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4d ago
That's a bit dismissive. Yes, Kiwi Farms technically is a rather low-tier website, but it's my understanding that its admin has had to put in far more effort than usual for a "hobby" website—e. g., placing his own hardware in data centers, and implementing his own software to battle people who DDOS and spam illegal content on his website to try to get it taken offline.
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4d ago
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4d ago
You can diet and exercise to be slim and as toned as necessary, but if you're horse-faced or just don't have that 'current standards of what constitutes attractive' features, it won't help.
This is just my personal opinion and there probably aren't any rigorous surveys on the topic, but I strongly disagree. Skinniness is among the largest components in a woman's attractiveness (though probably rivaled or surpassed by the skin elasticity of youth), and having a big chin or a "horse face" (or, for that matter, large breasts) pales in comparison.
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4d ago
In my browser, a hyphen-minus is 5 pixels, an en dash is 9 pixels, and an em dash is 16 pixels. (These measurements were gathered, not manually, but by using the browser's "inspect element" feature on a span element that includes only the character in question.) Being unable to tell the difference between a hyphen-minus and an em dash sounds like a severe skill issue.
But what is the point of adding all these extra spaces? Isn't an em dash long enough without them?
It's like how the French language adds a random space before a colon, a question mark, or an exclamation mark, but not before a period. I just don't see any reason for it.
(Coincidentally, @ZorbaTHut is currently insisting that adding random vertical spaces to the rules page is a good thing.)
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5d ago
I just gave you two options—either an em dash with no spaces (as I prefer), or an en dash with spaces (as, e. g., Steve Jackson Games prefers). Just don't use an em dash with spaces.
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5d ago
I make a point of using em-dashes whenever they're appropriate
But you're using them wrong.
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Good: "author—well" (em dash with no spaces)
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Okay (preferred by some publishers, though I personally see no need for it): "author – well" (en dash with spaces)
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WTF: "author — well" (em dash with spaces)
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5d ago
Idea for Friday Fun Thread: Share voice recordings to compare English accents
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5d ago
I think the point is that there are several different ways to pronounce this, and Anglophones typically will not differentiate between them.
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netʰ (aspirated)
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net (unaspirated)
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neʔ (glottalized)
But I'm not a linguist, so I probably am wrong.
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5d ago
Even in non-glottalizing dialects of English, aspirated and unaspirated T sounds are differentiated in Mandarin but not in English.
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5d ago
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5d ago
Past Friday Fun comment regarding the US Virgin Islands' weird system of street addresses
The Virgin Islands also is one target of ocean thermal energy conversion technology, which generates electricity from the temperature difference between the surface and the deep water (like geothermal). The company that's doing the investigation (1 2) seems a bit sketchy, though.
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5d ago
Series (plural) of children's books that achieved popularity significant but much lower than Harry Potter's. Redwall even got an official video game shortly after the author's death.
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6d ago
I didn't bother to memorize the number of days in each month until I started playing Paradox games that encouraged me to constantly keep an eye on the calendar for the "new-month tick". So try spending a few hundred hours on playing Paradox games.
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7d ago
Usually they can't because when they sign a contract for credit card processing, they have to agree not to offer a lower price for debit/cash.
This practice was recently curtailed in the US as part of a lawsuit brought against the credit-card companies. Visa and MasterCard settled the lawsuit by agreeing to stop including these "anti-steering" provisions in their contracts, while American Express refused to settle and got the Supreme Court to rule that anti-steering provisions are legal.
Anecdotally, I definitely have seen "a surcharge of X percent will be imposed on credit-card payments" signs posted at various US businesses in recent months.
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7d ago
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7d ago
ChatGTP
ChatGPT (generative pre-trained transformer)
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8d ago
You can look at the list of all bills signed and click through to the "Actions" tab for each bill. But that isn't necessarily helpful, since most bills are passed unanimously (by "voice vote" or "unanimous consent") in both houses, and it's hard to tell from a cursory glance which bills are actually meaningful.
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