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this beta male loser gets a gf but I, a respectful presentable and intelligent gentleman of high grooming am still a virgin at 24?!
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Madkal posted:As someone who works in a library, I got to say lol. First, most libraries get/pay for permission to lend out movies and other media. Most have deals with distributers and such, so yes, libraries are paying so no it isn't piracy in the least. Secondly, I always love the whole "libraries were once relevant but not anymore" because the person usually saying it assumes that everyone has the same kind of access to information that they do. Seriously, any time you hear anyone bitching about libraries and their services they are usually a FYGM idiot. I've only met two authors in person who hated libraries because each believed the library's lending model took money out of their pocket. Libraries also buy materials in a bunch of formats: large type, raised type/Braille, audio, digital, digital audio, etc. and the author gets a cut of all that. Not to mention an audience exposed to your works, more reviews, opportunities to do book talks, etc. An author would have to be loving stupid not to leverage any of that.
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queserasera posted:I've only met two authors in person who hated libraries because each believed the library's lending model took money out of their pocket. Libraries also buy materials in a bunch of formats: large type, raised type/Braille, audio, digital, digital audio, etc. and the author gets a cut of all that. Not to mention an audience exposed to your works, more reviews, opportunities to do book talks, etc. I was going to post Neil Gaiman's defense of libraries but here probably isn't the place.
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Aug 10, 2016 21:43
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zakharov posted:RIP the GBS r/relationships thread I swear, my enjoyment of a thread kills it faster. What did they close it for?
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Aug 10, 2016 22:27
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Hardcordion posted:I have Belgian acquaintance who says that when he first visited North America he was taken aback by how common tattoos are here. According to him, back home only criminals have tattoos. Maybe it's a cultural/regional thing but I have a feeling that he's just more sheltered than he realises. He's more sheltered than he realises, a decent amount of people in Belgium(and of course other European countries) have tattoos that are easily covered up or in less visible places, and most of them aren't criminals. The difference is mainly just the visibility.
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Aug 10, 2016 22:51
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Brawnfire posted:I swear, my enjoyment of a thread kills it faster. What did they close it for? A few people were arguing about what counts as pedophilia. Surprisingly it was a lot more stupid than it sounds.
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Aug 10, 2016 22:52
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So what you're saying is not all people who have tattoos are criminals but all criminals have tattoos?
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Aug 10, 2016 23:15
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I think what we're all trying to say here is that our tattooed ginger friends were able to use the bathhouse but got stared at but let's be real, theyd have been stared at anyway. That's what we're trying to say.
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Aug 10, 2016 23:22
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https://twitter.com/AngelTilaLove/status/763499722698915840 https://twitter.com/AngelTilaLove/status/763509105075957760 https://twitter.com/AngelTilaLove/status/763509247607005188
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Aug 11, 2016 00:13
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Aramek posted:So what you're saying is not all people who have tattoos are criminals but all criminals have tattoos? No, not all tattoos have criminals, but all people have tattoos.
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Aug 11, 2016 00:19
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Met posted:https://twitter.com/AngelTilaLove/status/763499722698915840 Can someone explain to me why a Vietnamese born woman cares about the white race and "race mixing" so much?
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Madkal posted:Can someone explain to me why a Vietnamese born woman cares about the white race and "race mixing" so much? actual medical brain damage
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Brawnfire posted:I swear, my enjoyment of a thread kills it faster. What did they close it for? It was closed because Genesplicer is a Cool and Good mod who prefers to close threads instead of probating the handful of people that are thread-making GBS threads or concern-trolling.
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Madkal posted:Can someone explain to me why a Vietnamese born woman cares about the white race and "race mixing" so much? She has a long history of mental illness. In 2012, she suffered a serious brain aneurysm after attempting suicide.
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Madkal posted:Can someone explain to me why a Vietnamese born woman cares about the white race and "race mixing" so much? Have to stay visible somehow years after your 15 minutes of reality TV show fame are over
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Aug 11, 2016 02:04
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 quote:Feminism: unrealistic female supremacy put forth by undateably ugly jealous fatties. quote:Feminism...A reminder to all men that if they find a woman sexually attractive, they are sexually objectifying her...If they don't find her sexually attractive, they are just a shallow man and care only about looks... quote:How many feminists does it take to change a lightbulb? None, because feminists can't change anything. quote:Reading this as I'm taking a mandatory sexual predator course feminists forced on my university. quote:That's an insult to people with autism.
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Aug 11, 2016 02:19
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Dr Christmas posted:What happens to a person that makes them against libraries? I know the word "cartoonishly evil" gets thrown around a lot, but before the Tea Party the only people against libraries were witches in educational computer games with punny names like Miss Lexia who you defeat using your word zapper to shoot all the verbs she tosses at you or something. 
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Aug 11, 2016 04:07
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"gently caress the availability of education, capitalism ho!"
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Aug 11, 2016 04:16
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Didn't bookstores go out of business because of the shift to digital, not because of libraries though? Or am I completely wrong? I just know that ebooks and audio books are way better than having a shelf of poo poo I'll never bother with again because taking one out risks a book avalanche.
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Aug 11, 2016 04:18
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Nuebot posted:Didn't bookstores go out of business because of the shift to digital, not because of libraries though? Or am I completely wrong? I just know that ebooks and audio books are way better than having a shelf of poo poo I'll never bother with again because taking one out risks a book avalanche. What, you had a bookstore and a library in the same county? No such thing, never happened. Most bookstores lost out to bigger bookstores. Those are now dying because of ebooks.
