Usually, something that has an attribute can be described with the adjective form of the name of that attribute.

But it's stories that don't have pathos that are pathetic.

Linguistic drift can do some funny things.

This has been happening for two years, but I only learned about it today.

In order to address the shortage of nurses and paramedics, the province of Ontario pays the tuition, books, and course fees of Ontario residents taking Practical Nursing or Paramedic programs at many Ontario colleges and universities. One has to commit to work where one takes the courses (which means Toronto is not included in this scholarship program at all, and paramedic students only qualify for a scholarship north of North Bay).

You get more nurses in under-served areas by training them in those areas.

We've all met them. But how would you describe him?


1: If he thought hard enough and really applied himself, he might actually be useful as a hundred watt space heater


2: He's firing on all cylinders, but they're all firing after top dead centre.


3: His power factor is basically zero. There's a lot of back and forth, but very little actually gets done.

Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter, by Tim Berners-Lee

Yes, it's a year old. It's still worth a read.

I'm banned user HLIAA14YOG from AllTheTropes. I'm just here to try to make an appeal for my ban since the discussion for my ban was done here when I had no account; in fact, I did not even know the site existed until I read my ban message where there was a link to this site.

The reason I'm using a different username is because honestly I'm embarassed by the one I use in ATT but too lazy to get a name change. I was in what people call these days an "edgy phase" back when I chose my username. 

I do write fanfics and original fiction on AO3 under a username called (sigh) InsideA14YearOldGirl. My honest opinion is that they're horrible and I'm ashamed of how my most notable work there is a pornographic incest story, though it was written by request of another user. I keep writing there because I barely have any hobbies and at least it keeps my mind out of doing dangerous things to myself (like taking drugs or drinking alcohol like my father).

I do have a problem with being rude, in real life and outside of it (though people only see to talk behind my back and never tell me I'm being rude unless they're my college psychologist; I often only discover how much people hate me months later when a third-party tells me what they talked about me); and for trying to seek information about the most obscure things if at least I think there is some quality on them; that is why I watch and read so many japanese things, because Japan is as far away from my native country of Brazil as it can gets.

Hi all! Been a hot minute since I crawled out of my Zoomer Discord hole to engage with the gang over here. There's a bunch of things I want to talk about / shill, but for now I just want to focus on one pressing issue: what the heck happened to Raven's Garage, the mightiest Bubblegum Crisis fansite of them all?

I ask because back in January Skuse was announcing the site's 30th anniversary, remarking that he was now a 60-year-old man, and that he still wanted things to talk about, so email him etc etc etc. I did actually try to do this and the email didn't go through, I don't know what happened. And now the site appears to be... down? Like there's a page but it's not a real page, it's this weird 'index of' thing and then dumps anyone who clicks on the sole link buried in it to a 403 error.

So it's not that Skuse gave up on the site, I presume, unless his entire take on Raven's Garage switched between January and now and he now wishes for his work to be consigned to the void eternal. Does anyone know what happened? Am I missing something? I know plenty of people on the BGC Discord would like to see the site either revived or archived.

I just discovered that someone using BlackAeronaut's account on the Fenspace Wiki has posted a page containing 300K of what looks like link spam, including some very suspicious-looking links at the back end.  It definitely doesn't belong on the site, and I have concerns that his account may be compromised.

Since I have the privileges to do so, I'm going to temporarily block BA's account; I will also delete the page in a few hours -- it's been there since 3/11, it's not going to hurt to leave it up long enough for someone else to look at it and tell me that I'm off base about it (as unlikely as I suspect that to be).