ToaKraka
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6hr ago
Do any popular games other than the Splatoon series and Super Mario Odyssey use that fancy gyroscopic-aiming stuff? I thought it was mostly dead.
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7hr ago
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8hr ago
To be clear, I was just pointing out the fact that at least some people seriously hold this view, not actually endorsing the view.
ToaKraka, you are a wise man.
LOL.
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9hr ago
One prominent sex-education website claims that masturbation should be considered a form of sex.
Sorry, Wrong Question
So first of all the question is wrong for three reasons. Sorry about that.
(1) Masturbation is sex and so if something is a thing it can’t be better than that thing. This is called philosophy.
(2) The question implies that the only kind of sex that is real sex is sex with another person, which is wrong. Solo sex is sex.
(3) It also makes out that masturbation itself isn’t sex and that only penetration is ‘real’ sex. There is no ‘real sex’, just sex. I think that if we start to see sex as what may or may not be enjoyable to us, rather than what is ‘real’ or not, then we might find it easier to enjoy.
Solo Sex
Some people just prefer not to have sexual and/or romantic relationships with other people. It doesn’t mean that they don’t like sex, they just want to do it with themselves. Maybe they have had difficult relationships in the past, or just don’t really feel very connected to many people. Perhaps they’ve had sex with other people and it was crap, or non-consensual and just don’t want to go back there. There are many reasons why people just prefer to have sex with themselves – and it’s totally totally okay.
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12hr ago
Only one-fifth of bachelor's degrees and one-tenth of associate's degrees are STEM.
Censoring words that are totally innocuous is a very common online joke. On /r/mapporncirclejerk, a few months ago it was extremely popular for people to say "Fr*nce", and jokingly complain in the comments that anyone who failed to do so was using coarse language in the presence of children. That trend has died out at the moment, but see also this humorous post where the use of "Gr*ece", "K*rdistan", and "Arm*nia" was hardly questioned.
Why do I enjoy calling myself a nigger without censorship on this website (past instances: 1 2 3)? I don't know. I guess I'm just being edgy for no good reason.
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15hr ago
I normally do not use office furniture in the living room in my designs. I just had that idea this week, and the designs at the top of this thread are the only ones that use such rigmarole.
If you don't keep your doors closed when you're not using them, I don't know what to tell you.
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15hr ago
I don't know what you mean by that. My bathrooms and laundry/utility rooms are cramped enough that the accusation may be accurate there. But my kitchens, living rooms, and dining rooms are ample. And I believe that my bedrooms permit a few different configurations even at maximum occupancy—and how often are bedrooms at maximum occupancy anyway? (For example, the design that I am having built will have nominal occupancy of five but actual occupancy of just two.)
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15hr ago
How do you get into the kitchen? Through the master suite?
The line between the dining room and the kitchen does not represent a wall.
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16hr ago
May I enquire as to why you censored the term "closets"?
I personally dislike closets (which, being immovable, needlessly constrain the rearrangement of furniture) and much prefer shelving units and wardrobes. Past discussion: 1 2
I'd also say that having the kitchen and dining room on separate floors is a bad idea.
Read what I wrote again. For code-compliance purposes, the living room is on the first floor and the dining room is on the second floor—but, in everyday life, the room labeled "living room" serves double duty as either a living room or a dining room depending on circumstances, and the room labeled "dining room" serves as a living room for the people occupying the upstairs bedrooms.
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16hr ago
One floor plan that I can't get right is a five-bay colonial with a mudroom-style entrance. I am looking at something like 13.2 m × 8 m or 12.8 m × 8.4 m (so that the footprint of the house is around 100 m2).
Extremely lazy spitball sketch (though possibly a bit too big)
But, no matter how I try, I can't design a staircase that feels natural without interrupting the regularity of the façade.
I don't get it. What does the stairway have to do with the façade?
Traditional foyers are designed for people who have no coats or wet boots or kids that track dirt everywhere.
Just add a closet under the stairway, and/or a wardrobe next to the wall.
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21hr ago
A mildly-interesting two-story house design (including a version with cl*sets, plus one-story parent designs for comparison purposes): In theory (to satisfy code requirements), the living room is on floor 1 and the dining room is on floor 2. But, in practice, the room on floor 1 serves both living and dining purposes, and the room on floor 2 is just an extra living room.
