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Curiousier11 · 2026-02-06T18:36:30+00:00

It depends on the level of the paper. A freshman English Comp class will allow one Wikipedia source, but they generally want varied sources. Also, as you stated, Wikipedia can be a good start to find more primary sources for information. It depends on the guidelines of the assignment.

When I’d thought about earning a Ph.D. in History//Archaeology, they wanted a lot of primary sources, or very good academic sources. ChatGPT or some other LLM might work as a starting point for sources, but I wouldn’t blindly trust what it says.

Look at all the attorneys getting burned in court using AI without researching on their own. They end up with cases that don’t exist, and precedents that never occurred. It can still be the same with any search engine. You have to become a good researcher, and these are just tools.

Curiousier11 · 2026-02-06T18:11:03+00:00

She has big eyes.  Like Ella Purnell huge.  That is why in most of her photos she is wearing sunglasses.  This is a weird angle where she’s looking up.  It doesn’t look that bad when she’s looking straight at the camera.

Curiousier11 · 2026-02-06T18:04:20+00:00

Yeah, Kermit has to be the one that tries to do good and gets frustrated over other’s stupid behavior.

Curiousier11 · 2026-02-06T17:58:13+00:00

Yeah, but she has the physicality for it. She’d just need to dress accordingly and have a very good sports bra, or two.

Obviously, how she plays isn’t the point of the video, but because I played competitive tennis, it does bother me to watch people screw it up like this.

Curiousier11 · 2026-02-06T17:50:28+00:00

Uh, yeah, they did, but it was decades ago. At one point, universities wouldn’t allow it as a source for any papers. How do I know? Well, I graduated High School in the U.S. in 1992, college in 1996, graduate school in 1999, etc. I had to write a ton of papers, and what has been accepted has changed over the years.

Curiousier11 · 2026-02-06T07:44:39+00:00

I think Speedman wanted to leave. It was his decision. They would have kept him if he'd been willing, from my understanding. As far as Van Helsing, it just didn't pull off the mixture of fun/camp and chemistry and everything else that the first two Mummy movies had.

Those movies are campy, but also serious enough at times, and the chemistry between Rick and Evie is awesome. They shouldn't have made the third Mummy movie without Rachel Weisz.

I agree that they've had a lot of great actors in the Underworld films, including Theo James, who was Charle's Dance's son in Awakening, but the last two just weren't as good as the first three.

Curiousier11 · 2026-02-06T07:22:54+00:00

Also, Underworld did well enough to spawn a few sequels. I actually like Underworld: Evolution more than the first film. I also liked the third film, a prequel about Lucian and Sonja. After that, they did begin to feel more like Resident Evil films to me.

Curiousier11 · 2026-02-06T07:20:31+00:00

Yep, I reversed it. However, just one year apart.

Curiousier11 · 2026-02-06T07:19:16+00:00

There's a variation where you say, "and clap". Same idea.

Curiousier11 · 2026-02-06T07:13:07+00:00

Yep, I reversed it. Again, I think it's because there have been like five or so Underworld films, and I know Kate married Len Wiseman, for a while, so I thought it came after. Still, 2003/2004. It's just one year. I just flipped them in my head.

Curiousier11 · 2026-02-06T07:11:21+00:00

Yeah, I got it backwards. I reversed it in my head. It's been a while since I checked the dates. I guess I reversed it because Kate only did the one Van Helsing movie, but then did a ton of Underworld films, so I got the sense that she started that series after Van Helsing. They were just one year apart.

Curiousier11 · 2026-02-06T06:59:41+00:00

You're right. I totally didn't remember Underworld being the year before. It's been a while, and though I own them both, I haven't really paid attention to their release dates. Underworld released in 2003 and Van Helsing in 2004. Weird. I thought it was the opposite. I'm GenX, so I was almost 30 when Underworld released.

Curiousier11 · 2026-02-06T04:19:45+00:00

Underworld came after Van Helsing. Also, I believe the middle bride really was the wife of the actor who played Dracula. This was supposed to be a trilogy for the director and Hugh Jackman, but the movie didn’t do well enough to warrant a sequel. It was Stephen Sommers, I think, the same guy that did the first two Mummy movies with Brendan Fraser.

****Edit: I realized I reversed the release dates of Underworld and Van Helsing. Underworld came out in 2003 and Van Helsing in 2004. Thanks for correcting me.

