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  • I'm in the same boat, I've made it all the way to Orange and just can't seem to put together a winning run. Which deck have you been trying it with?

  • I don't think that's necessary, just something to keep in mind going forward.

  • It's a CYA thing for copyright infringement. Linking is fine, but hosting (we think) puts us on shakier legal ground, at least from what I understand.

  • Hi @hedge@beehaw.org, we're starting to ask users not to paste full articles in the description or comments, there have been some concerns about this practice and we just want to try and head it off. I have no issues at all with linking to one of the several archive sites that will allow users to bypass paywalls, though.

  • Ah, thanks for that. I've not been in a position to consider filing the EZ in years so I didn't realized it had been phased out.

  • I haven't seen a lot of details about this program. What I'm most interested in is which forms it will support. One of my frustrations is that a lot of tax prep services advertise "free" efile, but almost all of them only allow it for the 1040EZ which is very narrow, and most adults will have to file at least a 1040 and probably will need additional forms as well.

  • I'm sorry that happened to you, it sounds like it was a rough time. This is something I think about with my kids, who are a few years younger than you were when this happened. We don't give them un-monitored access to social media precisely because I know that kids that age lack the impulse control to just walk away when something like this happens or something is bothering them, so it's so easy for a teen to get pulled into a situation online where they're being harassed or bullied and they just don't have the tools to disconnect from the situation on their own.

  • One of the things that I think is probably about Kraftwerk and other electronic music is that often their synths are very slightly detuned so that intervals aren't perfect and sounds that aren't perfectly consonant. This gives it a "crunchier", more complex sound that is more pleasing than sounds that are perfectly in tune/in phase with each other.

  • Ah yeah, location probably makes a big difference. Cost of Living is waaaay lower here, but so is median income so 🤷‍♂️

  • Please refrain from name calling on Beehaw. Our one rule is "Be(e) Nice" and I'd like to ask you to reconsider how you are engaging in this discussion.

  • This comment, and others in the thread below, are not engaging in the spirit of this instance. If you have questions about why someone has formatted their post the way they have, you can ask them without insulting the user. I'll be removing any further comments that engage in this manner.

  • So, I live in Alabama and I'm not sure where any of these numbers are coming from. I agree with you in principle - that it's unreasonable to tell people "you just need to move" - but for me has more to do with the fact that most folks that are most affected by these types of laws are already struggling, and job hunting in another state is difficult.

    But moving just one state in any direction from Alabama still puts you in either: Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, or Florida. And housing prices aren't dramatically higher in any of those states with the exceptions of metro Atlanta or possible the coastal or metro areas of Florida, or Nashville. Median housing price in MS is actually lower than in Alabama, somehow. And as for the cost of moving, most folks that would struggle with a move aren't going to be hiring movers, they'll be renting a Uhaul (about $400 one way) and getting friends/family to help them load and unload it.

    That's not to say that moving to another state is easy or even feasible for a lot of folks, especially folks that are already on the margins. I was just a little confused by the numbers in your post, lol.

  • Thank you for pointing this out, I wasn't aware.

  • There's no need to be rude.

    I'm not asking people not to circumvent paywalls. In fact, if you reread my comment, I recommended the user leave an archive link, which is a method of bypassing paywalls that doesn't involve posting the full contents of the article to this site.

  • We've started asking users not to do this. No issues with posting an archive link, though.

  • We've started asking folks to post archive links if they want to help folks get around a paywall, as there's some question about Beehaw's legal liability if we're posting the full article on the site.

  • Maybe? But it doesn't quite feel right. Not sure how to explain it, though. It's more that my ability to be attracted to someone is pretty malleable if I like them?

  • I wasn't going to comment on this because I've been in a monogamous relationship for 15 years at this point, but one thing I noticed in the comments is really interesting to me.

    Pretty much everybody is saying they know they're attracted to someone physically/sexually right away, and that was not my experience when I was dating regularly. Maybe I'm odd, but I always found that most of the time I would get to know a person first and then I would start to notice things about them that I found attractive and kind of mold my way of thinking and looking at them around those things that I was attracted to in them. Sure, there were exceptions, there are people out there where I was just like - damn everything about that person is hot (my wife being one of those) - but I dated women with a wide variety of physical features and really the only commonality was that I liked being around them. The physical stuff was secondary (although still important) for me.