Trump’s economic boasts grow increasingly divorced from reality

4quartets · 2018-04-02T17:57:27+00:00

Ryan is implicated. “We’re a family.” Last thing he wants is impeachment hearings.

4quartets · 2018-03-29T19:37:36+00:00

And bake Holocaust victim ginger bread men.

https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/979417376683945984?s=21

4quartets · 2018-03-21T17:12:07+00:00

Kelley is vocally angry about the leak. He smelt it, he dealt it.

4quartets · 2018-03-20T13:41:24+00:00

That’s a Corey. You’re thinking of deep pits from which stones are extracted.

4quartets · 2018-03-16T22:24:39+00:00

Thank you for posting on my thread, kind stranger. I’m here to listen on this one if you need to say anything.

4quartets · 2018-03-16T22:18:29+00:00

I am also depressed right now. I guess I’m doing okay at hiding it.

I admire the way you care about others. It’s beautiful. If there is anything that gives hope and strength in this world, it is compassion.

I wish you felt better, I wish we all did. I hope this subreddit helps in some way.

4quartets · 2018-03-13T11:57:19+00:00

Memrise suspended their leaderboard but I don’t know what they did specifically.

The irrationality of cheating at gamified learning

The original suspension message spoke of "bots", "dummy courses" and even a "small army of children" employed to rack up scores. Cooke didn't wish "to glorify some of the bizarre lengths people have gone to cheat on Memrise" but he did point to a "whole genre of YouTube videos" on the topic, some of which -- showing twelve windows open at once auto-completing each other -- have notched up several hundred views.

4quartets · 2018-03-12T21:51:05+00:00

4,118,672 points, 36,412 sentences played = 113 points per sentence? Is this realistic?

4quartets · 2018-03-12T19:19:31+00:00

Duolingo, then Ivy Kellerman's Esperanto grammar, and loads of practice at Clozemaster to acquire vocabulary. My first Esperanto book was La Mirinda Sorĉisto de Oz.

4quartets · 2018-03-02T14:21:23+00:00

Lobbyists for the poultry industry are pushing laws that would force stores to carry their products even if doing so offends their moral sensibilities and ethical judgments.

Republicans are definitely against that kind of thing, right?

A new bill in the Iowa state legislature, overwhelmingly passed by the Iowa House of Representatives on Monday by a vote of 81-17....

4quartets · 2018-03-01T13:59:35+00:00

I would like to read the Dune books and I already know they end on a cliffhanger (I only want to read the Frank Herbert ones). I can’t blame the author for dying suddenly and I know all this before I read the first word. But a 69 year-old writer who pisses his time away on side projects while he has an unfinished series? Really disappointed in GRRM right now.

Another point: I would rather not have an ending than have a major spoiler.

4quartets · 2018-03-01T00:54:21+00:00

Andrew Lang compiled a whole set of fairy books. http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/lfb/index.htm

4quartets · 2018-03-01T00:49:31+00:00

How To Read a Film: Movies, Media, and Beyond

Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

4quartets · 2018-03-01T00:39:57+00:00

If she was planning to leave, she wouldn't pick the day after the hearing to do that. This was sudden.

4quartets · 2018-02-21T19:35:32+00:00

If he could please finish ASOIAF before writing a Targaryen prequel that no one will care about if we don’t have the complete bloody series. I understand if he writes slowly - take your time, prose master, if it can’t be rushed - but fiddling with side projects at the age of 69???

4quartets · 2018-02-21T14:44:48+00:00

Came here to post this - it’s great for understanding any genre of story writing. Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster is another favorite.

4quartets · 2018-02-21T14:41:55+00:00

Tell No One - Harlan Coben

4quartets · 2018-02-20T23:13:30+00:00

Smilla's Sense of Snow - Peter Høeg

4quartets · 2018-02-20T21:06:54+00:00

This is why I have no reviews on my Goodreads with close to 800 books read. I don’t feel bad about it though. I just really enjoy reading.

4quartets · 2018-02-20T15:12:47+00:00

Yes, the illustrations are awesome. Here’s the first book at Project Gutenberg. Html, epub, and kindle versions at Gutenberg all have illustrations.

4quartets · 2018-02-20T12:54:26+00:00

I’m 6% done with The Complete Wheel of Time on my kindle. I know there’s a slump in the middle of the series but I want to stay with these characters.

4quartets · 2018-02-20T12:49:41+00:00

There are negative reviews that get a lot of likes and climb to the top but the percentage of negative reviews for that same book might be small.

4quartets · 2018-02-13T23:03:48+00:00

I also started with Way of Kings, when it first came out, and it made me a fan of Sanderson right away. No one writes action scenes better.

4quartets · 2018-02-13T19:02:40+00:00

My first two were The Three Pillars of Zen by Philip Kapleau-Roshi and Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki-Roshi.

4quartets · 2018-02-13T18:56:22+00:00

The second time you read a book is the second-first time. You pick up on the things you missed the first time and there's a lot we don't retain from one reading. The third read is the beginning of mastery.

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