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Seems to me that Nick's is sorta falling in the general opinions of PNW boot nerds. Problem is the others seem to have much much more limited selections of composite toed boots, and may not offer them in EE or EEE at all, especially in my size (7.5)

In the last 30 years the book has been issued in Penguin Classic and Pléiade editions. The French government declared the original manuscript a national treasure and paid nearly 5 million euros to get hold of it.

And all I can say is "what the fuck"

It's not that I don't think that what is shocking can also be valuable, or that an early work of extreme pornography doesn't have some value in terms of tracing the history of atypical sexual behavior. Indeed I kinda get why we'd say it's an interesting document for historical sexology.

But a work of literature? With themes and depth and value beyond being pornography for those with the most extreme paraphilias and kinks? A French national treasure? The mind boggles. Colour me skeptical.

I know I'm not the only one to question the literary treatment of the book, and I'm not super interested in a comment section of people agreeing with me, so if you're also like "yeah man it's all bullshit, smut of the most irredeemable kind", maybe hold your comment.

Hello folks,

I'm travelling around Germany for a while (it's my wife's work trip and I'm tagging along). I'll be in Chemnitz this week and next week, Magdeburg for two weeks after that, and then Munich for two weeks after that.

I'd love to try the sport climbing and bouldering in these areas. I'm hoping to find some locals who can show me around!

Thanks!

Hallo! Sorry, I don't speak much German, but fortunately Reddit's translator is quite good.

I'm visiting for the next couple weeks, tagging along with my wife for a work trip. I hear there's good outdoor bouldering in the area. I'd love to find a climbing partner to show me around.

Also, what's the best coffee in the area?

Not looking to set any records. I've been doing a lot of bouldering and I'm not in my best sport climbing shape right now but I'd still love to go check out one of Europe's greatest crags while I'm in the area.

I'm mostly a boulderer but I do sport climb, and I can't miss this opportunity to climb a legendary crag while I'm in the area.

I'll need some warming up on easy routes while I get used to sport climbing again, and I'm not in the best shape of my life right now, but it's always nice just to pull on some easier stuff and enjoy the process.

I've been going to this shop for years and haven't seen much discussion of them. People frequently recommend Seattle's Floating Leaves as one of the best shops to get high end Taiwanese oolong from, and in this regard they absolutely deliver, my go-to when I need some baozhong, but New Century Tea Gallery deserves patronage too.

They're an excellent shop for a solid selection of mainland tea, all major sub types at a wide range of prices, and the owners are great at getting to know what you like

The best part about New Century though is *free tastings*. Every time I go I end up trying about half a dozen things, they're unbelievably generous with tastings. Don't take advantage of this though! I always end up spending 100-200 bucks there when I drop in, but it's worth it, because I never feel like I'm rolling the dice on something a little fancier. I've already tried it and know what I'm getting into.

It's so rare to find teashops in this country that'll let you sit and sip for an hour before buying anything. Are they as cheap as a Yunnan Sourcing? No, absolutely not, but there's a lot of value in having a physical location with that kind of tasting experience.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions, laws creating perverse incentive, getting abused by bad actors, etc.

Laws that appear to be good faith attempts at addressing real problems that were written with a proverbial monkey's paw

This is maybe old news but I don't think it was well publicized. For the uninitiated, Henry Darger was a janitor who grew up in an institution for "feeble minded children", but in his adult life he quietly produced a vast, sprawling epic novel, over 15,000 pages long, and many vast accompanying paintings. These works were only discovered shortly before his death, when he moved from his small apartment into a charity nursing home.

I've been interested in Darger's work for a long time but the majority of his novel has been inaccessible until relatively recently.

I'm not some "america bad" guy the likes of which /r/iamveryculinary makes fun of. I've been an American beer, wine, cheese, etc defender for a long time. A big believer that there're artisans making high quality products in this country, and you need only look for them.

I live in the biggest apple growing region in the US, and I cannot for love nor money find a decent domestic cider.

So I went to university in South West England, and there I developed a taste for that fragrant, brute dry, funky cider. Proper scrumpy on a hot day is to die for. I've found great cider in France as well.

When I would walk into a Devonshire pub, I'd ask for medium dry cider. When I look for cider here, I ask for "exceptionally dry", and it's still very medium for the most part. I have found some "hyperdrys" which are actually medium dry, but they lack that funk, and complex aroma. It's just very flat, somewhat sour, and lacking in that brute like aroma and depth.

Is this a process issue? Can we not grow the right apples here? I'd kill for a good American cider because I'm tired of paying 9 bucks a bottle for imported Aspall.

I notice this in media I watch (most recently Parks and Rec, I know I'm late to the party) and people I know who are having kids.

I don't think I've ever honestly heard people discuss having children in a way that frames the *actual human being that is going to get thrust into the world* as a significant stakeholder in the decision to reproduce. It's always about the parents desire to raise something, to feel a connection to their parents by becoming parents themselves, to fulfill a perceived expectation.

It's just so strange to me that the being most profoundly affected by the choice to reproduce, the actual person who will have to live and struggle and strive and live and die for 80 odd years is always an afterthought.

It's often bemoaned that relatively few rapists actually get convinced, it's a constant gripe and a top line feminist issue.

Yet for all of the frustration, I see relatively little in terms of realistic policy suggestions for how a better legal framework to tackle this could be created. Sometimes it feels like the options are either put our hands up and say there's no great way to actually handle crimes when the only real deciding factor is whose word you believe, or just do away with presumption of innocence.

It's easy to look at this dichotomy and just feel hopeless and nihilistic about the whole thing, but maybe actual legal minds are developing real policy ideas?

I'm not against RNG maps and things like that, but the Rougelikes I've played have always left me sour.

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I'll use Hades as my primary example, which I enjoyed at first and got more and more annoyed with as I began to understand the boon synergies and appreciate just how dramatically the god-draws impacted my runs. I would start suiciding just to get a reroll when I realized I'd drawn a bad set of gods. I also quickly grew sick of what felt like minimal actual variance in maps and enemies.

Nothing frustrates me faster in a game than feeling like my success or failure is almost completely dependent on dice rolls.

My best friend is currently dating a very bisexual (cis)woman who has a long history of collecting trans girls. She's made a lot of really creepy comments about trans girls and I have zero hesitation in calling her a chaser. She very clearly sees trans girls as playthings.

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My best friend has very low self esteem and is very clearly absolutely whipped by this woman. She got him involved in her broader polycule of mostly trans girls, a couple of which shamed and humiliated him for "not cracking yet". He actually did put his foot down here and say those comments were not cool and distanced himself from these women.

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Because of his girlfriend's pressure, he did reconcile with the people who were humiliating him for not transitioning, meaning he's back in the pressurecooker with them. This girlfriend also keeps using female pronouns (he has not asked for this and while he doesn't object he says it makes him feel a little weird because he's not asked for this), telling him he "fucks like a trans girl", and generally just keeps trying to push him in that direction. I believe she does so because she's into the idea of him being trans.

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Now where this gets complicated is... What if he is? He might be. I don't think he is but I can't rule that out. But clearly he's also got pressure to become trans from multiple directions, most notably a woman who he'd clearly basically do anything for. This is so difficult to navigate. I don't want to sit idly by while he destroys himself to become what his girlfriend wants, but I also want to be supportive if this is coming from an authentic place.

Hes a rich TV star and has lots of money and never needs to work again and does lots of drugs and drink what reason does he have to be sad ??