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Hi, thanks for the question, and sorry for taking ages to reply! (Kunqu opera photo via):

As you noted, there are various genres of traditional opera in China. Pretty much every region of China has its own regional opera. When I say Chinese opera, I'm referring to Chinese opera in general (all genres), not just Beijing opera.

Yes, Chinese opera clothes (xifu/戏服) and makeup can vary drastically across genres, with many operas being visually distinguishable by their distinct styling.

For more references, please check out my tags for Chinese opera and opera costume (I also have tags for individual genres of Chinese opera). Also, please see my other replies about Chinese opera here:

Do Chinese opera costumes count as Hanfu? 

What type of clothing do Beijing opera actors wear?

Do you have a post Chinese opera costumes?

In addition, @peekofhistory has several informative posts about Chinese opera, including this one.

I present to you, the second bird in our Bird Bags lineup, The Pigeon!

Brushing your teeth 3-4 times a year is still better than nothing. If you promised yourself that you'd do better this year and already fell off the wagon in january, go do it now, even if you can't manage it every day.

Again, you don't have to brush with toothpaste. Not every time, and not at all if it genuinely proves a barrier.

Yeah, it's better for your teeth and gums and breath to use some kind of toothpaste product, but if that's what's stopping you? Don't! Just don't.

You have my permission and that of my dentist: just a wet freaking toothbrush run a handful of times over your teeth quickly to get the scuzz off is infinitely better than not brushing at all.

With reaction videos, you can experience someone's first time listening to Weird Al Yankovic's "Hardware Store" for the first time.

"Trans people existing does literally nothing negative to your lives you crybaby wimps.

Your life is getting harder and costlier because of the oligarchs, not trans people"

"Gravity assist." "Slingshot." Of course, on a very basic and objective level, yes, we are taking advantage of forces generated by outside objects to specifically help in our goals. We're getting help from objects in the same way a river can power a mill. And of course we call it a "slingshot," because the motion is very similar (mentally at least; I can't be sure about the exact physics).

Plus, especially compared to the other sciences, the terminology for astrophysics is like, really straightforward. "Black hole?" Damn yeah it sure is. "Big bang?" It sure was. "Galactic cluster?" Buddy you're never gonna guess what this is. I think it's an effect of the fact that language is generally developed for life on earth and all the strange variances that happen on its surface, that applying it to something as alien and vast as space, general terms tend to suffice very well in a lot more places than, like... idk, botany.

But, like. "Gravity assist." I still can't get the notion out of my head that such language implies us receiving active help from our celestial neighbors. They come to our aid. We are working together. We are assisted. Jupiter and the other planets saw our little messengers coming from its pale blue molecular cousin, and we set up the physics just right, so that they could help us send them out to far stranger places than this, to tell us all about what they find out there.

We are assisted.

And there is no better way to illustrate my feelings on the matter than to just show you guys one of my favorite paintings, this 1973 NASA art by Rick Guidice to show the Pioneer probe doing this exact thing:

"... You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. ..."

"what is this BABY doing in space!???"

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Wyland has said any financial recovery from the suit would support public art, ocean conservation, and environmental education through his foundation.