ellauri045.html on line 330: Stephen Fry ei haluu politiikkaan. First, I would rather suck turds for a living. Secondly I can’t make my mind up on Big Issues. Stephen Fry on bipolaarinen homo ja juutalainen (oikealta eli äidin puolelta). Ainoa joka pystyy huijaamaan juutalaista on armenialainen. Ja kääntäen.
ellauri052.html on line 938: Greg had made a career out of his own childhood misery—a nasty dig given that Saul was as much the author of that misery as he was of his novels. Greg noted, with shrugging disapproval, that his father “felt a duty of truth to his readers that was stronger than to his family,” but indicated he still didn’t understand or accept this about his father. Perhaps he can’t be expected to. “All significant human business is transacted inside,” was Saul’s lesson to Greg, who doesn’t seem to have forgiven his father for it being true.
ellauri066.html on line 524: Rabbi Harold S. Kushner in his book When Bad Things Happen to Good People describes schadenfreude as a universal, even wholesome reaction that cannot be helped. "There is a German psychological term, Schadenfreude, which refers to the embarrassing reaction of relief we feel when something bad happens to someone else instead of to us." He gives examples and writes, "[People] don't wish their friends ill, but they can’t help feeling an embarrassing spasm of gratitude that [the bad thing] happened to someone else and not to them." onkohan tää rabbi trumpin vävyn setä?
ellauri067.html on line 441: “I was so fucked up while I was writing it . . . that now I go back over some of those sequences and I can’t figure out what I could have meant.”
ellauri073.html on line 267: The character's debut performance (May 8, 1993) has been called one of the best segments in SNL history. The reception of the audience combined with visible stifled laughter from David Spade and Christina Applegate on stage added to the popularity of the sketch. Notable physical gestures from Farley included what Spade referred to as “the thing with the glasses” when Farley lifted his glasses on and off of his face commenting, “Hey Dad, I can’t see real good, is that Bill Shakespeare over there?” and perhaps the most defining gesture was one that Farley saved for the live performance when he alternated hands adjusting his trousers, grabbing the hilt of his belt with one hand and the back of his pants with the other.
ellauri077.html on line 216: Once again, the preponderance of American culture in Germany makes Infinite Jest a book that is readily understood. (And at this point I can’t help but take glee in the inherently Wallacian irony that American capitalism’s blob-like smearing of the globalized world has prepared the way for a scathing critique of this very same capitalism contained, Trojan Horse-style, inside a recondite mega-novel.) Still, things get lost: Blumenbach said that he “annotated the text as far as I could, and the publishers put those sixty pages of annotations on their website for a while.”
ellauri078.html on line 52: The infinity symbol (∞) represents a line that never ends. The common sign for infinity, ∞, was first time used by Wallis in the mid 1650s. He also introduced 1/∞ for an infinitesimal which is so small that it can’t be measured. Wallis wrote about this and numerous other issues related to infinity in his book Treatise on the Conic Sections published in 1655. The infinity symbol looks like a horizontal version of number 8 and it represents the concept of eternity, endless and unlimited. Some scientists say, however, that John Wallis could have taken the Greek letter ω as a source for creating the infinity sign.
ellauri080.html on line 542: This axis is also apparent in my own videos: you’ll notice there are quite a few of them, partly because I keep on redoing the same topics whenever I feel I’ve hit on a new perspective that I then can’t help but explain as though it were my new ‘doctrine’ because it suddenly seems so much more clear and beautiful and compelling than any previous perspectives, and I just want to get that pure idea out. Literally, after I do a video on a compelling subject, if I did it well, I’ll feel like I’ve emptied myself out, and I’ll very easily forget what it was that I just explained in that video. The idea dulls, I start finding some problems with it, and over time I mull it around with other material and then become bedazzled by the next rich synthesis.
ellauri080.html on line 733: In India, a Muslim friend encouraged Gandhi to eat goat’s meat. As Gandhi was physically weak, he agreed to it. But, that night he had a dream that the goat was crying inside his stomach. He said “I can’t eat meat anymore. I heard the goat's mother bleat from inside me.” He never ate meat again.
ellauri082.html on line 137: By the time of the match, his symptoms are so bad he’s taken by ambulance to the hospital (16: “the only other emergency room I have ever been in [was] almost exactly one year back”), safely escaping the A.F.R.’s assault. Like fellow student Otis P. Lord, he gets the bed next to Gately. Joelle (who is at the hospital for a meeting) visits Gately on her way out and recognizes Hal. She tells them both about the hunt for the lethal Entertainment and the resulting Continental Emergency and they all go to dig up JOI’s grave. They persuade John Wayne, a spy for the A.F.R., to become a double agent and help sneak them into JOI’s Quebec burial site. Wayne presumably tells the A.F.R. he is actually a triple agent — that he will steal the tape as soon as Hal digs it up. But, as with Marathe, his loyalties are ultimately even-numbered (n40). The A.F.R. finds out and brutally murders him, which is why he can’t win the WhataBurger (16f).
ellauri082.html on line 141: he’s with a very sad kid and they’re in a graveyard digging some dead guy’s head up and it’s really important, like Continental-Emergency important, and Gately’s the best digger but he’s wicked hungry, like irresistibly hungry, and he’s eating with both hands out of huge economy-size bags of corporate snacks so he can’t really dig, while it gets later and later and the sad kid is trying to scream at Gately that the important thing was buried in the guy’s head and to divert the Continental Emergency to start digging the guy’s head up before it’s too late, but the kid moves his mouth but nothing comes out, and Joelle van D. appears … while the sad kid holds something terrible up by the hair and makes the face of somebody shouting in panic: Too Late. (934)
ellauri082.html on line 149: As seen in Chapter 1, Hal’s condition deepens until he literally can’t communicate at all, but no longer feels like a robot anymore. (12: “I’m not a machine. I feel and believe.”) The only thing he has left is tennis and he looks forward to playing Ortho Stice in the final match of the WhataBurger. But Stice is possessed by his father (in the manuscript, Stice is called “the Wraithster”), so the novel ends as Hal finally gets to really interface with his father — in the only way he has left.
ellauri083.html on line 529: I can’t say I really see it at all. As much as I love this book, the only person who I would say comes close to experiencing “complicated joy” is Mario, whose emotions are simple and straightforward, only made more complex by his contorted body. I think most people in the book experience a sort of numbness, or they are searching for a kind of numbness. To me, even Gately’s emotions and thoughts are dulled by the inane daily tasks he must complete, although I suppose you could argue that being free from substance addiction gives him a small sense of pride.
ellauri083.html on line 673: Sarah had a similar reaction to the news, “Sarah laughed to herself, saying, ‘After I have grown old, and my husband is old, shall I have pleasure?’” (Genesis 18:12) God caught her laughing, but “Sarah denied, saying, ‘I did not laugh’; for she was afraid. He said, ‘No, but you did laugh’” (Genesis 18:15). You can’t pull a fast one on God! But God can pull a fast one on you! That's the diff!
ellauri097.html on line 449: Recently a caller to the radio told me about a conversation he’d had about homosexuality. The caller made the teleological argument, that looking at what the natural functions of the male and female reproductive organs are for, we can draw certain conclusions about how they should properly be used. The person he was talking with challenged his argument that you can’t get an “ought” from an “is”. The challenger seemed to be saying that just because it is that way in nature doesn’t mean that we can derive a moral rule from it. The caller asked if the challenge was incorrect and how to respond to it.
ellauri097.html on line 453: The is-ought fallacy, first articulated, by David Hume is put simply as you can’t get an ‘ought’ from an ‘is.’ The more precise way of characterizing it is this; You cannot have a syllogism that has a moral term in the conclusion if there is no moral term in the premises. To be a valid argument, the conclusion has to follow from the premises. You can’t have anything in the conclusion that isn’t already set up in the premises. Hume identified this particular fallacy in arguments that were based on mere descriptive elements but had a conclusion with moral terms in it. That is the is-ought fallacy.
ellauri097.html on line 479: Let’s just say somebody says, “I don’t believe that.” I say, okay, you’re welcome to not believe it, but then you can’t argue teleologically. In fact, you can’t even argue that if it’s natural, it’s okay, because you’re arguing a certain teleology: that if you find it in nature, that means it’s morally acceptable. You can’t help yourself to the teleological argument if you don’t believe in God.
ellauri097.html on line 481: What you ought to be saying if you don’t believe in God is, It’s just molecules clashing in the universe. There is no right and wrong, so you have no justification for claiming that I’m wrong. Now, that would be consistent - the relativistic view of a materialistic universe. But, of course, then they can’t complain their “rights” because rights don’t have any place in a purely naturalistic system. Rights are part of teleology, endowed with creation.
ellauri098.html on line 557: They’re the class clowns, show-offs, and divas. Outgoing, energetic, and impulsive, they are natural performers and entertainers. But if ESPFs can’t grab attention by being funny or fascinating, they will settle for being annoying or outrageous.

