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2hr ago
Mi.
A daring synthesis. (The traditional abbreviation is "Mich.", while the newfangled postal abbreviation is "MI".)
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4hr ago
Is it really that disgusting for a straight man to think about having sex with a man?
Scientific study from year 2017 (news article):
120 male participants viewed photographs in six categories: neutral items (e. g., a binder clip); disgusting items (e. g., a bowl full of maggots); man+woman public displays of affection; man+woman kissing; man+man public displays of affection; and man+man kissing. Afterward, their disgust was measured through levels of a digestive enzyme that appears in the saliva of a stressed human.
A statistically significant increase in enzyme level was found only when comparing man+man kissing to neutral items (p < 0.2 %), comparing man+man kissing to man+woman public displays of affection (p < 2.0 %), and comparing disgusting items to neutral items (p < 3.6 %). This result was obtained among all participants, not just among the ones who self-reported as disliking homosexual men in an online survey that was administered prior to the experiment.
Presumably, actual sex would prompt an even greater response than mere kissing.
At the same time, the publishers started seeing various court cases around ownership and copyright of generated works, and now they're scared shitless about what happens if they publish one. (ToaKraka recently had some links about this.)
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17hr ago
Yes, I am in fact familiar with light novels
Confusing them with visual novels casts some doubt on this assertion.
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20hr ago
The only dynamic element they have is a tradition of branching choices, which anime and manga cannot do.
Japanese Wikipedia indicates that a few gamebook/choose-your-own-adventure manga works have been published.
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21hr ago
A generic locker-room joke's leading to a restraining order is funny. Repeatedly impregnating your girlfriend's underage daughters (including while out on zero-dollar bail) is funny. Accidentally fingering your daughter because she replaced your wife in the marital bed in the middle of the night is funny. I don't know what else to tell you.
Perhaps you have not sufficiently <del>desensitized</del><ins>refined</ins> your sensibilities by reading thousands of pieces of (predominantly non-loli) hentai manga and erotic literature.
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22hr ago
The censored opinion for today is extremely tame—just a 17-year-old's allegation that her 19-year-old ex-boyfriend distributed their sex video without authorization. I find it quite hilarious that the entire controversy hinged on whether a locker-room joke made to the plaintiff's brother ("Yo, did you see the video of your sister?") was a sly reference to a video that the joker had actually seen (as the trial judge thought) or just a genuine joke that coincidentally happened to land on a sensitive topic (as the appeals panel thought).
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22hr ago
Isn't Oblivion Remastered considered an extremely-low-effort port, abandoned by the developers with most of the bugs left unfixed?
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In 2023, California enacted a law allowing (city and county governments to allow) ADUs (accessory dwelling units) to be converted into condominiums that can be bought and sold separate from the lot's principal dwelling. According to the legislators:
The statewide median home price is nearly 800,000 dollars. At that price, only 17 percent of households can afford to purchase the median-priced single-family home. This figure is less than half of the national average, and less than half of the rate at the start of the pandemic.…
…The average size of a single-family home in California is 1860 square feet. By comparison, the average size of an ADU in California is less than one-third of that, at 615 square feet. Presuming a commensurate reduction in price, the purchase of an ADU would be affordable to lower-income households.
According to a news report, the municipality of San Jose now has become the site of the first actual sale of an ADU condominium under this law—750 ft2 of house according to the Zillow page and 2000 ft2 of land (plus a long driveway easement) according to the tax map, for 530 k$. (The property as a whole (principal dwelling plus ADU) is assessed by the county govt. at 715.4 k$ (494.6 for the land and 220.8 for the improvements).)
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A paraplegic is a “tester” of accessibility under the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act): he visits, and then sues, businesses that fail to measure up to the ADA's requirements (the ADAAG, ADA Accessibility Guidelines). His latest target (he testifies that it's his 83rd) is a strip mall. He alleges: (1) Of the property's two accessible parking spaces, one is immediately adjacent to a driveway, with no access aisle for safety; (2) of the property's several curb ramps, one is too steep; (3) the sidewalk in front of the businesses is not sufficiently flat, making it difficult for a wheelchair user to open a business's door without rolling backward into the parking lot; and (4) a different curb ramp often is blocked by parked cars.
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The paraplegic demands that several changes be made. The trial judge rejects most of them (removal of bollards in the sidewalk, addition of two more accessible parking spaces, reduction of parking-lot slope, etc.): they are not “readily achievable” within the meaning of the ADA, as they would drive out tenants (by exacerbating the property's existing parking shortage), jeopardize the property's grandfathered status under the municipal code (it has only 88 parking spaces rather than the required 104), expose the company to liability (businesses have been sued for not having bollards), etc. The company implements one demanded change voluntarily before the case is even over, moving the accessible parking space without an access aisle to a safer location (right next to the other accessible parking space, so that they share an access aisle). The judge finds that the company must accede to one more demand: changing the too-steep curb ramp from perpendicular (protruding from the sidewalk into the access aisle) to parallel (taking a 3-foot-deep chunk out of the 8.5-foot-deep sidewalk in front of the businesses).
