Black tea refers to the visible degree of oxidation of the tea leaves - yellow, white and green teas all do the same thing. Similarly, white grapes are called that because they produce white (clear) liquid (though it’s clearly yellowish so they should really be called yellow grapes…).

What? They’ve been talking about features that are now being called the “kill switch” for the better part of a year. Literally all they did that’s new was give it a dumb name.

Me. I want two.

I’ve found Rhodia is very inconsistent with their production quality (and I don’t love waxed papers), but for flip notebooks/sketchbooks they’re a solid choice.

For calligraphy, Tomoe River is a classic (even after the whole sanzen drama its still great paper), but I also really love Iroful, Canson Imagine 200gsm, and any of the Strathmore Mixed Media papers. It depends on the ink I’m using and the effect I’m going for, really, but if I had to pick one Iroful is probably the best all-round calligraphy paper (better shading than TR but with less impressive sheening)

I’ve been into calligraphy for years now - it’s a wonderful hobby with anywhere between absolutely none (pseudocalligraphy with a pencil/bic) and a very low cost to entry (blackletter with a parallel pen) that I seriously encourage anyone to try out! Just be warned that it’s a gateway drug to the fountain pen hobby, which uh.
…
…
quickly becomes a not-cheap hobby. Good god.

The Cat In The Hat’s Zany Antics Can’t Melt Steel Beams

Trying to explain to my boss why the feds are there asking questions about a picture of my tits with “silica-manganese doped ceramics are terrible at defeating kinetic penetrators” scrawled across them…

(Big mood about sapphic content though, some folks really struggle to accept not being the target audience. Lemmy really isn’t big enough yet to support an actual girl4girl community, but I have hopes that one day…)

Describe the technical specifics of your job in a way that misleads them as to the actual information you’re working with, but that won’t be immediately obvious to an expert that’s potentially even more familiar with the source material you’re working with than you are.

It’s just hard to keep that kind of lie going - it’s not impossible, but fooling someone with an entire intelligence agency requires a whole lot of both luck and planning.

That’s giving them a bit more credit than they should reasonably be given, but that’s beside the point:

It ain’t that I’m somehow offended, I’m just annoyed at how smug they acted while they were spectacularly missing the point (and that they did it in an incredibly crude way).

Yeah that’s exactly the problem - it’s a meme criticizing ourselves for being too stupid not to simp out classified info to a pretty girl. The girl isn’t the one being called out here, it’s a joke about how frequently US contractors are caught doing this because of how dumb and uncontrollably horny they are.

Being called racist or sexist in response to a meme making a much more nuanced and cutting critique (especially one expressed in such a truly disgusting way) doesn’t wound the ego or anything, it’s just fuckin’ annoying.

Oh yeah, the only fun parts of reddit were the few friends I made and the mountain of horror stories I collected. Lemmy is so so much better right now, my god.

I’d argue it’s rather healthy for americans to not just assume that someone spouting rhetoric is being sarcastic. That attitude of extending the benefit of the doubt to people undeserving of it got us into this mess in the first place.

(Tho in this case, it’s not that people don’t realize they’re being sarcastic - it’s that what they’re saying with that sarcasm is really, really off the mark, and they’re being incredibly shitty in how they said it)

It turns out that nothing comforts Santa more than shitposting on Lemmy.

Santa is, it turns out, shockingly based.

There were seventeen so far.

You should see some of my DMs - if they’re horny enough, people will say anything to keep an attractive person interested in talking to them.

Hey defense nerds! If you have information about the specific makeup of current-gen Chobham armor, I will 100% fly to you and let you pound my ass in exchange for it (been curious about that one for years now, warthunder has been disappointingly unforthcoming…)

(side note: 98% of my interactions on lemmy have been great, but wow that 2%)

Ah my apologies, your reputation may have preceded you.

Your conclusion is that it’s always getting blamed on the chinese, and your evidence is an extremely famous series of scandals that did not involve china…?

Sure you’re the most notorious troll on lemmy, but this is such obvious shit-stirrin’ that it feels… idk, kinda beneath you?

“I don’t know why this deeply unpopular comment was downvoted, they seem totally reasonable to me” it’s just so straightforward. lacks the élan your comments usually have.

Only four of the seventeen warthunder leaks have been about American equipment (and one manual for the export model of the F-15E (that IIRC was specifically the Saudi version? It was a whole thing at one point)).

It seems likely that this meme is a reference to how fucking notoriously US diplomatic staff in china absolutely cannot keep it in their pants (note that it’s specifically about staff in china, we’re the ones crossing the borders here). I dunno, this doesn’t seem like “blaming foreigners” when it’s such a problem there has to be a public policy to combat dipshit american diplomats falling for it.