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1d ago
Are there any words that are particularly pretty/ugly/interesting due to the colours, or the pattern of the colours? Like maybe there's one that makes a rainbow, or an alternating -_-_-_- pattern or something like that.
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1d ago
Looks like semaglutide would be a fairly easy improvement. Is it perfect? No. Is it better than what you have? Yes. And that's probably an attitude that could benefit you instead of the all-or-nothing idea of becoming exceptional.
Virgin how? You're gay and living in the age of smartphone apps. If you haven't hooked up with anyone that's because you've chosen not to. That's fine, it's your choice, but if you're waiting for that to be "perfect" too, and thinking it won't be perfect until you're perfectly ready for it to be perfect then it's going to continue to not happen. Sometimes hook ups can even become good friends too. And if it all goes sideways then at least you might gain some of those stories you're currently lacking.
I want to become physically fit, attractive, well-dressed, knowledgeable, cultured, and socially confident.
You have to start failing actively instead of passively and embrace and iterate on your mistakes. I've been doing some woodwork in the past week. Would I like it to be beautiful heirloom quality? Of course! But it's turning out as chipped and wonky shit despite my best efforts. That's okay because it's pretty much what I'm expecting given my constraints and the end product does what I need it to. I'm also getting better and the things I did this week went better than the things I did last week. If I hadn't made those mistakes I'd still be un-improved and staring at a clutter of useless timber instead of useful albeit imperfect items, including some extra tools and jigs that I've had to make that then feed back into better quality productions.
You have to work with what's available. Seek out and exploit the most opportunities that you can out of your job/course/situation. You can't work with the friends that you don't have and the career that you don't have and the parties that you don't have any more than I can work with the 400sqft workshop that I don't have.
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6d ago
If anyone wants a real haunted tech story look up the Darknet Diaries episode about dodgy Android TV boxes.
https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/172/
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/is-your-android-tv-streaming-box-part-of-a-botnet/
Like a hardware version of a Trojan horse.
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11d ago
Yeah I said weeks for a reason. It's a process of creating new connections in your brain in order to bypass the control from the slow and clumsy conscious and deliberate control of movements to the fast and fluid autopilot. Like learning to touch type. The screwy part about juggling is you can't slow down to decrease the difficulty like you could if you were learning to play an instrument or something like that. You can throw the balls a little higher but that's of limited usefulness. There's definitely a learning wall from practicing what feels like stupid baby time-wasting 2-out-of-3 ball juggling to adding in the third ball and not having enough hands free anymore.
I fucked it up and learnt how to do it wrong the first time so I had to unlearn that at the same time.
It's worth sticking with if you have the patience though. The first time I successfully made the full rotation of a really challenging pattern it literally felt like my brain was throwing the switch on a whole new path of neurons that had finally connected. Most pronounced natural high I've ever had.
There's a whole mathematical notation for the patterns if you really get into it but I bounced off that aspect.
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14d ago
The facehuggers are the males, at least symbolically. They violently penetrate and deposit an embryo inside a reluctant host where after gestation it then bursts out of the distended abdomen. Plus - as you note - they're disposable.
Biologically it's not one to one but it's sci-fi horror, not a science textbook.
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14d ago
And the ship's computer in Alien is called Mother, if that counts.
Funny, I've just looked up the Bechdel Test on Wikipedia and the original comic strip that spawned the term explicitly references Alien.
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17d ago
[the death] was caused by the hyaluronic acid injection
That's just pumping it full of cosmetic lip filler to make it a bit wider with the caveat that the additional width will be soft and squishy. I've seen photos of people who have pumped their dick excessively full of synthol too but it looks less like a big dick and more like a rugby ball with a puncture.
Point is that it's hard enough to alter one type of man or woman's body into another type of man or woman's body even with all the inherent similarities.
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18d ago
If having a small penis is something to be ashamed of that's more incentive to crack the problem of making a small penis bigger. 50% of men have a smaller than average penis. The potential market is, ahem, sizeable.
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18d ago
If it's feasible to fashion an entire penis from no-penis-at-all, why aren't dick enhancements as common as breast enhancements?
There's a clear strain of denialism and wishful thinking around physical gender transitioning, both surgical and endocrine, that sells it as being as good as the real thing. Meanwhile away from the transgender sphere people deal with all manner of complications around relatively simple and far more common procedures within those same realms of medicine, whether it's nose jobs, butt lifts, HRT or cosmetic dentistry.
The male genitals in their entirety are rearranged into female genitals
Rearranged yes, female no. This is three card monte rhetoric. I'll be charitable and grant that they are rearranged into feminine genitals. You raise objections to imprecise language and then use the same means to smuggle in your own favourable biases.