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Aug 11, 2016 04:21
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Aug 11, 2016 04:22
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invisible jerk posted:this woman lives in one of the wealthiest suburbs in Sydney and is a perfect combo of anti-vax, #paleo, raw food, clean eating, toxins etc and constantly shills her "magnesium extract"
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Aug 11, 2016 04:35
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Somfin posted:What, you had a bookstore and a library in the same county? No such thing, never happened. Well, first they all died because of Amazon. Remember when Amazon was a bookstore? The first to go were the second-tier price-warring guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKVyQn_GB1g&t=509s If you weren't Borders or Barnes & Noble, your days were numbered. And for a while it seemed like even those were on their way out, but then they congealed and started making Nooks and poo poo, which I never would have seen coming.
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Aug 11, 2016 04:37
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Dr Christmas posted:What happens to a person that makes them against libraries? I know the word "cartoonishly evil" gets thrown around a lot, but before the Tea Party the only people against libraries were witches in educational computer games with punny names like Miss Lexia who you defeat using your word zapper to shoot all the verbs she tosses at you or something. Because https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS8r6zQs62I
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Aug 11, 2016 05:06
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Madkal posted:I was going to post Neil Gaiman's defense of libraries but here probably isn't the place. I don't know, he's fodder for much idiocy I've seen on social media.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I don't know, he's fodder for much idiocy I've seen on social media. Is he? Do share some tales. I've never read much about the guy other than the like two books by him I thought were alright.
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Aug 11, 2016 05:14
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Supermarkets helped to drive bookstores out of business here in the UK too. Whenever there was a huge book launch that would definitely sell a load of copies on the first day e.g. Harry Potter they'd sell it below cost in hopes that people at the supermarket anyway would buy other poo poo, depriving bookstores of their one guaranteed massive sales day.
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Aug 11, 2016 05:43
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Didn't most comic stores go out of business because more mainstream places like bookstores and grocers started stocking them?
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Aug 11, 2016 06:30
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SoldadoDeTone posted:My wife and I are about to have a baby, and one message that has been pounded into us during every class we've taken has been that Mom is always right. Health professionals tell us time and again that Mom's instincts are correct, so if you think something is dangerous then it must be. From my experience, non-doctor health professionals aren't any better than the general population when it comes to believing health-related pseudoscience.
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Ytlaya posted:From my experience, non-doctor health professionals aren't any better than the general population when it comes to believing health-related pseudoscience. I work in a hospital and this is the truth. More than a couple cars in the employee lot are festooned with MLM gimmick stuff like the IT WORKS wraps (it says it works in the name, so why argue?) and I know at least 2 nurses that try to sell Doterra stuff - which honestly smell nice, but that's about it.
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Aug 11, 2016 13:18
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Aug 11, 2016 13:22
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Does supermarket mean grocery store in the UK like it does here? Like when people say they sell books and video games and stuff, are we talking like a Walmart supercenter/Costco type of thing here or a place with a video game aisle between the fruit and frozen sections? Kay Kessler posted:Didn't most comic stores go out of business because more mainstream places like bookstores and grocers started stocking them? Maybe 20-30 years ago. Today they go out of business because the comic industry is very small. It's why most you see are 90% toys and merchandise now. Aphrodite has a new favorite as of 14:23 on Aug 11, 2016 |
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Aug 11, 2016 14:21
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Skinny white guy with bad black and white tattoos? Why I never!
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chitoryu12 posted:As usual, public post on a trending topic. Can anyone here translate this garbage?
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HiroProtagonist posted:Can anyone here translate this garbage? Die Antwoord and their fans are accusing the Suicide Squad movie of ripping off their style for the Joker and Harley Quinn (pretty sure their style was all taken from certain comics that already existed, but whatever).
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Aug 11, 2016 15:23
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Aphrodite posted:Like when people say they sell books and video games and stuff, are we talking like a Walmart supercenter/Costco type of thing here or a place with a video game aisle between the fruit and frozen sections?
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chitoryu12 posted:Die Antwoord and their fans are accusing the Suicide Squad movie of ripping off their style for the Joker and Harley Quinn (pretty sure their style was all taken from certain comics that already existed, but whatever). It's extra funny since Die Antwoord have lifted their entire schtick from South Africa's Cape gangsters and got in trouble for "appropriating" Jane Alexander's The Butcher Boys in one of their music videos.
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Aug 11, 2016 15:42
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Data Graham posted:Well, first they all died because of Amazon. Remember when Amazon was a bookstore?
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Jesus. My wife grew up in bumfuck, nowhere in eastern Washington state and all her family are rabid Trump fans and I see several posts about 'Killary' and Benghazi a day. To make it worse they're all evangelical christians so that's fun too. Its really weird to be a somewhat liberal Scandinavian up there. On the one hand I'm a veteran and must be worshipped, on the other Im clearly part of the liberalc conspiracy against Trump and Christians. It just weirds me out. My wife bought me a Bernie shirt as a joke AFTER the primaries(I'm not a citizen, can't vote, wasn't involved in politics at all) and when I posted it on facebook her mother messaged her and disinvited us from visiting for a family function that weekend. Two more weeks until my wife and me relocate to Europe. Going to school in Spokane was such bad choice, and in retrospect I shouldn't have let her talk me into going there instead of the east coast just because it was closer to home. At least she's as eager as me to get out now.
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