No matter the veracity of the information?

I see. So anything you have not personally experienced is to be disregarded entirely?

There are some great recommendations in other replies already!

IMO the best YA content right now is actually coming out of Japan (where they're called Light Novels)

Some series worth checking out:

• Re:Zero - Starting Life in Another World from Zero
• Spice & Wolf
• Ascendance of a Bookworm
• World End - What Will You Do at the End of the World? Are You Busy? Will You Save Us?
• Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?

Don't let the titles fool you (especially that last one). A silly title will often lead to a deep and complex story only loosely related to the title.

The first three I named are some of my absolute favorites.

And this is just the fantasy stuff. If you're looking for sci-fi or rom-com, or something a bit heavier/darker, there are plenty more recommendations I can provide :)

I mean, I totally get it. There is just better stuff out there and it sucks that she got lucky when otherr, better authors don't

The issue I have with this line of reasoning is that there are equally whimsical, better written series that just didn't have good fortune to pop off the way HP did.

It's marketing. And cover art. And simple timing of fads. It sucks. And it funded a horrible person through pure happenstance

In all seriousness, this is what happens when you write novels without doing any world-building and just put down whatever seems "fun". The are sooooo many things in that series that make no sense once they are superceded by later plot devices. Rowling didn't think any of it through ahead of time and gave almost no thought to internal consistency with previous content when she wrote new things.

It's honestly a terrible series in most regards and it's kind of disappointing how popular it became.

Also she a trans-hating bigot. Fuck J.K. Rowling. Can't forget that part whenever discussing her or her work.

This is only sort of true, unfortunately. Polaris is a two-star system: Polaris Aa and Polaris B.

Polaris B is much older than sharks, by several billion years.

Polaris Aa appears to be younger than sharks, at a measley 50 million years old, compared to sharks' 420 million years

HOWEVER it is unclear whether Polaris Aa is actually that young. Scientists believe that, based on some contradictory findings, that measurement may be inaccurate if Polaris Aa is formed from two different stars that merged. In that scenario, the model we use to calculate star age would no longer work and could give wildly inaccurate estimates of the star's true age

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Security professional here. This is legit a good call on their part. It's because those types of addresses won't bounce emails but aren't necessarily in your control; it's very, very easy to spam those petition forms with mail@ for a million real domains without bouncing the emails, making them seem legit.

You own your domain, obviously, so it's really as simple as creating a forwarding/alias address of "changeorg@domain.tld". If creating a forwarding/alias address is that much of a problem for you I suggest that you likely shouldn't be hosting your own email in the first place.

Your laziness isn't a good reason to be upset with a company taking steps to reduce their security overhead significantly

Koichiro Ito was the producer, NOT the director who is famous for creating those movies. He collaborated with the studio, he did not write or direct the films. Please do not destroy and undermine these beautiful works of art over a single credited contributor who did not create the films.

Further, he was only arrested in February of 2024 so the studio hasn't even had an opportunity to turn down future collaboration with him.

This is a trash headline and complete click bait

Tourists are not being banned from the geisha district

Tourists will be FINED if they enter PRIVATE STREETS that are not meant for or prepared to handle the tourism industry

The geisha district will remain open to tourists. Full stop.

Sky News is garbage

The issue has never been that games can't run on Linux. It has always been a simple question of "will the games I want to play run?" More than ever, that answer is yes, but if your favorite game doesn't, or if you never want to worry about "will this upcoming (online) game let me play on Linux?" then you use Windows by default.

Like, I love y'all, but the Linux gaming community on Lemmy is kinda insufferable with the straw-man "people think games can't run on Linux" argument. That's just not the issue

There are lots of reasons to pirate stuff, but this argument in particular boils down to "We should steal stuff now because maybe some day in the future I won't be able to use the paid version after they go out of business." And that is shitty.

You bought it, so go crack it now that the license check is broken and nobody will care. That's GOOD piracy. Support the creators, pirate when you can't or it's unreasonable to pay (more).

Don't just pirate to mitigate theoretical future inconvenience. Do it to circumvent actual inconvenience, or to get things you couldn't otherwise afford, or to say "fuck you" to big, shitty companies.

But pirating from a small-time dev just in case there are maybe license problems far in the future is not The Way