The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at night and devouring its own dreams through the day.
Brazil is a Bad Idea®.
I spend most of my day reading, as a translator. But it’s almost always stuff that I wouldn’t read, if not being paid to.
If counting only books that I read for fun, I guess it’s ~2 books/month? Typically fantasy light novels. I also read a fair bit of manga (~5 chapters/day).
Beyond those LNs I think that the last book I’ve read was in September; Um Copo de Cólera (lit. “a glass of rage”), from Raduan Nassar. Short but good first person story.
I’m almost 40. I’m… tired. I don’t read stuff to feel myself cultured; I read stuff when I need to (because of my job) or when I feel in the mood to do so.
Federation woes?
Your comment has a different take though, and adding value to the discussion, it isn’t just the same as I said. Both are complementary.
Mid-December I’m travelling to Foz, to eat my quota of chipa and pira caldo see the Iguazú Falls again. With my family this time. It has been, like, 15 years since I’ve been there, and unlike last time I’m not going with a drunk womanchild rushing to Argentina because she was missing her grandparents. I’m not smuggling whisky again either.
I think that it depends on why, how, and how much. If she’s feeling neglected and/or isolated I wouldn’t say that it’s a red flag, but if she wants your exclusive attention, to the expense of your son, it might be.
Even more accurately: it’s bullshit.
“Lie” implies that the person knows the truth and is deliberately saying something that conflicts with it. However the sort of people who spread misinfo doesn’t really care about what’s true or false, they only care about what further reinforces their claims or not.
Reddit might have originated as a link aggregator but for all intents and purposes it’s a clusterfuck of forums anyway.
That said the difference between Reddit and old style forums in this case is that the permaban is never enforced; that place is so corrupt that you’re expected to circumvent the rules and the punishment. A hypothetical 5y ban would be the same.
Predictable outcome for anyone not wallowing in wishful belief.
shrug them off
That seems like a good compromise. I’d be probably doing the same if anyone from my family complained about it.
I hate when people use my shoulder as support, as I’m showing them something. Simply… don’t, okay?
At least when in family I drink straight from the bowl. With the spoon (sometimes chopsticks) being only for the solid bits.
A 5y ban is a permaban under another name. By then the user already disengaged the community, or circumvented the ban.
I used to moderate a forum some years ago, with incremental bans. It was warning, warning, 1d, 3d, 7d, 15d, 1m, permaban.
It does not work well. For good users the system is irrelevant, they drop the behaviour after a single warning; shitty users keep the same behaviour even after the short bans are over, and then evade the larger bans, so you’re basically taking multiple mod actions for what could be handled with a single one.
Eventually the forum shifted into a “three warnings and you’re permabanned” system, but by then I wasn’t a mod there any more so I don’t know how well it worked.
No. But I think that it’s often poorly used.
Most users are reasonable and should be treated as such by default; a simple warning goes a long way. Sometimes an overall good user is being really shitty so you ban them for, like, a week? Just to let them chill their head.
Permaban is for the exceptions. It’s for users who cannot be reasoned with, will likely behave in a shitty way in the future, and have a negative impact on the community.
Easier: n(13-n).
Ginger with turmeric? Now that’s something I need to try. Thanks for the rec!
Ginger. But only because I refuse to call yerba mate “tea”.
I wish that it was darin (darling). It rolls off the tongue so much better.
My two choices:
In both cases I want to be able to record everything people say. Preferably video, but audio is good enough. I just want to know better about languages of the past.
It’s kind of tempting to include 1450 Uruguay as a choice, since we barely know anything about the Charrúa language. However the Charrúa weren’t exactly friendly to outsiders, so this option would be only if neither side can interact with each other.