On Steam, click your username in the top bar, and select “profile” from the dropdown menu. On the profile page, there’s an “edit profile” button near the top right corner, underneath your level. In the “General” tab, the field “real name” should be the second one down

Not a right-wing source in and of itself, but Corey Robin’s The Reactionary Mind explores the history and philosophical underpinnings of conservative thought from Burke/Hobbes on through the 21st century, on a variety of different topics. It’s a serious engagement with the ideas, and attempt to understand them and their origins

Check out the “Leviathan” album by Mastodon. A good number of bangers on there, one after another

So I recently listened to an episode of the Data over Dogma podcast specifically regarding angels and demons. It’s hosted by Dan Beecher (an atheist podcaster) and Dr. Dan McClellan (a Bible scholar), and they discuss how angels and demons are actually depicted/described in the Bible, compared to the extra-biblical descriptions of both that we’ve gotten over the millennia. It’s about an hour but should serve as a nice little primer on the subject, with some recommendations for further study.

Sure, it’s conventional explosive with radioactive markers to test the detection capabilities of their equipment. I was being polite with my earlier comment, in case I had missed something in the article, but I guess I didn’t.

The Wikipedia page on Explosives gives some reading on the differences between the two. Suffice it to say, chemical and nuclear explosions are fundamentally different things; breaking/reforming of molecular bonds to produce heat and energy, compared to splitting or fusing atoms themselves, which releases FAR more energy than those molecular reactions since the bonds holding atomic nuclei together are so much stronger. If we say that a nuclear explosion is literally any explosion + radioisotopes, then you could buy some uranium online, tape it to a brick of plastic explosive, and say you’ve got yourself a nuke. Maybe someone should tell Iran they don’t need to waste all that money on centrifuges.

You’re half right though, in that this probably is a response to Russia, but demonstrating your ability to detect underground nuclear tests is not at all the same thing as actually conducting one.

Where are you seeing that the US conducted a nuclear test? The article only mentions a chemical explosion

I believe those are total numbers, so that includes both operational warheads (ready to launch) and stored warheads. The article here is specifically referring to the number of operational warheads China has, which is still much lower than that of Russia and the US, but the gap isn’t quite as wide as 500-6,000

It’s essentially the lemmy version of Apollo for Reddit, which was an iOS only app (different devs though)

I think OP means in 2001, not in the 80s

It’s been my observation that ambassadorships are often given out as rewards or for other domestic political purposes. The career foreign service people whose job it is to do the real work of diplomacy aren’t political appointees

Oh yeah my actual workflow to create a book was horribly inefficient and time-consuming. How automated is that HTML export and chunking process? Are you still going through and manually adding in every last <p></p> and href?

I’m curious about your use case, because I was doing this with a book that was hundreds of pages long, full of photos and footnotes, which added lots of tedium.

I had this exact question myself a little while ago, so I’ll share what I learned. I don’t know your level of knowledge with these things so forgive me if I’m explaining things you already know. And spoiler alert, the answer is “technically, but not how you’d like”

An EPUB “file” is really a folder containing a bunch of individual HTML files which hold the text for the book as well as things like the table of contents, and photos (if your ebook has pictures), with CSS for styling. This is the exact medium you’d work in if you were designing a web page, but with en ebook there are different best practices and considerations.

Now assuming that your PDF has a good OCR (optical character recognition) layer, then it will be possible for calibre and other programs to grab the text of the PDF, and even to create an epub with it. But as you’ve noticed, they don’t do a good job of this. The fundamental problem is that creating an epub is something of an art, with best practices and personal choices as far as layout and file structure. When you “convert”, you’re not changing the file type from PDF to EPUB; you’re grabbing the text from the PDF and then sticking it into multiple different files, with HTML and CSS instructions throughout to tell the EReader how to lay things out, which footnotes link to which annotations, where to display pictures, etc.

