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Keith Woods has a pretty good thread
For people who do not have a Twitter account, see the word "thread", and immediately manually rewrite the URL from "x.com" (where a thread cannot be read by a non-logged-in person) to "xcancel.com" (where it can), I feel obligated to point out that your link leads, not to a thread, but to an "article" (apparently a new feature), which can be read on x.com by a non-logged-in person but cannot be read at all on xcancel.com (yet).
Also, a non-Twitter version of the same content is available on Substack.
ToaKraka
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14hr ago
at least an optional flag we could choose
Nothing is stopping you from putting such information in your flair or your profile text.
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1d ago
absolutely insane that you still have a Reddit account that’s 11 years old. I find that sort of thing fascinating as well.
I don't see anything fascinating about that. Many people (including me) have the same distinction.
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1d ago
In the context of romance, I don't see a problem with calling high standards unrealistic, since reproduction is necessary for the perpetuation of society. However, IMO, calling high standards in the context of friendship unrealistic, and saying that people should be friends with people whom they dislike, is extremely sadistic when friendship is not necessary for the perpetuation of society. A person can call his neighbor a good citizen, and be altruistic toward that neighbor, without calling that neighbor a friend.
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2d ago
Forcing specific fonts and colors in the EPUB file's CSS is a rather annoying practice. A technically-savvy reader can just comment out those lines in the CSS, but many readers are not technically savvy.
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2d ago
There's also at least one "perfect heist" type movies where the meat of the story takes place after the money gets stolen according to plan, but for the life of me I can't remember the name.
The Italian Job may count.
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3d ago
Many articles have been written on the topic of how users get annoyed by long webpage loading times. And a one-time roadblock is one thing, but a roadblock that pops up repeatedly and at random intervals is another—uncertainty is a real mood killer.
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3d ago
fails to punish obvious rulebreaking until literally three days later
Typical lazy moderator. I bet you'll make some weak excuse like "nobody reported it, so I didn't see it until just now". It is your obligation to monitor every single comment that is posted on this website 24/7.
ToaKraka
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3d ago
she hasn't done anything to warrant anyone trying to destroy her life. I'm not going to condone anything Kiwifarms does
"Trying to destroy people's lives" is explicitly against the terms of Kiwi Farms (harassment is illegal, but doxingphonebooking is not), and the admin quickly bans anybody who crows about engaging in such activities (though detractors of the website like to pretend otherwise).
Regardless, I posted the quote only to call her a lolcow, not to suggest that you make a thread for her on Kiwi Farms.
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4d ago
Project Gutenberg has two different English translations, W. K. Marriott (no date given) and Luigi Ricci (1909). Both of them seem similar to the one that you give.
Upon this a question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, it is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with.
From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved more than feared, or feared more than loved. The reply is, that one ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it is much safer to be feared than loved, if one of the two has to be wanting.
Wikisource has what appears to be the original Italian (republished in 1814):
Nasce da questo una disputa: s’egli è meglio essere amato che temuto, o temuto che amato. Rispondesi, che si vorrebbe essere l’uno e l’altro; ma perchè egli è difficile, che e’ stiano insieme, è molto più sicuro l’esser temuto che amato, quando s’abbi a mancare dell’un de’ duoi.
ToaKraka
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4d ago
[Michael] Flynn
News article for whippersnappers who don't remember this
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4d ago
Noncentral fallacy. A hoax bomb or a smoke bomb is a "bomb" just like Martin Luther King is a "criminal".
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4d ago
Advocacy organization CANZUK International has just published a "public opinion analysis" claiming that support for "alliance with the goal of establishing a multilateral free trade agreement and reciprocal mobility arrangements for citizens" is around 70 percent in the four affected countries. In percentage points:
| Country | Support | Unsure | Oppose | Margin of error (±) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 72 | 12 | 16 | 3 |
| Australia | 68 | 13 | 19 | 3 |
| New Zealand | 75 | 7 | 18 | 4 |
| UKGBNI | 70 | 8 | 22 | 3 |
However, if you scroll down to the methodology section:
The figures and insights presented in this report are based on a comprehensive digital sentiment analysis of public discourse from February 1st to 28th, 2026.
This methodology synthesises weighted favourability signals from existing polls, media sentiment analysis, and the volume and tone of engagement on digital platforms (including social media comments, likes, shares, news articles, op-eds, and informal polls) authored by or targeted at residents of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
This is one of many legitimate ways to measure public opinion. Traditional probability-based polling (e.g., random-digit-dial telephone surveys or stratified online panels) remains the established benchmark for statistical representativeness. No polling, survey, or opinion analysis methodology—traditional or modern—is 100% accurate.
