HelloChinese: everywhere I look at says that HSK1 is free, but I reached the Premium paywall after four lessons.

Am I missing something? I’ve seen websites and posts say that you can learn as many as 500 words for free with this app, and this hasn’t been my experience at all.

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u/Aquamarinade — 23 hours ago

Varnishing: light traffic ok after one day, heavy traffic after one week. What constitutes light traffic?

Yesterday, I applied the final coat of varnish (oil hybrid) on wood that is intended to be a shelf for books. The can says that a one-day cure is enough for light traffic. Would you consider putting books on the shelf light or heavy traffic?

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u/Aquamarinade — 14 days ago
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AO3 will very likely be regulated under Canada's new bill C-34 (age verification & censorship)

The Canadian government unveiled today Bill C-34, in which the definition of regulated online service will very much include AO3 according to my understanding. This means asking for age verification (which needs you to provide ID to the online service, and we've seen how unsafe that is for the users with many other platforms), and perhaps complete censorship over the type of content that is allowed to be seen by Canadians on the platform.

The bill mentions written material in the types of content that could be censored. It does not specifies if that includes or excludes fiction, but it makes an exclusion for art that does "not pose an undue risk of harm to children." In my opinion, this is written vaguely on purpose.

The bill has only been introduced and hasn't passed yet, but it comes from a majority government so there's almost nothing the opposition parties can do.

Text of the bill

u/Aquamarinade — 25 days ago