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ToaKraka
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10hr ago
I would like to suggest that you add a few section headings and/or horizontal rules. (You did use one ersatz horizontal rule, but your autocorrect turned your series of hyphens into a series of em dashes, which Markdown does not interpret as forming an actual horizontal rule.)
Okay, I'll admit that I haven't previously researched this topic. A search for "labia hypertrophy site:.edu" on my phone returns (via this faculty page) this meta-analysis of labiaplasty procedures. In passing it mentions (with several citations omitted):
Labial hypertrophy is most commonly congenital in origin. However, there are a number of potential acquired causes, such as exogenous androgenic hormones in infancy, sensitivity to topical estrogen, stretching or weight attachment of the labia, dermatitis secondary to urinary incontinence, vulvar lymphedema, and myelodysplastic diseases.
(Whoops, now that I'm back on my computer I can't access the article's full text. Maybe I was getting a free preview somehow on my phone. But that was the only relevant quote in it, IIRC.)
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14hr ago
Britain's housing market is hugely dysfunctional because houses are assets first and shelter second
I thought it was because (1) by-right zoning doesn't exist, so instead literally every single attempt to build housing has to run the gauntlet of getting permission from the govt., and (2) urban growth boundaries stymie building near large cities.
Much of southern Italy was ruled by Arabs for an extended period of time, so southern Italians sometimes are not considered white. (See also Spain and Greece.) Savoy is in northern Italy, but the sentiment sometimes is extended to cover all of Italy, especially in jokes.
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17hr ago
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17hr ago
Most 2D pornography is drawn with small labia. It is a common sentiment that large labia are considered ugly. I think it is also a commonly-believed urban myth that promiscuity causes large labia (along with a loose vagina).
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18hr ago
roastie
…isn't that a small potato?
Large labia → [roast] beef curtains → roastie (all derogatory)
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1d ago
The real losers in this story are the kids: assuming Becky has full custody I’d award her the full settlement for that alone, laws be damned, because (excluding something the defense should’ve mentioned) they deserve the money more than Chad
Wouldn't she be able to get that money anyway in a separate child-support proceeding? If so, there's no need to take that into account here.
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1d ago
We recently had a OP on jury trials in the American justice system.
I assume you're referring to this comment.
See also Ozy's article from a year ago, discussed to a small extent here.
I was also impressed by the professionalism of the jury. My fellow jury members were thoughtful, intelligent, morally serious people who were conscious of their responsibility as jurors.⁎ Even given how frustrating the experience was, I was impressed by their rationality, how closely they stuck to the evidence, and their determination to follow the norms of good discourse. Sometimes I see people say online “you elites in your epistemic bubbles have no idea how stupid normal people are”. But, judging from my jury-trial experience, normal people are actually pretty smart! At least in Alameda County.
⁎With one exception, whom I haven’t talked about because I don’t like saying mean things about private figures on a blog this big.
Yet the jurors in this case seem to have delivered unanimous convictions on evidence that fell far short of "beyond a reasonable doubt", even with the prior-bad-acts evidence.
But of course that was a criminal trial for murder, not a civil trial for breach of contract.
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1d ago
Despite what the game is showing me on the screen, the "board" is not reality.
Then why is so much computing power wasted on showing a fancy but worthless simulation of reality on the screen? Compare the original X-Com (as well as Phoenix Point), where the probability of hitting actually is based on the 3D models.
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1d ago
I did want a bright color. Unfortunately, however, the only color available within 50 miles was black. (Or maybe the only brightly-colored one was both 50 miles away and significantly more expensive. I don't remember with certainty—it was three years ago.)
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1d ago
Older Fire Emblem games imply a roll of 1d100 in the user interface, but actually use 2d100 ÷ 2, resulting in a bell-shaped distribution. Newer ones use even more complicated rigmarole.
XCOM 2's RNG is biased toward the player (and does not match the user interface) on all difficulties except the hardest one.
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1d ago
calm, technical games that are readable for an illiterate five-year old
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Mini Motorways and Mini Metro (draw road/rail networks and watch cute multicolored cars/trains drive through them; imminent failure is indicated with lists of missing travelers or with big red circles slowly filling in, not numbers; no-failure endless mode is available)
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Bridge Constructor (design bridges, drive cars/trucks over them, watch them turn red/blue with compression/tension and break, and redesign with more triangles)
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Freeways (draw highway interchanges and watch cute multicolored cars drive through them; control scheme with no undo button may be difficult for a young child to understand and use, especially for multi-level interchanges)
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Come up with a fun house idea and tell/help the child to draw a matching floor plan, with pencil and paper or on the computer with QCAD
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2d ago
@ThisIsSin, note that phone autocorrect often inserts directional quotation marks as well.
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2d ago
I think somebody pointed out eons ago that this website permits color styling to function.
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RGB colors: ██████
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OKLCH colors: ██████
Note that, even though all the RGB colors presented here add up to 255 or 256, they have vastly different brightnesses and intensities as perceived by humans. In contrast, the OKLCH colors all have constant brightness of 75 percent and intensity of 0.12.
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2d ago
The Tolkien wiki says otherwise.
