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Also if you regularly work with kids/teens I cannot stress how important it is that you know someone who's like really into lame emo junk. There was a girl my dad was working with who just flat out refused to talk to adults or anyone at all and one day I was there and I saw her wearing a homemade bracelet that had beads that said YLDNDAHFHHACYCSYCDAYDKK and since I was also once a 14 year old making niche homemade mcr merch I was like "oh my god you like dnd Audrey Hepburn Fangoria Harry Houdini and croquet you cant swim you can't dance and you dont know karate!!!" and she looked at me like I'd said literal magic words and now we talk about music all the time

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Jodie Comer as Villanelle Killing Eve, Season 1: 2018

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the euphemistic discussion of content in books is an absolute pain in the arse because the deeply subjective nature of people's own experiences and tolerance makes it meaningless

i have seen books described as spicy because they include kissing scenes (written by an LDS author) and spicy when they are primarily erotica.

it is just tiring that we are entering a period of algorithm satisfying thought-stopping cliches rather than using the full extent of the language

when the whole discussion about women in booktok being porn-addicted because they wouldn't read anything that wasn't 'spicy' I thought people were off on some nonsense because I viewed spicy as a description for books that had sex or explicit romance, with zero context that people were using the term to include written pornography. which isn't helped by people using it for basically any books with physical descriptions of affection or intimacy.

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i really really hate "intimacy" entering common parlance, and I'm assuming it's because of tiktok talk

just say sex for fucks sake

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Here's a legal PSA:

If you've committed a crime and a detective gathers everyone involved in the room, especially if he's not actually a detective and is instead a novelist, puzzle-setter, psychic, fake psychic, dog, chess grandmaster, etc. ...

YOU SHOULD NOT CONFESS.

Every year, hundreds of people are put away by non-traditional "detectives" who have either inserted themselves into the case or are working with the police in a dubiously legal capacity as advisor. In 99% of these cases, the murderer gives a full confession even though the evidence against them is circumstantial at best and often requires a long just-so story which can only guess at motive.

If this happens to you, stay quiet, do not attempt to defend yourself or talk your way out of it, only say "I want a lawyer".

Now if you find yourself being investigated by a boy genius, magician's assistant, anthropologist, classics scholar, or philosopher, it's likely that refusing to talk to the police (or investigator with no legal authority) is merely the end of the second act, and by the end of the third act they will have you dead to rights.

YOU SHOULD STILL NOT CONFESS.

Make them take it to court. Force the eccentric detective and his straight-laced police partner to take the stand and explain their methods to a jury of your peers. Have your lawyer look at the chain of custody on the evidence, especially if you believe it to have been handled by someone who has only bumbled into detective work through their natural charm and/or unique set of skills and outsider perspective that come in handy more often than they should.

Know your rights. Don't let eccentric detectives put you away.

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one of my favourite tropes is fernando feeling like a dirty perverted predator.. and still doing what he wants anyway

like "oh I'm so fucking disgusting this is such an awful thing to do" *doesn't stop*

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Here's a legal PSA:

If you've committed a crime and a detective gathers everyone involved in the room, especially if he's not actually a detective and is instead a novelist, puzzle-setter, psychic, fake psychic, dog, chess grandmaster, etc. ...

YOU SHOULD NOT CONFESS.

Every year, hundreds of people are put away by non-traditional "detectives" who have either inserted themselves into the case or are working with the police in a dubiously legal capacity as advisor. In 99% of these cases, the murderer gives a full confession even though the evidence against them is circumstantial at best and often requires a long just-so story which can only guess at motive.

If this happens to you, stay quiet, do not attempt to defend yourself or talk your way out of it, only say "I want a lawyer".

Now if you find yourself being investigated by a boy genius, magician's assistant, anthropologist, classics scholar, or philosopher, it's likely that refusing to talk to the police (or investigator with no legal authority) is merely the end of the second act, and by the end of the third act they will have you dead to rights.

YOU SHOULD STILL NOT CONFESS.

Make them take it to court. Force the eccentric detective and his straight-laced police partner to take the stand and explain their methods to a jury of your peers. Have your lawyer look at the chain of custody on the evidence, especially if you believe it to have been handled by someone who has only bumbled into detective work through their natural charm and/or unique set of skills and outsider perspective that come in handy more often than they should.

Know your rights. Don't let eccentric detectives put you away.

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ITS THIS THING TUESDAY

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the power of being a guy telling another guy 'that sounds like something an incel would say' to get them to shut up and reconsider their choices is immense

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#citizens watching the us elections right now

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer 5.08 — "Shadow"

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SUCCESSION 2.04 | Safe Room

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Killing Eve — 1.08 “God, I'm Tired”

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i hate posts like this which are true while also not being true the cloud is someone else's computer, but it's not A computer, it's a whole web of interconnected servers of which your alloted space is amorphous, ephemeral, and non-continuous. sure, you can have 'dedicated' servers somewhere running your services, but that is not cloud in the way that people are using it or why people are using it. clouds positionaility is that it requires less upfront costs because you don't have to buy an entire server rack, you don't have to run the servers all the time in expectation of service requirements, and the uptime is maintained due to the redundancy. secondly, cloud is no less inherently safe than any other server for sensitive data that faces any sort of external network. sure, a lot of very secure data is so secure that it doesn't leave the building it is generated in, but for most people's data in their business it is probably more safe on the cloud than on some personal network because the vast majority of people at your company are fucking dummies who will click phishing links for a possible $20 Amazon voucher for your personal data, you probably shouldn't put it on cloud storage because you all have shit IAM and use two factor methods that are easily spoofed. another point, we have had clouds in the sense of content delivery networks for decades because the idea of fetching a file from A specific server when you can instead have it a wide range of servers closer to the people who are trying to access it and as I close, I want to make something clear first. cloud service providers are making off like bandits with huge margins on every service. we are not deploying data centres and server farms in anything remotely close to an equitable or responsible way. but cloud stuff is really fucking cool in terms of technical solutions. you can have services that automatically scale up and down depending how much they are being used, meaning you don't have to maintain servers that are being unused. similarly, you can have services distribute across a wide range of servers to make them scalable on short notice. we've also come so far that we now have 'serverless computing' approaches which are built so that the actual physical reality of servers does not need to be considered by the peson developing code and services. when used, you don't have to consider infrastructure management, container orchestration, etc. because it is handled for you, making it easier for people to create resilient services. developers constantly talk about the cloud being someone else's computer because management knows fucking nothing and treats cloud like some ethereal being. for the average person interacting with the internet, the cloud is not someone else's computer, it is an underlying backbone to the internet that extends the capability far beyond anything that dedicated servers and services could ever manage

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