ThirdConsul @ ThirdConsul @lemmy.ml

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I complain about popularity of fantasy romance vis a vis non-fantasy romance, and that now most published (or advertised) fantasy books are fantasy romance.

That genre is typically written for women, with female lead and is heavy in certain tropes.

That genre isn't for me.

Am I a person that you're ranting about OP? If not, could you point me to an article or opinion piece that you're talking about, so I can read it and come back here?

I have access to the same information as you, so unfortunately, I don't know.

The article literally says you will still be able to push books via Calibre etc, but won't be able to download books into Kindle from PC.

Example: If you don't have a WiFi at home, there is an option to connect Kindle via USB to your ethernet connected PC and download books from Amazon that way.

And this option is going away, as most people have WiFi.

Anywho, fuck Amazon (for other things, but not this one).

No, no, a good billionaire is a dead billionaire.

Thanks for the tip!

People who has been maintaining the kernel and weathered multiple fads are wary to see if new guards will "stick", or just stay along for a year or five, disappear and leave the old guard with shit.

Your tone is unexpected, did I offend you somehow? How?

Is it server side or can I remove it for myself? I am not a garden flower, words don't offend me.

Why do I see your post as

Don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t say removed.

?

From another study with N=700:

We measured self-reported meat consumption, meat disgust (by self-report and Implicit Association Test),

IAT is phrenology of social studies. You can discard it as garbage. If a study is using IAT as methodology, it's garbage done to gain some publication points.

You can read more about IAT: https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/1015-5759/a000778

Of the 40 participants, 28 reported an increase in meat disgust.

A study on a group of 40 is an anecdote at best, a waste of resources at worst.

Reporting on it in on a big news website should be a crime, as it's just a clickbait.

Yes, if lightbulbs went from 60W to 7W it totally makes sense for me to put 20 of them. /s

Dumbest argument ever.

Do you have adult friends, aunt, uncles, grandparents, whatever, that can spent quality time with your children or is every adult a potential abuser and you watch them all with the same level of scrutiny?

I simply mean being vigilant with interaction between my children and others

To be honest this is something what I'd expect to hear from survivor who hasn't processed their trauma. I'm not trying to tell you you're wrong to be vigilant, but to me this reads like a subconscious cry for help. I might be totally wrong, in which case I'm sorry.

watch interactions they have with people like a hawk,

This seems unhealthy on your part. Like paranoid or smthing.

I am surprised that you read my post as against building state owned apartment complex, but then why would I expect anything from somone on the internet.

komunalka

also, I'm not talking about them. They were a thing in the 50's (after the war) when people were sharing bathrooms or kitchens, they were no longer really a thing in the 80's. In the 80's apartments had their own bathrooms and kitchens.

edit: isn't that basically "Friends" for USA people? :D

Also, you create a false dichotomy here suggesting that if free housing was built the way USSR did it today then it would have to be built to the 1950s standard.

I was describing buildings from the `80.

Obviously there’s absolutely no reason why you couldn’t be building modern style apartments.

... so the ones I described as "so many cons that I'm too sad to talk about them and we have a separate wiki page to describe how awful they can get"?

first European state to decriminalize homosexuality

France in 1800.

I live in Poland. We have both of them.

1. Soviet-era apartment buildings

PROs:

• everything within a walking distance (shops, schools, a clinic, etc)
• a lot of parks nearby
• fucking wind corridors
• you can't piss from your window to your neighbors coffe cup
• you will see some greenery from your window

CONs:

• tiny
• very low ceilings - you most likely won't be stretch your arm upwards.
• very bad acoustic - you can hear downstairs cutting green onions
• a lot of apartments on a floor (and very tiny lifts)

2. Modern buildings:

PROs:

• high ceilings
• you can piss from your window on your neighbor's bed if you're into it.

CONs:

• ... we have a whole wikipedia page about it: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patodeweloperka
• I honestly don't want to talk about it, it's so sad. Generally speaking, bad quality (but deceptively good looking) places that cost too much, in a shitty neighborhood.
• no wind corridors so say hello to air pollution

Now, I know this sub tends to romanticize USSR, but during occupation (so until 1990) it wasn't that you had an apartment for yourself for every single person. If we just want to consider recent history (like 1980) then:

• your apartment wasn't yours - it was tied to your job. Like US healthcare. If you lost the job, you would lose the apartment. They were also limited to at most 1 per family.
• If you wanted to move to a different city to get a job there, then it could be impossible if the company didn't have free apartments there. Often it didn't. There was an semi-official apartment swapping market that often involved a chain of swaps in multiple cities.
• In practice you wouldn't get a bigger apartment if you had children. You could try to swap for it. Most apartments were overcrowded and multigenerational AND small. It was common for a 3 generational family to live in a 3 room apartment (not "bedroom", room).

Please note that Europe isn't as prejudiced with Muslims as it could be.

Old Nazi concentration camps are not online.

I take that as a win.