Their argument is pretty much that you just move the problem to other places, which is true for pretty much any environmental policy. Emissions restrictions? Move the factory to Vietnam. It’s too expensive to dispose of toxic waste properly? China doesn’t care that much. Not allowed to use modern farming techniques? Grow it in Brazil. They don’t care.

It’s all very shortsighted.

That really depends on the language pair. Even a big language like Chinese has a lot of interesting stuff on github that never gets translated because the number of people can and are willing to translate really isn’t that high.

I’m a farmer. I’d rather not get too specific on the internet, but I have an orchard and grow fruit. When I started planting, everyone from the old guys nearby to the extension office told me I was planting the wrong varieties. I chose what to plant thinking about how crazy our weather was going to get. Not only did I pick some non-standard varieties for the area, but I diversified way more than usual. It makes harvest a bit more of a pain because it doesn’t all come in at once, but it also means that I’m far less likely to lose my whole crop to bad weather. This year makes two years in a row where I’m feeling very good about my decisions. Last year, there were a few other farms in good spots that didn’t lose their whole crops. This year, nearly the whole damn county has nothing. I had a few losses to the spring-like winter followed up with the coldest freeze in decades and a later than usual freeze, but I’m doing business as usual.

And I may be living in a desert in 10 years and it’s all a wash anyways, but having a realistic view of climate change pays off.

I got tired of throwing away pens and decided to get a nice one. While researching what pen to get, I ended up reading about fountain pens and thought they were really cool, and also seemed like a good fit. My first pen was a TWSBI Eco, and I liked it, so I ended up making excuses to get this other pen or that other pen. Now I’m about ten years into being into fountain pens, and I’ve also taken up journaling, mostly because I really enjoy the tactile experience of writing now.

I don’t really care for the flex nibs, either. To get that nice line variation, I haven’t found anything I like better than the Pilot soft extra fine nib. It doesn’t guzzle ink, it’s not nearly as soft as some of nibs marketed as flex, and really writes very normally unless you want it not to.