When I was first publishing short stories, the best single piece of advice I received was to use thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com
It's a repository of (most) journals and magazines that publish short stories/novellas. Definitely skews more SFF than strictly literary, but it was truly revolutionary in getting my stories to actual publications. I think it does poetry as well, but poetry was always way too difficult for me lol.
Also, if you want someone to beta read your stories just shoot me a DM and I'll be happy to provide feedback/tips :) Good luck, and don't get discouraged by rejections in the beginning!
I'm a former rower, though not the one you were DMing previously. Long story short, you don't want to row at a high resistance, especially when you're getting started. Very easy to throw your back out already, and the higher resistance only makes that more likely.
I favor the air based machines over the water ones as they're much easier to move around, stand upright out of the way, and literally can't leak.
More important than anything though, please please please watch a rowing technique video (or ten). It's mostly leg and core that move the boat, not arms.
I'll shoot you a DM, should you have other questions too :)
I’m tempted to just laugh at mbfc being used as a gotcha, but I’m still bummed that it got this much cultural inertia behind it. It’s sort of like quoting an uncited Wikipedia article at someone to prove you’re right.
Does the article say that Maduro appointed the judges? Thus far I only see a claim that it's packed with Maduro loyalists... which is pretty far from an unbiased framing
Thank you, Vimium has recently been getting out of whack for me. Whenever I use it to scroll, the clickable areas don’t scroll at the same rate until I use my trackpad to scroll, which really defeats the purpose of keyboard navigation
And it’s the same price (maybe more depending on exchange rate) as a concept 2. If you prefer water to air, have the money for a c2 anyway, and don’t have any reservations about it leaking onto the wood, then it’s probably fine? Looks way funky to me personally, but I could see people preferring the bulkier wooden look to the slimmer metal and plastic of a c2.
Personally, I’d still for a c2 between the pair but nice to know there are options :)
C2s are significantly better than anything else I’ve rowed on, but if you can’t afford it then you can’t afford it. The one thing I would advise against is getting a water based resistance one, and go for air like the C2.
Being able to stand it upright when you’re not using it takes a long machine and makes its footprint tiny
Silly McKay! Mussolini actually said corporate power, not corporations! And also, according to skepticallibertarian.com (lol), he never actually said corporate power anyway! And also, even if he did say it (which we’re distinctly unsure of, but quite sure that you’re lying either way it ends up), corporatism in Italy is way different than corporations in the US! It refers to monopolies, not mega corps which will eventually become monopolies!
True, but the M1 MacBooks have really taken a beating in price. And the Airs were already quite a good deal to start with, so they do still seem competitive (8GB RAM notwithstanding). Been using a base model air since launch, and unless I hit swap super hard (I rarely do) it's still great :)
Not sure if it's literally FOSS, but OpenAI's Whisper is the best transcription I've ever used and the models are all free to download and use locally.
Real heads start with Arena