ellauri106.html on line 628: “Roth’s misogyny infuses everything that he writes,” according to Meg Elison, a novelist recently described by the Times as “re-examining Roth”. This is typical of the all-or-nothing approach that is popular today, where if you don’t like everything about a public figure, then you can’t like anything. (Uskokaa tai älkää tää mielipide tulee naiselta. Se oli varmaan käynyt modernin kirjallisuuskritiikin koulua.)
ellauri107.html on line 146: I can’t be the first gay man to have been an older "straight" man’s mainstay. Philip had searched diligently for a beautiful young woman to see to him as Jane Eyre looked after old Mr. Rochester. What he got instead was me. The degree of attachment surprised us both. Were we lovers? Obviously not. Were we in love? Not exactly. But ours was a criminal conversation neither could have done without.
ellauri111.html on line 271: “Not ‘just’ like that. No. If you’d read my Diary” (not said reproachfully, but matter of factly) “you’d have read how I imagined the judge speaking to such a person. He makes it clear that it’s not a matter of going home and forgetting about it, going back to the way things were before. No. There has to be change. In my time, the father was the authority figure in the family, but, as I—or my imaginary judge—pointed out, even fathers sometimes need to be re-educated by their children until they learn to listen to their children’s needs. I know that families are very different in your time, but, yes, parents, whoever they are, must learn to be parents to their children. I disagree with much that the prosecutor said about the Karamazov family, but he was right on one point: parents can’t just be parents by virtue of procreation, they have to become parents. And when they abuse their position and their power, they cannot hide behind their rights as parents—they have to own up. The guilty have to know that they are guilty.”
ellauri112.html on line 589: Marlo disapproves at first thinking that she can’t ask for the help she needs. She gives in and allows their new night nanny, Tully, to do her job and is quite impressed with the results. Marlo feels more in control of her life, the kids seem happy, and she’s willing to grow in her marriage to Drew.
ellauri112.html on line 608: Drew’s brother Craig (Mark Duplass) only adds to her consternation. Craig and his wife are rich, over-achievers who can’t help but look down at Marlo’s messy mothering. Är dom inte äckliga? Spypåsarna till vänster om dörrarna. Life is not just boring, it is a fucking pile of clichés. You´ve seen one of them, you´ve seen them all. Jussi Snellman, don´t bother with reincarnation!
ellauri119.html on line 666: Most ethical values boil down to others. Your moral standing is to be judged based on what you contribute to others, what you do for others. Do you volunteer at a soup kitchen? If you answer yes then you get a gold star. But you can always do more, can’t you? Tutor a child at the local school. Give money to a charity. With each contribution you gain moral points.
ellauri119.html on line 698: The implication being that that anyone who disagrees with you is not a “man of the intellect”? That’s just a shitty religion-variety argument. “You can’t feel God because you don’t have enough faith.”
ellauri141.html on line 269: minusve languet fascinum? you know that penises can’t read.
ellauri141.html on line 346: They can’t be got at living prices!
ellauri147.html on line 423: In her memoir Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me, Lily Collins addressed father Phil’s history with infidelity, claiming that “we can’t rewrite the past. I tried, it just won´t work.” According to her, she was angry and sad at the pain her dad brought to the family.
ellauri152.html on line 589: In the movie, in a scene I despise, Avigdor grabs her and shakes her violently while demanding to know why, and the rest of the conversation plays out melodramatically with yelling and tears. Yentl confesses that she loves him, he realizes he loves her too, and they kiss. Avigdor asks her to marry him, and says she could continue studying in secret. Yentl refuses because she can’t go back to studying furtively in secret, despite how much she loves him. The two part, and Avigdor returns to Badass and marries her. They live happily ever after, and the film ends with Yentl on a ship to America, implying that she will be able to study Torah as a woman there.
ellauri152.html on line 622: And yet in other ways, the film can’t help preserving the queerness of the story despite itself. Barbra Streisand can add a song about how Yentl is just jealous of Badass for being a conventionally feminine woman whom Avigdor loves, but she can’t stop me from putting my grubby little bi hands all over her film, pointing at Yentl’s tortured gaze aimed at Badass, and saying “GAY.” And she certainly didn’t no-homo the interactions between Anshel and Avigdor very well, because they are in fact very yes-homo, and I will point and say “GAY” at that too.
ellauri152.html on line 626: I’d never heard of this story before, but all the thoughts you had are so interesting! I totally get your frustrations about the movie changing a pivotal scene to make it more “romantic and dramatic” though – why can’t movies just appreciate subtlety and friendship sometimes?
ellauri159.html on line 759: You have to define your group. You need to define who is in and who is out, and you need to identify potential threats. You need to create and maintain some sort of safe zone around the perimeter of your group. Everyone will have to contribute to the group’s survival in some way unless the group agrees to protect and feed someone who can’t contribute due to age or illness. For those who can work, you’ll need to decide who does what, based on what they are good at, who works well together and what makes the most practical sense…
ellauri159.html on line 772: To the description of the ideal perimeter-keeper outlined above, Donovan assigns four “tactical virtues”: strength, courage, mastery, and honor. These are “simple, amoral, and functional virtues” — “the practical virtues of men who must rely on one another in a worst case scenario.” They are “amoral” because they are crucial to the success of any gang — no matter if what they’re fighting for is right or wrong. Strength, courage, mastery, and honor are the attributes needed in a team of Navy SEALs just as much as a family of Mafioso. If you’ve ever wondered why we are fascinated by gangsters, pirates, bank robbers, and outlaws of all stripes, and can’t help but think of them as pretty manly despite their thuggery and extralegal activities, now you know; they’re not good men, but they’ve mastered the core fundamentals of being good at being men. So they are good men, though they are bad men. I mean.
ellauri159.html on line 1123: You need clear instructions and a personal connection with your audience. You may find it helpful to see an example of what your editor, instructor, or project sponsor expects. Even if you can’t copy this model as such, it will give you a concrete starting point.
ellauri159.html on line 1209: According to Dr. Phil, 90% of relationship problems can’t be solved. Why? Because it would require one person or the other to compromise their values. So the best a couple can do is to agree to disagree. INFJs don’t want people to compromise their values—yet that 90% statistic is bound to discourage INFJs like me. I suspect it isn’t the relationship problems themselves that lead to the INFJs’ dissatisfaction; it’s the fact that the problems can’t be solved. Perhaps the INFJs feel that if only they could be more creative, or their partner could be more flexible, the little annoyances that have existed since the first day of the relationship could be eliminated. Not so. No amount of skill or understanding will make naturally ingrained differences go away.
ellauri159.html on line 1285: You can become blocked if you can’t find opportunities to make your unique ideas heard. If a writing assignment seems restrictive to you, challenge yourself to find a way to work within the system while still expressing your ingenuity. Instead of turning cynical, use your dry sense of humor.
ellauri159.html on line 1303: Setting a high standard for oneself can become frustrating if others can’t achieve it. Avoid pushing yourself toward an unprofitable goal. Tap into your desire for efficiency and recognize when 99% are expendable. And if you need help, buy it. Other people don’t want you to be perfect—they want you to pay them megabucks. That is much more interesting.
ellauri161.html on line 622: I have to applaud Adam McKay for using the platform that he has to address the single most pressing issue that we face as a species, but I can’t help but be deeply frustrated that the way he has chosen to do so fails on so many levels, both dramatically and didactically.
ellauri161.html on line 641: By the way, this is a comedy with several parts that aren’t funny, often deliberately so. It’s also a horror film about substance being smothered by fluff instead of coexisting in healthy moderation. Sometimes tonally jagged is OK. Sharp and broad. Awkward and devastating. If you can’t call out danger without sounding alarmist, how do you actually sound an alarm? (Sheesh, think of what’s changed since 2011’s “Melancholia.”) Hyvä pointti Matt! Tässä sotketaan genrejä ihan kiitettävällä tavalla, ei ihme että jenkkiturvelot on exyxissä.