Whether it makes sense hinges on how the first-floor room is reconfigured between living and dining uses. Obviously, folding tables and folding chairs are perfect for dining use. For living use, folding couches apparently are available for purchase, though I'm not sure how compactly they actually fold up. Alternatively, perhaps the folding chairs and folding couches can be replaced with comfy, headrest-equipped office chairs that can serve for both living and dining.
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1d ago
Assessments of economic freedom/property rights:
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Fraser Institute: US 8.10/7.59, UK 7.88/8.06, India 6.58/5.43
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Heritage Foundation: US 72.8/91.6, UK 70.4/93.6, India 52.5/48.3
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1d ago
We have too much petty crime, yet qualified immunity seems to boost it, by shielding cops from punishment for not handling it.
I think that failure to enforce laws and qualified immunity for violating rights are entirely separate issues.
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1d ago
When it passes a resolution (example), the United Nations Security Council often says at the end that it "decides to remain actively seized of the matter". Apparently, there exists an official list of all the matters of which the Security Council is seized. At present, the list contains 49 active items that actually have been considered in the 2023–2026 period, plus another 16 stale items that were last considered before 2023 but to whose deletion a UN member objected in the latest annual review of the list. (For example: India's 1948 annexation of Hyderabad has not been considered by the Security Council since 1949, so it was highlighted as due for deletion from the list in January, and by default it would have been deleted in March. But Pakistan objected to that deletion, as it has done for many years. So, officially, the Security Council still is seized of that matter. Likewise, the UKGBNI has forced Russia's 2018 Novichok poisoning to remain on the list.)
For each item, the list gives only the first date of consideration and the latest date of consideration, so actually finding the related records can be a bit of a pain. (For example: The latest date listed for "the situation between Iraq and Kuwait" is 2025-09-17. Can you search for documents from that specific date in the UN Digital Library's interface? No—if you try to filter by what is labeled "creation date", you actually get a filter by what appears to be upload date. Rather, the best method is to search for the literal text "17 September 2025", which reveals the relevant resolution (regarding repatriation of Kuwaiti corpses and property (particularly, Kuwait's national archives) lost in Iraq's 1990 invasion) and meeting transcript.)
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1d ago
The other thing that I recall is Alex Jones supposedly paying out $1.4 billion with court ordering to liquidate everything he owns, be it InfoWars or his personal assets. I am not sure whether this is a normal practice in the USA, especially for verbal crime.
That was a special case. Jones failed to comply with the judge's orders regarding discovery, so he was punished with a default judgment—i. e., he was not permitted to make arguments reducing the damages claimed by the plaintiffs. (At least I think that's what happened. IIRC, some people on this website think that the judge's orders were not reasonable, or Jones did make good-faith efforts to comply with them but the judge unreasonably interpreted those efforts as bad-faith, or something like that.)
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2d ago
the UK trying to eliminate juries
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2d ago
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3d ago
the dumb media narratives that sustain the freaks' existence
The existence of lolcows is not sustained by media narratives. Rather, they exist in their niches of the Internet regardless of media attention.
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3d ago
it's 60 k$
A cursory search indicates that the cheapest new US vehicle with three rows of seating (not counting the Mitsubishi Outlander, whose third row is literally child-sized) is the Kia Sorento at just 34 k$, not 60 k$.
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3d ago
prostitution [without qualifier]
vs.
gay sex in societies that are hostile to homosexuality
You probably should also clarify "prostitution in societies that are hostile to prostitution".
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4d ago
Thirdly, collision avoidance/lane departure tech on company trucks. Apparently these have a false trigger rate somewhere above zero. Of course, most of the drivers I hear from wish we'd go back to manual transmissions.
I wouldn't dismiss their concerns so quickly. The collision-avoidance "feature" on my Mitsubishi Mirage (just a beeping/flashing warning, not a newfangled one that brakes automatically) had something like one false positive per hour on the six-hour drive that I took earlier today (taking a non-Interstate scenic route, so maybe less relevant for truckers).
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4d ago
in a 30-mile radius
That's unreasonably picky. Try increasing the radius. Also, don't forget to answer a bunch of the 2000 questions.
Remember that this website is rather small. As I understand it, the creator got a reasonable number of users by advertising on 4chan (there's still a dedicated thread on /soc/, though he no longer participates there) and Twitter something like a year ago, but you still can't expect to see a zillion people on it.
Someday, I will finally finish my bootleg HTML/EPUB version of For Want of a Nail (currently available for purchase only as a used physical book).
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