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by wrp 3y ago
D&D is an extensive and beloved cultural tradition, and WotC is trying to engineer changes to it. What if the publishers of The Lord of the Rings started selling a version that had been revised for political correctness. Tolkien fans wo
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Although I don't like it, I often use WordPad on Windows machines because there is a bug in Notepad. If you have Notepad open with word-wrap on, it will insert line breaks into newly edited lines where they wrap on the screen. When I h
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Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Borders many years ago did use packaging that completely protected books from damage. I guess they found there are enough people who really don't care, so that the sellers don't have to care either.
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Related to leaving windows open...My friend went to Germany for work last summer and was housed in a new apartment. While she mostly enjoyed it, she complained a lot about the lack of screens on windows to keep out the fruit flies. That cou
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There is a large sub-genre called "military sci-fi," with much of what he wants. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_science_fiction ) Another area to look is "Victorian sci-fi." ( https:/&#
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Came here to see any Rudolph jokes. :-)
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I've read comments that concierge medicine is cost effective if you require frequent visits, as with many older patients. Would like to know if this is true.
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Experiencing that, too. Are these long waits due to anything other than a shortage of specialists? If not, why is there a shortage? I thought more doctors wanted to be specialists because of better hours and pay.
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Although access got much worse in 2020, my impression is things are back to about what they were in 2019, which is still bad. My memory is that scheduling first became a serious issue when many doctors took early retirement to avoid dealing
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Not surprisingly, popular ideas about life in North Korea are simplistic and exaggerated. I'll just make a few comments based on casual study while living in South Korea. First, popular support for the regime is much greater than Weste
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Pentel Kerry ( https://www.amazon.com/Pentel-Sharp-Kerry-Mechanical-Pencil/... )
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A kotatsu can be a real productivity killer around the house, because once you are snugly tucked in, you don't want to get out to take care of things. There was a funny short anime about an old man seated at a kotatsu and trying to rea
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> ...Donna King experimented with the various settings of her washing machine, trying to get her clothes to stop coming out covered in detergent residue....King thinks the machine just doesn’t use enough water... A decade ago in Korea,
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I know a few retired guys who pay their own money to rent office space away from the house. They don't even have kids living at home any more. If you have a nice office, it's...well...nice.
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I want to have Emma Thompson narrating my life as in Stranger than Fiction (2006).
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Does the law in other countries require advertorials to be labeled? I seem to remember cases in the USA, but I haven't been looking.
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I am also against buying expensive stones, but for a different reason. If you view diamonds as status symbols, buying them is not irrational. It's just an approach to life that I don't follow.
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What you describe is wonderful. The problem is that in some places, social conditions degrade the library experience. I was an ardent user of local public libraries from childhood until about a decade ago, when the libraries had taken on th
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When a USA citizen meets abroad and wants to marry a non-USA citizen, with the intention of the non-USA citizen pursuing permanent residence in the USA, does it have any effect on the process which country they get married in? I've hea
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Is amount of traffic the best measure of success for a "library"? How about if we take out the books, put in a food court, and supply free video gaming. The place will be packed. Would that be a successful "library"? I s
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A confusing thing about pencil lead for test marking is that while a #2/HB hardness is usually specified, there were specially marketed pencils that were actually softer. The pencils and leads were generically branded as "mark sen
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In a technical environment, why can't this problem be avoided by insisting that all comments be strictly on-topic?
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I know some tech people who are capable of absorbing difficult material, but who never read for pleasure (and that means especially fiction). I think dyslexia may play a part in it. If reading is really a chore for you, try looking for movi
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> ...never once was assigned an actual essay to read. I recognize this as a huge problem in education and sometimes bore my colleagues with rants about it. In my field of work, we expect grad students to write a thesis/dissertation
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What is more of an issue here, the possibly representative reactions of a few students and teachers, or the whole process by which school readings are chosen? As a high school student, I really hated A Separate Peace and Lord of the Flie
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Every Japanese and Korean person I work with presents their names with the family name last when operating in an English speaking context. Conversely, my (American) name is often written family name first (and in katakana) when I'm in
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My impression is the institution of boarding houses died out in the 1940s (in the USA). In researching family history, I was surprised to discover how frequently a nuclear family would have various relatives living with them. This was up th
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When you are applying to enter a teaching program, you need to have been in the top 1/3 of the class you were just in. As I understand it, that's just a basic requirement and doesn't by itself guarantee admission. I haven&#x2
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> ~57% of teachers have Master's degree or higher. This points to an important issue. I think most college-educated people are aware that at a typical university in the USA, the College of Education is separate from the College of A
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Public school teaching in Korea has a reputation for pretty good pay, but more importantly, for job security. Being a teacher is said to significantly improve one's attractiveness as a marriage prospect because of that. Admittance to t

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