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Democrats have a nasty habit of rehabilitating Republican politicians after they leave office. For example, ask Obama or Biden or any Democrat politicians about the Bushes or Reagan and you'll invariably get positive responses.

It should be seized by the ~~government~~ people and mercilessly decentralized.

Library Genesis when it's up and Anna's Archive. Anna's Archive's database is a proper superset of the Library Genesis database but IMO Library Genesis is a little easier to search. For both sites, make sure you're rocking uBlock Origin.

I don't know much about TorGuard VPN, but it's probably fine if it's been fine for pirating other stuff. Books are on the order of 300MB for uncompressed scans or 3-50MB for books that are rendered directly to PDF, i.e. it's not that much data unless you're training the next ChatGPT. I pirate a lot of academic books as an autistic PhD student and I've had no issues 😆

Happy reading! 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴🏴🏴

Well it's definitely not "new-age", but apparently the worth "empathy" only entered the English language in 1908.

So I'm gonna pretend like it's 1776 like he always wanted me to do and not have empathy for him 😆

Software piracy is neither scandalous nor unethical. Information is meant to be free.

You meant to have a slash in the equals sign like ≠, right? Because it doesn't render on Lemmy 😆

Yeah I know, I've been here for over two years now... how time flies. It's still a little distressing when it goes down 😆

Happy days! We're back 🎉

Honestly I think engineers of all kinds can benefit from more study of biological systems.

Agreed. My point was more that I didn't really learn much from actually dissecting a real animal. Like I probably would have learned more from reading a book or watching someone else do the dissection.

Useless to you. I extremely need to know the Pythagorean Theorem for my work. Actually, absolutely everything I have ever been taught in math class ever, literally all of it and so much more, I have used. But I'm starting a PhD in electrical engineering in the fall, so I'm a bit biased 😆.

For me personally, dissecting frogs (well actually I dissected a clam) was probably a waste of time, but for at least some of my classmates it was probably helpful. Long division is important because it stimulates algorithmic thinking, which is important for living in a computerized world. Area of a trapezoid is important because... sometimes trapezoids show up, or you can approximate a more complicated shape with a trapezoid whose properties are well understood.

I'm surprised that there are countries we haven't bombed 🙃

In all seriousness, to the users and admins of slrpnk.net, you have my solidarity. Hope this all gets resolved soon.

Edit: oh shit welcome back!