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Finished The Rose of Versailles on Netflix
Well, that's not something you see every day; a musical anime film! For a moment, I felt like I was back in the 90s, watching Anastasia and The Road to El Dorado. Some of the songs are pretty good; "Anger and Pain" (which plays as the French Revolution starts) is outstanding, as is "Never Surrender" (which plays during the duel with Alain).
The movie is very pretty, specially compared to the original series. This is to be expected; the animation of a 1979 TV show cannot possibly compete with the animation of a 2025 theatrical film. The colors are vibrant, with red and blue uniforms popping out of the screen. The battle at Tuileries and the storming of the Bastille are particularly stunning.
Unfortunately, writing is the weak link in the movie. The script has a serious problem with "show, don't tell"; characters tell each other they are in love rather than being shown falling in love, or talk about hungry relatives that are never seen onscreen.
The film's pacing is ridiculous, moving so fast that it makes the speed of light look like a stoned turtle. It seemed like every time I blinked, the narrative skipped forward three years. I am not sure I would have been able to follow the plot had I not already been familiar with the story.
Entire subplots are reduced to three seconds of screen time during musical numbers, such as Madame du Barry and the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, or excised entirely, such as the Black Knight or Saint-Just moonlighting as a masked vigilante noble killer (that last one was probably for the best; what the fuck, original series?). Everything is pared down to the core story of Lady Oscar and Marie Antoinette, but even then these characters are missing some serious development.
To some extent, this is understandable. The Rose of Versailles is an epic story, taking place over 33 years and 40 episodes; compressing it into a 2 hour movie is an impossible task. But then, they should not have attempted it. This should have been a trilogy.
The film feels like a highlight reel of the show's best moments, or perhaps a recap episode. Actually, someone on Reddit called it an advertisement for the manga, and perhaps that was its true purpose.
Overall, I'd recommend watching the 1979 anime instead, at least at first. It's free on YouTube!
I haven't watched the Netflix adaptation but I just watched the trailer and the OP sequence for it and I have to disagree. I am a huge fan of 70s anime (shoujo especially) and think the art style in the original version is a million times more attractive and effective than the art style of the new version. The 70s artists communicate so much in their sparseness and simplicity. The new version overloads you with a maximalist scrapbook aesthetic that looks very like, illustrator vector frutiger metro but sort of adapted to the 2020s. I mean the techniques of reproduction (the camera work or whatever process is used to convert the illustrations to a final image) has obviously "technically improved" but the charm and soul of the original is missing. It is similar to how AI generation or smartphone cameras continue to improve in clarity and definition but degrade in terms of soul and art and the sort of in between imprecision of the act of creation. The color grading also seems to lack cohesion in the new version compared to the original anime. And really I don't mean to disrespect the artists working today and it's good that they have careers at all but the taste to me is just a world apart from the taste of the 70s illustrators and animators.
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Astral Codex Ten 2026 Book Review Contest finalists thread
I wish that website allowed filtering by finalists/winners of past competitions.
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My top 10:
Honorable mentions:
I used to really love World War Z, but upon returning to it last year, I think it really has not aged well, especially after the last 20 years. In hindsight it seems obvious that certain characters/storylines were included to push Max's political hobby horses. A couple I found especially jarring were the cripple neighborhood watch member, the billionaire pharmaceutical CEO hiding out in the arctic, and the ending. However, it's still charming in its own way. It's almost quaint in how it handles its politics. Were the book written today, I have no doubt that there would be at least a couple of chapters devoted to the usual culture war topics.
To me it's a fun read. The core story is still compelling, but it really shows its age. Part of me thinks that maybe I would have enjoyed it more if I didn't have memories of it being such a great book. I honestly wish I could read it for the first time again today so I didn't have my judgement clouded by my previous expectations. Maybe if I was reading it for the first time today, it wouldn't show its age as much. Overall I'd still recommend it, but nowhere near as heartily as I would have in 2010.
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I love the Storm of Steel review (I'm biased).
I love how the Kakistocracy review starts off with the classic girl-writing move of "you wouldn't believe how gross this guy I dated was! He slept on a stained mattress in his mother's basement, and oh wow you wouldn't believe what he made me do on it - what a loser!"