As far as I’m aware, this basically can’t be done (well) with dumb, automatic programs like what Calibre offers because there’s too much “thinking” involved. Perhaps an AI tool could be created that would handle this better, but I’m not aware of one, and it’s a pretty specialised application so it’s possible you’ll need to wait a while before someone gets around to that.

So I realised that if I wanted an EPUB version, I’d need to make it myself. I used Sigil, a free EPUB creation tool, to do it, which gave me some nice features to help speed up the process, but it’s a big time commitment (unless you’re working with a very short PDF), especially for your first EPUB where you’re still learning what to do while making it. You’ll also need to learn HTML and CSS if you haven’t already.

I did it as a sort of fun side project in my free time to learn a new skill, but unfortunately other than that, I don’t think there’s such thing as an “EPUBinator” that’s gonna take your PDF and create a well-made ebook.

To add on, this exact scenario illustrates why BMI is not always the best measure of health, because it only looks at height and weight. Measuring waist circumference and body fat percentage should give you a better-rounded picture of how you’re doing

DonnieDarkmode’s name invokes famous movie (DonnieDarkmode has never watched Donnie Darko) as well as popular display setting that doesn’t sear eyeballs

An important thing to keep in mind is that the practice of religion changes over time alongside culture, and is itself a part of culture. The Christianity of people living in places like Judea and Anatolia in the 1st century CE differs from the Christianity of, say, the Teutonic (not up on my post-Roman ethnicities, so might not be using the right term) tribes of Western Europe in the 6th century. This again differs from the Christianity of indigenous peoples in the Americas post-Columbus. In all these cases, these people had pre-existing cultural and religious beliefs which Christianity syncretised with instead of wholly replacing.

The Bible has been used to endorse slavery as well as oppose it, to condone violence and warfare as well as serve as the basis for radical non-violence. It is not “univocal”, because the various people who wrote and compiled it had their own beliefs and perspectives.

The various sects of Christianity differ in their values, beliefs, and even canon literature, and that’s before you get into Christianity as cultural practice rather than strict religion. Like all religions, Christianity is wonderfully human, encompassing our wide range of idiosyncrasies and contradictions, and that even includes people who don’t read the damn book! So yes, you’re going to find commonly accepted “Christian” practices which seem to clearly contradict the doctrine, but the doctrine contradicts itself, and serves people just as much as people should ostensibly serve it. The conception of Christianity as a unified religion, with 1 canon and 1 accepted interpretation, has never been accurate.

FWIW Early Christians did practice communal living and sharing of property (the New Testament tells us as much), and you can still see these things in practice today, albeit rarely. I also wouldn’t use modern terms like socialism to describe that sort of thing, because the economic order and class structures which Socialism and Communism are a response to literally did not exist at the time.

Without rewording the title, putting quotes around “Coup Plotters” would make it more readable, but the phrasing is clunky

Get an RSS reader! I use NetNewsWire on iOS and Mac but there’s a huge variety out there to choose from. Once you’ve made your choice, you can add RSS feeds from different websites (Reuters, NPR, etc.), so you can have one feed that aggregates articles from all the news sources you’ve selected, or customise different feeds focusing on politics, economics, cars, whatever you want. I can even add in different substacks I’m subscribed to. Once upon a time you could also add your Twitter and Reddit feeds, but with the API shenanigans that’s not available anymore sadly

It seems inevitable that there’s going to be conflict of some sort there before this decade is over. Iran’s having useable nukes is an excellent way to assure that there won’t be an attempt by the US to oust the regime by force, but it’s also a pretty clear red line for the US and Israel. The real question to me is what that conflict will look like

This is the best way in my experience; I was able to get rid of over 20 filing boxes of books this way while helping my folks downsize their collection. It’s a small way to support your local library system, and I’ve had some excellent finds at thrift book stores/library sales over the years so it’s nice to contribute to that as well

Drop the Browns off at the Super Bowl, drop a duece, “are you gonna take a [first name] and wipe your [last name]?”