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comfortable
2yr ago
You've probably tried it, but how about The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan? I recommend this because I like it, and I also liked Malazan, The Black Company, Mother of Learning, and the Magician series, so it's possible that you might also like the series.
comfortable
2yr ago
It probably depends on your color theme. In the default light(?) theme, I think it colors new comments with this grey background (that doesn't go well with black text).
comfortable
11mo ago
That clip got copyright struck, it seems.
Let me guess, it was really bad?
comfortable
1yr ago
The expectation that everyone cleans the dryer lint before using the dryer is one where someone else not doing it means nothing to you (just fluffier lint, I guess).
In my experience with dryers, fluffier lint is even easier to clean out, so I don't even care if other people aren't doing it.
comfortable
2yr ago
Have audiences become so fatigued by underdog stories that they will pay to see the Bad News Bears lose to the Yankees?
About a month ago, I re-watched Top Gun. One of the subplots in the movie is the pilots of the Top Gun program competing to be the best pilot. The protagonist, Maverick, was his commanding officer's second choice to be sent to the program. When he gets there we are introduced to Iceman, the clear favorite to win the prize. Maverick is the clear underdog here.
Maverick does not win, and in fact nearly drops out of the program altogether.
So, yeah, a good story is a good story, regardless of whether the underdog wins in the end.
comfortable
2yr ago
By "right wing" do you mean conservative? If so, the whole thing about conservatism is being wary/pessimistic about new things.
If by "right wing" you mean "small government/pro business", then I'm not sure I see that group as being particularly against new technology.
comfortable
3mo ago
What rule do you think is not being enforced enough?
comfortable
2yr ago
I'm not sure if you are deliberately hinting at something or not.
Is this about religion?
It's not baffling to me. If a 30yo dating a 20yo becomes taboo, it is essentially put in the same category as a 30yo dating someone even younger.
It's already there in some ways with the taboo on admitting attraction to literally anyone younger than 18. Both a person attracted to a 16yo and a person attracted to a 6yo are called pedophiles.
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2yr ago
Except there is zero evidence aside from the memories. She's not decades older than she should be, she came back to Earth exactly the same age and exactly the same time that she left, wearing the same clothes that she entered Narnia wearing.
Basically the only evidence she might possibly have is her skill with a bow, I think? With a situation like that, I can see her accepting and internalizing the idea that Narnia is a made-up game she played with her siblings to help them cope with the war.
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30d ago
The cost is turning your heart towards God. You cannot be redeemed and an unrepentant whore. God does not redeem the unrepentant.
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3mo ago
Huh, from my memory, "Worth the Candle" has a lot of modern-day virtue signaling.
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2yr ago
Presumably, large companies have a contract with their ISP to obtain access to a certain amount of network bandwidth. If an ISP wants to renegotiation that contract when it expires, that's perfectly reasonable. Otherwise, how are they justified in attempting to charge the company more than the contract requires?
I believe the anti-ISP side here is that the ISPs are overselling bandwidth, and then when a customer actually uses all of the bandwidth they bought, the ISP is in trouble. They need to upgrade the infrastructure to actually accommodate the bandwidth usage, and they are attempting to pass this cost on to a customer without re-negotiation of contracts.
Now, I'm a bit anti-ISP by habit, so can someone give the pro-ISP argument here?
comfortable
2yr ago
The Wheel of Time (books) also does this. A lot of readers like to try and pattern match the various nations to various real-world nationalities, but it's pretty clear that Robert Jordan intentionally designed a lot of them to not match any we know in particular.
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2yr ago
I mean, the dwarves responded by sewing his mouth shut, so...?
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2yr ago
Ring Fit Adventure for the Switch was the next big thing, I think. It was very hard to acquire for quite some time. Being released right before 2020 probably helped a lot with its continued popularity, but I think I remember it getting a lot of attention when in launched in late 2019.
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4mo ago
If you're hunting birds with a sling, it's hard enough to hit one bird, let alone two, let alone actually manage to kill them. So "kill two birds with one stone" implies something highly improbable.
I believe it's actually meant to imply something that's highly efficient, not improbable. You are killing two targets with one shot. From what I understand, slings can be very accurate and hitting a bird might not be that difficult.
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9mo ago
I find myself needing to write a "Statement of Past and/or Planned Future Contributions to Advancing Diversity and Inclusive Excellence" (a.k.a. a DEI statement) in order to apply for a university teaching job.
My understanding is that this is a kind of ideological litmus test, designed to make sure that applicants at least know and are willing to state the approved beliefs. I'm fairly conservative, so I'm not sure I actually know the correct lingo to use and what the minimum viable essay would look like.
If you have been in my position, how did you approach writing it? Does anyone know of any current examples of acceptable submissions I can study for wording and content? Ideally I would be able to deliver my actual beliefs (or a subset of them) in a way that passes scrutiny from the people reviewing it, but I'm not above just parroting the approved lines (I need the work).
comfortable
1yr ago
I'm pretty sure the guilt was supposed to be because Tony in his hubris made Ultron.
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1yr ago
I assumed it was some kind of reference that I just didn't get.
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2yr ago
Are train derailments just pretty common?
Here's one in Houston this morning, also containing hazardous chemicals.
Here's one in South Carolina, also this morning (no note of hazardous chemicals).
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8mo ago
I generally think it is smart and well produced, except for the use of the term "Trimester" which is obfuscating for most people who don't think about abortion much, I think it would be more clear to say "after six months." I'm sure there's a focus grouped reason not to do that. Every time I talk to an abortion activist, pro or anti, they always talk in trimesters or weeks, instead of in months.
I would imagine that most people don't actually know how long a trimester is. I don't actually know myself, but from context I assume it is three months?
Abortions after six months sounds extremely late to me, given that a pregnancy is nine months long (usually). I would suppose that using "six months" also sounds very late to most people who aren't familiar with pregnancy. Meanwhile, a trimester could be anything to the common person. Three days? Three weeks?
So using "trimester" probably keeps timelines ambiguous, and "weeks" sounds a lot shorter than months (how many weeks are in a pregnancy? I think most people couldn't answer that without calculation).
comfortable
1yr ago
I don't find race swapping to be necessarily bad, but it's often at the very least a red flag.
As for your Sir Orfeo example, I have much more respect for a full-scale consistent race/location/culture swap than inconsistent piecemeal swaps that seem as if to attempt a replacement of the source material.
"The Wiz" is fine. Disney's "The Princess and the Frog" is fine. Disney's "The Little Mermaid" remake is not fine, but it would have been if they called it something different and marketed it differently.
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1yr ago
Well I suppose that's bad news for people who want to break the law when driving, for the rest of us though it's a good if such drivers are off the roads.
My new car will helpfully display what it thinks the current speed limit is.
Sometimes, that means that while I'm driving down the highway with a posted 65mph speed limit, it will start flashing "25 mph" on the dashboard.
My personal experience also matches this take.
I can enjoy media related to my favorite IPs that are objectively mediocre or even bad in various ways, as long as the IP itself is treated well by the media.
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