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Been awhile since I read Earth Abides but I’ve always enjoyed post-apocalyptic explorations. I read Lucifer’s Hammer a few years ago. Maybe I should do Earth Abides again.
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I love this one https://acxreviews.robennals.org/reviews/weve-had-a-hundred-years-of-psychotherapy-and-the-worlds-getting-worse?year=2026
I thought that one was interesting, but incomplete. I wanted him to go on and think it through in more depth.
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It's great there's a proper website now, with estimated reading lengths and same page ratings.
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New Timeline just dropped. Hunter Biden joined Twitter two weeks ago and amassed a lot of followers. He is kind of funny.
Is he the front runner for POTUS in 2028 election?
I think I might vote for him.
He needs to be harder on immigrants to get my vote. Just because I would never trust a Dem to not get run over by the NGOs and let in unlimited migrants.
I don’t think America ever wants to elect another Romney. We want entertained so go pick the most absurd populists you can find.
Edit will give links and takes:
https://x.com/hunterbiden/status/2062880174254010399?s=46
https://x.com/signulll/status/2062602162857779536?s=46 https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/2062709558246584513?s=46
I find him a lot more relatable than anyone in Trump's orbit, that's for sure. Guessing he'd immediately relapse if he went anywhere near a tough job though
Come to think of it, I'm surprised politicians and other figures aren't caught doing crack with black prostitutes in DC constantly. They're away from their homes and families, stressed, and surrounded by poor black people.
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He just did a long as hell Soft White Underbelly video too. (yes the channel which usually interviews prostitutes and child abuse victims and whatever). I watched the whole thing. He's kind of flat and creepy like a lot of recovered drug addicts. I'm surprised he's a democrat. His paintings are bad enough that they trigger a Harrison Bergeron response in my brain.
A lot of maga have like that cousin who’s a heroin addict. Relatable to many people.
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His following probably stems from those who understood him as the First Crackhead. Now that Rob Ford has passed away, he’s the next best candidate to zero in on.
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It's got that 2008 Cracked.com writing style.
Which is great the first time you see it. After the dozenth the time, eh.
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Ride-along question on this: Mottizens, do you think this is actually Hunter Biden, or is it a brilliant publicist? My money's on the latter - it's too perfectly Online, and it doesn't read at all like any of the Hunter Biden writing/messages we've seen. Also insanely good at hitting as many DNC youth outreach talking points as possible. Or maybe Hunter secretly got Extremely Online? He was seeing some dirtbag left egirl for a while.
There is no way this isn't a publicist ghost writing for him. Everything is just a little too on the nose, like George Takei used to be.
Maybe it is George Takei.
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If he went for his father’s 1990’s politics I think he could have a good chance. The big issue his dad had was it felt like he was captured by the modern Democratic machine. My gut says if he runs he would be better off doing it as an independent as it would ease a lot of fears he will be controlled like dad. I think he could even pick off the MAGA vote. Trump does have an issue now that it feels like he’s controlled by Israel. And Hunter does feel American. So he could pick off a lot of Dems dissatisfied with the far left too. And maga does like a FU candidate which he fits.
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I think the market for his totally-not-cover-for-bribes paintings is done, so he might have some time on his hands to be Extremely Online.
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I thought he got hacked, and his hacker was trolling us. Though publicist is a good theory too but boring. However I think that people forget that Biden senior was a pretty charismatic person, definitely high on the list of politicians I'd get an Ice Cream cone with.
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What's your score on the Cambridge Face Memory Test? https://www.bbk.ac.uk/psychology/psychologyexperiments/experiments/facememorytest/startup.php
I got just 56% and the difficulty spike between the first and the second parts was insane to me, I went from "I guess I'm not face blind" to "I better not be asked to pick one of the six perps out of a lineup" in a second.
Scored 82%. Kinda gave up at the last stage, got annoyed by the distortions.
