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15d ago
although as long as they’ve got some workaround allowing me to still consume a comparable amount of caffeine I could manage it
Caffeinated soda and energy drink are, as far as I know, not against the official rules.
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2mo ago
I generally think it is smart and well produced, except for the use of the term "Trimester" which is obfuscating for most people who don't think about abortion much, I think it would be more clear to say "after six months." I'm sure there's a focus grouped reason not to do that. Every time I talk to an abortion activist, pro or anti, they always talk in trimesters or weeks, instead of in months.
I would imagine that most people don't actually know how long a trimester is. I don't actually know myself, but from context I assume it is three months?
Abortions after six months sounds extremely late to me, given that a pregnancy is nine months long (usually). I would suppose that using "six months" also sounds very late to most people who aren't familiar with pregnancy. Meanwhile, a trimester could be anything to the common person. Three days? Three weeks?
So using "trimester" probably keeps timelines ambiguous, and "weeks" sounds a lot shorter than months (how many weeks are in a pregnancy? I think most people couldn't answer that without calculation).
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2mo ago
Thanks for sharing your experience.
I'm managing to struggle through the writing of it. Maybe I'll regret it in the future.
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2mo ago
I find myself needing to write a "Statement of Past and/or Planned Future Contributions to Advancing Diversity and Inclusive Excellence" (a.k.a. a DEI statement) in order to apply for a university teaching job.
My understanding is that this is a kind of ideological litmus test, designed to make sure that applicants at least know and are willing to state the approved beliefs. I'm fairly conservative, so I'm not sure I actually know the correct lingo to use and what the minimum viable essay would look like.
If you have been in my position, how did you approach writing it? Does anyone know of any current examples of acceptable submissions I can study for wording and content? Ideally I would be able to deliver my actual beliefs (or a subset of them) in a way that passes scrutiny from the people reviewing it, but I'm not above just parroting the approved lines (I need the work).
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4mo ago
I can perhaps accept an argument that we should be more accepting of the death of the elderly, but I don't think it is moral to encourage it. A culture of maybe taking a more serious look at what kind of life you might have remaining, and accepting a person's decision to no longer prolong it through medical procedures -- I can maybe accept that. But not intentionally ending (or pushing for the end of) someone's (or your own) life.
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4mo ago
Thanks, I appreciate you finding that for me.
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4mo ago
That clip got copyright struck, it seems.
Let me guess, it was really bad?
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6mo ago
I'm pretty sure the guilt was supposed to be because Tony in his hubris made Ultron.
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6mo ago
If i want to harm then first you have to convince me not to want to harm, then convince me to want to help, then convince me of a way to help that actually helps. You have much more to do.
If the goal is to stop the harm, then for a person who is harming people because they want to cause harm, you only need to convince him to not want to harm the people anymore. With no desire the harm the people any more, naturally he will stop (except, I suppose, out of habit).
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8mo ago
Isn't conscription itself evidence that there is a fairly significant portion of people who don't want to fight?
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8mo ago
The expectation that everyone cleans the dryer lint before using the dryer is one where someone else not doing it means nothing to you (just fluffier lint, I guess).
In my experience with dryers, fluffier lint is even easier to clean out, so I don't even care if other people aren't doing it.
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9mo ago
I assumed it was some kind of reference that I just didn't get.
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10mo ago
Those are neat videos. I then got recommended https://youtube.com/watch?v=4Nr1AgIfajI, which is from the same channel about an 18th century ship of the line.
I was able to understand most of how these vehicles worked thanks to these videos, but I definitely didn't realize before just how much had to be considered and engineered for these things to work as they did (do).
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1yr ago
This reminds me of the video game localization done by Cygames (a Japanese company notable for mobile game Granblue Fantasy). In every localization that they've ever done, "Merry Christmas" becomes "Happy Holidays", and all references to the word "Christmas" get removed.
However, they generally don't dub their games, so you can read "Happy Holidays" in the text while hearing the voice actors say "Merry Christmas" in heavily accented English.
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1yr ago
Well I suppose that's bad news for people who want to break the law when driving, for the rest of us though it's a good if such drivers are off the roads.
My new car will helpfully display what it thinks the current speed limit is.
Sometimes, that means that while I'm driving down the highway with a posted 65mph speed limit, it will start flashing "25 mph" on the dashboard.
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1yr ago
I can't recall many of the "good" guys ever resorting to them, if at all.
I mean, in the last book there was the protagonist casually using the torture spell on someone for the crime of spitting on an old lady he liked.
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1yr ago
I don't find race swapping to be necessarily bad, but it's often at the very least a red flag.
As for your Sir Orfeo example, I have much more respect for a full-scale consistent race/location/culture swap than inconsistent piecemeal swaps that seem as if to attempt a replacement of the source material.
"The Wiz" is fine. Disney's "The Princess and the Frog" is fine. Disney's "The Little Mermaid" remake is not fine, but it would have been if they called it something different and marketed it differently.
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1yr ago
Except there is zero evidence aside from the memories. She's not decades older than she should be, she came back to Earth exactly the same age and exactly the same time that she left, wearing the same clothes that she entered Narnia wearing.
Basically the only evidence she might possibly have is her skill with a bow, I think? With a situation like that, I can see her accepting and internalizing the idea that Narnia is a made-up game she played with her siblings to help them cope with the war.
It's not baffling to me. If a 30yo dating a 20yo becomes taboo, it is essentially put in the same category as a 30yo dating someone even younger.
It's already there in some ways with the taboo on admitting attraction to literally anyone younger than 18. Both a person attracted to a 16yo and a person attracted to a 6yo are called pedophiles.
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1yr ago
I'm not sure if you are deliberately hinting at something or not.
Is this about religion?
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1yr ago
I'm going to be honest, I'm not a fan of "who care's if it's real, it started a conversation, which is the important part", no matter what it's applied to.
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1yr ago
Presumably, large companies have a contract with their ISP to obtain access to a certain amount of network bandwidth. If an ISP wants to renegotiation that contract when it expires, that's perfectly reasonable. Otherwise, how are they justified in attempting to charge the company more than the contract requires?
I believe the anti-ISP side here is that the ISPs are overselling bandwidth, and then when a customer actually uses all of the bandwidth they bought, the ISP is in trouble. They need to upgrade the infrastructure to actually accommodate the bandwidth usage, and they are attempting to pass this cost on to a customer without re-negotiation of contracts.
Now, I'm a bit anti-ISP by habit, so can someone give the pro-ISP argument here?
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1yr ago
Are train derailments just pretty common?
Here's one in Houston this morning, also containing hazardous chemicals.
Here's one in South Carolina, also this morning (no note of hazardous chemicals).
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1yr ago
The Wheel of Time (books) also does this. A lot of readers like to try and pattern match the various nations to various real-world nationalities, but it's pretty clear that Robert Jordan intentionally designed a lot of them to not match any we know in particular.
I thought, initially, that I was reading about a depressed man. It turns out that Kaladin is actually a man "suffering from depression", which is quite a different thing.
I'm not sure if I'll read book five. It's just too tiring for me.
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