It's worth reading the article for the comments people made criticizing her: "Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson wrote: “Ann Coulter will die alone, and forensic pathologist will discover her withered corpse is nothing but Marlboro reds and box wine.”"

oh i like this style, the free flowing pen guiding by a free-flowing mind or soul or whatever you like to call it. For me, the idea of "perfect" and "imperfect" don't really come into it. Looking at a drawing like this, my eyes flow around with the lines and the form of the figure sort of coalesces from among all the various combinations of lines. Looking specifically at any particular stroke of the pen kind of freezes it and then it loses something, the dynamism stops and it maybe looks a little "messy". But then back into the flow and that wonderful dynamism reappears. So for me maybe "static" and "dynamic" instead of "perfect" and "imperfect" are more useful words.

Are used book stores an option? Libraries are great, but most of my discoveries of new authors and genres has been by hanging out for hours in an old second-hand book store, preferably the kind with a cluttered shelves, narrow aisles, and a cat or two sleeping here and there. I hope you can experience that kind of book-exploration.

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This happens to me pretty regularly (not for a thesis defense, but for presentations), but the rooms are locked and i don't get access until 5 minutes before my sign-in time. Then windows takes 10 minutes to go through its nonsense. Every week, same routine.

I once bought an antique coat (Russian military overcoat, c. 1950s) and it had a huge cloth label on the inside that would always flap around and get in the way of the buttons. Then a girl i know said: "Why don't you use a safety pin to pin it down." My jaw dropped and i stared for like ten seconds - oh, a pin!

Testing what they can get away with is my guess.

I just started using this one today: https://docs.searxng.org/ and it did a great job for what i needed. I never heard of it before, but found the link on an old Lemmy post.

I don't know how it would work for other people with other needs, but i needed to find graphic designers to help me with a project. DuckDuckGo kept giving me hundreds of results from a handful of big companies, but i wanted small companies and individuals. Found exactly what i needed on the first search using this engine.

The title is a little confusing. It's not the ebooks but the ebook readers - especially Kindle - that are able to gather and send data. Makes me wonder what the best hardware and software for private ebook reading is.

I did a quick search for "best ebook reader for privacy" and got the usual review sites, but "privacy" isn't mentioned in any of their reviews.

So what are the options? There's an add-on for Firefox called Epubreader ... I'll have to keep looking into it. Definitely getting off the kindle/amazon train though.

Just by coincidence i'm watching a gameranx video about the 10 worst AAA games, and Falcon says the same thing about games as a service (subscriptions, micro-transactions, etc.): "it seems like they're playing a game of chicken with the consumer to see what they can get away with".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8jDgkikylY

(start at 19:45)

Yeah i think we're in a golden age of indie games. When i want to find a new game, i search youtube for "best indie games of 2018" or 2017, 2021 or whatever. So much great stuff to play made in the last 5-10 years. And so much more affordable. And it feels great to give my money to these devs.

Me too. This video helped a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Df5_cojAs

If you don't use it for fucking, it will last longer. Less wear and tear. Yer welcome.

British panel (game) shows like Would I Lie to You and 8 out or 10 Cats Does Countdown. The game element is just an excuse for funny, interesting people to crack jokes and have a good time.

I got them on Firefox with Ublock Origin but only with my VPN on US or Canadian servers. Then a few days later, even on those servers they disappeared. Haven't seen one since those first few.

CBP = US Customs and Border Protection.

I know - it's pretty crazy to complain about it here. I'm ducking out before more fur flies ... haha

haha i'm ok with a lot of that stuff, but for some reason "doggo" is just fingernails on a chalkboard for me. Mom, ma, mama, - all of that is good.

Or canis familiarisooksie-pooksie?

After 911 a woman in my city (Portland Oregon) called the police because she saw powder on the hood of her parked car - parked under trees that were shedding pollen. She though fer sher that evildoers were targeting her with anthrax spores or something. The police are required to respond to those calls with full bio-emergency gear, so it was a huge scene, road blocked off, police vans everywhere, people in full body protective gear taking samples of the "anthrax" from her car. The end result was a public announcement from the police asking the public to please use common sense before calling. The drama going on in people's heads sometimes ... yikes.