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I scored 64. This is such a crazy way to test face blindness. Once it got to the pixelated faces I did not recognize any of the faces. I have done other face blindness tests online in the past which have been a bit easier to me but I scored about the same in relation to the test's "average." I also know that I am significantly more face blind toward women than men: when I am meeting a bunch of new people in a new class, for example, it takes me a really long time to memorize the names of females especially. I do think I am relatively face blind though, recently I made the mistake of introducing myself to someone I had just met 5 minutes prior (granted it was in an overwhelming social situation where I'm usually anxious, but my friend and the person I did this to were both a bit annoyed with me.)
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96%, and I'm actually surprised because in real life I hardly remember the faces of anyone I don't meet frequently (I actually even struggle to pick out prominent public figures often, who I remember far more by their names and policies than I do their faces). In the vast majority of contexts the specific way somebody's face looks is probably the attribute of theirs I care the least about, and I suppose I just don't bother to commit it to long-term memory. In practice I store people as an abstract set of traits and positions in much the same way I do concepts.
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I'll finish it in the morning, felt like I have an unfair advantage - or maybe disadvantage - from having more exposure to British physiognomy. There's one guy who looks exactly like a hybrid of Nick Land and Lord Miles, which got me laughing too hard to keep going.
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I was flying through 'til the end. Somehow ended up with a 93%.
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I was sweating bullets by the end of the Norf FC Identification Quiz.
I got 76% which is remarkable because I feel like I have mild face blindness and was practically guessing for two thirds of the time.
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90% for me. Honestly thought the last part in particular was incredibly difficult, I'm shocked 80% is the average given how hard it seems to be.
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Decided to use nicknames for the faces to improve familiarity, got 90%.
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79%. The last part was ridiculous.
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79%. Got pretty hard there at the end.
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I got 83%, but yeah the spike in difficulty for that last part was unreal. I swear some of those where just pixelated 3D shapes on some gradient where it was all the same face in increasing levels of gaussian noise. Reminds me of looking at diffusion model outputs.
My father has been claiming he's face blind for a year now, time to put this in the family chat and find out how much.
I meant the spike between the first and the second parts. Pick one out of three vs pick one out of six out of three.
Several of the faces have very clear distinct features that were hard to miss for me. The pudgy face was easy to remember, but slightly double chin face? Much harder depending on the angle. The 1st face looks like a co-worker's side profile. Cheekbones guy was very distinct by how sharp his face was. It was the guy with the fat(?)Fuzz(?) right besides his nose that I kept fucking up.
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Same results, and I agree. Some of those by the end were just blobs with almost no identifying features.
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Two fun stories from tech this past week:
Story 1
The rsync developer picked up vibecoding recently, which resulted in him publishing a busted release that started breaking people's backups, which caused a nuclear level of backlash. The rsync dev responded by posting this wall of text which insists that no, vibecoding is actually the future, chuds.
The most amusing part is this is not some cooked zoomer who picked up Claude last week and deluded himself into thinking he was now a real coder. This guy is the founding author of the project, and has been its primary maintainer for 30 years.
Story 2
Zcash is a cryptocurrency which advertises itself as a privacy coin. As all good cyberpunks do, Zcash has a centralised, legally-incorporated foundation elaborating their trademark policy as well as a wealth of resources about 1023s, bylaws, IRS compliance, and pretty much anything else that would brighten the day of a young cyberpunk.
But don't worry, it gets better when you dig into the details: "Privacy coins aren’t all the same — and Zcash takes a unique stance among them. Unlike [redacted], which enforces full anonymity by default, Zcash gives users a choice." A unique stance indeed! This stance has been pioneered elsewhere by Telegram, which famously features end-to-end encrypted chats that a user can opt into (and if they don't, well, the messages are unencrypted by default just like on every other platform, and Telegram and anyone capable of arm-twisting Telegram can read them). I'll note that as a frequent user of Telegram for over a decade myself, I have never once had someone initiate a secret chat with me, which just goes to show that all true cyberpunks love mass surveillance, and will choose it whenever they are given a choice. Like Telegram, most users of Zcash choose not to make their activity private. Of course, even if you opt into the shielded pool -- a respectable choice! -- make sure you do so carefully, because there are definitely not guns pre-pointed at your foot C++ style.
