Pons_Aelius

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Where to turn to if I need books that are paywalled behind overly expensive academic portals?

I need some books paywalled behind Oxford Politics Trove and they aren’t on Anna’s lib, Zlib, Libgen, Memory of the World, Aaarg, or the Internet Archive. Not sure to whom else to turn to. I hate that knowledge like this is paywalled, and I highly doubt the authors will be paid if I pay the highway robbery of a price.

Pons_Aelius,

IIRC: The Oxford Politics Trove is more text books than academic papers.

Pons_Aelius,

people are morally questionable by nature

You keep making sweeping statements about all of humanity.

Please speak for yourself.

Pons_Aelius,

I frickin’ love lamb dishes

If you ever get a chance, try goat curries. They will rock your world.

Pons_Aelius,

That was what I was going to say as well.

They usually learn to stop by interacting with their litter mates.

Pons_Aelius, (edited )

Yep, the difference in that short time is pretty big. My parents bred dogs when I was a kid. My dad liked to keep them together for 16 weeks.

taken at 8 weeks or sometimes even younger.

The people who do this are arseholes running puppy mills in my opinion.

Pons_Aelius,

seems eminently wikipediable

Telephones existed for a century before wikkipedia...

In the before times: The guinness book of records started as a promo by the guinness brewery given to pub owners to settle bar argumnets like this one.

Pons_Aelius, (edited )

Olfactory fatigue:

Olfactory fatigue, also known as odor fatigue, olfactory adaptation, and noseblindness, is the temporary, normal inability to distinguish a particular odor after a prolonged exposure to that airborne compound.

Pons_Aelius, (edited )

Correct meaning: You are now entering a dogging area.

Pons_Aelius,

a Victorian Tasmanian naturalist

Or possibly a Victorian Van Diemen's Land naturalist as Morton Allport was there before the name change in 1856.

Pons_Aelius, (edited )

They have friends who are not the same gender/sexual orientation as they are. (good indicator they are accepting of people dissimilar to them)

The read for pleasure.

Pons_Aelius,

Leave them the fuck alone.

Pons_Aelius, (edited )

I seriously doubt it would be possible with humans still in the picture due to our impact on the biosphere and resource use.

No matter what high minded principles we might espouse, human history shows that we fuck up less tech advanced cultures, even when we think we are trying to help.

Case in point North Sentinel Island.

TLDR: Hunter gatherer society that the world has decided to leave alone as they do not want contact but some fuckhead US christian decided he knew better, attempted contact to tell them about God or whatever and got himself killed. While possibly infecting them with something they have no immunity for.

Pons_Aelius,

Dutch angles!

Get your dutch angles here!

[Question] Are you cooking something other than turkey for Thanksgiving?

My wife and I rarely cook turkey for Thanksgiving. This year we’re coming Cornish hens. In previous years we’ve cooked duck, leg of lamb, and rib roast. It’s not that we don’t like turkey, but there are lots of other things that I think I’d prefer eating....

Pons_Aelius, (edited )

One of the few instances where the movie is on par, quality wise, with the novel.

Pons_Aelius,

No one has the right to your company.

I allow myself to spend 4 hours per year in the presence of my brother. I do it so my parents can have the family together for Christmas dinner. Other than that we have not communicated in 5 years.

When mt parents pass away, so will those 4 hours.

Pons_Aelius,

The only way to have complete privacy online is to never go online.

Anything else will always be a compromise.

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Pons_Aelius,

Personally, a post expressing displeasure about what others are posting rings a bit hollow when it comes from an account that has been around for months but has not posted or commented anything prior to this.

Please improve your efforts to entertain me...

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