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But Hungary and Poland aren't a destination goal for the vast majority of migrants, so they only have to make the route through their countries worse or harder than alternative routes. That's not comparable to the EU as a whole.

Similarly, the second case in the US was just found in here in Minnesota, probably for the same reason (at least compared to the rest of the US). MN typically has "more" cases of seasonal diseases like flu compared to other states since our Dept of Health has been reasonably functional and funded.

Stylus!

Ditto on both. Doesn't mean that enforcing it is easy unfortunately.

I use my thumbs just as much for the control key for keyboard shortcuts, which I move [using xkb on Linux] to the keys left and right of space. I got used to it there as a Mac user (where it's the command key). I can't imagine trying to use control with my pinky in the corner.

I recently switched from compose key to this layout (and suggested to the developer to update the Linux release ;-) and it is much nicer to type eg AltGr+a for à instead of Compose+` then a. (I keep compose on PrtSc for extra characters like arrows.)

> EurKey? https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/

> It's preinstalled on Linux

Note that at least on Ubuntu/Debian, the included version is older and a bit different. Not unusable or anything, but not the same as on the website.

I remember reading that architects have one of the highest job dissatisfaction rates in the US. Which makes sense comparing the kinds of projects I saw the architecture students due in college with the architects I've met, whose excitement is designing the ductwork in strip-mall Target stores.

Yeah, I think my partner is tired of me me mentioning it when we read our 15-month son picture books. (Some of the best that I remember are in the book Little You.)

I'm seeing it score 1 out of 2 on the dead butterfly scale.

https://www.emilydamstra.com/please-enough-dead-butterflies/

Only if you skip updates that require a reboot?

On the other hand, the physical labor of grinding the kernels into meal, done by women kneeling at large mortar and pestle like tool, was intense and visible in skeletal remains.

One wlroots possibility would be Wayfire https://wayfire.org/

I'd guess Kwin.

The Mitanni was the one of the most interesting things to learn about in that book!

Yes, before reading the article, I was going to suggest a book I recently read, but I see it's the rejected "the commonly held association" footnote 7 (Anthony, D. W. The Horse, the Wheel and Language), so this will be interesting to read closer.

Ubuntu is my hypervisor.

John McWhorter⁰:

> To wit, the more common usage of “discrimination” has semantically narrowed — in usage — regardless of what the facelessness of dictionary definitions, often initially penned eons ago, might indicate.

This is also true of “cultural appropriation.” I find it almost poignant to see how commonly people dismiss the concept by saying that without it, we wouldn’t have tomatoes (from South America), or that the alphabetical writing system that emerged in Egypt wouldn’t have spread to most of the world, etc. But what these people are missing is that this term is used in a semantically narrower fashion than these objections apply to.

It refers to appropriation by those on top¹ from those below, especially where doing so involved profiting in a way that the latter was not able to.

0: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/opinion/language-race-sem....

1: [Link in the original] https://www.theweek.co.uk/cultural-appropriation

The goal of a romanization isn't always to represent the pronunciation in English. They may have other goals, like a one-to-one mapping of letters between alphabets or something. English doesn't pronounce 'q' like 'ch' or 'c' like 'ts' but that's more or less what they represent in pinyin.

So I agree you are right about the pronunciation. I just don't think the article claimed they were spelling it phonetically for English.

> the name is pronounced Parandzem (not P'aranjem)

Even with the same pronunciation, the spelling depends on the chosen romanization scheme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Armenian

(Based on the table in that article, I think "P'aranjem" is using the ISO 9985 scheme.)

Once I bought a used copy of a 1200+ page book and took the binding off so I could carry a couple of chapters at a time back and forth to work to read on breaks. Luckily it was a 10+ year old history book that was available shipped for under $10. But I can't really do that for a library book, so I agree ebooks are the way to go.

Pompeii wasn't a "civilization", it was one destroyed city (a couple, really, with Herculaneum). The Roman Empire lasted quite a bit longer!

Pedantically, I don't think the US was ever part of the UK. The UK ultimately had sovereignty, but that's not the same thing. Even now the United Kingdom's former colonies are not part of the UK: it "has sovereignty over 17 territories which do not form part of the United Kingdom itself: 14 British Overseas Territories and three Crown dependencies.¹

But that's kind of the same point that I didn't articulate. A colony is not part of the country that is ruling it. The Baltic states were part of the Russian Empire, independent between the wars, and then reincorporated into the USSR. They weren't "militarily occupied", they were part fully incorporated. When someone says "militarily occupied Eastern Europe", I'd only assume they meant the countries that were "behind the iron curtain" but de jure independent, like Poland or Romania.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom#:~:text=The%20U...

Xi would look strong if they win.

The Baltic states were part of the USSR, unlike Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria etc.

One difference is the alcohol rules are a remnant of (post-)Prohibition and are meant to make alcohol harder or more expensive to get.

+1 for Brave search. I had used DDG for a couple years before and it was fine, but Brave actually seems good.

(I don't like their font but that's an easy fix with userstyles.)

Personally, I found reader mode missed just enough — like images loaded with js or footnotes referenced in an article — that it was more trouble than it was worth. And as much as I liked the "readability", I missed missed seeing the different designs, fonts and so on. (Who would want to read all books with exactly the same layout and typeface‽)

Now I have a collection of user stylesheets I use with Stylus to improve sites I read a lot. I especially often remove fixed toolbars and adjust font size and line height. I also use the browser zoom feature a lot to get one-off sites to a better reading text size.

IIRC, when Jobs said that sentence, it was the first time the team was told of any plan to make it a standard. There hadn't been any legal or technical review that it would be possible. (Not in 11 years now they couldn't have made it happen if they wanted to.)

Do you block third-party cookies? It prevents Drive downloads in any browser with that setting, Chrom{e,ium} included. Recently I saw Drive give a suggestion about this, but a year ago when I was testing third-party cookie blocking in Chromium it took me a day or two before I figured out the connection.