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At the time of writing, a /pol/ thread claims that this passage, in which Vance admits to masturbating with the lubed interior of a rubber glove held between two couch cushions, was in the first edition of his book, but was deleted from later editions.
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3d ago
Isn't sexist or racist either
"Cackling" carries connotations of femininity (it generally is not used to describe a man's laughter), so it could be considered sexist. (I can't think of a masculine counterpart word.)
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5d ago
The Amazon Visa (from Chase) offers zero-interest financing for six months on Amazon purchases of at least 50 dollars, and for 12 months on Amazon purchases of at least 250 dollars. (There used to be an 18-month, 500-dollar offer as well, but it seems to have been discontinued.) This isn't quite free money: if you take a financing offer, you do not get the 3-percent cash back (5-percent with Prime) that you would get normally.
The Amazon Visa is not the same as the Amazon Store Card (from Synchrony) and the Amazon Secured Card (ditto). The Store Card and Secured Card offer zero-interest financing for six months on Amazon purchases of at least 50 dollars, for 12 months on Amazon purchases of at least 600 dollars, and for 24 months on "select purchases" at Amazon. The same caveat regarding lost cash back applies to the Store Card.
All information presented above is from this page (except for the 18-month parenthetical, which is from personal experience).
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6d ago
there's no easy way to type the dashes on a standard keyboard
In Markdown, at least, you can use HTML named character references. "& ndash;" without the space after the ampersand → "–", and "& mdash;" without the space after the ampersand → "—".
I have no idea what the difference in usage between em dash and en dash is supposed to be
Wikipedia's Manual of Style includes a handy guide—though, of course, Wikipedia is not necessarily trustworthy.
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7d ago
Theodore Dreiser was one of the clumsiest writers to ever hold a pen
I enjoyed reading The Financier and The Titan, personally.
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8d ago
The Bangla-language version of Wikipedia's article on the quota system uses a word that Google translates as "tribal" rather than "indigenous".
Wikipedia's article on Bangladesh's demographics says:
Bangladesh's tribal population was enumerated at 897,828 [1.0 percent of the total] in the 1981 census. These tribes are concentrated in the Chittagong Hill Tracts and around Mymensingh, Sylhet, and Rajshahi. They are of Sino-Tibetan descent and differ markedly in their social customs, religion, language and level of development. They speak Tibeto-Burman languages and most are Buddhist or Hindu. The four largest tribes are Chakmas, Marmas, Tipperas, Tanchangya, and Mros. Smaller groups include the Santals in Rajshahi and Dinajpur, and Khasis, Garos, and Khajons in Mymensingh and Sylhet regions.
There's a separate Wikipedia article on the topic.
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8d ago
Reuters: Explainer: Why are Bangladesh students protesting against job quotas?
The demonstrations started last month after the High Court reinstated a quota system for government jobs, overturning a 2018 decision by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government to scrap it.
That move, which covered the 30% of jobs reserved for family members of freedom fighters in the 1971 war for independence from Pakistan, followed similar student protests.
But the Supreme Court suspended the high court order after the government's appeal, setting a date of Aug. 7 to hear the government's challenge.
However, the students stepped up their protest when Hasina refused to meet their demands, citing the court proceedings.
Introduced in 1972, Bangladesh's quota system has gone through several changes since. When it was abolished in 2018, 56% of government jobs were blocked under various quotas.
The bulk covered groups such as freedom fighters' families, with women and those from underdeveloped districts receiving a share of a tenth each, with 5% allotted to indigenous communities, and 1% for the disabled.
The protesting students want all categories abolished, except the last two.
Hasina is the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh, who led its freedom movement. Protesters and critics say the 30% quota for families of freedom fighters favours Awami League supporters, which led the independence fight.
Experts also attribute the unrest to stagnant job growth in the private sector, making public sector jobs, with their accompanying regular wage hikes and privileges, very attractive.
The quotas shrink the number of government jobs open for all, hurting aspirants who want them filled on the basis of merit.
They have sparked anger among students grappling with high youth unemployment, as nearly 32 million young people are out of work or education from a population of 170 million.
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11d ago
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12d ago
Not caring and keeping to myself at work is not an option.
Amateur.
if I stick with my field, I'll be looking at working alongside people like these for the next 30 years, give or take
You could just work for significantly less than thirty years, rather than committing suicide by three decades of torture. If you're in the US, the federal Consumer Expenditure Survey can serve as a guide for budgeting. Just use the "cross-tabulated: size of consumer unit by income before taxes: one person: less than $15,000" column, and adjust for inflation and your actual expenses.
The Internet Archive page also provides an OCR version of the same scan (labeled "PDF with text").
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Don't forget that this document technically still is under copyright, so in theory you could be prosecuted for infringement, and charging money for the transcription presumably would expose you to even greater penalties.
In order to properly format lines in a poetic stanza, type two spaces at the end of each line, and don't type an extra carriage return between the lines. Use the "view source" button to compare these two examples:
'Twas brillig; and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
'Twas brillig; and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
A recent patch for the video game Victoria 3 has added a mechanic for the creation of "power blocs" by countries that have achieved the rank of "major power". A power bloc can be focused on trade (customs union and open borders), hegemony (the British Empire), ideology (Austria's Metternich System), military (mutual defense), or religion.