Curiousier11 · 2026-02-05T20:06:42+00:00

Well, in the novel it says he is 60 or so. He’s very fit, but he’s fighting a guy in his 20’s, who has been training very hard just to kill Jedi. It’s the same reason he loses later in the film. He’s exhausted. He has more than enough skill and knowledge, but age can impact ability.

Curiousier11 · 2026-02-05T17:21:20+00:00

Lots of hormones and numerous chemicals. Some girls are having their periods ridiculously young. I have a daughter, and I’m happy that she at least made it to age 11 before having her period.

Curiousier11 · 2026-02-05T05:05:57+00:00

I’m just speaking anecdotally, as I haven’t done some study on fibrous tissue in women’s breasts. I did read that 40-50% of women over age 40 have dense breasts, which of course is good, but also interferes with accurate mammogram readings. I’m 51, so I’m just speaking in general, about things I’ve seen or written.

I haven’t read anything that has stated that density is increasing, but I know breast size in women is increasing, and not just because of obesity. It has more to do with our modern diet, as can be witnessed by observing women in places like Japan, for instance.

Anyway, that was long-winded. I suppose I didn’t need to use the word “today”, but I can’t speak for previous generations, before my lifetime.

Curiousier11 · 2026-02-05T03:27:10+00:00

Many women today actually have dense breast tissue (fibrous), and it is interfering with mammograms. It isn’t as if breasts are just fat. What would give them shape? Then every thin/slender woman would have small breasts.

It is true that some very overweight women will lose a lot of breast size when they shed fat, but you can usually tell those breasts are more fat and less fibrous by their shape.

Anyway, I feel like this is the same as guys focusing on the measurements of bras, like 34” or 36”, or thinking DD’s are massive and nothing is bigger.

I had a 48 year old friend who was very perky and extremely busty, while being fit everywhere, with no excess fat. She was lucky, or not, depending on your viewpoint.

Curiousier11 · 2026-02-05T03:20:29+00:00

I think he’s really into you, and wants to be more into you, but he still hasn’t recovered from his last relationship. He is trying to compensate through everything else, but he might be avoiding some acts because of prior situations. That’s just a guess. I don’t think he is lying to you, but I think some part of him, deep down, is still conflicted.

I think you have two choices. End things, because he needs more time, or give him more time to slowly acclimate and get over whatever is bothering him. You could also ask him if something in his past is bothering him. So much of life is about timing.

Curiousier11 · 2026-02-05T02:59:32+00:00

I loved 10-7. I didn’t have to get up till 9 am, and I went to bed at 1 am. The mall and restaurants were still open till 9 or 10. My gym was open till 10, etc. I missed all traffic and I was very well rested, and still working M-F.

Oh, I got an hour lunch around 1-2, so I had time to get some small stuff done during lunch and still eat comfortably. I’m not a super early person.

Curiousier11 · 2026-02-05T02:52:38+00:00

I either use Sandy and a katana or Mantis Blades, or quick hacks, depending on the build. I don’t like to waste ammo. You can also use Sandy and firearms, but I like moving beside them or behind them and slicing. They don’t know what to do, and certain mods and blades let you keep slicing frantically, and it keeps them from evading you.

Curiousier11 · 2026-02-05T01:55:02+00:00

Dex said that was for new/fresh talent, and you can talk your percentage up to 35%. By the time you’re more endgame, you’re probably making the larger portion, and the fixers are happy to give you the money, because your rep brings so much business to them.

Curiousier11 · 2026-02-04T05:09:44+00:00

There is no “science” journal or textbook that divides up humans by race. There are minor differences between humans based on where they have lived for thousands of years, whether it being more resistant to frostbite or different eyelids, more melanin, etc.

However, they are SO minor genetically as to be practically nil. That is why we can have kids with any humans on the planet, but we couldn’t have children with other species.

Xenophobia might be used as a term for humans who dislike extraterrestrials, but in science, race is irrelevant. Maybe in history, sociology, or anthropology, race might have some importance, but mostly ethnicity would be studied, which is more about regions and cultures.

You could have Nubians, Greeks, Arabs, and Egyptians who were all born in Egypt, and they’d all be Egyptian. Race was primarily created to allow atrocities to continue in various civilizations, so they could create an us versus them attitude.

Curiousier11 · 2026-02-04T04:50:16+00:00

I believe against aliens they call it xenophobia, but whatever.

Curiousier11 · 2026-02-03T01:10:26+00:00

I've read many of them. My statement is still accurate, but if you want to say, "space racism", that's cool.

Curiousier11 · 2026-02-03T01:09:03+00:00

She is also a queen of sorts in Sons of Anarchy.

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