Effy, Sometimes Beautifully Cruel

She's a landlord who rents out farmland near Iowa City.

“the technological society is associated with lesbianism”

i am always saying this

I think that given the backbreaking labor needed to pick many fruits by hand, opposing automation of the process as an owner of farmland is sort of akin to admitting your farm is a vehicle for your own depraved desire to break and shatter human flesh and bones by your will.

Well... the laws of armed conflict are part of US law through the treaties we're party to, generally speaking. But this also gets into thorny areas of responsibility when it comes to "who decides proportionality", eg.

My wife read this and said "Babe. That's *so* horny."

You: "Is Claude conscious?"

Me, freely riffing on Zelazny and getting further away each second: "If a computer network is conscious, that means it can be bullied."

Urbanist and transit discourse is unfortunately impaired because people tend to think in terms of maximization rather than adjusting the bounds in which given options are practical.

"Grokking".

I get it in terms of people trying to make trains match flight on time on those routes, but... that's silly.

The overtones go without saying- all the dogs on my street are howling since seeing that post.

"I'm coming for you if I see it"

In World of Warships?

sharon there are some real undertones there

*Saginaw, not Flint.

Yeah, rerouting the old Michigan Executive through DTW and hooking it into the northern extension to Pontiac would also be a good idea. Not dependent on Chicago's capacity.

If you wanted to get silly with it, I think you could hook Flint in too since the Wolverine terminates at Pontiac.

Now intra-Michigan, I think this would be a money loser, but it would be nice to have a line which connects the three Amtrak lines near their terminal ends and maybe runs some trains up to Traverse City.

That's also fair, aha. Just having a north-south interconnection rather than hub-and-spoking on Chicago would be a huge boon.

What would be more useful is reconstructing the Detroit-Toledo line and extending it down to Columbus and Cincinnati and potentially sweeping over to St. Louis from there.

The Detroit-Chicago line passes through so much built-up area that making it high-speed wouldn't gain you much. It's already a sub-high speed line on most of the track Amtrak owns in western Michigan. The big issues are:

1) at most three trains per day
2) consequentially, pricey

Oh no they found out about him unleashing Chiang and they're looking for revenge

It is also truly amazing to argue on the one hand for this and on the other to argue that the US should not have fought to preserve the Republic of Korea. Waiter, my soup tastes terrible and there's not enough of it!

The United States won the Cold War once and for all with the breakup of the USSR thirty-four years and change ago, and Claremont is still trying to fight battles this very year about whether the Soviets were inherently irrational and inimical to coexistence.

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what if

articles whenever they showed the blurb also showed the date they were published

But SSRIs have been found to treat delusional parasitosis as a side effect in patients with comorbid disorders, and psychotherapy also helps relieve symptoms in willing patients...

No one is quite sure. Broadly, the problem with delusional parasitosis is that people with it are often highly resistant to treatment, so it's hard to get good data there. Antipsychotics are typically used, primarily atypical, and doses are slowly increased until symptoms fade or side fx get bad.

This is obviously not the only factor at work, but I think you would expect to see people "writing to the market" to also adopt a relatively nonintrusive first-person narrator, avoid maneuvers of alienation, minimize up-front exposition, etc.

To offer a more serious thought on BookTok, romance, and POV trends, the simple fact is that many of the people quoted are reading romance novels to project into them, and first-person has a lower barrier to that than third-person limited, which has a lower barrier than third-person omniscient, etc.

I think it's as simple as "dudes rock".

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