Does anyone know where I can read up about methods of downloading Internet Archive books and other data in big tarballs? If I wanted to make a backup of everything, and I could afford it, excluding the copyrighted stuff, could I do so? | via startthis.org/?p=1732
Anybody...? Anybody...?
Help me out here!
OK, another question. Has anyone downloaded and made available a large number of IA-collected books?
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A very upset mother read quotes from a book that her 4th grader picked up from the shelves of his suburban Austin school. In short, the book discusses young boys engaged in, shall we say, sexual acts.
I couldn't understand what she was saying, but the subtitles on the YouTube version of the video work:
Now, there are two different books called "Lawn Boy," one for 4th graders by Gary Paulsen, the other by Johnathan Evison meant for teens (the smutty one). The book the 4th grader got was the Evison book.
An objective fact—a reminder—for my reasonable friends: never in the history of the world has there been a global push to administer an experimental medicine to absolutely everyone in the world, billions of us, at the same time. | via startthis.org/?p=1370
It utterly boggles the mind that so many otherwise reasonable people have been influenced to think this is a good idea.
You have to be willing to trust the welfare of *humanity* not just to the honesty of our brave leaders, not just their decency, not just their competence, but their actual *success* in making a safe vaccine.
Sorry, but...
Deuteronomy 22:5 NASB
"A woman shall not wear man's clothing, nor shall a man put on a woman's clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God. | via startthis.org/?p=1315
Of course, Christians are not under the law, and they certainly cannot pick and choose which moral rules they wish to respect based on political convenience. | via startthis.org/?p=1321
The Atlantic bemoans an " 'infodemic'—involving the viral spread of misinformation, as well as the mingling of facts with half-truths and falsehoods in a fractured media environment—has compounded the COVID-19 pandemic."