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Hilarious quote from a Supreme Court decision:
The distribution of photographs and films depicting sexual activity by juveniles is intrinsically related to the sexual abuse of children in at least two ways. First, the materials produced are a permanent record of the children's participation and the harm to the child is exacerbated by their circulation.10 Second, the distribution network for child pornography must be closed if the production of material which requires the sexual exploitation of children is to be effectively controlled.
10As one authority has explained:
[P]ornography poses an even greater threat to the child victim than does sexual abuse or prostitution. Because the child's actions are reduced to a recording, the pornography may haunt him in future years, long after the original misdeed took place. A child who has posed for a camera must go through life knowing that the recording is circulating within the mass distribution system for child pornography.
Shouvlin, Preventing the Sexual Exploitation of Children: A Model Act, 17 Wake Forest L.Rev. 535, 545 (1981). See also Child Exploitation 292 ("[I]t is the fear of exposure and the tension of keeping the act secret that seem to have the most profound emotional repercussions"); Note, Protection of Children from Use in Pornography: Toward Constitutional and Enforceable Legislation, 12 U. Mich.J.Law Reform 295, 301 (1979) (hereafter cited as Use in Pornography) (interview with child psychiatrist) ("The victim's knowledge of publication of the visual material increases the emotional and psychic harm suffered by the child").
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New "handguns" (PCCs? SMGs?) currently available for purchase on guns.com:
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7.62×39 Soviet: 130
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7.62×51 NATO: 6
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7.62×25 Tokarev: 2
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The document doesn't specify. Table CGT-21 seems to imply that it's actually recorded as just "762" with no decimal point at all.
According to the ATF, in years 2022 and 2023:
Among the 770,000 traced pistols (part 3 table CGT-03):
| Caliber | Proportion (%) |
|---|---|
| 9 mm | 60 |
| .40 | 13 |
| .380 | 8 |
| .45 | 7 |
| .22 | 4 |
| .25 | 1 |
| 7.62 mm | 1 |
| 10 mm | 1 |
| .57 (typo for 5.7 mm?) | 1 |
| 5.56 mm | 0.8 |
Among the 25,000 pistols recovered in Mexico (part 7 table SWB-10):
| Caliber | Proportion (%) |
|---|---|
| 9 mm | 45 |
| .22 | 17 |
| .380 | 12 |
| .45 | 7 |
| .40 | 6 |
| .25 | 4 |
| .38 | 3 |
| 7.62 mm | 2 |
| .32 | 2 |
| 5.7 mm | 0.4 |
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2d ago
I am in my early 30s and have always been a boring teetotaler. I see no reason to become addicted to alcohol on top of sugar.
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2d ago
Quote from By This Axe (a sourcebook for ACKS (the Adventurer Conqueror King System), whose author prides himself on thorough historical research):
Throughout Europe during classical and late antiquity, and well into the modern age in many places worldwide, most mines were worked by slaves. However, there is some archaeological evidence that some mines were worked by paid laborers. For instance: There are over a thousand ancient graves at the Hallstatt salt mines, and all of the bodies are interred with valuable grave goods that suggest care and respect for the dead. These might be the graves of miners, and if so that would suggest paid labor.
My cursory Internet searching did not find anything super-helpful, but here are some articles about slavery in Scotland.
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It's a bit confusing to engage in evidence-free raging in one thread but then point to the evidence in a different thread.
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3d ago
Middle Easterners are counted as white
Note that in 2024 Middle Easterners and North Africans were officially separated out from whites. This change will be implemented in the 2027 American Community Survey and the 2030 census.
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4d ago
Hilarious excerpt from the URL Standard:
The
application/x-www-form-urlencodedformat is in many ways an aberrant monstrosity, the result of many years of implementation accidents and compromises leading to a set of requirements necessary for interoperability, but in no way representing good design practices. In particular, readers are cautioned to pay close attention to the twisted details involving repeated (and in some cases nested) conversions between character encodings and byte sequences. Unfortunately, the format is in widespread use due to the prevalence of HTML forms.
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These two lines are real list items…
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…using HTML's "li" element.
• These two lines are fake list items…
• …using HTML's "p" element.
Which is better?
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Notice that, if you try to select the bullets preceding the real list items, you will fail. This is because the bullets are generated by CSS, not actually in the HTML. In contrast, the fake list items have real, selectable bullet characters that were typed manually.
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On the other hand, the fake list items do not have the proper "listitem" accessibility role, while the real list items do. In the context of Markdown on this website, this problem cannot be fixed. In the context of raw HTML, it can be fixed by adding the role manually.
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We can also consider parallelism. Every "section" element has a selectable "h" heading element. Shouldn't a list item's bullet character serve as an analogous pseudo-heading? The fake list items can satisfy this criterion if typed in raw HTML (not if filtered through Markdown), while the real list items cannot.
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That word choice actually is justifiable, since the penny historically evolved from the denarius. Likewise, it would be reasonable to translate "solidus" as "shilling" and "libra" as "pound". In contrast, the French écu (3 livres) and the English crown (1/4 pound) do not appear to be cognate descendants of the same Carolingian or Roman coin.
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I kind of assume men looking for Asian porn specifically want women who look more... stereotypically Asiatic. It's probably a fetish. Otherwise why would they look for Asian porn?
It's important to note that "stereotypically Asian" is more than just weirdly-shaped eyes and <del>yellow</del><ins>slightly-less-red</ins> skin. I think it's far from impossible that many Asian fetishists are just into skinny women, but they find that searching for Asian porn is a more surefire way to find skinny women than trying to use the search term "skinny".
This is a perfectly legitimate translation.
No, it's a confusing localization—or, in Nabokov's words, a paraphrase.
A "shield" is not a unit of currency. It would be distracting to talk about people paying so many "shields" for something.
If "shield" sounds wrong to Anglophone ears, that's their fault for failing to acknowledge the validity of French currency units. And there are zillions of fantasy stories that use outlandish-seeming currency units with which readers quickly become comfortable.
"Crown" is not only British currency: Merriam-Webster has it as "any of several old gold coins with a crown as part of the device".
It doesn't matter. There is no good reason to falsely insert the French, Spanish, Portuguese, etc. shields into the ranks of the English/British, Scandinavian, Czech, etc. crowns, and thereby erase a meaningful distinction between two categories.
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6d ago
News article:
AI pilot program in Los Angeles County courts will help judges craft rulings
The program, which launched last month, gave half a dozen Los Angeles County civil court judges access to AI software called Learned Hand [named after a famous federal judge]. Although it could prove critical in a shorthanded court system that is facing a workload crisis on many fronts, the announcement has also drawn concern from some members of the county’s legal community who fear the technology could create errors and erode public trust in the legal system.
Five of the Supreme Court's nine justices approvingly quoted a claim that distribution of child pornography is worse than child rape and child prostitution. (The other four justices merely concurred in the judgment, so they did not endorse this particular footnote.) I would expect most people to find such a claim laugh-inducing.
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