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Hard Read
Before the internet, Cliff Notes were popular books that summarized and provided insight into meaning for classical literature. Students used them in place of reading the actual book.
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Hard Read
Before the internet, Cliff Notes were popular books that summarized and provided insight into meaning for classical literature. Students used them in place of reading the actual book.
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Anon loves medieval poetry
Ragnar the Red is the name of a Nordic song, popular in Skyrim.
Oh, there once was a hero named Ragnar the Red,
Who came riding to Whiterun from old Rorikstead
And the braggart did swagger and brandish his blade,
As he told of bold battles and gold he had made.
But then he went quiet, did Ragnar the Red,
When he met the shield-maiden Matilda, who said;
"Oh, you talk and you lie and you drink all our mead,
Now I think it's high time that you lie down and bleed!"
And so then came clashing and slashing of steel,
As the brave lass Matilda charged in, full of zeal.
And the braggart named Ragnar was boastful no more-
When his ugly red head rolled around on the floor!
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Cemetery Staffer Declines To Press Charges For Fear Of Retaliation
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Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender for anyone else who didn't know.
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The Promotion
Over slept.
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I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS—and You Should Too - Joey's Hoard of Stuff
The hardest part is when you have to curate by yourself. To me RSS feels like a lot of work upfront. Is there a tool to help discover items to add to your feed aligned with your interest?
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Signals of Trouble: Multiple Russia-Aligned Threat Actors Actively Targeting Signal Messenger | Google Cloud Blog
In depth review validating the credibility of Signal's encryption by a Security Engineer who specializes in encryption.
Reviewing the Cryptography Used by Signal by Soatok
The bottom line was in total, no vulnerabilities were found.
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Very Secure 2 Factor Auth [Rule]
I'm sorry, we're currently in the process of dismantling the USPS. Please feel free to have some user data. We're not sure if it's really yours or not since our authentication procedures have been reduced. I'm sure you have the best intentions. Good day.
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Remaining original Looney Tunes removed from Max
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Gabe Newell believes piracy is a result of inferior service or access. I believe the original poster is stating that piracy has become the answer here because it's the only place to find this media.
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DOGE Staffer Who Quit Over Racist Posts Is Already Coming Back to Work
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So he definitely still has those views.
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Alibaba Releases Advanced Open Video Model, Immediately Becomes AI Porn Machine
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It's going to vary based on the usage amount. Popular apps are going to be charged a lot.
From Reddit's blog about the change:
Effective July 1, 2023, the rate for third-party apps that require higher usage limits is $0.24 per 1K API calls.
Apollo's developer stated in May 2023, Apollo made 7 billion requests, which would put it at about 1.7 million dollars per month, or 20 million US dollars per year.
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What is something the world would be better without?
Homelessness
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Just so it doesn't get lost.
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Ownership isn't required to use the death note. This is like when Ray Penber, the FBI Agent, unknowingly wrote the names of all the FBI agents on the page.
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Rule
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Russia says U.S. relations are on brink of collapse, refuses to confirm Trump call claim
I read in a previous post that Trump's plan leaked:
The plan requires Ukraine to give up land in Russia’s Kursk region and also to accept Russia’s land grab. European soldiers would also occupy and monitor a demilitarized zone.
Ukraine would also have to agree not to seek membership in NATO
If true, Russia is getting what it wants.
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Signal no longer cooperating with Ukraine on Russian cyberthreats, official says
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Malicious QR codes were used to establish a separate device as a 'linked device' which would allow the attacker to receive and read Signal messages sent to and from the target
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idiom rule
A good idiom doesn't have to cost an arm lined with ink.
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Nearly 30 Percent Of The Top 100 Steam Deck Games Aren’t Verified
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Same, but I can understand that Valve doesn't want to give false impressions that a game runs perfectly when there are imperfections as mentioned. Valve has high community trust.
But yeah, I usually just read the incompatibility issues and usually decide it's not a big deal and play anyway.
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Just play it cool
My experience is the same. How are women's bodies so tolerant to hot water?
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What are everyone's thoughts on Molly, advertised as a hardened fork of Signal?