the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as himself. […] Then Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself. Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David…
- 1 Samuel 18
I’m not saying you can’t hate them, but I am saying that all you’ll achieve by that is getting angry all the time.
You’re fighting the tide. There’s never been a point in time where language had fixed, immutable definitions. It’s always been transient, no matter what you learned, and it’s not a good thing or a bad thing, it’s just how communication and culture work.
Just wanted to chime in and say that OP’s experience is exactly how it would go down at my workplace too, despite the deluge of downvotes they’re getting, and I also likely would have looked at alternatives instead of proposing it, for the sake of my professional reputation. I think it’s likely true for a ton of people.
That’s not to say that people aren’t being over-serious if they see the original branding and balk at it, but that’s out of OP’s hands.
Also, don’t use Brave.
Brendan Eich is both vocally and financially opposed to LGBT+ equality. The browser has actively enabled targeted ads. They’ve actively promoted crypto and have been in bed with specific crypto brokers to promote its use. They’ve been adding their own promo codes to URLs for private benefit.
They don’t give a shit about privacy. Don’t touch them with a barge pole.
For accessibility:
When I was early on in my transition I got in a Lyft, and the driver was this big country guy. I was a little nervous so just sat quietly in the back.
After a moment he changed the music on his phone to what sounded like a Hatsune Miku song. Curiosity got the better of me, so I finally spoke up and said “is this Hatsune Miku?”
And he said “Yep. You looked uncomfortable, and I know transgender women like Hatsune Miku, so I thought it might help.”
I think about that interaction a lot.
I don’t think that’s quite accurate. It was used in the Middle Ages on fast days, for sure, but we have earlier examples from West Asian cultures (e.g. the C12 Iberian Arabic Kitāb al-Ṭabīḫ and a mention by the C11 Persian author Ibn Sina).
That’s all well and good, but in Scrabble, GOOGLE only scores 8 whereas YANDEX scores 17.
Meh, there are a lot more sci-fi movies that have ships with some kind of artificial gravity than don’t, especially since it saves a large, expensive production headache. I don’t feel it needs to be referencing a specific title.
Stormcrow | Steven Crowder
Curious.
You have ever been a herald of woe. Troubles follow you like crows, and ever the oftener the worse. […] Here you come again! And with you come evils worse than before, as might be expected. Why should I welcome you, Gandalf Stormcrow?
100%. I’m not quite as ardently anti-Windows as most on this community from a UI/UX standpoint, but both Bluetooth and audio device switching are genuinely terrible experiences in Windows. I find myself pairing audio devices from scratch all the time on my work laptop, and it’s painful every time.
No, but he could definitely pull some strings to get IANA to add .trump as a new gTLD (honestly, I’m surprised it hasn’t already happened - I had to check) and the government has no obligation to continue using .us or .gov as far as I know.
For those looking to find more, this is generally about the translation of the Hebrew ʿalmah (עלמה) to the context-sensitive Greek parthénos (παρθένος) in the Septuagint, the Greek Old Testament. The passage that gets most attention is Isaiah 7:14 as it seems to have been interpreted by the gospel writers as a prophecy of Jesus (or a suitable prophecy to model the gospels on):
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look, the young woman is with child and shall bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel
Generally a good approach, but…
Do you have to use or choose to use AI products? Why not use every single one of those tokens available to your subsidized subscription? Did your search engine build in a “free” AI product? Ask it as many useless questions as you’d like. Getting emails from AI agents? Why not chat with them and lead them on until they hit a billing wall?
Good thing the planet’s not dying.
render
It’s a photo from the gift lounge at the 2003 People’s Choice Awards in Pasadena. He rendered his own face. The photographer was Lester Cohen.
It’s easy to remember because “queue” was spelled “cue” in Old French whereas “cue” was spelled “qu” (i.e. quando) when scribbled on scripts to indicate an actor’s lines.
Actually, that might not help at all.
To scale horizontally, they’re using the chard pattern.
Gorgonzola, walnuts, capers, olives, chipotle flakes, and a little grated vintage cheddar please. If that doesn’t fit into the pizza man’s pizza plan, don’t trust the pizza man.