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The company moves for a new trial, complaining that a parallel curb ramp (1) would be too expensive and too difficult to get permits for and (2) itself would violate the ADA, but the trial judge rejects these arguments. (1) The company has presented insufficient evidence of the expense of the modification or the difficulty of getting permits. (2) The company's expert misread the ADAAG! He looked at the bathroom guidelines, under which door swings cannot encroach into required clear areas. But the sidewalk guidelines have no such provision, so the parallel curb ramp is fine. (The judge's opinion includes helpful diagrams.)
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Australian airline Qantas has announced plans for non-stop Sydney–London and Sydney–New York flights, using an Airbus A350 variant specially designed for long range. If these flights enter operation (expected for London in October 2027 and for New York at a later date not yet announced), they will surpass Singapore Airlines' Singapore–New York and Singapore–Newark flights (which use an older variant of the same Airbus plane) as the longest commercial flights in the world.
According to Google Flights, the current non-stop Singapore–New York flight reduces travel duration from 24–21 hours (with a stop in Manila, Hong Kong, San Francisco, etc.) to 19 hours, but boosts price from 1000 dollars to 1500 dollars. These Qantas flights presumably will involve a similar money-for-time trade-off.
Official marketing materials on the topic from Qantas are available on this page. See also the Wikipedia page on the longest non-stop commercial flights.
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[Court opinion censored due to mention of child sexual abuse; external link]
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New J⁎rsey is the only state in the US that forbids motorists from pumping their own gasoline. Legislative attempts to eliminate this ban regularly die in committee.
Surveys consistently show that New J⁎rseyans actually like this state of affairs. According to the latest one, a whopping 64 percent of NJ residents want to keep gasoline pumps full-service-only. This support holds across all population segments surveyed.
| Segment | Support (%) |
|---|---|
| Affiliation: Democratic | 71 |
| Affiliation: Republican | 62 |
| Affiliation: Independent | 58 |
| Age: 18–30 | 68 |
| Age: 31–44 | 66 |
| Age: 45–64 | 64 |
| Age: 65–∞ | 61 |
| Gender: Woman | 74 |
| Gender: Man | 56 |
ToaKraka
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1d ago
I wouldn't even have minded a trophy-wife situation where I at least got decent sex out of the deal
500 k$ ÷ (15 a × 365 d/a) = 91 $/d
That's comparable to the cost of legal prostitution in Australia. But, unfortunately, prostitution remains illegal in the Land of the Free™.
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1d ago
It's hard to get much out of one snapshot like this compared to, say, comparing this against the stats from 2013–2014 and shifting the age groups by 1.
For consumer units of one person in 2013–2014:
| Age (a) | (Food away from home + entertainment) ÷ income before taxes (%) | Food away from home ÷ food (%) |
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| 0–∞ | 9.5 | 42 |
| 0–24 | 16.2 | 57 |
| 25–34 | 9.7 | 51 |
| 35–44 | 8.2 | 50 |
| 45–54 | 7.8 | 42 |
| 55–64 | 8.6 | 35 |
| 65–74 | 11.8 | 39 |
| 75–∞ | 9.1 | 32 |
0–24 is one I'd like to see broken up further, since that includes every child but also people up to 6 years into adulthood.
These statistics look at consumer units, which are basically the same as households. The definition of "consumer unit" doesn't have an explicit minimum age, which is why I didn't put one here—but you probably can assume that a consumer unit is unlikely to be led by a person younger than 18.
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1d ago
I feel obligated to point out that a person can share a house with someone who is not his romantic partner.
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2d ago
You have to add two spaces at the end of a line in order to create a line break.
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3d ago
I think you meant to post this comment in response to Skulldrinker's comment, rather than in response to my comment.
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3d ago
a minor birth defect (the article doesn't specify what)
It says "a minor heart defect" farther down in the article.
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3d ago
the problem has been a fundamental obstacle to my emotional well-being for 5+ years
Just give up. I'm sure you can think of things to do with your time that are more enjoyable than romance.
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Movie studios will make deals with short-form video apps for the rights to “micro movies”.
Article: The Vertical Revolution: How Microdramas Became a Multi-Billion-Dollar Global Phenomenon
I believe Red Letter Media discussed Quibi in one of its videos. I don't remember which specific video it was, but see also Vertical: An Immersive Theatrical Experience.
Schools will try to teach language in schools not with phonics, but with ebonics, using rap-along content.
Article: Activists demand that Black English be pushed on kids in California preschools
ToaKraka
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6d ago
A biography of one random streamer doesn't seem postworthy. (When Asmongold or Hasan Piker goes trans, then you can @ me.)
IIRC, F1nn5ter used to be sufficiently prominent to make the front page of Reddit on a semi-regular basis, just like Asmongold and Hasan. That's where I learned about this rigmarole.
I assume that the other commenter's implication is that SpaceX and Starlink have improved humanity's situation more than "philanthropy".
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