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To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks, and papers.
!bookworms I'm about to finish "Afgantsy" and already started with the first chapter of Andrei Bely's "Petersburg", the latter which will be the center of our book club discussion thread on Tuesday Jan 28th. Join our book club discussion if you're interested!
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@Aevann can you
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Still listening 🎧 (when I'm driving) / reading 📚 (when I'm in bed) Ill made mute 🤐
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What warhammer book is that?
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Currently reading Spillover about disease jumps from animals to humans. I heard it was a better more accurate Hot Zone.
I'm liking it so far. At times it's a bit dry so if I'm tired I have to put it down. But so far I'm enjoying it.
In Fauci we trust
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The Stephen Mitchell translation of Gilgamesh. 4,000 years old and still an absolute banger. Ancient Uruk had priestesses that would sleep with any man for the glory of Ishtar
I bet 2000 BC sacred prostitute kitty was insane.
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I got all my Gilgamesh lore through Japanese media but didn't one of those priestess-thots tame Enkidu that way? I remember he was originally a wild man who could speak with animals until he was tempted by temple whore kitty, and after smashing her for 7 days straight he could no longer communicate with nature.
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Yeah, Shamhat. She just lays down with her tits out and hits him with kitty so freaky, he knows human language afterwards. I wasn't aware there was an anime, so I was super confused when I saw someone online saying Enkidu was non-binary
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The Fate franchise (animes/light novels/games) is about wizards summoning figures from history and myths to fight each other but it takes a lot of liberties with them. Gilgamesh is OP as frick because he's from the OG myth.
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I've been listening to Vulkan Lives at the gym. Holy shit is it bad even by Warhammer novel standards. Like the author watched Saw and it made his balls drop.
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it's considered the worst of the worst of all of the Horus Heresy books, and i agree
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I heard that before but I found the other terrible heresy books like Darnation of Pythos and Outcast Dead pretty enjoyable so I chanced it. Turns out it really is that bad. Nick Kyme cannot write.
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Currently reading the Pokemon adventures red and blue manga series, i am halfway finished with it and so far I liked it until red got magically defeated by the E4 of all the people he could have gotten beaten by
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If baseline realities cannot be agreed upon anymore, I don't think fiction should get off scot-free either.
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Reading Walden by Henry David Thoreau. it's pretty good!.
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this thread haha
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Formerly Chuck's.
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Bored of Gor again so I'm continuing through my pile of warhammerslop. This week, it's Baneblade and Shadowsword by Guy Hayley
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I can't believe I'm saying this but I finally read a Warhammer book that wasn't complete slop. The Infinite and the Divine was actually pretty funny for an easy sci-fi read. Kudos to the author for coming up with an original and humorous story.
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Read Eisenhorn
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Recently been rereading my favourite Discworld books. Which means I'll probably read all of them except Rincewind. (starting with city watch)
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I'm a Buddhist but I'm checking out the Bible, figured I should read it.
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Just finished Josephine Tey's The Franchise Affair, and should get a few more of hers that I'm missing soon.
She used a word in the first couple of pages that I didn't know, and when I googled it the quote used as an example after the definition was the one from the book itself. I thought that was funny.
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Between two fires is very good so far
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Chung Kuo. It's a book series about how China conquered the whole world and built an overcrowded city covering the entire planet. It has incest, gore and beastiality, too.
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I'm starting Stirner's Unique and Its Property, it's pretty good so far. The translator definitely made some effort to preserve the original tone.
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Reddit had a test run of this phenomenon in 2020 & 2021 when the mods of AgainstHateSubreddits and a bunch of LGBTQ subreddits were targeted with weaponised reporting.
At that time, I called for a sanity check be placed in the "user has been reported -> user gets suspended" pipeline — a human element that could double check that the report was processed appropriately and that the suspension was in fact warranted.
Who knows what they've done to address this problem?
Whatever it has been, it's clearly not been enough, and it has caused a trust thermocline inversion.
Throughout 2022, they did their best to communicate to us that they value moderators - but they haven't closed this exploit.
It's been leveraged against moderators, against content producers, etc.
Simultaneously, communities that chronically platform hate speech are unactioned.
It's been 3 years since they overhauled the Sitewide rules and internal policies. They need to revisit those policies and processes.
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crass potty stall graffiti
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Starting with the Greeks I see
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