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@partizle.comhttps://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-county-offers-cash-reward-couples-if-bride-is-aged-25-or-younger-2023-08-29/
A county in eastern China is offering couples a "reward" of 1,000 yuan ($137) if the bride is aged 25 or younger, the latest measure to incentivise young people to get married amid rising concern over a declining birth rate.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/moderate-drinking-heart-disesase-cancer/674692/
The latest alcohol advice ignores the value of pleasure.
Dostoyevsky's notes from the underground Part 2 Chapter 1 has a story about a long "vendetta" between the underground man and an officer. It was a comedy in how he was so intent on things and cared so much about an imagined slight and prepared and saved and got an advance on his salary and all this preparation... to nudge this guy slightly while walking down the street instead of completely moving aside.
It felt like a comedy to me, where someone uptight got themselves all worked up against someone who didn't hardly even know they existed, become obsessed, and the impression I got is that the officer didn't even know the other guy existed.
The way the Underground Man talks and acts is starting to make me realize he's a nerd, and almost shockingly similar to repressed nerds in the current age.
He is also highly vain about his intelligence, and how well-read he is, and he really feels like that makes him a better person than others. His imaginary feud started up in part because he didn't get into a dramatic fight that would be appropriate for a work of literature, and he blamed not just starting a fight in the bar because it wouldn't be fantastical like his stories.
I'll say I can see why it's considered a masterwork, because while it's investigating a lot of themes, it's also fairly entertaining. The first part of the book could be seen as reasonable within itself, but then you see his actual behavior it's almost cartoonish the way he is.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/07/bungie-wins-489k-from-player-for-racist-harassment-of-employee/
Ruling sets legal precedent for companies to recover costs from harassment campaigns.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF7kaLTsNHQ
We drove the Vinfast VF8 to see if all of the negative reviews were justified.Special thanks to Natalie Ly for lending us her Vinfast. Check out her experie...
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1950582
Unofficial Myst port for 8-bit Atari 2600 gives the '90s adventure a '70s makeover.
So I've been looking up VPN stuff, and in the process, I've stumbled on ProtonVPN, from the same people as ProtonMail. They're now offering private cloud storage, and I'm wondering how private is it. e2e means I have to manage the keys on my device right? I don't know how else it could realistically work, if they manage keys, they can access my keys etc?
https://www.esquire.com/food-drink/bars/a43989427/best-bars-america-2023/
From a space-themed bar in San Diego, to conjuring the 70s through wine in New Orleans, and reinventing the quintessential dive in New York, here are all the new spots to order another round or three.