FYI there are some apps on the F-Droid store that probably won’t have to protect any data from the authorities because it stays in your phone and is not sent anywhere to begin with.

It should be.

The Divine Comedy to a high budget high quality movie.

Interesting, I say CROAC. Probably there’s a lot of geographical variation.

I was copying and pasteing from pass but that looks much cooler, thanks!

I’m familiar with pass and familiar-ish with rofi. What do the other two do?

The Jews in medieval Catalonia were an important part of the banking system, but not the only ones. Non Jews, specially from Lingua di Si countries, and also members of the Court, engaged in loans and taules de canvi.

Edit: capitalisation of ethnonyms.

A bubble level. I guess the “spirit” part is because maybe origibally the liquid was alcohol?

ESL here, what would have been the more natural way?

Gen X ignored again, with which we are okay though.

There’s a page somewhere that, if you allow it to, opens hundreds of tabs in the background pointing to a bunch of lifestyle and commercial sites so your shadow profile ends up looking nothing like you. I will try to find it again.

And here it is: https://trackthis.link

Howard Mitla is having a panic attack.

Counterpoint: dictators that died in their beds because of course they couldn’t be prosecuted under their own regime and have them undergo fair trial. Bonus points if their victims are still alive so they can get some closure. Spain’s Franco comes to mind.

Isn’t the IQ adjusted to always have an average of 100?

But frankly no idea.

We also use the article for personal names, might as well be a cat or dog.

I don’t want to answer a specific user about the name connotations but, isn’t the load of a word dependant of the intention? My friends and I call each other whores. And conversely one can use “woman” as a very badly loaded vocative.

Probably every single European bridge called “Devil’s Bridge” has a story about how he was tricked into making it in one single night and then denied his prize because

• they made a rooster sing before dawn because the contract specified that as the deadline
• they made an animal cross the bridge first because the first soul was to be taken per contract
• they bully him into giving it up with some divine intercession.

Been hearing them expressing themselves all my life.

Interestingly, the set of people into bullfighting and the set of queerphobes overlap A LOT.