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1 month agoI did read The Hobbit and enjoyed it quite a bit. It felt much smoother.
Also read his short stories “Farmer Giles of Ham” and “Leaf by Niggle”.
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Finally reading The Lord of the Rings.
Almost at the end of Fellowship, but I must say it has been a bit of a drag.
I will most definitely finish it, but from all the hype I did have slighty higher expectations.
It’s also very likely that since I have already seen the movies and loved them, and already know what is going to happen, it has somewhat taken away from the book experience.
Although the whole Bombadil section was new, and I did not find it especially interesting.
Inattentional blindness.
This is nonsense. Epidurals don’t reach your brain. Not how it works. They just numb the spinal nerves so pain signals don’t reach the brain.
Isn’t the US infamous for being one of the only countries where once you hit 18 your parents expect you to fuck off?
And if you don’t, everyone belittles you for living in your parents’ basement?
26·4 months agoCanadian man says border officers made him give DNA sample
Ontario man, 68, says he was threatened with prosecution if he didn’t comply
351·4 months agoHowever, the study stops short of proving cause and effect. The participants were only asked about their coffee drinking habits once, at the start of the study period, and this wasn’t monitored over time.
And they were followed for a median of 13 years.
This is a terrible fucking study. 13 years is a huge amount of time and people’s habits change constantly.
Someone could have easily started out drinking 5 cups a day and in 13 years be drinking no coffee at all.
Makes all their data invalid as far as I’m concerned. They could have at least made 1 single follow-up survey at the end to check if their drinking habits had changed. Jeez…
81·4 months agoAnd what’s the solution? More AI!!
Hallucinated references are an area the publisher is “actively exploring,” added Chris Graf, research integrity director for Springer Nature. Last April, the publisher announced the launch of a new in-house AI tool to check submissions for irrelevant references.
14·5 months agoI mean, wtf were they doing there? Like get some situational awareness for fucks sake.
Why are they strutting around as if looking for people to beat up in the middle of a large crowd during a snowball fight?
These cops need to be better trained.
43·5 months agoI guess winning a gold medal doesn’t stop you from being a loser.
What a bunch of losers. Completely tainted their victory with all this vile nonsense.
22·5 months agoIt’s not a parking meter. It’s one of those electronic paying stations (pay box). You can zoom in. It even says so.
Maybe don’t use substack to promote your anti-hate message. They’re literally profiting off Nazis.
19·5 months agoFunchion said Sinn Féin continues to support the provision of humanitarian aid to Ukraine but the proposed €90 billion EU loan was “primarily for military expenditure”. This, she said, “undermines Ireland’s neutrality”.
Cowen described Sinn Féin’s neutrality argument as “flawed and cynical”, saying: “Supporting Ukraine is about upholding the right of a sovereign country to protect its civilians … while drawing a clear moral line between defence and aggression. Neutrality was never meant to mean moral indifference.”
Doherty hit back, saying: “Ireland’s neutrality is not about moral indifference, nor does it prevent us from standing firmly against aggression or supporting victims of war. What it does mean is that Ireland does not participate in military alliances or in the financing of war.”
Yeah, Sinn Féin is totally wrong here. How are you “standing firmly” against aggression by standing by and doing nothing?
It’s like seeing a bully beating on a weak victim and instead of handing the victim a bat to defend themselves you just wait until the victim is beaten then treat their wounds.
Magnolia green jumper maybe? Or some South American variant.
16·6 months agoMmmmm, not according to massgrave. You get 4 years more.
916·6 months agoNah, I would love if the US was actually a thriving, just, compassionate, and educated nation that used their power for good in the world. That would be much better than a US collapse.
1·6 months agoCouldn’t find a link to the study in the article.
“It isn’t being a night owl that’s a problem,” Knutson said. “I think being a night owl who’s trying to live in a morning lark’s world is a conflict between one’s internal clock and their social clock.”
Yeah, they should compare wealthy night owls who don’t have to work and get enough sleep and have a healthy lifestyle to morning people. See how that goes.
It’s crazy how quickly this Trump administration has completely destroyed all trust in respected and established American institutions.
No one is looking up scientific information on American government sites anymore, when before it used to be one of the best places.
That is an often repeated but false saying.
People are not who they truly are when drunk.
If someone is going through a tough time they might act out when drunk, and deeply regret it the next day because they acted exactly how they are not.
Or someone might be going through a great time and revel a bit too much and in ways they would normally not. And again feel great shame and regret the day after.
Anyone that’s been really drunk has done stupid shit. That stupid shit definitely doesn’t define who they are.
It’s such nonsense. Imagine telling every alcoholic that has gotten sober that they are defined by all the fucked up shit they did when drunk and that’s who they really are.