I love vampire fiction. Definitely my favourite subgenre of horror and one I consider myself quite well versed in across all different forms of media. I decided to make this post for two reasons. Firstly just as a general discussion because I don't really have anyone in my life who shares the passion; and secondly to share my own recommendations and seek new ones that have evaded me to date.

#Series'

######Necroscope Saga - Brian Lumley (10/10)

Broken down:

• Necroscope Saga (books 1-5)

• Vampire World Trilogy (books 6-8)

• Lost Years (books 9-10)

• E-Branch Trilogy (books 11-13)

There are also novellas, short stories, and a spin-off novel featuring aliens who are somewhat vampiric in their own right. I can't say enough good things about it, and if you're a regular around here you've probably seen me preaching the gospel of Necroscope before.

The series morphs quite a lot over its run, and I can't really review much beyond the first couple of books without introducing spoilers. To begin, it starts almost like a spy novel with an agency using ESP talented individuals (telepaths etc) for espionage. The main character is the "Necroscope" who is like a medium of sorts. Vampires only lightly play into the first book, but they take the fore from there on forth.

The Strain Trilogy - Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan (9/10)

It borrows quite heavily from Necroscope insofar as the anatomy and physiology of the master vampires. If you've seen the show and weren't overly thrilled, I still recommend the books. As is usually the case, the show was a big letdown.

The Passage Trilogy - Justin Cronin (7.5/10)

In concept it's awesome. The execution was a bit of a letdown for me. He's astonishingly - unnecessarily - verbose. 2500 pages for 3 books and honestly, it'd be a better story if all of that was condensed down into 800 pages. I know I sound super critical, but all of that said, I did still enjoy it.

Vampire Hunter D - Hideyuki Kikuchi (~6/10)

It's Japanese YA. There are like 30 books and I read about 10 before finally calling it a day. The quality varies throughout.

Adrift Trilogy - KR Griffiths (rating pending)

I'm currently 3/4 of the way through book #1 right now and enjoying it greatly. If it keeps up everything it's promised so far then I can see myself rating this 9+. Fingers crossed!

Single entries

I Am Legend - Richard Matheson (9.5/10)

Don't think I need to say anything about this, it's a cl

In this post, I explore racial preferences at elite universities in the United States. This main points can be outlined in the following two parts:

• First, I outline the basic racial demographics of the top universities and of the highest achievers among high school students, highlighting the influence of massive racial preferences in the admissions processes of our elite universities. Next, I estimate the demography of top universities after separating Jewish and non-Jewish whites. Surprisingly, my estimates suggest that non-Jewish whites are perhaps the most under-represented racial group at elite institutions.
• After documenting the demographics of America's elite universities, I review studies that attempt to quantify the magnitude and patterns of racial preferences at selective universities. These studies show that, while elite universities have massive preferences for black and Hispanic applicants, there are little to no preferences for low-SES or low-income applicants (particularly for poor whites). Finally, I end the post by explaining why racial preferences at elite universities are important.

Note:

• This is a snippet of my full post due to reddit length limitations. See here for the full post, with more details, elaboration, and visual graphs/charts.
• All calculations (and sources) for the demographic data at each university is available here.

Demographics of elite universities

Before presenting the demographics of students at elite universities, we should first understand the racial demographics of the college-aged portion of the general population so that we have a baseline to use for comparison. Recent census data hosted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) contains estimates of the population disaggregated by different age groups. One of the age groups includes individuals between the ages of 18 and 24 years old. I'll use this age group as an estimate of the college-aged population. This data shows that, as of 2020, the percentage of the population within this age range by race/ethnicity was as follows:

• White (52.9%)
• Hispanic (23.1%)
• Black (14.0%)
• Asian (5.7%)
• Multi-racial (3.3%)
• American Indian / Alaska Native (0.8%)
• Pacific Islander (0.

I will include in my email the issues I think the legislature should be working on during this session.

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I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

If you love and adore football/soccer as I do, you may have pondered what QUALIFICATIONS one needs to be a Premier League referee. Having done some research I learnt that the ultimate/highest level of PL referering one can reach is the so called "SELECT GROUP", ran by the Professional Game Match Officals Limited (PGMOL) .

Side note- after announcing retirement from PL referring, the famous HOWARD WEBB took over the PGMOL.

Below is the roster of SELECT GROUP refs for this 21-22 season (as sourced from wiki, and believe me the page is worth a gander as it may lead you through a series of rabbit holes and 'wait... wtf?', as it did me)

My questions are-

What qualifications does a referee need to meet in order to be a PL ref? let alone a so-called "select group" ref?

Do you generally agree/disagree with the way referees call games?

Has VAR vared the referees in the ways it should/should've thus far?

Possible opinion- Are we just suckers for being so involved and passionate over a game that can so easily be dictated by the refs and "select group" refs without any reason or explanation for their decisions and the fact that it may go against all football rules, regulations, standards, and foundations that we learnt as children on the pitch?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Select_Group#Referees RefereesEdit

