What a great name!

Very strange! They have replied to your comment with the link, but if you don’t see it this is the link:

https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/essay/an-interview-with-ichwan-noor/

Don’t worry, Facebook still creates a shadow profile to know who you are and track you

And the paint?

Edit: @celeste@kbin.earth posted the How

I haven’t paid much attention, but I had some myCharge units I bought at Costco last year get recalled. I suspect a lot of these have cheap batteries from suppliers that don’t put much effort into consistent quality. That’s “okay” with alkaline batteries where the worst that happens is they leak and maybe ruin the device they were in. Have poor quality with a lithium battery and you get a fire or even explosion. I suspect with Anker or some of the other brand names at least you’ll actually get a recall if there’s a problem. A lot of the other no-name, fly-by-night brands on Amazon or elsewhere probably don’t even give you that.

!oddlyspecificplaylists@sh.itjust.works

Ah yes, Crenshaw’s Law in action

I think they’re just up against the glass and getting less distortion/more direct illumination

Every company I’ve worked for in the USA has given 100% pay for sick time, but it’s usually limited to 10 days per year and unused time does not roll over from year to year. Sometimes companies combine sick time and vacation time into one lump of Paid Time-Off (PTO) and in those cases there might be less overall time compared to getting 10 days of vacation and 10 days of sick time, but those hours can roll over from year to year and might need to be paid out or used when you leave the company. Short-term and long-term disability leave I think sometimes goes to reduced pay, depending on what insurance plan they have covering that, but I’ve never used that so I’m not clear on how it works.

If it’s simply because the image hasn’t loaded the text often displays in a box in place of the image. If the person is visually impaired their screen reader can read the text out loud or display it in their Braille device.

In the old days web browsers would often display the alt text as a “tool tip” or little message that would appear on top of the image if you left your mouse over it, but this functionality was changed to the “title” attribute since the alt text is primarily for accessibility purposes and should be descriptive, not pointing out some feature in the image or making jokes.

I’ve long wondered about how that became a strong profanity

That would seem a little odd given the person behind it has listed their account as being on a PieFed instance.

@andrew_s@piefed.social do you know if your bot is/should be tracking PieFed communities?

They were bought and basically no longer exist. Hot Topic was going to buy them but then GameStop came in with a higher offer. For a while they launched ThinkGeek retail stores in shopping malls but eventually shut them all down and now they basically only exist as some tchotchkes in GameStop stores. Even the website just seems to redirect to the main GameStop page now, not their “store” within the GameStop webstore.

My school offered (from most popular to least popular):

1. Spanish
2. French
3. Chinese (I think Mandarin)
4. German

I think my child’s high school offers the same, although I don’t know the relative popularities. I’m confident Spanish is still most popular, and judging by the number of posters around the school from German classes trying to convince kids to take German, I’m thinking German is still not very popular.

They do at Costco in other countries

It’s very helpful. One note, at least in the edition I had, they use endnotes instead of footnotes, so they’re at the back of the book. It’s not quite as helpful unless you use one or two bookmarks to keep your place as you go back and forth. The book itself is riveting, though, and just about every chapter ends on a cliffhanger (since it was originally serialized a chapter at a time in a newspaper) that makes you want to keep reading.

I have been in some heavy downpours that have done just that.

Demo available for Mac and Windows on Steam, trailer shows planned Linux support. I’m going to have to check that out later, it looks chill.

I’ve previously heard:

I owe, I owe, it’s off to jail I go
Don’t ever mess with the IRS
I owe! I owe, I owe, I owe!

The asterisks get interpreted as part of markdown formatting. If you want them to display you should put a backslash in front of each one.

\*shrug\*

*shrug*