The origin of the Orcs is never definitely explained in J.R.R. Tolkien's works. Throughout the years, he changed the explanation, but he was doubtful because of the theological implications of an evil race and the relations of fëa and hröa in his cosmology. As Tolkien died without deciding on a final explanation, the canonicity of the origin of Orcs is a popular debate in the fandom. Listed here are the different origins of the Orcs given in Tolkien's texts, ordered chronologically.
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Bred from stone (Book of Lost Tales, 1917–1920)
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Based on Elves (Quenta Silmarillion in Lost Road, 1937)
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Corrupted Elves (Annals of Aman, 1950s; chosen by Christopher for Silmarillion chapter 3)
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Soulless animals, or mixed origin of corrupted Elves and Men (Myths Transformed, 1959)
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Corrupted Men (Quendi and Eldar, 1959–1960)
ToaKraka
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2d ago
This is where your eye for detail catches you.
It doesn't matter that much. Renting a generator costs just 50 dollars. (Renting a gasoline mower is even cheaper at 30 dollars, but I'm not totally sure that the still-meaty smallest model offered by Home Depot would fit in my cute little car.) It's just annoying.
Managing the electrical cord was a huge PITA, and I sliced and had to splice it twice despite being (I think) pretty careful.
IIRC, I've accidentally run over my cord twice in my 10 or 15 years using this corded mower (the same old Homelite model for the entire time, with two small DIY repairs). I would call it a "pain in the ass", but not a huge one.
Here's a rough sketch of my typical grass-cutting pattern at home. (Scale: The lot is about 100 feet square.) As long as you don't go in circles, you can do basically anything you want without being too annoyed, IMO.
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2d ago
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2d ago
This is in Pennsylvania, not New J⁎rsey. I have seen the contractor bring generators to the site.
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2d ago
Are you sure the problem is not that you are letting your grass grow too long, rather than battery-powered lawnmowers are too weak? The normal advice is not to cut more than 1/3 of the grass height per mow, and most mowers only go up to 4 inches (10 cm).
Could you not just get a second set of batteries for a battery-powered mower and have one set charging while using the other mowing?
In 2025, I did not let my grass grow all the way to eight inches. However, even at whatever height I allowed the grass to grow to (probably around four or six inches), I found it extremely tiresome and annoying to run the weak battery mower forward at an excruciatingly slow pace, just nibbling away at the grass, when I was used to going much faster with a full-power corded mower at home.
Now that you have electric service
I don't. Completion is more than a month behind schedule.
You don't have to mess with extension cords.
While I did get some enjoyment out of being able to run the cord-free gasoline mower in an outside-to-inside spiral pattern, rather than being forced by the extension cord to go back and forth like a plowman, I don't think that's a significant factor in my decisionmaking here.
You held back there
I did not. I truly have given this prompt to my decensored local LLM dozens of times, and the LLM's output always is much elaborate than anything that I would write. Could I in theory have made my output more elaborate? Possibly. But I don't have the competence to make those extra details actually sound erotic. (Inconsistencies in the darkness of the woman's skin? Waxing poetic about her thigh gap? A discursion on the shape of her nose? To me this sounds more excessive than erotic.) In contrast, the LLM, while going rather further than I intended to imply in the prompt (No brassiere? Lustful lip biting? Microskirt barely covering the buttocks? This is not a normal woman in a shopping mall.), is able to make added details actually sound erotic.
(And, again, I don't really care about gaining that competence—this is just idle dabbling.)
If you don't have the LLM executing your ideas it will go full Generic Genericsson.
I disagree there. It will always return a white woman if you don't specify otherwise, but it will give that white woman different outfits and make her do different things, even with a short prompt like this one.
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3d ago
Your link to the Atlantic is broken because you forgot to include the "https://" part.
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3d ago
Direct quote:
The Owner hereby acknowledges that Owner is aware that the Premises, during the progress of the Work, constitute a dangerous area. Any visits by the Owner to the Premises during the progress of the Work shall be done at the Owner’s sole risk[,] and the Owner agrees to hold harmless and indemnify [the contractor] from any loss, expense (including attorneys’ fees), suit[,] or causes of action resulting from any damage or injury, personal injury[,] or death suffered by the Owner[ or] Owner’s agents, invitees[,] licensees, guests[,] or employees.
The first sentence in particular seems like a pretty strong statement that I am supposed to limit my presence on the property. If I'm not supposed to be there, then no one but the contractor is left to cut the grass.
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3d ago
"Battle of bureaucracy"? I don't see any such event here. If you're referring to the tall-grass letter: Unlike some other municipalities that I could name, this municipality explicitly prescribes a maximum grass height of eight inches, and the vegetation on my lot unambiguously exceeds that value. (Annoyingly, the municipal govt. does not publish its code online, and instead requires citizens to request individual ordinances by email. But I specifically requested a copy of the maximum-grass-height ordinance shortly after buying the lot.)
The free table of contents for this book from the North Carolina Bar Association lists "constructive fraud" as a civil "cause of action" (basis for lawsuit). This lawyer webpage indicates that constructive fraud is different from actual fraud. The idea of a civil action is laid out in NC General Statutes ch. 1 § 1-2—but I can't actually find the list of civil causes of action anywhere, though I would expect it to be in chapter 1 or in chapter 1A.
This page has the standard jury instruction for constructive fraud (§ 800.06) under torts (part IV), so I guess it's nonstatutory common law.
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