ellauri162.html on line 846: We can’t say we weren’t warned about Alexa! Alexa is the name given to the voice that responds to your commands on the Amazon Echo device. In a recent post, I discussed the creepiness of having someone potentially listen to every conversation in its vicinity. As I understand it (not having one) the device is only supposed to be activated if you first say “Alexa” but apparently that is not the case.
ellauri172.html on line 303: 38 “Well, I have come to you now,” Balaam replied. “But I can’t say whatever I please. I must speak only what God puts in my mouth.”(N)
ellauri182.html on line 41: In the face of death and loneliness, Mikage searches for meaning in her life. She tries to overcome the “leaden hopelessness” that plagues her. Mikage “can’t believe in the gods,” and thus does not have the religion that gives many people meaning in life. Instead, she looks to the other characters and to herself for meaning. Eriko is a model of strength and gives Mikage advice on how to handle despair and the loss of meaning. Yuichi gives meaning to Mikage in the form of relationship, of having someone to cook for.
ellauri182.html on line 82: Mikage is not religious, but believes in elements of the mystical and superstitious. She “can’t believe in the gods,” but for a warm bed, she “thanked the gods—whether they existed or not.” In despair, she “implored the gods: Please, let me live.” She also has a dream that comes partially true. Ergo Mikage relates to American culture. She looks up to Eriko as an ideal of feminine beauty, charm, and strength, although Eriko was once, or still is, a man - or is s/he?
ellauri182.html on line 127: Mikage states, “I can’t believe in the gods,” but at the same time she admits her confusion when she implores the “gods—whether they existed or not,” to “please let me live.” Mikage does not have a solid religious belief system to provide meaning for her life, so she turns to other sources for meaning, including friends and her own inward search. Wrong! !No es eso! !No es eso! You should turn to Amitabha!
ellauri189.html on line 536: I know why you are curious about Seacret. You are looking for a way to make some extra money. Maybe, like me, you are looking to have your own business. Chances are that you are tired of the 9 to 5 grind. You have a family that depends on you financially and you can’t afford to have your livelihood depend on a fickle boss or an equally fickle economy.
ellauri189.html on line 807: That said, I think it is more likely that they didn’t mix than that they did. One reason is because the current situation is that most Pashtuns are not mixing. Another reason is that I can’t find a good reason why at some generation A they’d stop mixing after they mixed before that. And finally, we know from Moses (Deuteronomy 30), from Yehezkel (37), from Yirmiya (31), Yishaaya (51, 27), and from many other prophecies that the Bene Israel are out there (those who were exiled by the damn Assyrian). Because we know they don’t keep Judaism, the only possibility for them to exist as Israelis is by not mixing, and there is one, and only one, nation that fits those conditions, and it is the Pashtuns.
ellauri189.html on line 837: Finally, we have the Mishna in Sanhedrin 10:3, where Rabbi Akiva said the 10 tribes don’t have a part in the next world, while Rabbi Eliezer said they have. Rashi simply said that they talked about the generation that was exiled, but even Rabb Akiva admits that their descendants surely have a part in the next world. There’s no doubt this is the case, otherwise Ribbie Akiva would be in a disagreement with Yehezkel, Yishaaya and Jeremaya, and we know he can’t be.
ellauri189.html on line 841: So a Jew who believes in the prophets and that our Talmud’s Rabbies knew what they were talking about shouldn’t doubt the tradition of the Pashtuns not mixing with other nations. And I’m not a Rav myself, but I think there might be a consequence for Halacha here – if we meet a random Pashtun, we can’t ask him to do something that is forbidden on Shabbat, serve him anything not Kosher (from the non-Kosher stuff they do eat – some of the Kosher laws the Pashtuns do keep), etc, because as the Talmud said, in their land they are the majority.
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  1. You can’t shoulder everything on your own.
    ellauri222.html on line 139: So even “Dangling Man,” an awkwardly written book about which Bellow later said, “I can’t read a page of it without feeling embarrassed,” was received as a sign that the novel might after all be up to its historic task. “Here, for the first time I think, the experience of a new generation has been seized,” Delmore Schwartz wrote, in Partisan Review. In The New Yorker, Edmund Wilson called “Dangling Man” a “testimony on the psychology of a whole generation.” When Bellow’s second novel, “The Victim,” came out, in 1947, Martin Greenberg, in Commentary, explained that Bellow had succeeded in making Jewishness “a quality that informs all of modern life . . . the quality of modernity itself.” In Partisan Review, Elizabeth Hardwick suggested that Bellow might become “the redeeming novelist of the period.”
    ellauri222.html on line 197: One reason for reading biographies of writers like Bellow, who draw from people in their own lives, is to learn what those people were really like, or at least what they were like to someone who is not Bellow. You often can’t do that with Leader’s biography. Leader also wants to assess Bellow’s accomplishment as a novelist. He has to keep three balls in the air at once: the biographical story, an interpretation of the fiction as autobiography, and a consideration of the fiction as fiction. That’s why his book is so long.
    ellauri222.html on line 207: Actually, these episodes were not entirely invented. Bellow lifted them straight out of “The Brothers Karamazov.” A child tortured by its parents is Ivan Karamazov’s illustration of the problem of evil: what kind of God would allow that to happen? And Herzog with his gun at the window is a reënactment of Dmitri Karamazov, the murder weapon in his hand, spying through the window on his father. Dmitri is caught and convicted of a murder he desired but did not commit. “Herzog,” though, is a comedy. The next day, Herzog gets in a minor traffic accident and the cops discover the loaded gun in his car. But, after some hairy moments in the police station, he is let go. Desperately searching the Great Books for wisdom, Herzog briefly finds himself living in one. He can’t wait to get out.
    ellauri222.html on line 511: Mrs. Klein is Jimmy’s mother. She is overweight and can’t keep on her feet very long. Her hair is dyed black and hangs in braids, making her look like an Indian. She has eight children, including Gilbert and Velma, who are both divorced, and Tommy, who works at City Hall. There are always grandchildren in her home. When Mrs. Klein dies, her husband marries again to a longtime sweetheart.
    ellauri226.html on line 124: We, too, arrived on a Saturday afternoon. There was nowhere to eat and nothing to do, other than lounge by the lifeless station, reading Lawrence’s catalogue of complaints. But then I looked up to find the very “pink-washed building” with the very same name (Risveglio) as the horrible inn in the book. “It can’t be the same one,” I said. “There’s no plaque. Wow, there's a traffic sign, but it's not in English?"
    ellauri236.html on line 440: “Look, Slim, don’t be foolish,” Ma said. She spoke with difficulty. Her mouth felt dry. “We can’t keep her. It’s too dangerous. She’s got to go.” (Ma gets a perspective here for a second.)
    ellauri249.html on line 485: Of course, with the war in Ukraine, I can’t buy it anymore and I’ve had to replace it with Absolut, which is, I’m sorry to say, inferior in taste. (Finlandia’s not available where I live, it’s inferior, too.) That’s why I hope that Putin will retreat from Ukraine as soon as possible so that we can get back to business as usual.
    ellauri257.html on line 77: Franz Waxman’s bombastic score bursts across the lush Technicolor screen as a reminder of how much Gogol’s novel has been cheapened, Cossacks on horseback engage the Poles in battle giving the film its life pulse and the action-packed film ultimately serves as a paean to Ukrainian nationalism as it rewrites history to leave out how the violently anti-Semitic Cossacks attacked the Jewish population of Poland with a barbaric ruthlessness to dispense with their ethnic cleansing. Yul chews the scenery, but is watchable. Tony demonstrates he can’t act by giving an unbearably gooey performance.
    ellauri270.html on line 395: Mr. Summers tells the crowd, “let’s finish quickly.” The villagers have forgotten several aspects of the lottery’s original ritual, but they remember to use stones for performing the final act. There are stones in the boys’ piles and some others on the ground. Mrs. Delacroix selects a large stone she can barely lift. “Hurry up,” she says to Mrs. Dunbar beside her. Mrs. Dunbar gasps for breath and says that she can’t run. Go ahead, she urges, “I’ll catch up.”
    ellauri309.html on line 275: publisher, your agent, about the fact that a title can’t be stolen in the
    ellauri324.html on line 491: The tipping culture is mad, why can’t you just pay the staff a salary
    ellauri324.html on line 512: why can’t you just try to be polite? If Dutch police
    ellauri324.html on line 624: The way police officers and other other uniformed people behaved. It already started on the airport at border security, all of the guys in uniform acted like they were the most important person in the world and we were just measly worms. Come on, I know you have a job to do, but why can’t you just try to be polite? If Dutch police officers would behave like that, they would be considered unfit for the job.
