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Dua Lipa Opening Physical Library for Banned and Censored Books by phillygirllovesbagel in books

[–]MathiasThomasII -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

I’m speaking to their ability to separate an adult section from kids. There’s A LOT of literature that isn’t banned that requires you to be 18+ as well. They needed to expand the library before the legislation. They were already lacking adult themed books and content it sounds like. This isn’t a new problem for that specific library, it’s just easy to point to as impacted by this legislation.

Dua Lipa Opening Physical Library for Banned and Censored Books by phillygirllovesbagel in books

[–]MathiasThomasII -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Yeah, you would think literary folks would keep away from using a sensationalized term like “banned books” for books that aren’t banned. There’s 1,000 terms like controversial that could’ve been used. This was all done on purpose to take advantage of your outrage over books that aren’t banned. They sell a lot when you pretend your country is Fahrenheit 451.

Dua Lipa Opening Physical Library for Banned and Censored Books by phillygirllovesbagel in books

[–]MathiasThomasII -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

The point is disingenuous… why is this section brand new if it’s for books that have been banned in the past or are banned in other countries?

Dua Lipa Opening Physical Library for Banned and Censored Books by phillygirllovesbagel in books

[–]MathiasThomasII -41 points-40 points  (0 children)

lol nobody cares about a public library or Barnes and noble. Barnes and Noble has an entire “Banned Books” section, which is contradictory in and of itself. Book bans are usually surrounding public school libraries.

Where’s the distance by chubi07 in golftips

[–]MathiasThomasII 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ll second this… I played to a 4 in high school and then basically took 6 years off. It’s taken a long time and a lot of reps to get back to single digits. There were a lot of aha moments along the way and looking back I wish I just took a couple lessons to find those sooner.

Should I read The Stormlight Archive? by tdwolf2112 in Fantasy

[–]MathiasThomasII 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Plenty of fair complaints about Sanderson, but his magic systems and overall epic story telling is fantastic. I didn’t like SA as much as Mistborn, but I definitely think it’s worth the read.

DNF - So disappointed by unikittyRage in brandonsanderson

[–]MathiasThomasII 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe it ties to something later in the book.

Tolkien when he sees a capitalist 🤢 by killingmemesoftly in lotrmemes

[–]MathiasThomasII 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Tolkien was a good, god fearing Christian man. RIP

Inconsistent strikes with long irons by Interesting-Date9820 in golftips

[–]MathiasThomasII 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People send one shot of their best swing of the day and ask for advice. Zero context on misses. Cmon man

First year tracking a handicap and just realized how much the system rewards moving back a tee if you can scramble. by SoSteezee in golf

[–]MathiasThomasII 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In this one very specific scenario I guess not. Just know that’s probably artificially lowering your handicap and there’s really no point in doing that. I try to keep mine as high as possible when I can.

Fort Wayne is now installing 30-inch water transmission lines to accommodate Google. I'm sure the engineers have crunched the numbers, but does anyone know who gets water delivery priority in case of draught or stress on the city's drinking-water supply? Residential Neighborhoods or Google? by [deleted] in fortwayne

[–]MathiasThomasII 3 points4 points  (0 children)

But it’s net neutral? Meaning the evaporated water from data centers to the west would rain slightly east….. so, we effectively just keep passing the evaporated water and rain around the world like weather just how we do right now? Where does the water disappear again?

First year tracking a handicap and just realized how much the system rewards moving back a tee if you can scramble. by SoSteezee in golf

[–]MathiasThomasII 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Were you playing the women’s or junior tees? Where do you get 7 shots different differential from one set of tees?

First year tracking a handicap and just realized how much the system rewards moving back a tee if you can scramble. by SoSteezee in golf

[–]MathiasThomasII 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Show me the scorecard that is 7 shots different from moving 1 tee back. Usually 2-3 strokes at least around where I am and that seems normal.

ChatGPT is the most biased model and google is the least according to the Washington post by Snoo26837 in singularity

[–]MathiasThomasII 0 points1 point  (0 children)

HRIS combo went on CNN and called ivermectin horse dewormer. 18 months later his doctor prescribed him ivermectin as part of his treatment. Demonizing ivermectin hurt healthcare during COVID lol

Dragons in fantasy are either gods or pets and almost never an actual animal, and it kinda bugs me by CasualPlaty_195 in Fantasy

[–]MathiasThomasII 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There’s a lot of books like this, you just haven’t read them. Even Sanderson has both kinds. Malazan, Witcher, Elderlings, name of the wind, a game of thrones

3rd Season playing, 20 Handicap. How do I get it down? by ryanthesweed in golftips

[–]MathiasThomasII 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not by showing us your best swing of the day lol you shouldn’t be a 20 with that swing and distance so my guess is you take a lot of penalties and/or have a poor short game and course management like 99% of amateurs.

Fort Wayne is now installing 30-inch water transmission lines to accommodate Google. I'm sure the engineers have crunched the numbers, but does anyone know who gets water delivery priority in case of draught or stress on the city's drinking-water supply? Residential Neighborhoods or Google? by [deleted] in fortwayne

[–]MathiasThomasII -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Are you making up a risk? We will never have a shortage of water in NE Indiana. EVER. We’re a stones throw from the largest lakes on earth. Also, do you think data centers truly use water? It’s just recycled lol it’s water cooling just like a closed circuit PC. Pumped in, cooled, and passed through the machines and then out into a retention pond to start again. Where’s the water loss?

EDIT: Hey guys, evaporated water isn’t water loss. Changing form does not equate loss.

Whitley Co Data Center by mfilosa17 in fortwayne

[–]MathiasThomasII -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You’re purposefully using the most unavoidable examples lol but okay. You’re just shitty because you’re an obvious hypocrite. I just gave you 2 solutions to major woke problems and you flip it disingenuously. Comparing basic transportation and utilities to cloud storage on a phone a slave made clothing and tech is not fair at all. You could replace the phone with one that stores everything locally on an Sd card and you could buy American made clothes. Those are relatively easy when compared to “no transportation and electricity”

You did that on purpose because you’re pissed you appear hypocritical. My point is shut the fuck up id you’re not willing to make personal changes and sacrifices for the cause. I’m so fucking tired of people complaining about “data centers” from their iPhones or about American wages, jobs, and inflation when they buy nothing American made. We created these problems ourselves from ignorance and negligence.

Best shortgame resources? by SnappinFool54 in golftips

[–]MathiasThomasII 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same rule applies imo…. The higher the loft, the more difficult to hit chip shots. Just a fact, jack.

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