Finally, a way to indulge in exhibitionism without having to leave the house!

I think people make fun of it because to a non-American it comes across as deeply insecure. The trope is that the USA has no history of its own and so its people latch onto the smallest scraps of foreign heritage as a way to give themselves some cultural context and cachet.

I don’t think it’s invalid - in many cases the ancestry is genuine, even if distant/fractional. If it helps them find meaning or feel connected to something then I’ve got no issue with it. Humans like to feel connected to other humans, and it’s fun to discover that you have things in common.

The issues only really arise IMO if someone starts weaponising that ancestry or insisting they now have the authority to speak for a people they have no tangible connection to.

You got a 2017 laptop with an A18 Pro chip? Wow that’s incredible!

That claim seems like it’d be trivial to fact check, and indeed does seem to be false.

Yeah, it seems like it. The most common fonts intended to actually help dyslexics seem to be Dyslexie and OpenDyslexic, although I’ve also seen people say Comic Sans is good.

I think it makes it look like a cheap drop-shipped device from China, but if it improves readability for you then go for it!

Except for them to be directly comparable you’d also have to get a keyboard cover for the iPad, making it more expensive than the MacBook, and it’d still have one fewer USB port and no audio jack.

See also: haggard, laggard, braggart (this one changed to a ‘t’ for some reason), dastard, dullard, and a few others. It’s uncommon but it’s out there!

Yes, but this is mildlyinteresting, not actuallyconsequential.

RTFA

In the past several months, many specialized download managers were created that completely bypassed the site, donation messages, and download protections. Some of these download managers locked certain features behind a paywall that required users to pay in order to gain access. The use of Myrient for commercial, for-profit purposes has always been strictly forbidden. Such egregious and abusive usage of the site cannot be tolerated anymore.

Wait, how old is Calvin’s dad supposed to be?

The headline blaming it all on AI seems misleading given the owner explicitly blames leechers in the community. Selfish chuds were routinely bypassing download limits and then had the gall to add their own paywalls without contributing anything back.

I don’t know about 6, but there’s definitely a Mambo No. 8.

I couldn’t stand Discovery but Academy very quickly won me over.

She’s a guest star in a single episode.

Listening to smooth jazz and fusion.

I was an insufferable prog & classic rock snob in my teens and early 20s, but these days I can appreciate just about anything, including smooth jazz.

The Rippingtons fucking rule.

Ford Focus Mk2, back in 2007. Manual transmission, of course, because automatic lessons were (and still are) rare in the UK.

Safety. What else?

You can see a news report from when it came into force here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-60203081

The guidance is here: https://www.gov.scot/publications/fire-and-smoke-alarms-in-scottish-homes/pages/where-and-what-to-buy/

Which includes this part on batteries:

Replaceable batteries cannot be used because the sensors in the alarm degrade over time and so will not be able to detect heat or smoke. This is why the alarm has a limited lifespan.  Sealed, tamper-proof battery units must be used because they are safer than those which allow the user to change the batteries.

There have been several tragedies over the years where alarms failed because their batteries expired, or people have removed them. Any alarm you buy will have information on how long it lasts, which can be up to 10 years.

In fact, smoke alarms with user-replaceable batteries became illegal in Scotland a couple of years ago.

Still waiting to see if the same regulation gets applied across the entire UK, but anecdotally I’ve noticed it’s already much harder to find anything other than 10-year battery or hardwired models in my part of England.

This is the videos community. Are you lost?