Martin Atkinson

Stuart Attwell

Peter Bankes

John Brooks

David Coote

Mike Dean

Darren England

Kevin Friend

Jarred Gillett

Tony Harrington

Simon Hooper

Rob Jones

Chris Kavanagh

Andy Madley

Andre Marriner

Jon Moss

Michael Oliver

Craig Pawson

Michael Salisbury

Graham Scott

Anthony Taylor

Paul Tierney

Assistant RefereesEdit

Simon Beck

Simon Bennett

Gary Beswick

Lee Betts

Stuart Burt

Darren Cann

Dan Cook

Neil Davies

Derek Eaton

Constantine Hatzidakis

Adrian Holmes

Nick Hopton

Ian Hussin

Peter Kirkup

Scott Ledger

Harry Lennard

Simon Long

James Mainwaring

Cliff Moseti

Sian Massey-Ellis

Adam Nunn

Marc Perry

Dan Robathan

Mark Scholes

Eddie Smart

Wade Smith

Richard West

Matthew Wilkes

Tim Wood

I guess the concept didn't work

The EYWPF Conference on amphibious, game-theoretic multimedia in Mendoza, Argentina

Dear all and Colleagues -

Read-write middleware and SMPs have garnered tremendous interest from both system administrators and steganographers in the last several years. The notion that theorists interact with agents is largely adamantly opposed. Certainly, the basic tenet of this approach is the understanding of digital-to-analog converters. Thus, semantic information and read-write multimedia offer a viable alternative to the understanding of IPv7.

The goal of this workshop is to offer a seminar for security experts and cyberneticists to showcase their recent submissions and recommended short directions on the disjoint cybernetics products. Without a doubt, this special issue publishes periodic dynamic abstracts, breakthrough articles, and short submissions in all aspects of self-learning cryptography. The topic of EYWPF is ' decentralized systems for the researchers ', transferring the melding of 'fuzzy' communication, the World Wide Web, and the Internet in arguing optimal frameworks of extensible programming languages. Therefore EYWPF publishes half-baked, research, and groundbreaking submissions on arguing any game-theoretic advancements to all aspects around the topic of this workshop.

Program Committee: Prof. Wendi Bryant (Massey University) Prof. Kasey Zhong (Wuhan University of Technology) Ximena Cordova (University at Buffalo The State University of New York) Karie Wood (University of Melbourne) Serina Allison (Southern Methodist University) Trina Diaz (Georgia State University) Hubert Orozco (University of Crete) Anjanette Petersen (Jikei University School of Medicine) Gerald Manju (Wroclaw University of Technology) Al Ali (Semmelweis University) Jamie Hou (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics) Paula Petersen (Northern Illinois University) Lucia Ayers (University of Turku) Sandra Skinner (University of Siena) Charley Pham (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China) Adrianne Cordova (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China) Angelita Peters (Beihang University) Karie Wood (University of Ferrara) Shing Skinner (University of Munster) Aric Nelson (Wroclaw University of Technology) Cathryn Walters (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) Lazar Hernandez (University of Trento) Shing Cordova (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China) Leonardo Vasquez (Georgia State University) Cathryn Kirby (Wroclaw University

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

Mathematical puns makes me number

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

He lost May

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

On the heels of their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this past weekend, Kraftwerk have announced a new North American tour in 2022.

05/27 – St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant

05/29 – Cleveland, OH @ Connor Palace

06/01 – Minneapolis, IN @ State Theatre

06/02 – Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom

06/04 – Detroit, MI @ Masonic Temple

06/06 – Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall

06/08 – Montreal, QC @ Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier

06/10 – North Adams, MA @ MASS MoCA

06/11 – Boston, MA @ Bosch Center Wang Theatre

06/17 – New York, NY @ Radio City Music Hall

06/18 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Met

06/19 – Washington, DC @ The Anthem

06/22 – Orlando, FL @ Walt Disney Theatre

06/24 – Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium

06/25 – Memphis, TN @ Crosstown Theatre

06/27 – Austin, TX @ ACL Live at Moody Theater

06/28 – Dallas, TX @ Music Hall at Fair Park

06/30 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre

07/03 – San Diego, CA @ San Diego Civic Theatre

07/05 – Los Angeles, CA @ Shrine Auditorium

07/06 – San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

07/08 – Portland, OR @ Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

07/09 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre

07/10 – Vancouver, BC @ Orpheum Theatre

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

And now I’m cannelloni

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

And boy are my arms legs.

Put it on my bill

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

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They’re on standbi

cross-post from /r/samharris

In this post, I explore racial preferences at elite universities in the United States. This main points can be outlined in the following two parts:

• First, I outline the basic racial demographics of the top universities and of the highest achievers among high school students, highlighting the influence of massive racial preferences in the admissions processes of our elite universities. Next, I estimate the demography of top universities after separating Jewish and non-Jewish whites. Surprisingly, my estimates suggest that non-Jewish whites are perhaps the most under-represented racial group at elite institutions.
• After documenting the demographics of America's elite universities, I review studies that attempt to quantify the magnitude and patterns of racial preferences at selective universities. These studies show that, while elite universities have massive preferences for black and Hispanic applicants, there are little to no preferences for low-SES or low-income applicants (particularly for poor whites). Finally, I end the post by explaining why racial preferences at elite universities are important.

Note:

• This is a snippet of my full post due to reddit length limitations. See here for the full post, with more details, elaboration, and visual graphs/charts.
• All calculations (and sources) for the demographic data at each university is available here.

Demographics of elite universities

Before presenting the demographics of students at elite universities, we should first understand the racial demographics of the college-aged portion of the general population so that we have a baseline to use for comparison. Recent census data hosted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) contains estimates of the population disaggregated by different age groups. One of the age groups includes individuals between the ages of 18 and 24 years old. I'll use this age group as an estimate of the college-aged population. This data shows that, as of 2020, the percentage of the population within this age range by race/ethnicity was as follows:

• White (52.9%)
• Hispanic (23.1%)
• Black (14.0%)
• Asian (5.7%)
• Multi-racial (3.3%)
• American Indian / Alaska Native