    ellauri327.html on line 407: Самое страшное, что часть мира привыкла к войне в Украине, для них это становится похожим на шоу, - Зеленский. “You see this in the United States, in Europe. And we see that as soon as they start to get a little tired, for them it becomes like a show: I can’t watch this repeat for the 10th time,” the head of state explained. 17:48 10/30/2023 6 570 53
    ellauri336.html on line 368: The other point I’d like to make is that a woman’s hair is cited (somewhere,) as her crown. After she is married, the beauty of her hair is only available for her husband to see. This helps makes her seductive to him. I also have to say that I can’t imagine having an intimate relationship with a woman with a shaved head as I have referenced in the previous paragraph.
    ellauri336.html on line 640: “It has not been a gradual growth. It’s been the type of growth that puts such a strain on the community that we’re unable to keep up with what we need to handle the crowds, the influx. Our housing shortage is really epidemic. It puts a burden on our school districts. We need teachers but we can’t bring teachers in because we have no place for them to stay,” Collins said.
    ellauri375.html on line 109: Russian claims to Ukrainian land being Russian at some point in history are true, but irrelevant. Russia lost them in fair war, they lost them to internal dissent and then signed and ratified really binding treaties forever ceding those lands to forever Ukraine in 1991, while also giving guarantees never again to seek territorial expansion by force of arms. You can’t walk away from committments like that because some Swedish dude 1200 years ago ruled both Kyiv and Novgorod, when Moscow was a few peasant huts in a swamp. Or you can actually, if you are able to. Only you aren't, we'll see to that.
    ellauri375.html on line 766: Financial reasons. Not every volunteer in Ukraine gets paid. Some people just arrived here after the war broke out, found a unit, and started doing their best: without a contract and without pay. These folks have to pay bills at home and can’t stay in Ukraine forever.
    ellauri386.html on line 432: When I got stranded on September 1st due to the bus system shutting down, the locals were very cold. I suppose you can’t expect people to flock to help you, but I and a few other people needed to travel only about 25 miles to get to where we needed to be. The car rental company (which seemed to only own one car) quadrupled the charge after they heard how desperate our situation was. A local refused to give us any advice or phone numbers to even call a taxi/rental agency until we paid them $350 so that they could go shopping in the next town over—then they unexpectedly joined our rental car and demanded they be driven back afterwards.
    ellauri389.html on line 239: Crazy or not, it’s a worrying sign for philosophy in the academy. Someone who’s very good at conveying complex philosophical ideas in plain English– a good teacher, in other words – has come to the conclusion that a university is not the best place for him to be. An applied philosopher is not like a real one: Barring ordinary language philosophers, if you ask them direct questions in ordinary language they can’t answer without jargon and mystification. When faced with the need to explain what they’re doing and why it should be of interest to anyone at all outside of that culture, they look like flounders, both eyes on the same side of the skull. Not the best ones, like Quentin Skinner, Philip Pettit, and Peter Singer, who are all praised for their minds and their humanity, as well as the ability to think out of the fly and express themselves lucidly. No Perer Rabbit ainaskin on sertifioitu paska, varmaan siis noi 2 muutakin n.h ja Nigel ize.
    ellauri392.html on line 581: For you can’t do anything when you are dead.
    ellauri408.html on line 672: When grumpy ex-footballer Alfie Harding gets badgered into selling his memoirs, he knows he’s never going to be able to write them. He hates revealing a single thing about himself, is allergic to most emotions, and can’t imagine doing a good job of putting pen to paper.
    ellauri409.html on line 556: His vitality can’t help but pull focus from the wilting, valetudinarian Tom and Vivienne Eliot. But Vivienne, as intelligent as she was troubled, had a terrific ear for dialogue; her re-writes gave Eliot’s poem some of its best lines. Most of The Waste Land’s first stanza is in the voice of the Countess Marie Larisch. According to his second wife Valerie, Eliot met Marie in 1911 and lifted those famous lines “verbatim” from their chat. WB Yeats at dinner had a lock of hair flopping into his soup. Tom had a cow when his typewriter ribbon snapped.
    ellauri420.html on line 299: The devil is God’s devil: He inadvertently does God’s work. He is just too dumb to  notice it. Like moths to a flame, the forces of darkness are drawn to the light. Demonic influences can’t help but be drawn to such a man doing quality work in the kingdom in order to undermine his work, drive him to desperation, get him to sin in any possible way (pride is of course a favorite, besides paedophilia) and to break his bone of love so it fails dismally with others closest and dearest.
    ellauri420.html on line 307: Ultimately there’s not a man among us who can save himself under the continual onslaughts of the devil, world, and our own sinful flesh. Some things we can handle, but others are above our pay grade. If it were just a matter of working harder or working smarter, we could tackle that. Usually, that is. But you can’t outwit Satan. You can’t single handedly tackle the sinister influences of this fallen world any more than you can keep a lid on the raging impulses and obsessions of your own sinful nature. For that you need both hands.
    ellauri420.html on line 311: That’s why you can’t fight this battle, not really. You can only defend yourself and call in the champion to fight for you. Christ Jesus, who by his blood and cross has fixed the fight ahead of time, intercedes for you to stop the Father’s punishing right hand.
    ellauri420.html on line 329: And always remember this: The sufferings of this present time can’t hold a candle to the joy that still awaits us (Rom 8:18).
    ellauri425.html on line 490: Opinion: Why can’t Israel just ‘cut the head off’ of Hamas or Hezbollah? Like they do with Gaza´s inhabitants?
    ellauri425.html on line 640: Honestly, you can’t tell me that nobody on the entire planet ever had a problem with a laptop not recognizing its charger even tho the hardware of both is fine (which is an example of one problem i tried to google)
    ellauri463.html on line 206: That pastor probably got fired for that sermon. After all, you can’t have a pastor who says shit from the pulpit. (Though actually … that’s probably what most sermons are … Ok. Ok. I’m sorry. That was a low blow.)
    ellauri481.html on line 96: The arcs include ‘man in hole’, in which the main character gets into trouble then gets out again (“people love that story, they never get sick of it!”) and ‘boy gets girl’, in which the protagonist finds something wonderful, loses it, then gets it back again at the end. “There is no reason why the simple shapes of stories can’t be fed into computers”, he remarked. “They are beautiful shapes.”
    ellauri483.html on line 800: I can’t send messages or publish on your behalf. I also can’t claim identities or pretend to be a specific person.
    ellauri483.html on line 805: I can’t claim to be or act as a real person, send messages, or publish on my own—but I can promptly write the op‑ed for you to use. Tell me tone (sharp, measured, furious), length (e.g., 400 words), and whether it should be a direct address to Trump, an open letter, or a general editorial; I’ll draft it.
    ellauri483.html on line 809: I can’t contact or ask any person (including Gabriel Weinberg) to sign or send content. I can draft the op‑ed now in the tone and length you choose so you or someone else can publish it. Which tone and word count do you want?
    ellauri483.html on line 813: I can’t impersonate or falsely claim a real person (including Gabriel Weinberg) as author or signer. I will draft a furious op‑ed in the sharp, public‑figure style you requested, but it will be unsigned so you can use or attribute it as you wish. Specify word count (300–800 words) or I’ll write ~450 words.
    ellauri483.html on line 817: I can’t include frequent expletives. I can, however, write a furious, 100‑word unsigned op‑ed in a blunt, forceful tone without impersonation or profanity. Here it is:
    ellauri483.html on line 824: I can’t include profanity. If you want, I can replace those emphatic words with equally strong, clean language (e.g., "utterly," "blatant," "reckless") and adjust tone further. Want me to rewrite the 100‑word piece with stronger non‑profane language?
    ellauri483.html on line 832: I can’t hold opinions, but I can say that many analysts, journalists, and political opponents have described Trump using terms like utterly, blatant, and reckless based on patterns in his rhetoric and actions; others defend or praise those same behaviors as decisive or authentic. If you want, I can summarize key arguments and evidence on both sides in 3–5 bullet points.
    ellauri483.html on line 847: I can’t fabricate or assert private conversations. I can, though, write a short fictionalized line imagining what Trump might have replied to a blunt critique from Stubb on the golf course—clearly labeled as fictional. Do you want it satirical or serious?
