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What are your experiences with polyamory, first or second hand?

I personally am in a phenomenally stable polyamorous relationship. I’ve been married to my wife for 12 years, and she has had the same boyfriend for about half of that time. It’s a really fulfilling arrangement for all of us in various ways. We’re all genuinely happy and satisfied. I’m kind of casually looking for a...

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I’m not at the moment, but if I were dating, it would be within a poly-friendly social context. I’m not in this space by accident; it’s actually what makes sense to me.

FOSS alternative to... Sending Spotify links?

This is probably a dumb question but what is a better way to send a link to a song to friends without using Spotify? I don’t use Spotify anymore so I don’t like going back to that website just to copy a song link so people could hear it. I know I could send something like a YouTube link but I’m trying to degoogle so I...

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I know I’m middle aged but … MP3s? A few megabytes isn’t that much these days.

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That was years ago :)

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It was pretty popular in my house, but we’re all frightfully silly here.

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Yeah. He was part anarcho-primitivist, but also part proto-alt-right.

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Money for Nothing

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Create a new community. Host your own instance.

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Whatever lays your brick, yo.

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And yet, if “abstraction” and “prostitution” sound the same, it must be a really noisy party.

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This is very popular in newspaper headlines. It’s sometimes called a “noun pile”.

Times chief editor: Thirteen-word headline noun pile author firing race controversy rebuttal!

(That is: “The chief editor of the Times has responded in the matter of the firing of headline writer Joe Jones. Jones alleged that his firing from the Times was due to racial bias. However, the chief editor claims in response, that Jones was fired for writing a headline composed of nothing but thirteen nouns.”)

Beer pong is a party game played on a table. If you put the table in the pool, you can play water beer pong. Attach some floats so it doesn’t sink, and it is a water beer pong table. If you then strap a skimpy swimsuit to that table, the swimsuit is a water beer pong table thong.

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The English words “video”, “visual”, and “view” are all from the same Latin root, but imported into English from Latin and French at different points in history. The letters “vi” are not pronounced the same in any two of them.

This kind of shit just happens with language. It’s normal.

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Englishes have words for the second-person plural pronoun, but Standard English doesn’t have one word for it.

If two speakers are from the same background, they probably share a word for it. If they’re from different places or different races, they might not.

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In some Caribbean Englishes, the pronunciations of the words “can” and “can’t”, which are opposites, differ only in vowel length: kyan, kyaan.

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It’s a dishonest accountant’s birthday.

You give them a cake in the shape of a book that’s on fire.

This is a bad joke and they are mad at you.

To let the cat out of the bag: Idioms are always like this.

fubo,

It is certainly possible to adjust some measurable elements of personality. For example, use of psilocybin (magic mushrooms) has been shown to alter measurable personality factors.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6220878/
www.google.com/search?q=psilocybin+and+personalit…

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  1. Train a lot more doctors.
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It’s not tuition, but rather openings for students and residents. If you want more people to receive more health care, you need more doctor hours. Which means more doctors. Which means there need to be more spots in medical schools and residencies. These are currently scarce.

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Nope.

A mildly interesting Michael Moorcock/MCU connection or coincidence

I’m currently (re)reading Moorcock’s The War Hound and the World’s Pain. Short synopsis - an educated, cynical, apostate and unapologetically brutal mercenary in the Middle Ages is recruited by Lucifer to recover the Holy Grail, nominally so that Lucifer can wheedle his way back into God’s good graces....

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“Groot” is also the Dutch cognate to the English word “great”.

There are plenty of Dutch words and names that are close enough to English to sound really funny to English-speakers. Like, Vroom is a real Dutch surname, but to American kids that’s the sound a cool car makes.

(In one of the Baroque Cycle books, Neal Stephenson needed a name for a Dutch shipwright who built really fast sailing ships. Who else could it be but Jan Vroom?)

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