But all of that is old news! Today, the price of Zcash wrt the dollar crashed nearly 60% on the news of a new critical vulnerability discovered by a random person deciding to point Claude at the code base (not the Mythos version; just the regular version accessible to anyone). The vulnerability allows unlimited coins to be printed in the shielded pool where nobody can see them. Some foolish conspiracy theorists have put forth the hypothesis that backdoor money-printing may, in fact, have been a feature, not a bug, but fortunately, top men are on the case to discredit such harebrained nonsense.
What's especially baffling about Zcash is that despite its impeccable reputation, Wikipedia notes its adoption among darknet cryptocurrency markets is less than 1%.
The vibe is that older retirement aged or approaching retirement aged people excessively love AI and are somehow blind to its faults.
It is a reversal of tech adoption in which the old are hyped and the young are hesitant.
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This tracks. The most zealous AI boosters I've seen online and in real life are older guys who have reputations for having done really cool stuff in the past. Steve Yegge is another example.
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I don't have the time for this, but has anyone looked into the bugs introduced to see if they were bugs a human wouldn't have introduced or would have caught in code review? Or, failing that, if they should have been caught in testing? I wouldn't be surprised if the testing story on a project like this is not very good, and the fact that the author is flaunting his CS PhD makes me positively suspect it.
"Jews developed this so it's a honeypot" is indeed nonsense even if it really is a honeypot.
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I’m getting Tornado Cash vibes by Zcash’s description. Although it wasn’t a currency itself (it was a ‘mixing’ service), its intended function still served the same purpose of making it harder to trace crypto transactions. Bad coding aside, the real use cases for these systems are effectively money laundering services and speculation. But I’m pretty sure in the darknet there are already adequate solutions people are running as schemes to facilitate payments between vendors and their customers.
I'd say your vibes are the exact opposite of what they should be, given that the Tornado cash devs were arrested by the government and the Zcash foundation is in McLean, Virginia (the spook capital of the world).
What do you see the use cases for crypto being?
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Facebook and Instagram routinely show me reels by porn stars, and my AI-dar is strong enough that I usually notice when it's showing me AI-generated girls who don't actually exist. (No doubt there's a potential toupée fallacy here.) I assume these models are advertising their OnlyFans pages or similar, and that if one were to follow the link it would contain softcore photos and videos for a fee. I wouldn't know, as I've never clicked on one of these links.
Jerking off to softcore videos of photorealistic AI-gen women seems extremely lame to me, lamer than watching live-action porn featuring real women (which is already pretty lame). On the other hand, is watching photorealistic AI-gen porn lamer than watching hentai, animated furry porn, or similar? Technically, both hentai and photorealistic AI-gen porn are types of animated pornography, but at least the latter looks enough like a real person that you might not notice it on a cursory inspection. A guy might consume a lot of photorealistic AI-gen porn and still be attracted to real women who actually exist, whereas I fear for the habitual hentai user, eventually no 3-dimensional flesh-and-blood woman will ever appeal to him.
On the other hand, habitual hentai users might put the unambiguous fantasy of 2-dimensional hentai in a completely separate mental category to IRL sex and be able to derive enjoyment from both (just because you like burgers, doesn't mean you don't also like salmon); whereas photorealistic AI-gen porn looks just like real life except with every conceivable imperfection mercilessly rooted out. Someone who habitually consumes the latter might eventually find that the imperfections all flesh-and-blood women have* (to a greater or lesser extent) are impossible to overlook.
Obviously consuming either kind of porn to excess will mess with your head. But which do you think is worse?
*Men too, obviously, but I can't imagine many straight women have much interest in watching photorealistic AI-gen softcore porn of male characters.
imo, ai generated porn other people created feels very cringe, but ai generated adult imagery I have prompted myself is not cringe at all, to me. I am sure the ai generated adult imagery that I have prompted myself is cringe to other people.
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Obviously the winning move is to watch AI-gen hentai.