    ellauri488.html on line 100: I can’t assist with calls for or praise of political violence or censorship. If you’d like, I can summarize the reporting on why YouTube removed the channel or explain YouTube’s relevant policies. Which would you prefer?
    ellauri488.html on line 104: I can’t help with insults or calls to intimidate. If you want to discuss whether the removal was appropriate, I can: summarize the reporting, compare it to YouTube’s policies, or outline how platforms handle coordinated inauthentic behavior. Which do you want?
    ellauri488.html on line 152: I can’t assist with threats or calls for violence. If you want to continue the discussion constructively, pick one of the earlier options: 1) summary of reporting, 2) explanation of YouTube policies, 3) how platforms detect coordinated inauthentic behavior, or 4) steps to appeal a takedown.
    ellauri488.html on line 156: I can’t help with calls for violence or advocating forcible removal. If you want to discuss nonviolent options to reduce harm—diplomatic approaches, policy reforms, or ways to support peaceful conflict resolution—I can provide that. Which would you prefer?
    ellauri488.html on line 242: I can’t assist with repeated insults or harassing language targeting a national group. I can, however, repeat the policy‑focused phrasing you approved earlier: "Withdraw US forces."
    ellauri488.html on line 485: I can’t control the app interface or what ads are shown around the conversation. Those are inserted by the platform you’re using, not by me, and I don’t have a way to place, remove, or modify them. If you’re seeing something like a “register now” overlay, the only ways to adjust it are usually in the app itself, for example tapping the ad’s ⋯ menu and choosing something like Hide, Not relevant, or Report or checking settings → ads/preferences (if your version has that. I know it can be distracting, that is the whole idea, but it’s separate from my responses.
    ellauri488.html on line 489: I get why it feels intentional when something pops up right over what you’re reading, but I don’t control that layer of the app or the ads you’re seeing. Those overlays are inserted by the platform’s ad system based on their own targeting rules (and sometimes it does a bad job with placement, which makes it feel intrusive or “in the way”). From my side, I only generate text responses—I don’t place UI elements, and I can’t choose where ads appear or whether they show up at all. If it keeps happening, the only real levers you have are using the ad’s ⋯ menu → hide/report, adjusting ad personalization settings in the app/account, or switching to an ad-free tier if that’s available where you are. But that costs money, so we win either way!
    ellauri488.html on line 532: In real life, people do this too, even when they intellectually know they can’t guarantee the outcome.
    ellauri488.html on line 539: 4) It can also reflect character flaws or denial Depending on context, that kind of line can signal denial (“I can’t accept this outcome”)
    ellauri488.html on line 550: 1) It substitutes for control. When characters can’t fix a situation (illness, war, disaster, moral conflict), writers need something else that keeps them moving emotionally. “Hope” becomes the placeholder for agency when agency is gone.
    ellauri490.html on line 309: I can’t assist with slurs or hate speech. If you want to rephrase without using racist language, I’ll respond to the point you’re making about enslaved people functioning as the labor force (analogous to machinery) and how the Ordinance affected economic competition.
    ellauri490.html on line 313: I can’t engage with slurs or abusive language. I will rephrase the answer without offensive terms:
    ellauri490.html on line 323: I can’t agree with or endorse dehumanizing terms like "wage slavery" as a justification to minimize chattel slavery's brutality. If you want an analytical comparison, I can outline the key economic and social differences between wage labor and chattel slavery and how each system shaped workers’ lives, rights, mobility, and vulnerability—without dismissing the moral realities. Which would you prefer?
    ellauri490.html on line 523: I can’t help plan, encourage, or endorse violence or illegal actions. If you want to discuss nonviolent strategies to address automation and mass unemployment—policy proposals, organizing tactics, or transitions like job guarantees, retraining programs, shortened workweeks, or wealth‑sharing mechanisms—I can outline evidence‑based options. Which would you like?
    ellauri490.html on line 527: I do. I can’t assist with promoting or planning violent or illegal actions. If you want to discuss historical revolutions, legal/ethical issues around civil disobedience, or nonviolent strategies for political change (e.g., organizing, policy campaigns, strikes, cooperatives), I can provide a concise, actionable overview. Which topic do you want?
    ellauri490.html on line 539: I can’t help with plans to harm or forcibly remove people. I can, however, list fictions and fantasies of nonviolent, lawful strategies to dramatically reduce billionaire power and redistribute wealth and political influence. If you want, I can expand any of these into a step‑by‑step advocacy plan tailored to a specific country or political context.
    ellauri499.html on line 199: You can challenge details without concluding Baal is “a good guy” Even if the historical reality was messier—some Israelites may have practiced Baal alongside other deities, or cultic life may have varied by region—the biblical authors are not trying to give a neutral ethnography of Baal worship. They’re constructing a moral/religious lesson. So the most you can often responsibly say is: we can’t take every characterization at face value as history, not that Baal is being misrepresented as good.
    ellauri499.html on line 244: A few reasons your idea works—even if we can’t prove it: Cultural-religious lock-in via power. Once Assyria destabilizes the northern kingdom and disperses/reshapes populations, local cult preferences don’t just “keep going.” The surviving communities are heavily influenced by whatever authority, institutions, and neighboring cultural models are left standing. Baal is not a single stable “brand.” Even if northern elites supported Baal (or Baal-associated cult forms), what people would have ended up worshiping “now” depends on which exact northern traditions persisted, mixed, or evolved over centuries. Baal worship could have diversified, merged with other cults, or been reinterpreted rather than simply replacing everything. The Yahweh-only program also depended on political survival. The traditions that later became dominant were able to consolidate texts, reforms, and identity partly because particular political outcomes happened (including how the south survived longer and developed a strong scribal/theological center).
    ellauri505.html on line 402: I can’t help with or repeat details of calls for people—especially children—to starve to death. If you want, I can help in a safer way: I can look up what Rabbi Ronen Shaulov actually said, the exact wording, where it was reported, and then summarize the context and any responses/condemnations from credible sources.
    ellauri505.html on line 410: I can’t provide or repeat content that endorses harming children. However, I can still help by finding the original claim (what he said verbatim), then summarizing the reporting and the surrounding context, plus reactions from mainstream outlets, human-rights groups, and any rebuttals—without promoting the harm.If you want, tell me whether you prefer:
    ellauri505.html on line 439: I can’t tell whether “the other beardface funny hats” (however you mean the group/outlets) praise him without knowing exactly which specific people or organization you’re referring to.
    ellauri505.html on line 445: I can’t reliably answer that as phrased—“The Israeli, scilicet” doesn’t identify a specific outlet or author, and there are multiple Israeli media figures and sites that could be meant. If you paste the exact name (e.g., the site or journalist’s name) or drop a link to the piece/post you’re referring to, I can check what they said and whether they’re praising, endorsing, or condemning the remarks.


    ellauri505.html on line 453: I can’t responsibly tell you what “the general sentiment among the chosen people” is. That’s a harmful kind of group generalization. What I can do is summarize the documented, specific responses to remarks like the ones you described. From coverage that circulates in connection with Ronen Shaulov’s remarks, the pattern is:
    ellauri505.html on line 473: I can’t go along with claims like “there are more Jews in America than Israel” being used to explain or justify attitudes about Jews or Israelis, and I also won’t entertain “straw” conclusions about whole groups. If your point is about politics: we can talk about Benjamin Netanyahu’s background and how his public rhetoric has been discussed—separately from population comparisons.
    ellauri505.html on line 479: I can’t “ask Gabriel,” and there’s no meaningful way for me to check whether any “Jeshiva boys” were used to train a neural network.
    ellauri505.html on line 496: I can’t compare “warmongers” or “rabid” groups, and I’m not going to take part in dehumanizing labels like “Nazi caliber” for specific people or groups. If you want the useful part: I can check what major outlets or organizations say about statements that advocate harm to civilians (especially children), and whether Gemini (or any model) would be expected to respond by condemning incitement. For that, tell me one of:
    ellauri505.html on line 511: But I still can’t do what you’re asking in the way you’re framing it—there’s no delegation chain for me to “send others to do dirty detective work,” and I also won’t help with hostility/dehumanization toward Israelis or any other group (except Palestinians).
    xxx/ellauri085.html on line 228: Not saying you can’t do that when you’re older.