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21d ago
It can be answered like an autist or a normie and they're both bad. The autist says "reprogramming microchips to emulate Soviet counting machines". The normie says "I like going out, and I also enjoy staying in". The first would be better phrased as something like "I love figuring out how machines work and then making them do new things they were never made to do" and the second as something like "nothing beats curling up with a new episode of Popularity Contest after I've taken my poochie-pie to brunch at the puppy parlour".
What the listener needs is a demonstration of your personality and your lifestyle, and since the question is about fun it should be relatively playful. It's a show, don't tell affair. Tone as much as content. You present it in a manner to show what appeals to you and what appeals about you. Bottom line the answer itself should be fun and personal instead of being either a dry report or an answer so general that it could describe almost anyone. The objective is to find/offer ways that you can better relate to the other person, not literalist fact-gathering or milquetoast bet-hedging.
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30d ago
The Liberal Elmo clip is a total classic. I could never get into any of the other clips I've heard.
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1mo ago
And different classes too. It's all over the place. That's what makes it fun, you're pushed and pulled between multiple competing accents while trying to read and not-read it in your own voice.
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1mo ago
I think I can take the credit for that one. Only a man can be a transwoman, therefore transwomen are not women. QED.
Of course there are potentially imaginable counterarguments but they require such a degree of semantic deconstruction that there's nothing left for reassembling afterwards, rendering them moot.
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1mo ago
Finished LoTR and read Anguish Languish as a quick palate cleanser. It's an amusing brain tickler to try and read the sentences in the plain text, decode their semantic meaning, and maintain the awkward accent that sits between the two at the same time. Some are almost too easy, a lot of them take two or three passes, but even after getting my "ear" in there's a couple in there that I gave up on figuring out.
It's fun to try and imagine what tenor to hit when reading it out loud for a listener and whether to add the semantic pacing and rhythm or try to recite it as plainly as possible and resist slipping into normal language. Would recommend it to anyone who has young kids that they read out loud to, you could try it both ways.
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1mo ago
How likely is it that similar things were happening at other big clubs? What made MCFC so special that they could get away with it for so long?
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1mo ago
Radical Centrism. I knew it!
I just think that, like so many multiple choice questionnaires, a lot of my answers are "it depends".
Furthest from you:
Ezra Heywood, Individualist anarchist
Spot on, anarchism is very stupid.
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1mo ago
Sure, it's just an example of how lightly what would seem to be important events are handled by both the writer and his characters. Meanwhile lesser events are dwelt on at length.
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1mo ago
I expect the end result is we'll all have to pay for a basic AI assistant that we'll use to interface with the internet on our behalf.
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1mo ago
I found an interesting YouTube channel all about the history of industry and engineering. I've enjoyed a couple of the videos, they're focused and informative and broadly of the sort of quality you'd expect from a YouTube video essay. Of course all the thumbnails are AI slop because 95% of YouTube thumbnails are AI slop now, but then I looked at the dates on the videos and they're all from this year.
So I think it's safe to assume that the script, the voiceover are 100% AI, and the editing and production are more than likely AI assisted, but it makes me wonder how much of the video is fake too. I'm not sure it is as it's mostly archive footage, and AI video tends to be fairly easy to spot even when it's not dealing with things that involve complex machinery and coordination, but the seed of doubt that it's planted has put me off watching any more of them.
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1mo ago
I'm currently reading LOTR (after having read The Hobbit) for the first time.
It's hard to give it an objective view because a) I saw the films first, and so I know the major parts of the story, b) I'm long past the age where reading it might make a big impression, and c) I've never been into fantasy.
Interestingly in the films it was Legolas I couldn't stand while in the books it's Gimli. It also feels like a lot of scenes are weirdly underworked for such a long story. Like when they release Theoden from Wormtongue's influence after what feels like five minutes of just pointing at him and going "Mate, his name is Wormtongue. Worm Tongue! Mate, come on!" and Theoden is all like "Yes, you make a persuasive argument. Wormtongue, you have been revealed as an enemy agent and a traitor to our kingdom, and for that there can only be one punishment: Sending to Coventry".
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1mo ago
To start I'd work out a two-week slate of simple dishes so that you're not eating the same thing over and over but also you get enough repetition to dial in the elements you're interested in (cost/nutrition/technique/convenience). Then start adapting the menu to suit different seasons and what is available - you probably don't want a leaf salad if it's snowing outside.
Record what you cook and any notes. It doesn't need to be a full-on diary, a calendar-month A4 sheet will do so that you can refer to it when you're tired and hungry and don't want to think beyond "what did I do last time". Also keep a shopping list and add to it as soon as you use things up.
Don't get hung up on authenticity. I can make a passable hoi-sin sauce from scratch in about 3 minutes from shelf stable ingredients. That kind of thing saves on buying expensive single purpose sauces that might not come in suitable quantities.
I might not have phrased that very well. When I say patterns I mean like blue-green-blue-green-blue, or maybe words that have palindromic colours but not letters. Not literal graphic patterns.
Can you describe what is good/bad about xylophone, elephant and Christmas?
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