All approaches involve inherent limitations related to sampling, timing, question wording, response bias, and real-world events. The goal of any responsible poll, survey or opinion analysis is to provide the clearest possible snapshot of sentiment at a given moment, not a perfect prediction.
By combining the strengths of big-data scale and cutting-edge AI with full transparency about its constraints, this methodology offers a valuable, contemporary complement to traditional polling. It is designed to illuminate prevailing public sentiment and the reasons behind it, helping inform policy and public debate in an increasingly digital world.
CANZUK International welcomes independent scrutiny and encourages cross-verification with probability-based polling for the most complete understanding.
This sounds pretty weasely. But, to be fair, the authors did include "strengths" and "limitations" sections between those two quotes.
In the US, stick-built, modular/prefabricated, and panelized houses all are built to the same state building code, while manufactured homes are built to a completely separate federal code. It's my understanding that the federal code is a sufficiently lower bar that comparing stick-built/modular/panelized and manufactured is like comparing apples and oranges (though I haven't actually read it).
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6d ago
My memory may just be faulty, but as far as I can remember my parents' interactions with each other (and me and my brother) seemed, not friendly or loving, but just neutral (before they divorced around age 50). They definitely didn't have any hobbies to talk with each other about.
As a child, I would emerge from my bedroom to spontaneously tell my parents about some random Latin-translation or modular-origami innovation that had caught my interest, without needing to ask how they were doing first.
ToaKraka
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6d ago
There's a significant difference between open hostility, neutral tolerance, and Stepfordized pretense. And you are literally the same person who was complaining about being forced to mouth false niceties just a few weeks ago.
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6d ago
Well, if I just silently glower when I come home and invite no dialog, she probably will not. Or I suppose I could say "I don't care how your day was, but you may tell me if you wish."
I am imagining that, in a perfect romance, the romantic partners feel free to spontaneously start conversations with each other at any time, without the need for invitations that ring hollow. For example, the man gets up from his computer and invites the woman over to look at the cool program that he just wrote, or the woman calls the man over to the window to check out the cute deer that has just pooped in their backyard. As a friendless virgin I have no experience with such situations, but that's what I imagine.
I "don't care" in the sense that I don't care to hear the details or whether she had an argument with a coworker or it was unusually busy or the ventilation wasn't working so it was uncomfortable or the craziest thing happened at lunch or blah blah blah. That's stuff I listen to out of politeness.
Again, I have no experience here, so maybe I'm exaggerating the true intensity of romance (or just "putting the pussy on a pedestal", as the redpillers say). But I am imagining that, in a perfect romance, even in such a banal conversation, you are thankful to have an excuse to bask in the presence and attention of your romantic partner (as long as the venting doesn't last overly long).
You don't say "Good morning" because you think it's falsely implying you give a shit?
Absolutely. My coworkers would say "good morning", and I would reply "hello".
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6d ago
The map is rotated 50 degrees counterclockwise so that it fits the relevant territories neatly into a rectangle without including a bunch of extraneous land in the upper right and lower left corners.
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6d ago
But it's not untruthfulness!
You literally just said that you don't care how her day was. Asking about how her day was is untruthfully implying that you do care.
I am just asking how her day was because it gives her an opportunity to talk (or vent)
She can vent to you on her own initiative, without forcing you to make untruthful implications about your own interest level.
If my coworker says "Good morning," that is a social nicety. Social niceties are how people coexist in a crowded and complex society where a little pleasantness makes life more bearable.
Saying "good morning" to a person is an abbreviated wish that the person has a good morning, and therefore falsely implies that you hope that the person has a good morning. A much more neutral greeting with no misleading implications is "hello".
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6d ago
Do I actually care about how her day was? Eh, not unless something notable happened. But I will still ask because women like it when you do that. And they do the same thing.
You have inspired me to make an "I hate the Antichrist" comic edit depicting the disgust that I feel for such institutionalized untruthfulness.
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6d ago
IMO, changing the relevant option of the Rhineland issue from "owned and occupied by Prussia" to "Saar Basin owned and occupied by winner of plebiscite (Prussia), remainder owned and occupied by Prussia" is unnecessarily verbose when it ends up the same anyway.
Also, Paradox Development Studio didn't see fit to draw a province matching the Saar Basin's borders. I did make some edits to Victoria 3's base province map in order to properly represent Fiume and the Dalmatian Islands, but I don't think that redrawing a province to match the Saar Basin is worth the effort.
It is possible for Armenia to become a United States mandate. The box is provided so that a person editing the map can use it as a source for applying the US's map color to Armenia.
Edit: I now have moved this color reference to a location that makes more sense.
What are you talking about? A profile image shows up next to every comment, though it appears that everyone in this thread except me has not bothered to set his image.
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