because i’d previously been scraping by hand and i’ve never heard of that tool before right now. i regret nothing; i learned a ton. i’m curious how they got around the cloudflare captcha issue.

i wrote a fairly complex script in perl for scraping fanfiction off the internet, extracting data from it, and formatting that data into beautifully and consistently formatted epubs to read on my ereader.

oh, interesting. i guess i didn’t realize, cause i always sort by new.

isn’t this how pinned posts are already used basically?

if you have a favorite language that isn’t on this, you’re a super nerd.

see, i’ve always felt that kansas is just about the most midwest there is

honestly, i’ve never seen or heard a single coherent definition of what we even mean by ‘free will’. until the question makes sense, i can’t really answer it, and don’t see any point in discussing it.

anyways, who here believes in blabblesnork? that is a word that refers to something, i promise, but no, i won’t tell you what it means.

trains. i know it isn’t particularly new technology, but i am still excited about it.

that’s neither authority nor authoritarianism. you’re conflating multiple different meanings so you can shift the goalposts on the sly. a doctor can give you advice, and if you’re wise, you’ll heed it out of respect for her hard-earned expertise, but she doesn’t have authority. she isn’t empowered to force you to do anything. even being involuntarily committed is generally something done by courts, not doctors; the doctors are merely required to carry out the courts orders.

from what i hear about what facebook is like these days, maybe craigslist.

i can’t think of any reason it would.

wow that’s a lot of words. so, basically, you want a term to say ‘i’m straight, but i’d never date a trans person’, but you want it to somehow shield you from any suggestions that you might be somewhat transphobic, and you want it to free you from any obligation or expectation to introspect and unlearn the transphobia that society has programmed you with?

so there’s three methods i’m aware of:

1. patreon, or some other similar scheme, as you said
2. use a following from writing fanfic to promote other, non-fanfic, work
3. take commissions from individuals

i’m a fairly deft hand at pottery. i’m also decent at fiber crafts. depends when and where during the stone age, of course, that’s a pretty big expanse. if i’m really lucky, i’d be in one of the many cultures with special spiritual roles for trans folks. i’ve also got good rote memorization skills, so i can help with oral history.

capitalism is the system whereby greed is raised above all other human impulses though. in most other systems, sure, people can be greedy, but they aren’t rewarded for it, and people who aren’t naturally greedy don’t get pushed and trained to be greedy as the highest aspiration.

borderlands science in borderlands 3 is probably my all time favourite mini-game in a video game

i assume they mean this definition, and not a hairdresser’s.

probably most of them do. epubs are mostly html after all.

there’s some niche communities i occasionally check in on on reddit, but i’ve basically abandoned the site ever since the api debacle killed my preferred app. i mostly just browse on mobile so a decent app was important to me.

that’s cuneiform, actually. it isn’t chiselled into stone, but rather, is pressed into wet clay with a stylus. the more you know!