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[ponchi101]

Can you please try to post anything from BlueSky here, as a link? To see how it shows up.
Txs

[ti-amie]

https://bsky.app/profile/wholethings.bs ... egjgdewk22

Does this help?

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[ponchi101]

Ok. Txs. The link works perfectly but it does not embed in the post.
We can work with that.

[ashkor87]

Jasleen Kaur, a Brit of Indian heritage, won the Turner prize last week ..a reminder to everyone how valuable it is, a multi-cultural heritage ..my son is an example, closer to home..his career as a musician is marked by his multi- cultural background..born in the US, raised in India, living in UK...if he were just an Indian, or an American, or a Brit, his music would not be so interesting ..People like the MAGA folk in the US, the Hindutva brigade in India, all need to learn the value of diversity rather than be obsessed with 'the other' poisoning the blood of the nation...!

[ponchi101]

And it cuts both ways.
I really dislike the "Cultural appropriation" thing. When you do something that another culture does, it is an homage to them.
After all, here we are, an Indian and a Venezuelan, talking in a third language. And all is well.

[ti-amie]

[mmmm8]

And it cuts both ways.
I really dislike the "Cultural appropriation" thing. When you do something that another culture does, it is an homage to them.
After all, here we are, an Indian and a Venezuelan, talking in a third language. And all is well.

Is it? There are a couple of English-speaking imperially-minded countries that have impacted both those India and Venezuela in an arguably not great way and that's partially why you're speaking the third language you're speaking. I agree sometimes it's homage, but there's a line between homage and exploitation.

[ponchi101]

I am in the camp that the USA impacted Venezuela in almost nothing but positive ways.
And my ALL IS WELL meant that Ashkor and I can communicate in a third language and neither one is culturally appropriating anything. So can you and I.
It had no connotation about what the Empires did.

[ti-amie]

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[ponchi101]

I had to double check. I was surprised.
I guess that when Venus is on the opposite side of the sun from us, that distance offsets the farthest away that Mercury can get. But, wow!

[Owendonovan]

Did we solve the acid rain problem? It's been a couple decades since I've heard anything about it.

[ponchi101]

Did we solve the acid rain problem? It's been a couple decades since I've heard anything about it.

Not really. It is a mix of carbonic acid and sulfuric acid, and the carbon part remains. The sulfuric side has decreased a bit because new fuels are being made with less of that. For example, maritime BLUE diesel has very low sulphur in it. That helps.

[Suliso]

Carbonic acid is not truly acidic... Yes, we have greatly mitigated (not sure about China/India) SO2 and nitrogen oxides pollution responsible for this.