beautiful_boater

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[–] beautiful_boater@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago

sci-hub has already been mentioned, but I will say that though it is not piracy, depending on the field, you can find free version "pre-prints" of papers on arxiv.org and socarxiv.org

[–] beautiful_boater@hexbear.net 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You know, there is an obvious solution...JUST MAKE CLEAN ENERGY AND GREEN SOLUTIONS IN YOUR COUNTRY TOO!

[–] beautiful_boater@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago

New Sykes-Picot #ExMiddleEast - Günther

[–] beautiful_boater@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Sorry to nerd out, but this reminds me of a senior grad student when I was a first year physics grad student. He was talking about the "order of magnitude" class that some professor was able to set up as a fun class for fulfilling his teaching requirements. It involved calculating or estimating order of magnitude values and putting them in units of something you can relate to (e.g. distance in terms of football fields, or your height, energy in an hour of air conditioning, etc.). In the spirit of this class, this guy used his dick for length and then came up with some other size unit to convert to for homework he had to hand in. The diameter of the Milky Way galaxy is 5 * 10^19 of this guy's "dick units", apparently.

[–] beautiful_boater@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Is there something I am missing? I am using uBlock Origin on Firefox and Youtube works the same as always.

[–] beautiful_boater@hexbear.net 20 points 11 months ago

rosa-shining Millennium Challenge Rising rosa-shining

[–] beautiful_boater@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It is mostly radlib anti-capitalism, and there is a huge recession and a lot of bailouts for E-Corp after their heist. So, I believe that it is season 2 and 3 where several characters are starting to say things like "maybe overthrowing capitalism and revolution are misguided". But if you just want a character based drama with a lot of twists, it is not bad.

[–] beautiful_boater@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago

We love to, literally, project our wars on the Brandenburg Gate. It is amazing that it was retroactively made into the altar of fascism in the 20th century.

[–] beautiful_boater@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago

Look, we aren't using dehumanizing language if we include the adjective "human"

[–] beautiful_boater@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

I should have been more specific. Yes, it is a wrapper around a closed source blob.

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