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ToaKraka
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11mo 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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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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11mo 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.)
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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11mo ago
A quick Google search indicates that "theft" has for many centuries been a generic word that covers larceny of physical items, embezzlement of entrusted funds, and taking of money through false pretenses. Is larceny the central example of theft, so that calling an embezzler or a fraudster a thief is misleading? I'm not sure.
But "killing" someone by consensually selling to him drugs on which he happens to overdose definitely is not a central example of murder.
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11mo ago
Is there an overview of Gamergate anywhere, from the pro-Gamergate side?
The sidebar and wiki of /r/kotakuinaction appear to contain links to several summaries.
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11mo ago
I can't speak for the denizens of this forum, but /pol/ offers this collage of clickbait YouTube thumbnails suggesting that Zeihan's forecasting of the imminent collapse of China has been highly inaccurate.
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11mo ago
Apparently, brothels are legal in (most of) Australia—and they are, not equivalent to the paltry brothels of rural Nevada, but a real competitive market. In theory they aren't permitted to advertise, but in practice enforcement is lax, and the establishments think nothing of touting their zillions of jade-like beauties online.
"J.D. Vance" or "JD Vance"? We all know about preferred pronouns, but should a person be able to pick his preferred punctuation? The Wall Street Journal discusses the issue.
See also "Donald Trump, Jr.", vs. "Donald Trump Jr.".
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11mo ago
Yes, government is bad. But, as I understand it, Accursed Farms does not want to force the publisher to maintain the servers forever. Rather, he wants to force the publisher to make it possible for players to set up their own servers after the publisher's servers are shut down.
Quote from the petition:
An increasing number of publishers are selling videogames that are required to connect through the internet to the game publisher, or "phone home" to function. While this is not a problem in itself, when support ends for these types of games, very often publishers simply sever the connection necessary for the game to function, proceed to destroy all working copies of the game, and implement extensive measures to prevent the customer from repairing the game in any way.
"Repairing the game" includes setting up non-publisher-controlled servers.
The standard recommendation for website archiving is wget (with the options for recursive and archival downloading enabled). I don't know whether it works on Substack's Javascript-heavy archive pages, but you can just manually scroll down to load the entire archive page, then download that manually and tell wget to download everything linked from the downloaded page.
Alternatively, you can use SingleFile to download individual pages manually.
A game developer has delivered an interesting rebuttal video.
Why shouldn't we have the right to the server binaries so we can keep playing these games?
Are you going to allow monetization of these servers or not?
If we don't allow monetization - Who would be the party that enforces non-monetization of that server?
If it's the government I feel like we're making an insane amount of red tape.
If it's the original company then this doesn't work if they shut down.
If we don't allow monetization - Who is going to pay for the hosting if the servers cannot be monetized?
If they cannot be monetized then these servers will also eventually shut down due to cost.
We don't up preserving games like this we just shift their death down the road.
If we do allow monetization - This leads to a really weird attack potential if people can monetize the servers.
- You make an awesome game that has a small community.
- I want to monetize that game and run my own servers.
- I create a shitload of bots and constant exploits to erode the game and your business.
- Your business closes and now I can monetize your work without anyone stopping me.
This isn't unlikely as we've seen mass attacks such as with TF2.
We actually see echoes of this in the mobile market already as well.
The only defense right now is DMCA or other takedown measures.
Devs legitimately have very little protections as-is and this would erode that further.
This creates an incentive for abuse where the abuser is protected as they are within their legal right to operate said "abandoned" games servers.
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Don't forget to escape your asterisks. w\*man Fr\*nch yields "w*man Fr*nch" instead of "wman Frnch".
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11mo ago
they just amended the bill to delete everything past "this will take effect" and wrote their own bill, which seems unbelievable
It isn't out of the ordinary. If you run a search for "Strike all after the enacting clause" in Congress, you will see more than a hundred such amendments proposed in the current session, and if you filter by "status of amendment" you will see that many of them succeeded.
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11mo ago
The article also states that he didn't report any dividend or capital-gains income on his 2022 tax return. But maybe the mutual funds are in an IRA or something.
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11mo ago
Possibly the funniest paragraph ever written in a court opinion:
In the fall of 2021, Complainant, [Appellant] Dawson's 14-year-old daughter, asked him if she could go to her boyfriend's house. Dawson agreed but conditioned his permission on her letting him “eat her out”. Sometime after, on a day when Complainant stayed home from school, Dawson acted on this.
Source (found on this government webpage, though you would be forgiven for expecting a link to ArchiveOfOurOwn or Literotica)
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11mo ago
Surely not in your pockets
Some pistols are small enough to fit in a pocket.
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Apparently, the Lieutenant Governor of Vermont actually implemented this advice in his office, and was censured for it by the state's Speaker of the House after legislators "reported feeling uncomfortable".
“Offering feminine hygiene products in an office and seeking out women to let them know about the availability is not acceptable,” [Speaker] Krowinski wrote in the letter, dated Feb. 2, 2023. “While you may have good intentions, it has left women feeling very uncomfortable and unsure why they were chosen or why it became a topic of conversation with you.”
What's the base rate of mechanical failure across these marques? Does anyone know?
This site claims to have analyzed millions of used-car auctions to determine long-term mechanical reliability. Its overall "manufacturer quality index" looks like this:
- 90–89: Lexus, Toyota
- 79–67: Hummer, Porsche, Scion, Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Infiniti
- 57–32: Remainder (57 is the average)
- 19: Suzuki
- 12: Smart
- 0: Mini
I enjoyed reading The Financier and The Titan, personally.
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