That’s the beauty of these places. I’ll see what crops up in the replies. So far it seems pretty consistent with “yes it’s possible”, but I’m also interested to read about any “no you can’t where I live”

I’ll take it as a compliment? I don’t see the perfection though, the only manual breaks there were for the paragraphs

I see, it’s possible but YMMV

Thank you, I appreciate the fleshed out explanation

Thank the gods you commented this, I had to read this far to understand bc meant border collie. The post title is so confusing and the body doesn’t explain much

Link to the original post :

https://piefed.social/c/piracy/p/1851962/uploading-pirated-books-via-bittorrent-qualifies-as-fair-use-meta-argues

Already mentioned but chiming in, Freecycle might be an option

That’s just for the packaging and branding

“not good for you” is relative. Heavily dependent on individual case by case and against what standards. Sure, there are many better alternatives. But I’d argue there are even many more worse ones.

I’m happy to hear Netflix is not acquiring more. I’m not so sure about Paramount and Warner merging though. Could have been worse I guess.

Reality as an artist dictates that all my work was datamined without my consent and anything I post in the future, should I choose to do so, will. And the end result of this data mining is to drive artists like me out of business. I don’t mind the average Joe getting their anime girl with three titties in five minutes, but company owners are making money out of this and paying nobody for their source material.

Depends on how many balls fit in the glass, and whether you can see through the balls- if not, as long as all the balls against the glass surface and on top are blue, with a few more blue visible within the gaps should be enough. But what percentage that is could change according to ball size in relation to glass size.

Scented candles? Relatively affordable, easy to re gift if they don’t like it

I feel weird the pope is saying something that resonates with me… Stop

Shame you’ve already blasted music and you are pretty certain he’s feeling it. I would have slipped a note under his door asking him to at least get a mat or something to cushion the weights falling

When they get withdrawals, even if mild. Some people get a bit cranky if they don’t get their daily fix (and yes, it has to be a daily habit). That’s evidence for me of an unhealthy dependence.

Of course, if they always have alcohol available it’s going to be difficult to see the withdrawal and it’s also difficult to draw the line because not all people tolerate it in the same way.

Okay the key here is what you mean by “constantly”. Telling a story about something so life changing once a year hardly goes as “constantly” in my books.

What may come across as manipulative is you mentioning she’s trying to get you to do as she says or trying to get guilt or compassion from you. And this with a pinch of salt, because it’s very hard to tell from what you share here. I would have to become a fly on your wall for a long time to have my own opinion about it.

You tell me she’s telling you this every week and making reference to it every day, several times a day, and now that’s what I consider “constantly”. That she hardly has anything else to share about her past or that she somehow finds a way to spin everything to a framework of scarred pregnancy mother, or similar.

My own mother has told me about her pregnancies several times a year, I heard her stories so many times. Hundreds. Yet that was never the only story she had, and it was always brought up more or less naturally in conversation. The same happened with several other favorite anecdotes of her own past and me and my sister’s childhood. I would consider this aspect to be normal.

I never felt manipulated by her retelling of a story though. And I know she could manipulate pretty well. She also had a few topics she would constantly harass me about, yes, daily or nearly to a point. But retelling the past was not part of it, even though she did frequently.

I’m here to say Jasmine /Jazmín in English and Spanish, because I haven’t seen it mentioned yet

Hello. Lemmy is known for having a tech savvy userbase, not so much dabblers in the occult arts. Please don’t let that dissuade you - I would be searching for a community with an occult bent first. Try any of the find-a-community communities and see where people point you towards.

Having said that, yes I do like the occults even though I can’t say I take them seriously like I did in my youth. Traditionally the suit you would be looking for is the swords for the sciences, since the swords are associated with the domain of the mind, judgement, truth, thoughts, etc.

Edit: try !findacommunity@lemmy.ml

… not sure if there are other community finders outside of .ml but that should get you started

This sounds pretty standard as far as research goes. There’s experiments of a billion things done in animals which only prove or help understand how mechanisms work. From there to saying, “this is the exact same method we’ll use on people, this is practically done” it rarely happens that straight away. You have at least a decade on average of trials and ways to figure out which drugs are appropriate for release.

Unless you quote me a snippet from any of these articles in which the scientists are expressly saying “we are hoping to use a similar virus on people” I’d say you are jumping to conclusions.