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Red flags come in all sizes. A potentially small one is: “I’m not willing to sit through a dumb but harmless movie even though my partner wants to see it.”

A bigger red flag would be “I refuse to see The Barbie Movie because it’s woke!!!

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Well, there’s a certain subset of loud, gullible cretins out there that apply the following tests to see if something is “woke” and they should hate it:

  • Does it espouse or support anything that’s not hardcore, regressive social “conservatism”?
  • Do the libs (real or imaginary) like it?

If the answer to any of those 2 questions is “yes”: the thing in question is “woke”.

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Blue collar: tobacco and energy drinks.

White collar: Adderall or coke.

oatscoop ,
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I’ve given up on trying to find certain books in sane formats. Thankfully Calibre is really good at converting PDFs to actual ebook formats.

There’s a bit of a learning curve, and sometimes I have to do a little semi-automated cleanup – but it works.

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The OCR struggles with some PDFs for whatever reasons: font, formatting, etc.

There are 3rd party PDF OCR websites/programs that work better. If I’m having issues I run it through one of those first.

oatscoop ,
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I use gImageReader + Tesseract, but that probably doesn’t meet your criteria. Unfortunately OCR is very rarely perfect unless the input is perfectly clear and with a “OCR friendly” font/formatting. There are “AI powered” OCR out there, but I can’t speak to how well they work and I don’t know of any free ones.

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I’m just happy Picard finally found it’s groove.

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