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9 votes
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The latest diet trend is not dieting
6 votes -
Galaxy S10 Plus review
3 votes -
US President Donald Trump ordered officials to give Jared Kushner a security clearance
11 votes -
Farmers markets lies exposed
6 votes -
Running a bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL
4 votes -
EFF announces "Fix It Already" campaign to demand fixes for specific issues from nine major tech companies and platforms
42 votes -
How Marie Kondo helped me sort out my gender
14 votes -
Logical Consequence
4 votes -
United Methodist Church votes to maintain its opposition to same-sex marriage, gay clergy
21 votes -
US fake university racket: Students had no way to check Farmington's authenticity
5 votes -
Tomahawk - God Hates A Coward (2001)
9 votes -
YouTube bans comments on videos of children
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Trans introductions
Hello y'all! I wanted to make a post where all us trans peeps can introduce themselves and say hey to each other, since I find it nice to have other trans peeps to chat with. Come say hey, or drop...
Hello y'all!
I wanted to make a post where all us trans peeps can introduce themselves and say hey to each other, since I find it nice to have other trans peeps to chat with. Come say hey, or drop me a line!
For my own intro: I normally go by Nihilistic Janitor online, and before you ask I really don't know jack about philosophy I just thought the phrase "cleanliness is next to meaninglessness" is funny. I'm a nineteen year old pan trans woman, currently wheelchair-bound, who enjoys reading and writing and who recently finished a draft of a fun cheesy gay romance novel. I'm also in with some other trans-heavy communities, so if you're curious and want to check those out, message me!
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UC terminates Elsevier subscription citing unstable fees and irreconcilable differences in approach to open research
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Shock rise in global measles outbreaks 'disastrous' for children, UN warns
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Android is helping kill passwords on billions of devices
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Pedestrian deaths reach highest level in decades, US report says
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Let's do something different: What are your favorite video game OSTs?
I've accumulated a bunch of songs over the years that I put into my video game playlist and realized that I love a lot of soundtracks. From popular franchises, I love listening to Zelda music...
I've accumulated a bunch of songs over the years that I put into my video game playlist and realized that I love a lot of soundtracks. From popular franchises, I love listening to Zelda music (even the BotW OST has A LOT of memorable gems) and Kingdom Hearts music.
Some other favorite series I have, in no particular order (along with attached songs I like from them):
Please feel free to share any that you are passionate about.
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Fossil: VCS with integrated wiki, bug tracking, forums, and technotes; by the author of SQLite
10 votes -
All Medium paywalled stories are now free and unmetered when you’re coming from Twitter
@ev: All @Medium paywalled stories are now free and unmetered when you're coming from Twitter.
20 votes -
Animation of Earth's magnetic pole shift
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Amazon announces "Project Zero", a program which will allow brands to directly remove counterfeit listings
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What programming language do you think deserves more credit?
My pick is Perl5. Even though a lot people (mostly those who’ve never touched Perl) say it’s a “write only” language, I think it does a lot right. It’s easy to prototype with, and it gives you a...
My pick is Perl5. Even though a lot people (mostly those who’ve never touched Perl) say it’s a “write only” language, I think it does a lot right. It’s easy to prototype with, and it gives you a lot of freedom in how you want to solve a problem; which I think is one of the most important features of a programming language.
I’d like to know what your picks are!
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Pac-Man: The untold story of how we really played the game
10 votes -
Decline in HIV infections stalls as Trump administration aims to end epidemic
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Announcing Rust 1.33.0
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy is coming to Steam, Switch, PS4, and Xbox One on April 9
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In-browser cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive will shut down on March 8
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How do you guys deal with alcohol?
Even since my teenage years it's been a problem. They say people who start drinking sooner will probably develop alcohol problems and it seems to be the case with me and the majority of my...
Even since my teenage years it's been a problem. They say people who start drinking sooner will probably develop alcohol problems and it seems to be the case with me and the majority of my friends. We are friends since little kids and we started drinking together when we were about 16 or 17 i think (i'm 32 now).
Every single one of us has a problem with binge drinking. I think i'm the less worse case among us since i can keep myself from drinking for days and usually have only one binge per week or less. They drink almost every day. I'm better than when i was younger, but it's still bad.
When i go out to drink i chug down +/- 3600ml (121oz) of cheap beer. It doesn't matter if it's craft/expensive beer, i will just get drunker and poorer in this case.
It's what happened yesterday. Now i'm hungover and just depressed.
How do you guys deal with alcohol? Is it a problem? Is it something you want to change or it doesn't bother you?
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Players who hate Overwatch's Brigitte are harassing her voice actress
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What's the deal with Proust?
I've never read Marcel Proust, and I know very little about his work. But every serious reader of literature I know absolutely gushes over him, but never seems to be able to explain what's good...
