Malgas @ Malgas @beehaw.org

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Small, yes, but Konsi is pretty far from horrible.

Also I've never seen her eat a beetle, but you'd know better than me on that point.

I'm sure it's fine. If the moa population gets out of hand, we'll just bring back Haast's eagle.

They were lying about the perjury. Even though they swore they wouldn't.

Do rural Namibians have a different cultural or linguistic concept of what it means for something to be circular?

The Birds but it's all pelicans.

(🔫🪿 Always has been.)

((It's scandalous that there isn't a pelican emoji.))

Alt text: Low gravity can cause bone loss. So we're pleased to report that, since we initiated capsule motion, the number of bones in each crew member has been steadily increasing.

"Netflix and chill" but with a distinct lack of chill.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

—Upton Sinclair

Yeah, the way I was suggesting would only work for one game at a time. You might be able to set something up with symlinks to make everything visible in a separate prefix for the mod manager, but that sounds like way more trouble to me.

I haven't done it a lot, but running a Windows mod manager in the same prefix as the game should work where there isn't a Linux native version available.

Hmmm. It's often said that the difference between medicine and poison is a matter of dosage.

Which means that you could potentially use lesser restoration to kill someone who is receiving mundane treatments for a lethal disease.

Or, heck, consumed in sufficiently large doses, even water can be toxic.

And that's why nix exists.

Well, the blinding stew is for children, while this doesn't work on anyone under 35.

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?

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.

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

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.

TRON Legacy is the best Daft Punk music video.

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.