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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A mock dictionary of Portuguese gay slang and vocabulary. It's pretty fun.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Nothing too weird. Multiple manuals of objects that I own, probably the weirdest of which is a German manual for my Canon EOS 300 (I'm not German). And some machine learning papers, among which a paper from 1987, by Quinlan & Rivest, about decision trees (which is older than I am).

EDIT: Oh and another document older than me, a manual for the Minolta XG-9 that I'm lending from my dad.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Depends on your weird.

I write, so there's a ton of stuff on decomposition, forensics, and related subject matter that are weird by some standards.

I've got stuff on niche mythology too, for the same reason. Along with that is stuff on modern paganism, syncretic religions, and related subjects. Again, weird by some standards.

But I tend to think the morbid stuff is what would catch most people by surprise.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Nice.

I came in here to post about having a copy of Titus Burkhardt's Alchemy tome and DKMU Assault On Reality but I think yours might take the cake instead, as well as possibly including both of those texts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Where do you usually find it at? I'm a horror writer and that sort of thing would be handy to have for my work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

It used to be Google scholar. It was pretty easy to find good stuff when I was digging into it. Not sure if it's still a reliable place though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's a pdf that most surprised you?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Ahh, probably the one that gave visuals of bloat and skin slippage.

I've seen plenty of dead bodies (did some hospice work, ran across a suicide in the woods, and a few accidents), but I'd never seen that segment of decomp.

It's both worse than I expected, and somehow not as bad.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I just cleaned up my downloads so I no longer have it, but a couple weeks ago it was a copy of Maid: The Role-Playing Game

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

The Chronicon of Marcellinus Comes, apparently. Not sure why.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A very funny NGO report on "net-enabled anarchist extremists" that talks about the SRA like it's the PLA

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Mine is this report by the central bank where they tested the insurance sector at-large for resillience to financial shocks. ^(Although after reading some books by nassim nicholas taleb, I realize that testing using the worst imaginable shocks isn't sufficient as black swan events are by their nature unpredictable)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

The Airplane Flying Handbook, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Guidelines for a Space Propulsion Device Based on Heim’s Quantum Theory

I thought it sounded interesting, but the mathematics was beyond me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I've got the Pokemon Quartz pokedex. It's pretty cursed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hercolobus Or Red Planet, by V. M. Rabolou... it's 'interesting'.

https://archive.org/details/en-hercolubus-or-red-planet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It’s an interesting concept and seems plausible enough (same as with Planet X, Nemesis.. ok some of that Nibiru stuff is ridiculous) but like, the evidence just isn’t there to support it. Feels like we should have found SOME evidence for this kind of interstellar disaster by now. I don’t know, maybe I’m wrong.

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