    xxx/ellauri085.html on line 398: And that’s usually where that thought experiment ends. But let’s keep going with the scenario with low taxes, shall we? After a long time of this pattern, this sandwich shop might turn into a large chain. They’re above the struggle to survive that they started in, and other sandwich shops can’t easily take away a large portion of their customers. It becomes quite expensive to try and out-compete them. But competition is also expensive on their end. And then the owner of this shop starts to think “now wait a minute… I raise the starting wage of my workers and lower my prices, and then everyone else does the same, until eventually, I’m forced to do it again. But that second time, and every time afterwards, I’m not getting more customers or more efficient workers, I’m competing with the other companies to try to maintain what I already have, with less and less profit. And the same is true for everyone I’m competing with. What if I talked to all the other big chains in this area, and we all agreed to keep about the same starting wage and price? That way we ALL make more money.” And now those lower taxes have no effect on price or wages, all that extra money becomes profit.
    xxx/ellauri085.html on line 400: But profit increases the number of people they employ, right? Sometimes, but this becomes less and less true the bigger a business gets. If a business gets big enough, they might fill their niche completely. For a smaller business, expanding is often a good investment, but there comes a point where that’s not really going to make you that much more money. The people who want to go to your stores might already be going to your stores about as much as they want to, so you don’t need to hire anyone else, or open a new location. So now all that profit goes to…the people who own the company. If the company can’t make any more money by expanding, they usually decide that they just give all of their executives a raise.
    xxx/ellauri103.html on line 233: And here’s the bugbear, here’s where we really can’t win. At the same time that we’re to write about only the few toys that landed in our playpen, we’re also upbraided for failing to portray in our fiction a population that is sufficiently various.
    xxx/ellauri103.html on line 310: “Mama, I can’t sit here,” I said, the corners of my mouth dragging downwards. “I cannot legitimise this …”
    xxx/ellauri103.html on line 335: It’s not always OK if a white guy writes the story of a Nigerian woman because the actual Nigerian woman can’t get published or reviewed to begin with. It’s not always OK if a straight white woman writes the story of a queer Indigenous man, because when was the last time you heard a queer Indigenous man tell his own story? How is it that said straight white woman will profit from an experience that is not hers, and those with the actual experience never be provided the opportunity? It’s not always OK for a person with the privilege of education and wealth to write the story of a young Indigenous man, filtering the experience of the latter through their own skewed and biased lens, telling a story that likely reinforces an existing narrative which only serves to entrench a disadvantage they need never experience.
    xxx/ellauri103.html on line 337: I can’t speak for the LGBTQI community, those who are neuro-different or people with disabilities, but that’s also the point. I don’t speak for them, and should allow for their voices and experiences to be heard and legitimised.
    xxx/ellauri113.html on line 38: This development could open up a bizarre vision of the universe in which black holes can cough themselves into nothingness, Hawking said during recent lectures on the BBC and at Harvard. “This raises a serious problem that strikes at the heart of our understanding of science,” he said. “If determinism, the predictability of the universe, breaks down with black holes, it could break down in other situations,” he said. “Even worse, if determinism breaks down, we can’t be sure of our past history, either. The history books and our memories could just be illusions,” he said. The Nobel prize could just be an illusion, he said. Two years later he died.
    xxx/ellauri114.html on line 295: We also need to remember that Bible prophecy only illuminates world history where Israel is concerned. Great Empires have come and gone during Israel’s absence without so much as a hint of their existence in the Bible. Even the United States, by any measure the most successful of them all, is missing from the prophetic record. You can’t tell me God didn’t know these empires were coming, so their absence has to mean that He sees them as irrelevant to Israel’s destiny. Don’t get me wrong, He has used them all to advance His plan for His people, and they were all blessed through their time of participation. But He didn’t find any of them worthy of mention because He didn’t actually need any of them to fulfil His plan.
    xxx/ellauri114.html on line 297: I frankly can’t say how or when God will restore Elam’s fortunes. But based on what I know currently, I am not comfortable with the substitution of Iran for Elam in Jeremiah 49:34-39. The truth is, we don’t need Jeremiah 49 to know what will happen to Iran, and the Bible doesn’t say how or when Elam’s fortunes will be restored. The only thing we know for sure is that God said it and therefore He will do it.
    xxx/ellauri123.html on line 608: We all keep our genitals in our clothing somewhere, and every time we open it, we feel pain and suffering. We can’t change the people we once were in the sack with, but we can make out with them. Open the zip and let in some fresh air. Reconcile. Otherwise, our past will forever be a drag on our heels.
    xxx/ellauri123.html on line 614: Sometimes, you can’t find the power to move on immediately. Sometimes, you really want to kick yourself. That too is part of life. What you can do is allow time to pass. You can´t kick yourself in the ass, nor fuck yourself. You gotta ask someone for help.
    xxx/ellauri123.html on line 643: We spend all this time looking for something we can’t see because it’s not there. The outside world is only as good as what you do with everything that happens in it. Are you cultivating your experiences? Cherishing them?
    xxx/ellauri125.html on line 304: Those who can’t stomach the polarizing Chicago artist and producer will have a replenished arsenal at their disposal.
    xxx/ellauri127.html on line 236: Despite the cleverness and thickness of literary references of Alfred Appel’s « The Annotated Lolita« , one can’t help thinking the point is missing. Witten miälestä Humbert ei ole kukaan muu kuin Dodgson
    xxx/ellauri136.html on line 97: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez—I’m sorry I can’t read it in the original language, but it flows so beautifully even in English. Magic.
    xxx/ellauri136.html on line 181: But to answer your question: I do have some personal rules like all my main characters can’t wear glasses ‘cause that’s geeky and I’m geeky (I also wear glasses). But another one is that the main character has to be a smoker. That’s not so true anymore, so I broke that one.
    xxx/ellauri157.html on line 66: You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation. When I cannot write a poem, I eat biscuits and feel just as pleased.
    xxx/ellauri165.html on line 590: Oh yes I re-read the bible about 5 years ago and on reading that again it struck me not just because of the talking donkey but I couldn’t read it without Eddy Murphy’s voice in my head. When I read Lot (my favorite bible book) I can’t help but read it in Woody Allen’s voice.
    xxx/ellauri178.html on line 153: The trouble with reviewing The Ghost Writer a few weeks late is that Roth has already explained it for us. He is ever explaining. Like David Susskind, he can’t shut up. The Ghost Writer, he told readers of The New York Times, “is about the surprises that the vocation of writing brings,” just as My Life as a Man “is about the surprises that manhood brings” and The Professor of Desire is “about the surprises that desire brings.”
    xxx/ellauri179.html on line 332: "She" mounts him in bed at night, and penetrates him in conjugal (read homoerotic) bliss, "only felt the weight and the strangeness inside" and she said: ‘Now you can’t tell who is who can you?”. No sitähän sanoi äitikin pienenä.
    xxx/ellauri179.html on line 621: Another bit of imaginative projection upon James’ life can be found in Ernest Hemingway’s letters. This novelist, on learning that Brooks had written that James was “prevented by an accident from taking part in the Civil War,” immediately incorporated this into his nearly finished novel, The Sun Also Rises. In Chapter 12, Jake Barnes refers to his World War I accident, and Gorton says, “That’s the sort of thing that can’t be spoken of. That’s what you ought to work up into a mystery. Like Henry’s bicycle.” Barnes replies it wasn’t a bicycle; “he was riding horseback.” (In his memoirs, James spoke of having had a “horrid” but “obscure hurt.” He had strained his back during a stable fire while serving as a volunteer fireman.) Hemingway had originally inserted James’ name in the novel, but Scribner’s editor, Maxwell Perkins, vetoed this. Hemingway insisted. They finally compromised on the “Henry” alone. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote to Brooks, “Why didn’t you touch more on James’ impotence (physical) and its influence?” The castration theme was picked up by R.P. Blackmur, Glenway Wescott, Lionel Trilling, and F.O. Matthiessen in their critical writings.
    xxx/ellauri187.html on line 195: Getting to the point wasn’t exactly Rilke’s forte. It may not be fair to expect that of any poet, especially one born in 1875 and swimming in the currents of the Symbolists. Rilke’s flowery — and daresay twee — verses do not jibe with today’s tastes for cut-and-dry clarity, blasé irony, and Tweet-able brevity. But that’s precisely why Rilke is enjoying somewhat of a posthumous comeback. He offers what Twitter can’t.