I've never read Marcel Proust, and I know very little about his work. But every serious reader of literature I know absolutely gushes over him, but never seems to be able to explain what's good about it or what the books are even about.
The scarce pop-culture references I see to his work (like in "Little Miss Sunshine") seems to cast an affection for Proust as kind of a mark of being an unmoored and depressive romantic.
So is he worth reading? The full collection of "Remembrance of Things Past" is nearly $100, so that's not a trivial amount to invest. Is there a recommended/definitive translation or edition I should read? What should I keep in mind or be open to if I do try giving it a shot?
By that last question I mean like, I'd have hated "Catcher In the Rye" if I wasn't told ahead of time to approach it from the mindset of a 15 year old boy. Or I kind of hated 'Madame Bovary" but when explained to me that this was Flaubert's exercise in trying to make people see themselves in an adulteress, a generally reviled archetype, and this was groundbreaking for the time lets me at least appreciate it for accomplishing what it's set out to do. Are there any literary contexts like I this should have in my head before I delve in?
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Trying to figure out my personal craziness
I hope this is the appropriate Tilde for this. If no one has any input it will still have helped me to type this out. TL;DR In over my head with marriage, foster care, family, and work. My wife...
I hope this is the appropriate Tilde for this. If no one has any input it will still have helped me to type this out.
TL;DR In over my head with marriage, foster care, family, and work.
My wife and I became foster parents about 1.5 years ago with the intention to not adopt, but to care for children 3 and under while bio parents worked to regain custody or other permanent placements were arranged. Our first placement was two girls (7 mo and 2.5 yrs) despite wanting to do just one kid at a time (especially to start). We had them for 6 weeks and mom got them back. We had another placement (8 mo boy) for about another 6 weeks. There was a considerable lull and we were getting frustrated about not getting any new placements when the girls from our first placement were placed into custody again. So we were able to take them in again (now about 1.2 and 3.5 yrs). FF to now and we've had them for about 6 months.
We never really intended to have more than one child and for quite this long and we're struggling. My wife has always had a little less ability to weather stressful situations like this and these last 2-3 weeks I'm carrying a lot of weight. In the meantime, bio mom has gotten pregnant and there's not another hearing regarding custody for another 9 months. We fully expect that she will not be able to take them back at that time (or really realistically ever). What should probably happen would be that the county could place the kids into permanent custody (basically getting them adopted). However, from what we've heard from other foster families, temporary custody could drag on for years.
So, our main dilemma is this. We are not equipped (as a couple) to care for these kids for years. With the likely prospect of no change in custody in the near future, it feels like the best thing for these kids would be to get them into the care of someone looking to do this long-term, perhaps to eventually adopt. That being said, we absolutely love them and it feels like some kind of betrayal to force them to make yet another transition. On the other hand, with our limitations, it seems like that is inevitable anyway. Do we try to make that happen sooner?
Some other data points:
Our fostering license expires in October (about a month after the hearing is scheduled) and we don't intend to continue fostering (at least for a while, and definitely not with our current agency).
We don't have many family members close by to give us a hand with the kids, making us feel isolated and making it hard to get breaks from the kids. Our agency has not been very helpful with lining up respite care, but we're trying to be more aggressive about that now.
I've got things pretty well lined up to retire in about 5 years. My company is also just now kicking off a major project of a similar time frame and I'm in a good position to really make a mark before moving on. It will probably require some serious time commitments and effort to do it the way I want to.Thanks for listening.
12 votes -
Extract clean(er), readable text from web pages via the Mercury Web Parser.
8 votes -
America's professional elite: Wealthy, successful and miserable
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How blockchain is being applied to improve the world and its potential to solve major world problems
2 votes -
Opportunity did not answer NASA’s final call, and it’s now lost to us
13 votes -
Lessons from 6 software rewrite stories
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OneWeb set to launch first satellites in quest to provide global internet coverage from space
10 votes -
Testimony of Michael D. Cohen — Committee on Oversight and Reform — US House of Representatives
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Semi-identical twins identified for only the second time ever
14 votes -
Johnny Manziel released, barred from other CFL teams
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Musical.ly/TikTok agrees to pay $5.7M to settle FTC allegations that it violated children’s privacy law
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Trump says summit with Kim ended with no agreement over North Korea's demand to lift sanctions
14 votes -
Breathtaking new NASA images show Jupiter’s otherworldy storms
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What products do you absolutely love?
Are there any cool new products you find yourself constantly recommending to your friends?
58 votes -
Apollo 11 Guidance Computer Source Code for Command and Lunar Modules
15 votes -
What happened to broadband in Australia? NBN Co’s former CEO on how the Coalition broke the internet.
6 votes -
Why humans have evolved to drink milk
15 votes -
Oh or zero? When the evolution of language clashes with linguistic purism
5 votes