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I really appreciate that you always include links in these threads. Dramatically increases the likelihood that I'll follow through and add to wishlist or purchase.

Also it's genuinely very weird when you're listening to a series and then the narrator changes for the next book and the characters you know all have different voices.

I was listening to a book when suddenly there was a character with a speech imoedement, so the narrator decided to read those lines heavily garbled to the point where I genuinely couldn't understand. I checked with the text, other than mentioning the impediment, all the dialog was normal.

a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500

What was the removed by author "joke" in the first place?

That is too adorable to bear.

I love the era of technology when things like volume and tuning controls were "features" and not just the basic assumed essential working pieces of something like a radio. My dad used to talk about stereo ads with "VVC" (variable volume control). So novel they even made it an acronym!

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I was way into the Greek, and to a lesser degree Norse, myths as a kid and recognizing that crossover as an adult was really not a fun moment. I suspect many such cases.

Also I'm glad your "skepticism" is enough to embolden you to speak from wild ignorance about American Jewish history and traditions.

Sorry, is there some kind of method to read the original post as talking down to Muslims, Hindus and Sihks? Or are you upset that a joke about British antisemitism is not inclusive enough of the UK's other forms of racism and xenophobia? I'm genuinely confused here.

Also, it's a strange kind of allyship to wield the names of marginalized communities as a sort of cudgel to attack another.

Why would a Muslim, Hindu or Sihk be upset about a joke about how American Jewish traditions don't appear to be very common in the UK? There is more to the history of Jews going to the movies on Christmas than the coincidence that they happen to not celebrate that holiday.

What exactly is your point, Dr Bay? That a minority population's traditions ought not to have any kind of cultural impact? Why are you so upset about this?

You're a strange kind of person aren't you? This is a very odd response to a mild joke about American Jewish culture from an American Jew.

It's so disturbing to me that he both genders the LLM *and* uses terms of ownership. I cannot understand how so many seemingly competent humans are so entirely suckered by this shit. Maybe it's just that I played around with ELIZA when I was a kid so the sycophancy of gpt and its ilk tips me off...

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Healthcare is fundamentally incompatible with a profit motive. None of the math works.

I hate this shit. Like yes, it is "better"™ that the prices be more transparent, but in what world do people seeking medical treatment have the luxury to comparison shop and if they do what actual competition is there? No hospital is charging less to undercut another.

Why would Liam ignore his fellow verified blue check "pu55yman"?

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Weird timing as I'm listening to the How Did This Get Made, Van Helsing episode.

And when you do it with a tiktok/reels format video that's already going to loop it just makes it slightly confusing and awkward to share with people who aren't as used to the convention. Stop treating web video like a TV commercial trying to entice people to remember to tune in later...

I really hate this trend of videos where the opening 10 seconds is a preview of a moment later in the video. I guess sometimes videos autoplay and you want to convince people to stick around? But most of the time, I already clicked the video. The title and thumbnail already sold me.

Nothing like a good extended power outage to drop a bit of extra stress onto an already fucking awful weekend. Really loving this.

What I don't understand about this "vision" of the possibilities of AI, is who thinks this has potential for anything beyond making quick disposable memes (stealing the work of others and burning rainforests to do it). Nobody actually wants to see that beyond going, "heh, neat".

Oh hell yeah

I feel very out of the loop... What initiative?

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