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Nothing is lost when these databases are deleted from the consortium; this is effectively a cancellation of a subscription from Ebsco. What is being lost is free access to the materials collected in these databases through the Magnolia library system.

Library databases are typically subscription packages containing some combination of full-text content, indexes, or abstracts; the content is usually collected from academic publishers (some of the titles in these databases are published by groups like Johns Hopkins Univeristy Press or Taylor & Francis).

Looks like some of the titles in the Race Relations database titles are part of Academic Search Premier (which Ole Miss subscribes to, which doesn’t help anyone who isn’t a student there).

That said, those subscriptions are expensive and almost impossible to gain access to outside of a library system or research organization… which makes this an asshole move by the state legislature.

Edit: The databases in question are here:

• https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/gender-studies-database
• https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/race-relations-abstracts

It’s like a fuchikoma/tachikoma from Ghost in the Shell.

How did TRHPS experience become what we know it as today?

Imagine hearing about TRHPS in 1976 or 1977 and going to see it and experiencing it especially without knowing fully what you were walking into?

What is different about the emergence of participatory memes for Minecraft vs. the established memes for TRHPS? The quickness of the behavior? The documentation of it? The fact that it’s new for us now and not something we inherited?

Quite Frankenfurtively, I’d rather be in the theater with a bunch of people enjoying it as opposed to people sitting there rigidly watching what amounts to be a very silly movie.

And besides, if people are so upset, ask for a refund or comp ticket and leave the theater. The same raucous behavior happened every Friday night when a horror film was screening back in my day.

There are a lot of complicated reasons why high tariff are a global problem in a global economy, but simply put:

1. High tariffs raise prices
2. High prices reduce sales
3. Fewer sales reduces profit

Reduced profit for a single company or industry isn’t usually detrimental to a national or global economy. But when an entire country’s economy is hit with reduced profits across every industry, then it creates a problem.

So in summary, Americans are going to get fucked directly, “foreign countries” are going to get fucked indirectly.

Yep. Apollo shutting down is why I created an account, deleted all my content and my Reddit account once things started getting really fucky.

I have a smart deadbolt that is keypad operated. It’s awful.

Never used the smart features, and there isn’t a bypass to unlock the door when the batteries die — which happens a lot, especially in the winter. I tried using rechargeable batteries in it, but they last less than half the time of normal batteries.

There is nothing more frustrating than punching in the key code and hearing the death of HAL9000 voice before the deadbolt fully unlocks. Luckily I have a back door that isn’t smart.

I’m replacing the lockset soon and this won’t be a problem anymore, but holy shit is it frustrating and wasteful.

I mean, yeah. That was kinda the point.

I’m glad he connected the dots, but he’s incapable of having a true moment of self reflection.

No, no. You see, you have to serve one term, skip one, and then serve two.

Or, just be republican.

Weezer is a tough call because most of the time they’re sad because they’re horny.

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice

You’d think that the absence of the word “consecutive” and the phrase “no… more than twice” would mean quite clearly that it’s two terms period, not one, plus two consecutive terms.

Unless, of course, these fuckheads are arguing that consecutive terms count as one.

Fuck.

Thankfully I must have avoided whatever business were doing this.

However, I have had the experience of attending schools that had weird urinal designs.

There was one where the urinals looked like regular toilets but without tanks or lids. They also didn’t have dividers and were placed in a position where anyone walking in the bathroom or using the sink got a full view.

There were other schools that had the “trough.” Just a six foot long piss bucket.