I check Standard Ebooks regularly and primarily get my public domain stuff from it. It is slow to get new content, but that’s just the price to pay for free volunteer driven content.

The Ebooks are really well formatted and consistent. They’ve even got copies formatted especially for kobo readers. I don’t actually know the difference between epub and kepub myself but it’s nice to know it’s meant to work with my e-reader.

I know there’s some kind of small drama about the more technical aspects or style guides the volunteers are supposed to use, but whatever that is it’s never impacted my ability to read the books or caused obvious breaks in the visuals.

Ah, that makes me feel better. I’ve probably heard of it before, and just never looked into it.

The implication of this being that I am behind the times, stuck on outdated tech, and didn’t even know it is uncomfortable.

I’m confused, what Democrat politicians or campaign staff coordinated removing those communities from Reddit? And why would Democrats even need to? Those communities broke sitewide rules egregiously and frequently. Considering how long they were allowed to keep going, it seems more likely (though I’m sure not the actual case) that Donald Trump’s campaign coordinated with Reddit admins to keep The_Donald open.

That’s pretty crazy. Do you have examples of Reddit admins directly working with Democrat campaigns or politicians to remove content? I don’t think Hunter Biden’s dick pics count, as revenge porn is already illegal.

Edit: For anyone confused as to how my reply relates to the above post, the above used to be a claim that Reddit worked with democrats to remove content, but is now edited to say something completely different.

There’s not much to it. They simply believe that as the strife causes conflict over resources the factions will “naturally” align along racial lines. They also believe that people “naturally” cohabitate better within their own race.

This does require ignoring all of human history and the brutal conflicts that have occurred within racially homogenous regions. But I’d never accuse white supremacists of being intelligent or genuine.

Basically the difference between being legally supported as opposed to simply not illegal.

South Africa recognizes same sex marriages, where-as the other places allow same sex relationships legally, but don’t recognize the marriages.

There’s also significant input from American Evangelicals contributing to these laws. For instance, Scott Lively an evangelical anti-gay activist, helped push for Uganda to penalize same-sex relationships with the death penalty. And Islam only makes up 13.7% of Uganda.

As horrendous as this ruling is, I’m also pissed at the pro-forced birthers that are upset by this ruling. It’s so intellectually dishonest to object to this ruling when it uses the same justifications they use to oppose abortion.

These people pick issues to be passionate on but never actually put in the effort to research. And not just whether their position makes any sense, but what the downstream effects of the position would mean.

The politicians who write these anti-abortion laws are even more lazy. This is literally their job and they should have seen this coming. They could have put in exceptions for IVF from the get-go but they didn’t, because they are more interested in winning points than writing effective legislation.

Good explanation, thank you. It looks like fair use is a lot more limited than I had thought. And obviously not worth the risk for the average person to try and use as a defense.

Ah, thank you for that context, I didn’t see any mention of Patreon in the article.

Not that this would save the average person from litigation hell, but does Nintendo actually have a legal leg to stand on? What would make a (free) mod any different from any other artistic expression?

Also assuming the mod creator didn’t do anything crazy like rip assets from an existing Pokémon game.

They reported 9.9 billion in profit for their third quarter last year, so I think 458 minutes of profit from that quarter.

I assumed 90 days in the quarter, or 129,600 minutes.

So dollar or minute wise, that comes out to a 00.35% penalty to that quarter.

Edit: Which isn’t even close to the 36 minutes in that article, so I’d err on me being the wrong one.

Edit 2: I think I see the difference, I was looking at their profit, not their revenue.

My guess would be narration by Murderbot’s actor for the inner monologue.

The systems communication might partially be handled like how most things handle text messages, with the word bubbles.

I wonder if they’ll commit to hiding the actor’s face most of the time.

I’m not against algae as a food source, but the similarity of this research to Soylent Green’s cover source in the movie being plankton is hilariously on the nose.

What’s actually news worthy is that TSA managed to catch this. Their success rate is abysmal, so I’m sure this is a big confidence boost for them.

The guards that patrol the ice wall.

Entirety of NASA. Entirety of NOAA. Meteorologists. Cartographers. Everyone who works on Google Earth. Every engineer who works on satellites, rockets, and planes. Physicists.

However, I do think 10% is probably too high an estimate. While these are a lot of people in a lot of areas, they represent pretty small demographics each.

For a while there was a persistent myth that black people had an extra muscle in their leg that allowed them to perform better at sports.

It’s kind of similar to phrenology in trying to justify racism.

Unfortunately this is a rather open ended question. We’re constantly discovering new things. The James Webb Space Telescope has only been fully functional for a short while but has already provided tons of new info.

Generally knowledge like this is similar to starting with a really low res photo that gets progressively more high res with each decade.

For example, the band of the Milky Way galaxy we can see in the sky was suggested to be made of stars itself in 5th Century BC by Democritus. In 964 AD, Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi recorded observations on the Andromeda Galaxy and Large Magellanic Cloud. 1610, Galileo confirms the Milky Way band is indeed made of stars. 1923, Edwin Hubble proves galaxies are “island” clusters of stars.

We’ve also had to rely on Newtonian Physics to describe things for a long time, but then it started being noticed that while consistent for practical things on earth, they couldn’t accurately predict things on the scale of the universe. Einstein’s general theory of relativity helped explain most of this, but still has some gaps.

Black holes were proven in the last century, but we got the first visual confirmation just a few years ago. Redshifting proving that galaxies are moving away from each other is also in the last century.

So at this point we have measurements on the general chemical make up of the universe, its size, its rate of expansion, the formation of galaxies, and how old it is starting from a specific event.

These measurements are ranges though, and those ranges get more narrow the better our instruments and the new info we get. It’s like guessing the number of jelly beans in a jar. Your first guesses can be way off because you have to eyeball, but then you’re allowed to measure the volume of the jar and the volume of a single jelly bean. You’ll be way closer than before. Then you’re allowed to measure the weight of that jelly bean and that jar. You’ll probably be a little closer. Then you’re given a variety of jelly beans to measure, so you get averages instead of basing everything on a jelly bean that might be an outlier.

So, in a binary way we don’t have the exact right answer for a lot of the universe, but each new discovery trends toward us being more correct than we were before.

It is a little refreshing compared to blanket denial and insisting the “true” racists are the people who call him out. Or crocodile tears and insisting “that’s not who I am”.

But yea, still not good.