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It's interesting how the situation flips somewhat for men in adulthood. In most white collar office jobs it is totally unacceptable for anyone to wear shorts, flip flops, and tank tops. However, women are allowed or encouraged to wear skirts, strappy shoes, and sleeveless blouses. In hotter climates, I've known a few men that have seriously considered wearing skirts because pants are so uncomfortable, but the social stigma is just too much. Of course, those men still wouldn't be pressured to wear make-up daily too. I have no idea how men can wear an entire suit, especially a jacket, in subtropical and tropical climates. Thankfully I work in a field that does not pressure women away from wearing pants, but again pants suck in the subtropics. Plus, women's business casual pants are almost a completely different thing than men's pants with regards to fitting closely and being made of thin to nearly sheer materials.

I hope this doesn't feel like sealioning, more that I feel like men need to be shown how the patriarchy is bad for everybody. Blue collar dress codes are at least mostly centered around safety. While it seems white collar dress codes are mostly about "professionalism", which is mostly just code for gender norms, misogyny, and patriarchy.

We need to drop the idea that filling every moment of our waking life with chatter, TV, music, media, etc. is typical or even healthy.

This is something that has actually happened to multiple children though.

I read a few ebooks of questionable provenance. I've learned to see past the strange typos, beyond what the OCR recognized, to see the fuzzy imperfect typeset must have been.

They don't even know cron exists and you're going to throw them to the wolves by suggesting Systemd? That's like calling in a drone strike to swat a mosquito.

In thousands of songs, I've never noticed Picard doing anything to the length of the files. I tend to manually review every album by running it through Picard and letting it handle the renaming and tagging. That structure used to be Artist/Year Album/Song. I've been less strict about naming the songs themselves. It's always at least track - Title, but sometimes Artist - Album - Disc # - is prepended. Eventually I ran into a situation where I had multiple versions of a release/album with different enough content to warrant keeping both, so now I throw a release ID number (if is exists) after the album name, and inside brackets, for the directory name.

It's a very flat structure by design, so I'm never quibbling about where I sourced something or what particular genre it is when I'm looking for it. That dramatically reduces the likelihood of duplicates too. Real metadata is better left to tags, since that's mostly what any player will see anyway.

If I'm having trouble getting Picard to recognize something it always because: musicbrainz.org is missing the release, doesn't have acoustic ID, or Picard preferred the album track when I'm trying to rename and tag a single or EP. Adding the release info and acoustic ID to musicbrainz is easy and I can usually use the info before the release is even reviewed, but often in trying to add the release I'll find the correct one and now I can help fill out the data about it.

I treat musicbrainz.org as MY metadata database. If a release is missing or has problems, I do the work to make it better. It's good digital citizenship and learning about their rules for releases helps me manage my server better.

Dishwashers use less water than you will doing the same task. They may not be perfect for every dish, but washing by hand when there is a functional dishwasher is justing pissing away time, effort, and a lot of water.

Correct. My mistake.

You say something like this despite the mounting evidence that these state sponsored murder programs have not found competent people willing to be a party to murder.

I don't know if Clifford D. Simak is lesser known, but his work is pretty foundational for a lot of more modern sci-fi. Before there was "I, Robot", there was "City". ~~Before there were Ewoks, there was "Little Fuzzy".~~ Before there were living ships like in Farscape, Lexx, or Xenogenesis, there was "The Visitors".

I should have remembered that was H. Beam Piper. Also great.

Wildest dystopian cyberpunk movie ever made. In an underground dinosaur society once ruled by a benevolent fungal king and taken over by corrupt corporation developing trans-dino de-volution technology to control the masses, two sanitation engineers from Brooklyn become heros. To do so they must hack the mycelial network to find the lost king, survive an electric vehicle demolition derby style car chase, and save the princess.

Dracula was published in 1897 and put the vampire count's origin in Transylvania, Romania. Bela Lugosi was born and raised in what is now Lugoj, Romania, and would go on to play Dracula on Broadway in 1927, then the the Dracula movie began production in 1930.

Bela certainly made his mark on the character, but the accent was just typecasting not an artistic choice.