Might I ask where you buy from? I'd like to make the switch, but since I live in another country and get my items here through courier, getting everything I need in one or two packages is significantly cheaper for me.

@Bonehead Luke 1:38 "'I am the Lord’s servant, Mary answered. 'May your word to me be fulfilled.' Then the angel left her." / Luke 1:46-48 "And Mary said: “My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has been mindful of the humble state of his servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed,"

Does not sound like she didn't know what was going on, or that she didn't consent...

#Naming Scheme 'Em Ups

Thanks for making me aware of this cool tool!

Do not be scared

Modalka for me. It has exactly what you want and no more, which also makes it a lot easier to learn: useful for me that I'm not a programmer.

Freakonomics Radio did a pretty great interview with him. It's enlightening.

An unironically Vi(m)/Emacs moment.

r/linguisticshumor or... :'(

If you live in most of Europe or definitely Latin America, yeah, it is so popular it's kind of inconceivable not to use it, or at least hard to imagine. I genuinely don't understand how people in the US communicate.

If you created a page called "Wugphile" I would totally think it was about linguistics :D

I'm just done reading The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin, and The Fate of the Tearling immediately before. Starting with the latter, I liked the rest of the series, but disliked the direction it went in this last book; however, it did keep me invested right until the very last word (in the hope that things might take a different turn, admittedly). As for the former, I don't think I have much of an opinion. It just didn't deliver on what I was looking for.

What I'm looking for, incidentally, is quite a specific niche of fantasy stories centered on monarchies with a romantic-in-the-classical-sense portrayal. It's a high I got off The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison, The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold, and the original Valdemar series by Mercedes Lackey, and I've been chasing it ever since.

Yes, in Santo Domingo! I didn't know it was a more widespread thing, but one showed up around a year ago and has grown more popular this year. It's called "Playboard Café", and their food is also great.

I tried, tried to use old reddit. With RES, without RES, using all the recommended settings, tweaking it to my liking... I just couldn't. It's so ugly. I wanted to get into reddit before, but I could only do so when new reddit was launched, and I couldn't believe I was browsing the same website. It's a reason why I'm loving kbin.social over other fediverse alternatives.

@fishos It is emphatically not common knowledge. I'm reading everyone asserting that such and such governments have backdoors on phones or whatever device, but you're the first person to cite an example. If you have more, I would appreciate you sharing those.

The full text of the statement is here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/08/18/the-spirit-of-camp-david-joint-statement-of-japan-the-republic-of-korea-and-the-united-states/

@InEnduringGrowStrong Apico! Very relaxing game.

@YoorWeb Thank you for sharing the links! I was very unaware of this.

@aeronmelon I hear it consistently praised as one of the best things in Chromebooks.