams are using. It tends to pay off insofar as people can usually tell that I've done research, so at the very least it helps me less less insecure...

no, I think it would only be potentially harmful if its poles were pointed directly at us and we were blasted with gamma ray bursts

I'm having the opposite experience. I feel like it's already so active here I can't keep up in bigger communities like this one.

Their quest/story writing has definitely fallen off a cliff but I think it's done to serve their bad game design. Or it goes hand in hand. Frankly I just don't think Skyrim or FO4 were particularly good examples of the genre and probably won't buy more Bethesda RPGs, but we'll see.

is Psyche the name of the asteroid and the mission?

this is its range, apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phidippus_clarus#Habitat_and_distribution

I'm in the continental US (I don't want to be more specific than that, although over time I'll probably reveal myself by the array of critters I post)

that doesn't really hold because Wikipedia does not struggle with funding in the sense you're thinking: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/wikipedia-millions-bank-beg/

so, survival doesn't necessarily have to be at stake

I'm in favor of (personally) paying more to avoid AWS also

There can be a discussion about Aljazeera as an organization, but that has nothing to do with the content of this article.

And reparations is not only about slavery. This panel wrote 1,075 pages on the subject and it doesn't sound like you even read one article about it before trying to dispute the validity of a reparations program. Again, there can be discussion about how reparations should be handled, but it should start by acknowledging that colossal amount of work that has already gone into the conversation.

I keep meaning to build something interesting in svelte. I was very excited about it a couple years ago and rebuilt a super simple version of the homepage of my primary site, but I didn't really feel like it made sense in the way React does (admittedly, I've worked with React a lot more...). What's your favorite thing about working in svelte?

can't tell for sure, but it looks like a northern crab spider or a relative. they can change color to camouflage with flowers, which is where they do most of their hunting!

Maybe because I'm using Jerboa, but it feels slower to me. Jerboa has many issues though