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In elementary school, during the final year (age 12 or 13) I had a teacher whose system was during work periods you could leave whenever you wanted, but there was a board at the door to mark your name with a clothes pin.

Going to high school, it went back to having to ask for permission, or give a heads up in later years.

The flag pictured is the Ba’athist flag, it’s been the flag of Syria for 40-ish years.

The flag you describe was the Syrian flag after independence from France, and as of two days ago, is now also the de facto flag of Syria.

Wow that website is awful

I have the kitchen vent running and oh my god it does not help one bit. I think I’m especially sensitive though. I remember as a kid, my eyes would water sitting in the living room as my dad cooked in the kitchen.

Not that the fumes can’t go around but there was a wall between.

Exactly. I, an everyday normal person just like you, think that murdering CEOs is bad. I am definitely not saying that because I am a CEO of a health insurance company. It is important that health insurance CEOs be spared, and not at all for personal reasons! We- i mean they deserve to live. This is an opinion that all normal everyday people - of which I certainly am one myself - should share.

If instead of loans, education was paid through taxes, would that still be stealing?

I’m inclined to believe your economics teacher would say taxation is theft, and can be ignored. Using taxpayer money to improve society is not “theft”, it’s the social contract.

They did not back off after Parliament overturned it, they said they would uphold martial law until the president called it off. The president was the one who called it off after the vote from Parliament

I guess https isn’t strictly necessary if you’re not handling user input.

There’s still an argument to be made that https prevents malicious code from being injected in transit.

Taxonomy of bread fasteners

Nope, I saw a video about the rarest bread clip and it talked about that site

Well, I guess it depends which tenth of a second of the fall you get. Do you get the beginning jump out of the plane, or somewhere midair?

It’s funny. People tell me they like that Bluesky has “no algorithm.”

I’m not vegan so take it from me: you’re being obtuse.

Know your rights. Now forget all that because the cops don’t give a fuck

No I think they’re both ok, good talk.

I thought it was about the country

I don’t even look at the AI result. I scroll right past. That’s the thing, if it’s bullshit 50% of the time, and you can’t always tell like you can here, then it’s bullshit 100% of the time, and it’s useless, just taking up screen real estate.

“Y’all” has wider reach than this map suggests, particularly in black and queer communities.

English used to be like other European languages too. We had thou/thee for singular, and you/ye for plural, and for respectful singular. Eventually, people began using it as respectful singular for everyone, and so it just became singular and plural, eclipsing thou/thee. Around this time, the you/ye accusative/nominative distinction was also lost, so now we just have you.

If you’re curious, the you/ye distinction worked like this: “you” was used for the subject (the doer) of the sentence, and “ye” was used for the object (the done to). you/ye are analogous to I/me.

“You come with me.” (plural you)

“I come with ye.” (plural ye)

As a result of the loss of thou, we also lost the conjugation of verbs related to it, like “art” instead of “are”, and “-st” or “-est” for other verbs (“goest”, “thinkst”, etc). It used to be that “are” was only for plural pronouns, but now both “you” and “they” can be singular.

And if you’re curious about what happened to “-eth”, evidence suggests this was for a long time a typographic feature, and it was pronounced “-s” as it is today. It was used exactly like “-s”. “He thinketh” would have been pronounced “he thinks”.

Adobe products often have no real equal. It sucks, but it’s the way it is. Gimp doesn’t come close to Photoshop, Inkscape is almost as good as Adobe Illustrator, and After Effects is the most capable video editing software I’ve ever used.

It sucks that they try and lock you into proprietary file formats, like Substance Painter.

Like white collar crimes that police never go after