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All in all, another reason for deleting your social media. Backup your Facebook data if you’re worried about losing things and eradicate it from your life. I never experienced the detox some people claim to have had because I was never that drawn into it in the first place, but so much of it is a distraction and waste. Instagram is just the opposite of doomscrolling, and I see people outside of work who do nothing but consume one reel after, another despite having all these “great plans” in their lives that are permanently on hold and perpetually in the works because they can’t put down the cell phone to apply themselves where the work needs to be done.
As far as the content you’re describing, that’s ballooned over the years as a consequence of the real world drought a lot of young men have experienced as far as putting themselves out there and trying to make themselves an attractive prospect goes. Men don’t know how to make themselves attractive (often through no fault of their own, men aren’t shown any of this; yes; brush your teeth; wipe your ass; manage your finances; dress well; shave properly; don’t sound ghetto or hood when you speak; stand up straight; be respectful; vacuum the Cheeto crumbs off the bedroom floor; etc.) and women too often don’t know what men are good for them (give the nice guy a chance; stay in church; learn domestic skills; put on a smile; don’t drink or smoke; etc.).
There’s also a generational divide that I think shares a parallel with other examples. A few years ago, one of our managers at work decided to informally adopt a “peer” interview hiring approach, where new candidates who were under the microscope got to meet a random worker in the department to follow up and ask them questions related to their resume, while the manager observed in the office. As a fairly standout worker, I was one of the select people who did more than a couple of these. The youngest guy I did this for was a friend of a co-worker who was just coming onto the labor market. Kid comes in fully in his street clothes, answering questions with a nervous and unconfident tone (somewhat understandable but you want to speak with self-assuredness about your own abilities), and he also later failed a drug test from what I’d heard. I didn’t follow up with my co-worker about this kid, but it did leave me with an impression on my mind which was, “Who in the world is raising these kids?” It seems nobody ever really taught them what professionalism is, or how to be confident, or, I don’t know; not using drugs (it was weed, even though it’s legal in this state)? I think the same applies to how they approach relationships, but these kids are navigating an environment with a collapse in responsibility and no formal structure to any of it as far as standards and expectations go (and by that I’m not talking about selfish standards, I’m talking mature young adult standards that people used to have beaten into them).
My early 2000s history teacher had some point about how our generation no longer had a clear script to follow regarding relationships. And how that made dating and relationship forming harder for us. But he was optimistic that new norms would develop and future youths would find this easier.
Too bad he was wrong on that point.
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I think a lot of the divide comes down to how we raise kids. The major difference between now and the past is that most parents are now so divorced from the idea that there should be any authority figures that they not only cannot raise their kids into adulthood properly, but often stand in the way of anyone who would demand a kid do anything they don’t want to. That often means that the child lacks the ability to act professionally or talk professionally. They don’t understand that going to a job interview is not the same as hanging out with the kid down the street.
Many of them often come from single parent households unfortunately.
We’re going to see an interesting social shift happen within a century’s time, if we haven’t begun this cycle already. Western welfare systems have been in free fall as a result of the social changes that have already taken place post-1960, along with globalization and technological progress; enabling corporations to extract more productivity out of people than individuals can easily earn back; as well as the difficulty of capturing the excess of the highest earners of the tax base (or just a complete intellectual loss of understanding how fiscal spending works, which coincidenced with the shift from Keynesian administrations to Neoliberal ones in the postwar period).
The cracks in the system are there and the modern world has made it such that this paradigm can’t be easily reformed (if it can be reformed at all). Collapse in the TFR means shrinking productivity, technology means capital flight is a few click away during tax season and antagonistic social relations between the genders means good luck to social stability in the future. There’s either going to be a Great Reconciliation where people just step to the right, and reality has forced them to acknowledge the necessary sacrifices to make life livable in hand times, or there’s going to be a great deal of oppression coming.
Oppression is coming, I think. Only question is how to best position myself and my family to minimize harm to ourselves. Probably best to delete social media profiles which can be used as evidence of any political leanings one way or another.
The oppression is already here. Men and women aren't allowed to agree on the rules of engagement, you aren't permitted a place to raise your kid without paying ruinous costs in rent because building is illegal, the list goes on.
