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ToaKraka
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13hr ago
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1878 silver dollar: 6/7 ounce
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1971 copper dollar: 1/3.5 ounce
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1979 copper dollar: 1/4 ounce
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Quarter: 1/5.5 ounce
ToaKraka
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21hr ago
You aren't supposed to puncture the slices and spill the juice all over your hands.
ToaKraka
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22hr ago
If you're referring to the peel, I normally peel oranges directly over something to hold the peel—a trash container or a saucer at home, or a lunchbag or a napkin away from home.
If you're referring to situations where the peel sticks so tightly to the flesh that the flesh breaks and spills juice everywhere when you try to remove the peel, in my personal experience such situations are vanishingly rare.
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1d ago
The Secretary may mint and issue—
(A) not more than 100,000 $2.50 numismatic coins, each of which shall weigh 4.1795 grams, have a diameter of 0.425 inches [smaller than a dime], and contain not less than 90 percent gold [i. e., around 1/8 ounce];
(B) not more than 300,000 $2.50 numismatic coins, each of which shall weigh 26.73 grams, have a diameter of 1.5 inches [same as the pre-1979 dollar coin], and contain not less than 90 percent silver [i. e., around 4/5 ounce]; and
(C) not more than 750,000 $2.50 numismatic coins, each of which shall weigh 11.34 grams, have a diameter of 1.205 inches, and be minted to the specifications for half-dollar coins.
The Secretary of the Treasury, acting through the Director of the United States Mint[,] shall conduct a comprehensive study to evaluate the feasibility, practicality, and potential public benefits of minting and issuing a $2.50 coin for wide circulation in the United States.
ToaKraka
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1d ago
I have never seen someone talk about eating an apple in such an autistic way as this comment of yours.
To be fair, this is in the specific context of discussing the convenience of eating an apple with vs. without a knife. I hear that some people use the knife to carve off random pieces of the apple rather than laying it on a cutting board, and other people waste time on cutting the apple into eighths rather than just quarters.
I don't peel or cut apples
But it's so annoying!
(1) Hold the apple with its north pole facing left. Eat the temperate and tropic zones from east to west (i. e., from top to bottom, since taking bites is easier with your top incisors than with your bottom incisors).
(2) Hold the apple with its north pole facing downward. Eat the arctic zone (again, using your top incisors). After each bite, you must rotate the apple about its axis.
(3) Hold the apple with its north pole facing upward. Eat the antarctic zone. After each bite, you must rotate the apple about its axis.
This takes forever, in comparison to just cutting the apple into four quarters with eleven cuts (including core removal) and then eating it in eight bites (maybe four if it's tiny or twelve if it's huge).
ToaKraka
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1d ago
Do you prefer apples or oranges? ;-)
IMO, apples taste slightly better, but oranges obviously are far more convenient to eat if you don't have access to a knife (e. g., at work).
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Dimly glowing brain: Handwritten letters
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Brightly glowing brain: Typed imageboard comments
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Galaxy brain: Handwritten imageboard comments (warning: NSFW pop-up ads)
It appears that Death Stranding 2 includes an in-game quokka hologram.
ToaKraka
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2d ago
The Guardian: An Australian woman has been found guilty of producing, possessing, and distributing illegal child pornography for writing and distributing (for pre-publication review, not yet actually selling) a 210-page book in which an 18-year-old woman engages in sexual "ageplay" (pretending to be a toddler) with an older man. It does not appear that a transcript of this local court proceeding is available in Australia's judicial database. But the article indicates that, in the judge's view, the author's descriptions of this "18-year-old woman" were just a sham intended to evoke the visual image of a child. (See also the "9000-year-old loli" meme.) Reddit comments indicate that, in addition to what is described in this article, the book also includes a passage in which the man fantasizes about the future woman while she is only three years old.
ToaKraka
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2d ago
Every waking moment of your life outside of work will be completely occupied by taking care of monstrous creatures that make every single bodily function besides breathing as difficult as humanly possible.
| Person | Time spent on leisure and sports (hours per non-holiday weekday) |
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| All persons age 15 and over | 4.56 |
| Parents with no own-household children under age 18 | 5.10 |
| Parents with own-household child under age 18 | 2.88 |
| Parents with own-household child under age 13 | 2.70 |
| Parents with own-household child under age 6 | 2.44 |
Data for employed parents (as opposed to all parents), and for parents with infant children, are not available.
ToaKraka
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2d ago
I don't think it's reasonable to expect much accuracy from historical fiction unless the author explicitly states (e. g., in the introduction) that he has made an effort in that direction. Do you expect the escapades described in The Three Musketeers and its sequels (historical fiction written in the 1800s about the 1600s) to be accurate?
ToaKraka
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2d ago
Your link is broken. You need to add https:// at the start of it.
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3d ago
More fun with box dimensions (20″ × 24″ × 32″ ≈ 1/4 m3 = "size A2")
Non sequitur?
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There is a solid bloc of three million Spanish-speaking people living on Puerto Rico.
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Another three million people identify as Puerto Ricans while living off the island. Maybe they're assimilating, maybe they're not. But that has nothing to do with the people on the island.
ToaKraka
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5d ago
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5d ago
Half-joking idea: Ugly people do not get the dignity of a gendered pronoun, and instead are referred to as "it" rather than "he" or "she".
