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Women outperform men in many sports, and in many instances, the men's versions of these sports are rewritten into completely different versions so that they can't be compared.

And if your reaction to this is "well women don't outperform men in skills that we typically find impressive" I would implore you to think about why things women tend to be better at than men are valued less by society.

If your reaction is "well that's cherrypicking examples, its such a small handful of formalized sports" I'd implore you to think of why so many popular sports are structured around the specific set of skills men are better at.

She is an Olympic goddess. Watching her do the 1500m is amazing. She is fast and has amazing endurance. I have seen her finish a race and then we had to wait for several minutes for the 2nd and 3rd place to finally catch up.

Women wanted to be lawyers and engineers and chemists. They wanted to use their brains in challenging and interesting ways. They wanted to get the satisfaction from solving problems and inventing new shit and getting attention for it.

ingredience:

lemons/limes (this needs to make up the bulk of the fruit being used, like at least 80%)

whatever other fruits or fruit scraps you want, plus any herbs/other flavorings you want to try. by fruit scraps I mean things like cherry pits, apple peels, pineapple cores, strawberry ends, things like that.

granulated white sugar, the coarser the better, 50% by weight of total citrus rinds + 100% by weight of any additional fruit. you'll measure this after you prep the fruit.

water as needed

equipment:

a few nonmetallic mixing bowls

a mesh strainer

a chinoise, ricer or some cheesecloth

a kitchen scale

a citrus juicer or reamer (manual or electric)

a potato masher

juice the citrus through a strainer - saving all rinds -  and refrigerate the juice for the time being. dice the rinds and other fruits if any, keeping the rinds separate. make note of weights, and measure your sugar.

 Place sugar in a large nonmetallic bowl. If using non-citrus fruits and/or any other flavorings, mix them in with the sugar and mash with potato masher. add diced citrus rinds, mix thoroughly, and mash again. cover and let stand at room temperature for at least 4 hours. this allows the sugar to draw out flavors that would otherwise get discarded with the rinds, and the rinds' acids should be enough to dissolve the sugar into a syrup.

Afterward, mash one last time, then collect the syrup by pressing the macerated mixture through a strainer/chinoise or ricer, or squeeze it through cheesecloth. if you want, this can be saved as a standalone syrup at this point, for use in cocktails or desserts. if not, slowly pour the reserved juice through the solids to to help get the remaining syrup out, and squeeze/press again. do the same thing one more time with warm water (roughly the same amount of water as juice). discard solids (or try making sangria with them!).

taste the mixture and add more water if necessary. a stronger mix is totally fine if you anticipate serving over ice on a hot day, or adding booze, or if there was a lot of non-sour fruit. keep in mind that it will taste a bit less sweet once it's chilled. pour into a pitcher and refrigerate.

citrus oils will float to the top, so stir/shake before serving. love you. enjoy.

some tried and true flavor combos:

straight lemon or lime, or any combination of the two, is of course an untouchable classic

lemon & strawberries (that's pussy babe!)

lemon & orange with a hint of vanilla (creamsiclemonade...?)

lemon & apples or apple peels with cinnamon/ginger/allspice (for late summer)

some cocktail type combos, booze optional:

lemon or lime & berries with basil + gin

lime & mint + white rum

lime & ginger + dark rum

lime & cucumber + gin

lime & orange (berries optional) + tequila

Text-based generative AI technologies require the ingestion of vast amounts of data, including tens or hundreds of thousands of books. AI companies, so far, have not sought permission or offered compensation to the authors whose books and other writings are being used in training generative AI technologies, a practice that the Authors Guild stringently opposes. To make matters worse, all of the large book AI training datasets that we are aware of were compiled from ebook piracy sites—precisely because there are no legal databases of books that are on the open internet, and AI developers have not obtained licenses to do so.  

The Authors Guild has been working on advancing legislative and regulatory changes that would require AI companies to seek permission before using books and other written works in the training and development of generative AI systems. But until legal safeguards are instituted, authors can take some steps to try to protect themselves from unauthorized training uses.

In addition to the steps below, make sure to set up Google alerts for each of your books and to send takedown notices whenever you see unauthorized copies online.

Add a Copyright Notice to Your Works

We recommend that you include a short notice on the cover or copyright page of your books, or at the top of posted articles or stories. Even though copyright law gives authors exclusive rights to decide if others can use their works, many tech companies, including AI developers, believe everything on the web is free to use. They will, however, observe opt-outs when pressed. Below is an example of such a notice:  

NO AI TRAINING: Without in any way limiting the author’s [and publisher’s] exclusive rights under copyright, any use of this publication to “train” generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to generate text is expressly prohibited. The author reserves all rights to license uses of this work for generative AI training and development of machine learning language models.

Block AI Bots from Crawling Your Website

You can protect yourself from some unauthorized crawling and scraping of text from your website by adding or editing a file called robots.txt with instructions for web crawlers. OpenAI has said that it will not crawl sites that restrict its crawler, GPTBot, in robots.txt. You can learn how to add or update your robots.txt file here, and OpenAI has details on how to disallow GPTBot from accessing your site.

Honestly, spot on. Mostly.

Some things I wanna correct:

Your contract is 8 years. It can be 2 years active, the rest reserve. It could be 8 active. It could be 1. You're still property until year 8 is over. Means you only have freedom of religion too.

Basic does brainwash you - it's designed to make you react unconsciously so that even in a blind panic you still take cover and engage the target. And that means you'll hear orders and respond accordingly, yeah. Cold War really made that cult mentality stick.

Obama got rid of recruiting bonuses, don't know if Trump brought them back. Given how shit retention rates are, probably.

Some jobs actually can't deploy! But unless you're a veterinarian, yeah you're at risk.

Reasons I would encourage someone to enlist:

The only other option is homelessness.