mkrfox

Are you sure about this? I don't have any illusions about my place in the universe. I'm a tiny speck of dust in the grand machine of reality, and I'm okay with this.

My go-tos are Lifehack (not Lifehacker) and Tiny Buddha. The advice is often very practical and has little/no moralizing.

Some of the better subreddits require a "submission statement," which is pretty much this.

The fitness program is a nice perk.

I wonder if this is any different for gay/bi guys. If what I've seen on Grindr is any clue, we'll probably look even pickier than straight women.

I want a variety of options for dealing with people who aren't persuaded by "why do you even care though" or "love is love."

That's not always the case. Personally, I lean toward bisexual homoromantic. This kind of split attraction is probably more common than it seems, but we didn't have language or a concept for it until recently. I know several people who are asexual and have various romantic orientations.

People still have trouble wrapping their heads around the fact that same-gender attraction (at least in humans) is about more than sex.

Telegram already has all the pieces needed to add voice chat on all the platforms it supports. I wouldn't be surprised if eating Skype's lunch is part of their monetization plan.

This would all make sense if D2D were a publisher. It's a distributor like Smashwords. I doubt the hits are doing that much subsidizing. eBooks are tiny files, and storage is cheap. All they did was clean up the .doc file for one book and keep on Apple when they gave me trouble publishing another. That's what I meant by handholding the manuscript.

It's a no-brainer if their offering appeals to you. For me, it does not. I get the stuff they offer for free/cheap from other services, and they tend to have a better selection for my interests.

Draft2Digital is much less of a pain. They'll even handhold problematic manuscripts through the process.

I'm quite happy with existing speeds. The problem is data caps.

There are many excellent, paying science fiction/fantasy collections out there. You need to set yourself apart in a way that convinces people to trust their stories to you (who we know nothing about) instead of someone else.

Especially since the established collections prefer/require first publication. Why should we risk that you'll publish and fail to pay?

I don't buy enough in a year to justify it.

Not exactly tech-related (aside from the abundance of furries in technology), but stories of organizational failure seem to do well here.

That data goofiness issue is pretty much use case #1 for Mechanical Turk. Pay a bunch of people a few cents to do a sensibility check on the data, collect 10 for each item, and put any that are less than 100% through another round.

Not even all that expensive. 10 cents each, 75,000 items, 10 checks each. $75,000 is quite a bargain for that kind of data validation.

It'd take a day or two.

(There's probably some horrible flaw with this idea)

That's why you don't see any cars in long exposures of highways.

Contemplate the wisdom of depending on a company without a service level agreement.

Or one of two dads/moms. All kinds of variety in families.

Word can work in the same formats LibreOffice uses. Microsoft even provides a chart so you know what to expect based on your choice: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Differences-between...

I solved this problem by unfollowing everyone and everything on Facebook. Now I mostly just post pictures of foxes. Foxes are a bipartisan issue.

With Kindle, you just open the book on your phone (after you spend 2 minutes setting up the app).

That's an annoying thing with short stories on Project Gutenberg. Half the pages are backmatter and frontmatter.

The way they sold the Caterpillar plant down the road was by saying it might come out neutral with the tax incentives, but it would need a lot of other businesses nearby to support it.

I don't know if that worked out, but Barrow County (location of the plant) has a lot more businesses today than it did in 2013 when it opened. That could just be that it also filled out a big retail development (Barrow Crossing) and started on another (https://www.facebook.com/Gateway-at-University-Parkway-14074...)

Further reading: http://www.athensbusiness.org/announcement-profile.php?ID=56

I saw a comic strip once where someone was talking to a nonbinary person. Somewhere in it, the (presumably) cisgendered person said "but then I won't know your gender!"

And the nonbinary person replied "that's okay, because I don't know it either."

(I probably mis-remembered parts, and I'm not telling it anywhere near as well)

I just wish they had "Nonbinary" for people who feel weird about the word genderqueer.

I think we both know how hard it is for people to look critically at their surroundings before someone points problems out directly. You might get further with example threads, and maybe a few specific examples of the worst offenders (so no one will fuss too much about you calling them out).

I always appreciate warnings that let me be ready to read or hear about the few things that still bug me (nothing as rough as your b). Way more effective than the "tough love" so many advocate.

That's what's so annoying. Everyone's having this big screaming conversation about something and using the words for something else, like they're working with some kind of bilingual dictionary. The entries for "safe space" and "trigger warning" got mixed up with a Sudoku puzzle, and everyone's pretending it makes perfect sense instead of looking for a better dictionary.