In real life, we all know about the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union. But did you know that there are many other international organizations of similar nature?
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The Southern Common Market and the Andean Community (two four-country customs unions, with basically-open borders all over)
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The Central American Integration System (four countries with open borders, plus four more with a customs union)
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The Eurasian Economic Union (five countries with customs union and open borders)
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The East African Community (eight countries with customs union and open borders, explicitly aiming for eventual unification into a single federation)
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The Economic Community of West African States (
fifteentwelve countries with customs union)
Et cetera.
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17d ago
Link (from 2013, not "about a year or two ago")
Abortion is largely accepted even for reasons that do not have anything to do with the fetus's health. By showing that (1) both fetuses and newborns do not have the same moral status as actual persons, (2) the fact that both are potential persons is morally irrelevant, and (3) adoption is not always in the best interest of actual people, the authors argue that what we call ‘after-birth abortion’ (killing a newborn) should be permissible in all the cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is not disabled.
Editor's justification for publishing the article
This extension of the existing debate around infanticide from medical indications to social indications is relatively novel. I don't personally agree with it. But their arguments—based on the similar moral status of the fetus and neonate—call for rebuttal.
This paper was scrutinised by three peer reviewers and revised in light of their comments. The Journal publishes or refrains from publishing articles, not because of the controversial nature of their conclusion, but rather on the quality of the argument. If an argument were based on clearly and obviously mistaken premises, then we would reject it. But in this case there has been a long and ongoing debate on the moral status of early human life—embryos, fetuses, and neonates, as the above literature attests.
The Journal is publishing opposing views to accompany this controversial article.
Under the relevant section of the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (a set of regulations issued by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration), only the passenger-side rear-view mirror is permitted to be convex. (That's the reason for the "objects in mirror are closer than they appear" warning.) The interior and driver-side mirrors, on the other hand, are specifically required to be flat ("of unit magnification").
Some cursory searches (1 2) of the Federal Register do not reveal any discussion of the rationale behind this particular rule. However, one other discussion appears to be related. On vehicles that are heavier than five tons, the passenger-side rear-view mirror cannot be convex, but is required to be flat like the other two mirrors. Way back in year 2000, AM General, the manufacturer of the Hummer H1 (with gross weight of 5.15–6.05 tons), requested that this rule be changed to match the rule for passenger vehicles. With typical government alacrity, NHTSA took five years to reject the request:
Despite public commenters' expressions of support for a convex-mirror option for the vehicles in question, the agency remains concerned about the difficulties that drivers may encounter in correctly judging distance and speed of approaching traffic if the vehicle is only equipped with a convex mirror. As stated in the Request for Comments, although convex mirrors are permitted on the passenger side of light vehicles, the agency still receives complaints from consumers about these mirrors. "There have been other problems associated with the use of convex mirrors that include double vision, eyestrain, and nausea."
In approximately 98 percent of my trips, there is no passenger. I keep the front passenger seat's headrest in the rear seats' footwell, so that, in the rare event that I do have a passenger, the headrest can be reinstalled in just a few seconds of toolless effort. Your situation, and your vehicle, may be different.
As an alternative to removing the headrest, you can just fold the seat back so that the headrest doesn't block your view.
Adding wide, convex rear-view mirrors (both interior and exterior) to your car makes changing lanes on the highway absolutely stress-free. This image is only slightly exaggerated: with a wide, convex interior rear-view mirror, you can watch through the rear window and through the right rear passenger window simultaneously (especially after removing the headrest from the front passenger seat).
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19d ago
Persona 5 supposedly takes 100 hours for the main story and 140 hours for a completionist playthrough.
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20d ago
Are judges allowed to hew directly to Barrett's view, since without her there is no majority opinion?
Roberts's opinion is endorsed by six justices except for section III-C, and by five justices in section III-C. Five is a majority of nine.
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22d ago
That's already reserved for the German Karlings.
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22d ago
Third Caroline Period
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26d ago
If only the 7500-dollar Elio had not been a scam…
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28d ago
The editorial board of the New York Times now asks Biden to step aside.
Democrats who have deferred to Mr. Biden must now find the courage to speak plain truths to the party’s leader. The confidantes and aides who have encouraged the president’s candidacy, and who sheltered him from unscripted appearances in public, should recognize the damage to Mr. Biden’s standing and the unlikelihood that he can repair it.
Mr. Biden answered an urgent question on Thursday night. It was not the answer that he and his supporters were hoping for. But if the risk of a second Trump term is as great as he says it is—and we agree with him that the danger is enormous—then his dedication to this country leaves him and his party only one choice.
The clearest path for Democrats to defeat a candidate defined by his lies is to deal truthfully with the American public: acknowledge that Mr. Biden can’t continue his race, and create a process to select someone more capable to stand in his place to defeat Mr. Trump in November.
It is the best chance to protect the soul of the nation—the cause that drew Mr. Biden to run for the presidency in 2019—from the malign warping of Mr. Trump. And it is the best service that Mr. Biden can provide to a country that he has nobly served for so long.
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