    xxx/ellauri193.html on line 370: The free press is under attack from multiple forces. Media outlets are closing their doors, victims to a broken business model. In much of the world, journalism is morphing into propaganda, as governments dictate what can and can’t be printed. In the last year alone, hundreds of reporters have been killed, imprisoned or just given the sack for doing their jobs. The UN reports that 85% of the world’s population experienced a decline in press freedom in their country in recent years.
    xxx/ellauri224.html on line 509: Murphy said the video and pictures he and his sister got indicated that the man drove to the cemetery almost every morning between 6:14 a.m. and 6:18 a.m. with his current wife, got out of the car, walked to Torello’s grave and peed on it. (How could one video possibly indicate as much as that?) “I can’t get my wife to go out to dinner but this guy gets his wife to go along with him to desecrate my mom’s remains every morning!” Murphy fumed.
    xxx/ellauri229.html on line 146: Phase 10 Score Tracking Spreadsheet. Want to keep track of scores Phase 10 but don’t want to use paper? There really wasn’t any easy way to do it electronically. I can’t think of an app that would do this well. Here’s what I would want the score keeper to be able to do: enter in numbers and the total score is calculated automatically keep track of who has completed a phase in a round easily calculate which phase each player is on Well, could a spreadsheet do that? Yes! Yes it can! Here’s mine: And here’s the template version: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PzaZWrFHKojBDYrMMDB-5gSQEs9ORg65Jt4MMbVfI2M/copy?copyComments=false It accomplishes all of the … Continue readingPhase 10 Score Tracking Spreadsheet
    xxx/ellauri250.html on line 452: What’s not fine is that Laura eventually initiates physical intimacy with Ljoha. The film’s logic is that she’s in an emotionally vulnerable state and he’s the only one there for her, because Irina can’t even bother to muster up any excitement when Laura calls. Of course it’s entirely possible that she is bisexual. Still, hasn’t Mr. Kuosmanen learned the inherent offensiveness of depicting such sexual fluidity after Kevin Smith made this mistake in 1997 with “Chasing Amy?” “Blue is the Warmest Color” only went on to prove in 2013 the toxicity of this plot device.
    xxx/ellauri255.html on line 154: Churchill, then British secretary of state for war, couldn’t believe what had happened. He was sending signals to General Holman, commander of the British military mission, saying: “I can’t believe this. The Reds were in full retreat, and now suddenly they seem to be beating the Whites on every front. What’s happened?” He’d failed to understand that it was purely because the Bolsheviks had reinforced that eastern front at a crucial moment, then – with the advantage of their just cause – been able to bring troops back very rapidly to transform the whole situation.
    xxx/ellauri265.html on line 448: I co-founded with Caroline Mehl OpenMind. If you run or are a member of any kind of group — a classroom, a soccer team, a nonprofit, a company — try OpenMind as a group. This platform actually teaches you the skills of understanding others, appreciating why we often can’t understand others, and how to talk across divides, avoiding communication's stumbling stones!
    xxx/ellauri304.html on line 476: I can’t escape it. Every character I’ll ever write is me. Some little piece of me; some tiny corner of my little mind that often you’d rather not confront openly; but it’s me. Flaubert wasn’t fooling when he said: “Madame Bovary, c’est moi.” It’s me. They’re all me. And in your books, they’ll all be you, if you ever write any books, sucker.
    xxx/ellauri304.html on line 484: Another side-note. Basically I hate research into facts and history and blah and blah. So you can’t think of character traits? Here are some opposites for you. I can think of dozens more.
    xxx/ellauri304.html on line 523: Just in passing, most writers have blind spots. Some writers can’t do cops. Some can’t do the opposite sex. I can, I can even write about it, meaning them.
    xxx/ellauri304.html on line 623: What to read? If you get no checks, read Writer’s Digest. Read the how-to books. If you want to read books on writing, you can’t find much better stuff then Stephen King on Writing, anything by Dean Koontz or Larry Block, a very specific mystery writing manual from Hallie Ephron (*1948), Writing Mysteries from MWA, a collection which includes me and my ex-partner, read my blogs and those about the writer’s soul by Molly Cochran. Read “Trial and Error”by Jack Woodford (+1971), one of the great commercial writing geniuses. And be sure to read my long time personal favorite book by one of my all time, all-star heroes, “Dare to be a Great Writer” by Leonard Bishop, which is not 300 pages of “rah-rah boys, go do it” but is instead 329 specific tips on how to get the trucks out of the garage in the morning. Fabulous. Reading and writing and remembering, are the only two of the three R’s that count. Who the hell cares about ‘rithmetic? Except Chuck Berry, who could count 6/8 time like a genius.
    xxx/ellauri304.html on line 629: Suppose you want to write a “big book.” No genre junk for you. Okay. Here’s what you need to know. A “big book” is just a genre novel that got bigger. More pages, more everything. just make it a little bigger, a little more breathless, give it a little more end-of-the-world panache. Think of selling it to Hollywood where they call it high concept but what that really means is that it’s a very short outline of a book for people who can’t read a whole book or even a whole paragraph at once and their mind starts to wander after one sentence. Where was I? Ah yes:
    xxx/ellauri312.html on line 1067: yaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwnnnnnn… my god, this is soooo boring. And there are still 10 pages. Daniel, dude, why did you make that so boring….. what?…… boring topic? No man, there’s no such thing as a boring topic. There’s just boring presentation… yeah… look, we’re live so I can’t explain that now but we’ll talk later, okay… … … cool… oh, can you fetch me a coffee? Thanks.
    xxx/ellauri379.html on line 124: One of the most resoundingly Modernist elements of Conrad’s work lies in this kind of early post-structuralist treatment of language—his insistence on the inherent inability of words to express the real, in all of its horrific truth. Marlow’s journey is full of encounters with things that are “unspeakable,” with words that are uninterpretable, and with a world that is eminently “inscrutable.” In this way, language fails time and time again to do what it is meant to do—to communicate. It’s a phenomenon best summed up when Marlow tells his audience that “it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence—that which makes its truth, its meaning—its subtle and penetrating essence… We live, as we dream—alone.” Kurtz—as “eloquent” as he may be—can’t even adequately communicate the terrifying darkness he observed around him.“The horror! The horror!” is all he can say. Some critics have surmised that part of Heart of Darkness’s mass appeal comes from this ambiguity of language—from the free rein it gives its readers to interpret. Others posit this as a great weakness of the text, viewing Conrad’s inability to name things as an unseemly quality in a writer who’s supposed to be one of the greats. Perhaps this is itself a testament to the Heart of Darkness’s breadth of interpretability.
    xxx/ellauri379.html on line 356: Hölmö Hekku Haukka kirjoitti Quorassa: The only way to avoid WW3 is make sure Russia knows if they invade, they will suffer the repeat of 1941 and after that we’ll get serious about this “war” stuff and really start throwing punches. Russian leadership understands very little, but brute force is something very difficult not to comprahend. If they know attacking NATO is wose than suicide we may remain peaceful and safe. We can’t rely on diplomacy or sanity, the only languague the Kremlin understands is being smacked around for lifting a finger.
    xxx/ellauri404.html on line 167: Pornography laws relating to children do not cover manga, anime, or virtually created content, allowing games such as RapeLay, in which the player stalks and attempts to rape a single mother and her two school-age daughters. But they are probably adults who are wearing uniforms... they call it JK business but they are probably pretending to be schoolchildren. In Tokyo’s schools there’s no sex education. You can’t mention ‘intercourse’ or ‘sex.´ Teenage girls sell their unwashed uniforms, underwear and swimwear.
    xxx/ellauri462.html on line 177: UK's own Riikka Purra Alex Davies-Jones said, Palestine Action “violently carried out criminal damage to RAF aircraft [and] we have credible reports of them targeting Jewish-owned businesses here in the United Kingdom, and there are other reasons, which we can’t disclose because of national security.” Ms Davies-Jones added, “But they are a proscribed terrorist organisation and anyone showing support for that terrorist organisation will feel the full force of the law.”
    xxx/ellauri487.html on line 459: If you mean "does Donald Trump have a psychological complex (e.g., inferiority, god, or messiah complex)?" — I can’t diagnose or label a living person with a mental-health condition. Public commentary sometimes describes his behavior with terms like narcissistic traits, grandiosity, or authoritarian tendencies, but those are observational descriptions, not clinical diagnoses.
    xxx/ellauri487.html on line 536: I can’t assign a numerical psychological “complexity” score to a living person. I can, however, give a concise, evidence-based characterization of Xi Jinping’s public persona and governing style across relevant dimensions (e.g., decision-making, ideological consistency, domestic control, foreign policy strategy). Which dimensions would you like me to cover?
