dgriffith

this isn't about Australia is about the World in which case other countries should clean up their act, India is adding an Australia's worth of emissions every couple of years:

Nonono don't you know we're supposed to guiltily whip ourselves over our sinfully high per-capita emissions? Forget about actual tons emitted by countries, focus on the person, not countries or corporations or industry where governmental policies of said countries can have the most effect.

and they're basically stealing 1c.

If you buy 3 x 99 cent items you steal 2 cents from the poor starving shopowners.

So make sure you stick it to the man by buying more! That'll teach them!

I approve of the course of action taken here by the courts. This isn't ragging on opponents in Call Of Duty, if you directly call someone - a police inspector, FFS - and threaten them, well, you're going to get a response that you probably won't like.

Acting Inspector Walker told the caller, "Well, f***ing come on then" before ending the call.

I especially approve of this response.

Geoengineering is probably the only way to counteract things now.

But that involves fucking around with the bottom of our food chain in the oceans so there's obviously a good deal of reluctance to start down that path.

• Algorithm shows a preview of a chaotic scene where the content isn't easily identified.
• You open / interact / linger on it to figure out what is happening before identifying it as something you don't want to look at.
• Algorithm detects increased interaction and happily serves up more.

I play a little game with Instagram sometimes. I click on one (1) thirst trap bikini girl post in the search reel. Then I see how many times I have to press the little 3 dot menu and pick "not interested" on allllll the other thirst trap bikini girl posts that immediately appear.

I generally have to press "not interested" about 15 times before my feed reverts to only having bikini girl thirst traps once every 20 or so posts.

English readily absorbs both the best and worst of all the other languages. If some other language has a word that really hits the mood of even just a small amount of English speakers - bam! - it's English now, motherfucker!

Add to this, it's chock-full of complicated and often hidden rules that can - or absolutely cannot - be broken, depending on context. No wonder people learning it as a second language have that permanently confused look on their face.

The thing about the English language is that you can verb any noun you like and get away with it. Just like I did in the previous sentence.

There's a nice 6502 assembly intro + Sim here :

https://skilldrick.github.io/easy6502/

Added edit: I mean, it's not PET-specific, but it's cool to have a little sim with a little chunk of display memory to play with.

Also you'll quickly find that assembly is extremely verbose. Learn how to load registers and jump to (and return from) subroutines as quick as you can to prevent endless amounts of repetitive assembly.

You missed a thorn in your reply there in your first paragraph.

And as an aside, sprinkling them throughout your reply heavily reduces the impact of your message. It's a decoding stumble for most English readers who look at word shapes when parsing sentences.

So while it might be your thang - or perhaps you're Icelandic and they're just leaking through - it's probably better to stick with th if you want to get your point across.

Yes, after digging around, I found em dash.

The sequence for me to get one is:

• press the "?123" button
• long press the "-"
• slide one character on the alternate characters displayed

And ta-da! — an em dash.

Considering that my default mode of typing is swipe where I can spit out this sentence in about 15 seconds, they're not going to be used much by me.

And quite possibly the proportion of em dash users in a typography community is a little bit skewed and maybe not representative of the general internet, haha

That's better, but it's still a mystery. Cs-137 sources should be rigorously stored, even in density gauges they are permanently inside a capsule with a shutter that turns the beam "on and off". It's not like you have a chunk of Cs-137 rattling around in a drawer somewhere (or worse, somehow in powered form that gets all over the inside of a shipping container) but that sounds like that's been the case here.

It's not the first time one of these sources has come loose though - there was a capsule lost on 1400km of highway in Western Australia a little while ago.

I'm curious, where are you getting your em dashes from?

My US 101 keyboard layout doesn't have it, do euro keyboard layouts with alt-gr have it relatively easily accessible? Presumably there's an alt+numpad combo, but that seems to be something that would interrupt the flow of typing quite a bit.

I've just discovered that if I go into the numeric/character section of my phone keyboard and long press the -, I can get —, but that's a long-winded way of getting them.