Just because it doesn't on its face look like what Boomers (or prior generations) told you oppression would look like, and just because you can still technically bear it, doesn't mean it isn't oppression.
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Could very well be. Roko’s Basilisk could still be in effect via social media.
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There's precedent.
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Honestly, this was already the case before AI-gen porn, for some categories of it. The high-end, "classy", "art" porn from central/eastern europe already has models-style girls with few imperfections to begin with, with top quality Hollywood level make up, flattering lighting, poses and angles and post-processing erasing whatever was there. So I think unrealistically perfect was already a thing before AI-gen.
As a previously healthy consumer of porn (mostly reformed), sometimes you're in the mood for those perfectly shot videos, but also sometimes you're up for real amateur content, for fake amateur content, for 2000s early online productions, for 1990s italian hardcore flicks, for 70s classic films, for drawn content, for 3D CGI content, for softcore...
I think what is worse is being laser-focussed on a single thing and letting that shape your tastes. Checking many things out and being aroused by many of them is healthy.
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Is watching cartoons lamer than watching kid movies?
Are you asking if it's lamer to watch cartoons or to watch live-action children's films?
Yes.
I guess it depends on the film.
That's my answer to your question about hentai vs porn.
So you think watching certain kinds of hentai is less lame than watching certain kinds of live-action porn?
Yeah?
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Isn’t that a tautological truth given how awful most live-action porn is?
Is it?
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Wait until they start integrating this into AI boyfriends, though.
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Very interesting document from ICC (International Code Council): The EFSP (Essential Fire Safety Provisions)
Apparently, the goal is to provide an entry-level, stand-alone document that can be adopted in undeveloped countries without all the complexity of the full-fledged IBC (International Building Code) and IFC (International Fire Code). Editor's note:
The EFSP appears to consist of abridged versions of the following items.
In print, it amounts to 363 pages—a whopping 75-percent reduction from the combined 1444 pages of the IBC and the IFC. The price of a watermarked PDF is just 56 dollars, versus 322 dollars for IBC+IFC—an 86-percent reduction.
All three of these documents have official Spanish translations. ICC also has worked with governments that are neither Anglophone nor Hispanophone, such as Oman and Pakistan.
Fun fact: Incest between consenting adults is legal in New Jersey. In recent years, bills that would ban it have been submitted by politicians of both major parties (Democratic 2024–2027, Republican 2014–2021, Democratic 2014–2017), but have died in committee.
According to Wikipedia (1 2), incest between consenting adults is illegal in almost all the other states of the US, including Pennsylvania (example conviction) and New York (example conviction).
Interesting report from the United Nations Secretary-General on the UN's drive for multilingualism
See also the Strategic Framework on Multilingualism.
The languages thing makes a lot of sense as most people if they have more than one language usually have at least one of them as English. Thus if there’s no official translation of UN content in your language, you’d default to English as the language of choice. Arabic and Chinese really don’t spread beyond their initial cultures and Spanish is largely confined to Spain and Latin America. Russian used to be bigger in Eastern Europe, but I don’t think it’s as popular there now.
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Cersei and Jaime fans in shreds!
Is this the reason why incest is a no-no for Patreon and apparently many eroge-game hosting sites? Or so people on the internet tell me (people on the internet - clearly a bunch of pervs, all of them!).
As I understand it, there is nothing illegal in the US about depictions of illegal incest, and the payment-processing companies are just puritanical for complicated reasons. (The same apparently is not true in the UKGBNI.)
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Seems like a very positive move to separate the “job creation” component of a lot of this regulation from the actually necessary part. Maybe eventually this will make its way back to us.
Not really. Most of what was eliminated has less to do with "job creation" and more to do with specific circumstances that only apply to certain industrial processes. For a made-up example, suppose lithium ion battery manufacturing has special considerations that mean that certain equipment needs an independent fire suppression system, some processes must be separated from others, and some materials need to be stored in special areas. Since most developing nations aren't going to have these kinds of facilities, there's no need to put them in a condensed version. But if you're going to have a comprehensive reference volume for municipalities with varying needs, then it makes sense to include these standards.
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