Always remember about this option.

In clause 8(c)(3) of rule XXIII, gendered terms, such as “father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew, niece, husband, wife, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, half sister, grandson, or granddaughter” will be removed.

In their place, terms such as “parent, child, sibling, parent’s sibling, first cousin, sibling’s child, spouse, parent-in-law, child-in-law, sibling-in-law, stepparent, stepchild, stepsibling, half-sibling, or grandchild” will be used, instead.

From https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0133079

So, yes, size matter (in preferences also).

• Just over 20% of women prefer a penis that is thicker than 99% of penises. (same for one-night partners)
• The upper 50% of women prefer a thickness that is thicker than ~70% of penises. (over 80% of penises for one-night partners)
• Just over 25% of women prefer a penis that is longer than 99% of penises. (same for one-night partners)
• The upper 50% of women prefer a length that is longer than ~90% of penises. (same for one-night partners)

Btw

According to one study on rats, penis length appears to be affected by fetal exposure to testosterone in utero. There’s a critical window in gestation where the more testosterone the fetus gets, the larger the penis. Outside of this window, testosterone does not have an effect on size.

https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20200923124103/https://mrc.ukri.org/news/browse/penis-length-is-determined-early-in-fetal-development/

But if you use WhatsApp or anything like this - nothing is required. Almost all calls are being specially compressed and almost all go through latest voice recognition to have transcript, same transcript also includes as metadata your location, wi-fi points nearby and much more related info. For people who are of interest of authorities of big business each recording will be rerun against improved voice recognition (usually each 1-1.5 years). Only few people have access to all this, including all corresponding government guys. All calls are stored indefinitely for now, but companies have at their disposal special AI algorithms to dump old not useful ones.

Every morning, when I wake again under the pall of the sky, I feel that for me it is New Year’s day.

That’s why I hate these New Year’s that fall like fixed maturities, which turn life and human spirit into a commercial concern with its neat final balance, its outstanding amounts, its budget for the new management. They make us lose the continuity of life and spirit. You end up seriously thinking that between one year and the next there is a break, that a new history is beginning; you make resolutions, and you regret your irresolution, and so on, and so forth. This is generally what’s wrong with dates.

They say that chronology is the backbone of history. Fine. But we also need to accept that there are four or five fundamental dates that every good person keeps lodged in their brain, which have played bad tricks on history. They too are New Years’. The New Year’s of Roman history, or of the Middle Ages, or of the modern age.

And they have become so invasive and fossilizing that we sometimes catch ourselves thinking that life in Italy began in 752, and that 1490 or 1492 are like mountains that humanity vaulted over, suddenly finding itself in a new world, coming into a new life. So the date becomes an obstacle, a parapet that stops us from seeing that history continues to unfold along the same fundamental unchanging line, without abrupt stops, like when at the cinema the film rips and there is an interval of dazzling light.

That’s why I hate New Year’s. I want every morning to be a new year’s for me. Every day I want to reckon with myself, and every day I want to renew myself. No day set aside for rest. I choose my pauses myself, when I feel drunk with the intensity of life and I want to plunge into animality to draw from it new vigour.

No spiritual time-serving. I would like every hour of my life to be new, though connected to the ones that have passed. No day of celebration with its mandatory collective rhythms, to share with all the strangers I don’t care about. Because our grandfathers’ grandfathers, and so on, celebrated, we too should feel the urge to celebrate. That is nauseating.

I await socialism for this reason too. Because it will hurl into the trash all of these dates which have no resonance in our spirit and, if it creates others, they will at least be our own, and not the ones we have to accept without reservations from our silly ancestors.

Antonio Gramsci

Huawei has removed Tencent games like Arena of Valor from its app store. This is due to changes in the interaction of companies, which were the first to go to Tencent. Huawei dominates the Chinese smartphone market, accounting for 43% of device shipments last quarter.

Tencent owns the companies behind League of Legends and Clash of Clans, and also distributes Chinese versions of famous games like PUBG and Monster Hunter: World. The dispute between the companies promises to affect many mobile players in China.

Huawei said its legal department has recommended this decision due to Tencent's request to end the partnership. Tencent, meanwhile, said the agreement between the companies expired before a new one could be negotiated. All Tencent games disappeared from Huawei's Chinese app store on the morning of January 1st.

Any centrally controlled app marketplace is unacceptable.

This year was not good for LensRentals.

Also rumors are that Amazon will buy them and it'll merge into DPReview that will have direct link to rent gear, may be even very silently without announcements.