I deliberately redirect Shorts to the default desktop player. And it’s more like 3 seconds in my experience, Grayjay takes way longer at 10-15 seconds.

Factory jobs are 6-14 and 14-22 (and 22-6 if there’s a rush), and office jobs usually 7-15, including a 30-min break. Then there’s the service sector, depending on when the shop opens…

Luxembourg has free transit and now everyone can ride without any ID, not just those who used to pay for single, full-price tickets plus paper ticket surcharge. Of course digital services are different but it’s clear there is an ulterior motive (besides subsidizing an unethical industry).

Those two, and many others, paid to get excluded from the draw. Finances the whole enterprise.

Awesome comic, my only nitpick is the lower-left blue heart somewhat out of place (clothing patch?), otherwise very expressive for only 2 panels with faces

Protest public displays of affection would be the #1 thing I’d miss if homophobia disappears (it’s worth it of course, just like I wouldn’t want anyone to get fired at no matter how cool they might look dodging bullets)

Zalgo generators often have a settable range for the random number of diacritics per letter. If it includes 1 and you’re (un)lucky, you can get oops-all-acutes. Manually, you can copy the combining character alone (not easy, as you can’t usually select it, but you can use web apps or UnicodePad) and paste one after every letter.

Combining diacritics actually include some overlays (s̸l̸a̸s̸h̸e̸s̸, s̶̶t̶̶r̶̶i̶̶k̶̶e̶̶t̶̶h̶̶r̶̶o̶̶u̶̶g̶̶h̶, not⃠, bo⃞x etc.) and allow for vertical text without newlines (although support for characters except aeioucdhmrtvx is spotty). Great for Kahoot names if the host machine runs Windows and displays them in a column, as opposed to overlaid like on Android.

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6 weeks right now… May have been 4 before global warming

Yes but I feel like nobody would miss that word if coinage now said “10 ¢” instead (or 𝐓𝐄𝐍 𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒 because numerals are apparently hard). Saying “it’s a dime” is shorter, sure, but that can’t be said about almost anything nowadays.

My grandma was a rural primary school teacher and would say “Good luck getting them to learn anything past baby goose time.” Not sure about the causality, maybe they both stem from weather and daylight or goslings are just too much fun.

If it convinces some people to not shove AI into other people’s faces, not bad. Even if it only targets straight men.

It’s Zalgo (putting combining diacritics on every letter) but mild and consistent, plus I used native accented characters if available to improve rendering consistency

àèìǹòùẁỳ
áćéǵíj́ḱĺḿńóṕŕśúẃýź

You can test if your text renderer adds combining diacritics as overlays or replaces with native glyphs:

1. ď (d-caron)
2. ď (d plus combining caron)
3. ԁ̌ (Cyrillic ԁ aka “komi de” or “lowercase Ԁ” plus combining caron)

Most renderers will use identical glyphs for #1 and #2 because #3 (using a d-lookalike (hompglyph) to simulate how cheap Czech typewriter users would print lowercase d-caron) is not how d-caron looks in print (the closest ASCII-safe rendition of that, if you still have encoding problems, is d’)

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T́h́é fóŕẃáŕd́ t́íćḱ íś áćt́úáĺĺý ćáĺĺéd́ áćút́é àǹd̀ t̀h̀è b̀àc̀k̀t̀ìc̀k̀ ìs̀ à g̀r̀àv̀è

You can have some fun with these terms.

Also, there are Czech and Slovak oddities with carons where it looks very much like a 9-shaped curly apostrophe (’) on some letters. All the following nouns are common, spelled correctly and the only accent they contain is one caron (ˇ) each. Standard and monospace font are provided for comparison (some monospace fonts, especially pixel ones, actually squish the d-caron to avoid overflow)

ľudia   loď   lodě   mať
people  ship  ships  mother

ĽUDIA   LOĎ   LODĚ   MAŤ
PEOPLE  SHIP  SHIPS  MOTHER

Maybe that’s why Czech and Slovak never use upper-9 quotes, the primary („“) and secondary (‚‘) quote marks are lower-9 and upper-6.

Yeah, no coins feature numbers prominently (one says “dime” instead, a word nobody ever uses otherwise), some are near-worthless, the dollar is not nearly as widespread as it should be, the diameter is often not increaing by value (even within the same metal series) and the notes are way too similar, plus their value is on the low side… No wonder Americans switched to checks and insecure cards so soon

Reverse psychology 101

Vogon poetry

Are people even allowed to vote for their own country?

We’ve known about coronaviruses since the 1960s

So, shooting into a RAM buffer as soon as the shutter is half-pressed, or as soon as focus is locked? Also, how does the lens play a role? The shutter is inside the camera and probably does not engage in fast burst mode anyway.