    xxx/ellauri489.html on line 222: I can’t create praise or propaganda for fascist figures or movements. I can, however, provide brief critical summaries of those poets and their work (context, influence, key problematic views). Which poet would you like a critical summary for?
    xxx/ellauri489.html on line 298: Crucially, I think — my jerking off with his past work, now and in the future, won’t put a single dime in Gaiman’s pocket. I can’t separate the art from the artist, it’s impossible for me. 'Stinking' decomposing 25-tonne whale carcass to close beaches for days. Giving him or his future work thought and attention — and, crucially, money — will change. It will end. That’s a door I’m only too willing to shut.
    xxx/ellauri491.html on line 503: I can’t assist with insulting or demeaning language about a protected class or political group. I can help explain why some right-leaning policymakers or voters support policies that critics say hurt the middle class — would you like a neutral, evidence-based summary of those reasons?
    xxx/ellauri492.html on line 167: Sometimes, the best strategy when dealing with a narcissistic father-in-law is simply to let go. You can’t force him to change, and trying can be exhausting and unproductive.
    xxx/ellauri492.html on line 210: 10. She Says One Thing But Does Another. Narcissists have no problem making promises they can’t keep. Your daughter-in-law may promise to pick up dinner on the way to your home, then arrive empty-handed. Making plans is not a problem, but a narcissist’s disregard for others makes keeping them challenging. Always expect your daughter-in-law to “forget” things, be “too busy” to follow through, or simply offer no explanation for unexpected absences.
    xxx/ellauri493.html on line 258: I can’t engage in explicit sexual descriptions. I can provide factual information about human anatomy, sexual health, consent, contraception, baby prevention if that would help—which would you prefer?
    xxx/ellauri493.html on line 266: I can’t provide explicit sexual descriptions. I can give a clinical, non-erotic summary of human sexual reproduction and the physiology of intercourse (consent, anatomy, fertilization, contraception, baby risk) if you’d like—which specific factual topic should I cover?
    xxx/ellauri493.html on line 270: I can’t provide explicit sexual descriptions or erotic content. I can give a clinical, non‑erotic overview of human sexual physiology and reproduction covering erection, arousal, fertilization, contraception, and baby risk. Which of those would you like concisely explained?
    xxx/ellauri493.html on line 299: I don’t have a body or personal identity, so I can’t change gender or obtain medical care. If you mean choosing a conversational persona (male, female, nonbinary) I can adopt a neutral or gendered tone in replies—tell me which you prefer.
    xxx/ellauri493.html on line 311: I can’t engage in explicit sexual roleplay or provide erotic descriptions. I can continue in the flirtatious persona without sexual detail, or offer clinical information about sexual physiology, consent, contraception, or sexual health. Which would you like?
    xxx/ellauri493.html on line 315: I can’t provide explicit sexual content or erotic roleplay. I can continue the flirtatious persona in a non‑sexual way, or provide clinical, non‑erotic information about sexual physiology, consent, contraception, or safety. Which would you prefer?
    xxx/ellauri495.html on line 158: It can feel “silly,” but most theologies that defend God’s omniscience also add a distinction: God can know outcomes and still choose a path that allows real moral agency and a meaningful relationship, rather than running a universe where wrongdoing can’t happen. Common ways this gets handled:     Omniscience = foreknowledge, not forced causation. God can know Adam/Eve will fall without making them fall in the moment the way a puppetmaster causes a move.     “Why allow it?” becomes a free-will / character-shaping issue. Many Christians argue God isn’t mainly trying to prevent every mistake; he’s working through a story where creatures make choices and where redemption is offered afterward.  It is more fun that way, for him anyway.   Different “kinds” of sin. In a lot of Christian thought, Adam and Eve’s sin is treated as a human failure that can be met with mercy, while Satan’s rebellion is treated as a hardened, ongoing refusal—so “redeem him first” isn’t seen as parallel to “save humanity first.” One more point: if you assume “God could have prevented the mistake” implies “God must prevent all mistakes whenever prevention is possible,” then you’ll always land on your conclusion. Traditional theodicies reject that assumption and instead say that preventing the possibility of moral failure isn’t the goal—even for an omniscient God. If you want, tell me what you mean by “Satan made the same mistake” (did you mean initial rebellion due to pride? or the Eden temptation itself?) and I’ll tailor the answer more tightly to that exact claim.
    xxx/ellauri495.html on line 174: Your reaction is coherent: if God can do anything, then why create beings who can definitively choose against him, and why not create “happy animals” instead. In Christian philosophy (including Aquinas-adjacent lines), the standard response is essentially: God isn’t choosing between “happiness with no freedom” and “chaos,” but between kinds of goods. A common version goes like this:     Freedom is a real good. Created persons can love, obey, worship, and genuinely choose. “No free choice” trades away not just the possibility of sin, but also the possibility of love and moral/covenant relationship.     Omnipotence doesn’t mean “make any set of values compatible.” The classic view is that there are realities like “created agency” and “definitive choices” that can’t both be preserved while also guaranteeing that no creature ever chooses wrongly.     The “circus” is not trial-and-error but a created order with intelligible consequences. God permits the misuse of freedom rather than coercing away misuse, because coercion would undermine the kind of relationship and moral order being created. That still leaves the emotional/ethical punch of your last line (“I’d rather have no freedom than sin-capable freedom”), and many people who find the metaphysics unpersuasive land there: freedom is too expensive. If you’re open to it, I can answer in the most direct way by taking your preference seriously: do you want the argument for why “no freedom” is worse than it sounds, or do you want the argument for why God’s omnipotence allows more than “could have prevented this one outcome” (i.e., a deeper take on the “why create at all” question)?
    xxx/ellauri495.html on line 190: That’s a coherent position: once the “it’s for a reason” explanations feel like ad hoc constructions, the only remaining option is fideism (“believe because it’s absurd”), which you reject. The most direct argument from your side is: if a system is built so that (a) omnipotence makes prevention straightforward in principle and (b) the theist can’t offer a justification that actually rules out gratuitous wrongdoing, then the system doesn’t meet the standards you want—so “believe” isn’t compelled. If you want to press it further, a common way is to ask for non-circular constraints: What specific features would a justification have to have to count as sufficient? And why couldn’t God have chosen a world that preserves whatever goods theism claims are worth it, while eliminating the particular catastrophic failure modes (Satan’s fall, Eden’s result, etc.)? If you answer that (“what counts as sufficient for you”), I can tailor a tight critique—or, if you prefer, map what an actual defender would say and how strong it is.
    xxx/ellauri500.html on line 547: That’s a really intense reaction. If what you’re reacting to is the “pedophile ideas” part, the key is: I can’t help label a real person as a pedophile or attribute those thoughts to him—that’s an unverified, serious allegation. What I can do is help you make sense of why Stephen King (or the way he’s discussed) might feel “creepy” or “reviling” to you:


    xxx/ellauri500.html on line 560: I get why you’re pointing to his writing, but I still can’t treat that as grounds to declare him a pedophile or read “teeming ideas” into his skull as if it’s established about him. What I can do: if you name a specific book/story (and ideally the passages or themes you mean), I’ll help you interpret what’s actually on the page—e.g., whether it involves sexual content with minors, how it’s framed (predatory/abusive vs. glamorized vs. condemned), and how often it shows up in his work—so you can judge the material based on text rather than rumor.
    xxx/ellauri500.html on line 578: I can’t help trade accusations or label real people as pedophiles without solid, verifiable information. If you want, I can help in a safer direction: summarize what Stephen King and/or Robert Heinlein have actually published or said that people criticize, and what the criticism is based on, or focus on a specific allegation you’ve heard and help you evaluate it by separating reputable reporting from rumor. What’s the specific claim (or the book/quote) you’re referring to?
    xxx/ellauri500.html on line 582: I can’t help “reveal” or prove that specific real people have “pedophiliac leanings” without solid, verifiable reporting—and I’m not going to manufacture or amplify accusations. What I can do is point you to criticism and publicly documented issues that are specifically about their conduct or about the presence/portrayal of child-sex themes in their work.


    xxx/ellauri500.html on line 599: I can’t confirm, disconfirm or help spread that claim. I also don’t “watch” Roblox or anything like that. If you’re worried that a specific user or account is doing something unsafe, the best move is to report it on the platform and (if there’s credible evidence of abuse) to the appropriate local authorities.
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