“Cable elves”? Ridiculous.

They’re called machine elves, and if you want those pictures to come out you’ll have to load that camera with DMT.

Canada also has Crisis in Zefra, a futuristic training scenario commissioned from sci-fi author Karl Schroeder.

I had a similar thing happen recently following a NixOS upgrade. I wonder if it’s something that changed in Firefox.

In my case, the solution was to set useEmbeddedBitmaps = true in fontconfig. Which is unlikely to be directly helpful to you on Fedora, but maybe there’s an equivalent option somewhere?

The bottom chart is blatant parade erasure.

Imagining 2 or more temporal dimensions

This one’s actually kind of easy. The plot of Back to the Future (and every other time travel story where changing the past is possible) doesn’t work unless there’s more than one timelike dimension.

I assume the title has been edited since your comment, but I’m sitting here giggling about:

Sweden (Sweden) reveals…

The Gengg Prime Directive.

It’s fine, babe, the doctor said I’ve got a standard.

That’s exactly it. The main currency of medieval England was the silver penny (aka sterling) which weighed 1/240th of a tower pound. So 240 pence was a “pound of sterlings”.

Ironic, given that the English “dandelion” was borrowed from the Old French dent de leon (“lion’s tooth”).

I’ve seen ¤ used as a currency mark in games. Dwarf Fortress is the one that comes to mind, but I feel like I’ve seen it elsewhere as well.

I’m pretty sure all these sites scrape each other for listings which they then post as if they’re new, too. So you click on the apply link which gets you to another site with its own apply link which leads […] to a 404.

Or in one notable case I eventually arrived at a listing with no apply link and a note at the bottom that it was a fictional example (real company, though).

You have to be right, of course, demographically speaking. There’s no way the amount of bigotry we see could come entirely from a fraction of a minority, as the person above you is implying.

That said, it is difficult to reconcile that with a key feature of homophobic (and transphobic, etc.) rhetoric that is not present in racist beliefs: homosexuals are accused of choosing to be gay.

Which, of course, is as absurd as accusing someone of choosing to be black. And yet we hear one of these constantly, and never the other.

How is it even possible for someone to think that sexuality is a choice, unless they are constantly and actively “choosing” their own? That’s not a rhetorical question. I genuinely can’t make sense of it and that bothers me deeply.

TRON Legacy is the best Daft Punk music video.

But that doesn’t explain why they’re missing for Foursome and Fivesome…

Not all adventure games are made by sadistic moon-logicians like the ones at Sierra.

LucasArts, for example, had a long-standing policy of designing their adventure games such that both death and soft-locks were impossible.

Back right in the pink dress is Jem, from Jem and the Holograms.

It’s just the one mole, actually.

Needless to say, they’re wrong.

Not least because there’s no such thing as a “compiled” or “interpreted” language.

Which is to say that it’s a property of the tooling rather than the language itself. There’s nothing stopping anyone from writing a C interpreter or a Python compiler.

I call shenanigans. “Timberdoodle” clearly ought to refer to a cross between a poodle and a timber wolf.

“Labrador twister” also sounds like a dog breed.