Seriously the important difference is that Maduro is the Venezuelan president. Abducting him like this is an attack on the government itself, on Venezuela as a country. Big difference between attacking part of the government and attacking its citizens.

I don’t know all that Obama did and the FISA courts were/are sketchy as hell, but one big difference in the “right way” to do this kind of thing is to coordinate with the foreign government and get their okay to enter the country and arrest their citizens. That’s simply not possible with a president, unless you’re intentionally supporting a coup. Which … this kinda is except there was no other group looking to take power.

1mo ago

So annoying

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Hawke @lemmy.world 1mo ago

[citation needed]

My understanding is that it was just a printing convention because þ was unavailable in movable type at the time, with y being the closest approximation. Y was never pronounced like th except when it was understood to be substituting for thorn.

Wikipedia:

With the arrival of movable type printing, the substitution of ⟨y⟩ for ⟨Þ⟩ became ubiquitous, leading to the common ye as in "Ye Olde Curiositie Shoppe". One major reason for this was that ⟨y⟩ existed in the blackletter types that William Caxton and his contemporaries imported from Belgium and the Netherlands, while ⟨Þ⟩ did not, resulting in yͤ as well as ye.

1mo ago

"Microslop" trends on social media — backlash to Microsoft's on-going AI obsession continues

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Hawke @lemmy.world 1mo ago

“Corporate ADHD” I call it.

1mo ago

Use of sidewalk

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Hawke @lemmy.world 1mo ago

Wait, I get it. It’s supposed to be two columns.

My mind was trying to “don’t dead open inside” and balking at the spacing.

Good thing we have professionals making newspapers eh?

1mo ago

Use of sidewalk

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Hawke @lemmy.world 1mo ago

What’s with the bizarre spacing and random codes?

FTAX4, OCX5, MRPX2?

1mo ago

The way it should be

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Hawke @lemmy.world 1mo ago

Unfortunately that doesn’t really help, because it’s too likely that the post text will be missed. Might be one of the few cases where extra text in the template would be better.

Need to find a way to make sure that either people know up front that it’s a reversal, or read it once, then learn the context and go back and read it again. In this case the latter just trips people up without any rethinking of the situation.