ToaKraka
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5d ago
You forgot to include a link to "Cis by Default".
You're telling people what happened, rather than giving them reason to want to know what's going to happen.
In technical writing you want to bring the priorities, plans, and details as far forward and early as possible with as much precision as possible knowing that readers will start skimming; in genre fiction, that’s going to get in the way.
It's true that it probably would be more accurate to describe all four of these stories as "robotic narrations of erotic events" rather than "erotic stories". Maybe that's all that I was going for—I'm not sure myself. I often think to myself that my local-LLM-generated "erotic descriptions of young, skinny women in clothing X and/or location Y" are four times as long as what I would have been able to write on the same topic ("A young, skinny, black woman stands in a shopping mall. Her tight, low-waisted jeans shorts and midriff-baring top expose lots of shiny, dark-chocolate-colored skin. Her kinky hair is cut just long enough to avoid being mistaken for a man's fade. She's smoking hot! What more is there to say?"), and that the stories that I find on Archive Of Our Own are twice as long as what I would have been able to write.
Alternatively, if you really want to push hyperrealism, you gotta go the whole way…
This is a very interesting paragraph.
That comes with the gripping hand that it's something you can improve on, even when fighting with depression.
I'm not really seeking to improve. The 2026 stories are just idle dabblings as I wait (perhaps in vain) for my depression to disappear so that I can go back to the multi-hour video-game-playing and PDF-to-HTML-converting sessions that are my true calling in life. It's interesting to try to imagine what flowery details a more skilled writer would be able to add, though.
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One upside is the somewhat hilarious local-LLM reviews to which these stories can give rise. For example:
Overall, "A Brothel Visit" is an engaging and realistic look at a first-time brothel experience. It offers a nuanced portrayal of its protagonist and a clear-eyed view of the sex industry. While it could be enhanced by more exploration of the perspectives of the sex workers, it remains a compelling read.
Star Rating: ★★★☆☆ (3 out of 5 stars)
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5d ago
I think there should be the ability for smart 15-year-olds to become emancipated in cases where their parents lack ability, are abusive, or are just too different from their own tastes.
Libertarian discussion of this idea
But when are we to say that this parental trustee jurisdiction over children shall come to an end? Surely any particular age (21,18, or whatever) can only be completely arbitrary. The clue to the solution of this thorny question lies in the parental property rights in their home. For the child has his full rights of self-ownership when he demonstrates that he has them in nature—in short, when he leaves or “runs away” from home. Regardless of his age, we must grant to every child the absolute right to run away and to find new foster parents who will voluntarily adopt him, or to try to exist on his own. Parents may try to persuade the runaway child to return, but it is totally impermissible enslavement and an aggression upon his right of self-ownership for them to use force to compel him to return. The absolute right to run away is the child’s ultimate expression of his right of self-ownership, regardless of age.
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5d ago
Is "Stephen Yaxley-Lennon" supposed to sound dweebish?
To USAian ears, definitely. (Lintorn-Orman, Lloyd[-]George, Erskine-Brown…) I don't know what British people think about such names, though.
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6d ago
tfw the voices are extremely annoying (more than the ones in XCOM 2) and YouTubers don't turn them off
ToaKraka
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7d ago
reading things in isolation from the mod queue
(or from the firehose page)
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7d ago
I have been accused of posting sexual topics in this thread in order to satisfy a prurient interest. Let's lean into the accusation. >:-)
A cursory search for "skirt waist height" on Google* indicates that the waist of a skirt generally is supposed to be placed near the woman's natural waist/bellybutton. A cursory search for "skirt midriff standing" on Gelbooru indicates that this style is followed surprisingly often (with the skirt waist just barely below the bellybutton) even in erotic art, where the woman is skinny and there is no incentive to hide a bulging belly. I find this somewhat interesting in contrast with the normal practice for a man, who normally will put the pants waist way down at the hip bone, significantly below the bellybutton (at least in my personal experience), and will put it up at the waist/bellybutton only if his belly bulge is huge. (Or maybe I'm out of touch with men's fashion. But to me wearing the pants waist way above the hip bone seems rather uncomfortable.)
On a somewhat related topic, one item that has confused me for a long time in erotic art is the popularity of outfits (most prominently the iconic "bunny suit", but also many one-piece swimsuits and bikini bottoms) where the edge of the fabric rises from the crotch at a very steep angle (i. e., straight to a point lying above the hip bone), rather than a gentler, almost flat angle (to a point lying in the middle of the hip bone, or even below it) that to me seems much more alluring. But I guess it's just a case of differing tastes. (Also, I guess a predominantly-horizontal bikini bottom might have trouble actually staying up IRL, since a belt cannot be used with it.)
*Hilariously, most of the Reddit results of this search are from transgender and nonbinary subreddits, with only a few from sewing subreddits.
A few weeks ago, after dabbling with local LLMs, I tried my hand at (non-AI-assisted) pornographic fiction. The result was two of the most excruciatingly boring """erotic""" stories imaginable (1 2). However, it's somewhat interesting to compare these two stories from year 2026 to two significantly better stories that I was inspired to write back in 2018 and 2017 by prompts found on 4chan's /trash/ board. Probably, the entire difference can be explained by the hypothesis that my brain has been completely fried by depression since 2022.
It seems pretty funny to me.
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