Well it’s okay to break rules, right? So long as you understand how and why.

Your version of readability skews from the norm established over centuries. Fine! Just don’t expect the rules to bend to you.

Readability for author and reader vary. Whose reading comprehension is more important? Your call.

In some cases, it might be appropriate to break paragraph convention and isolate important sentences.

A notable part of the BC base look up to a 34-count convicted fraudster.

Don’t do that unless it’s a monotype font, please.

Sincerely, typesetters everywhere.

It hasn’t changed, you were just taught an overly specific application and not taught that it was such.

Print publishing has 500 years of convention built on trial and error.

As a person who learned to type on a typewriter, and then became a typesetter and publisher, and now does a lot of editing, double spaces are only of use in a monospace type face where there is no kerning possible.

Otherwise, type with variable spaces between the letters plus variable letter sizes is physically harder to read when there are extra gaps between the sentences, despite the way you were trained (by boomers, probably) to type.

More like a vague gesture, which, in idiom chock-full of metonymy, is legitimate.

Plenty of bad grammar and speling to go around.

30 years ago fewer people with literacy problems were publicly and obsessively defacing literary norms.

“Reticent” used to mean ‘reluctance to speak’, or, ‘holding your tongue’, but in the last decade I saw it being used more frequently as a straight up synonym for ‘reluctance’. I wonder if people maybe think it’s a more authoritative sounding word?

It’s not a change of convenience or cultural drift, just a sign of people reading less and subconsciously trying to hide it, I think.

That, and the player base stuck around. 14 years old, and put out to pasture ("maintenance mode), yet daily logjn count is still a respectable ~250k or more.

The real answer may actually be something like the Whales are still addicted and buying lots of in-game silver. One viewer donated over $5k USD to Aztecross’s stream during the announcement recap, then someone else threw in $500+. D2 has enough sleazy gacha mechanics going on that a lean dev team might be funded nicely by whales.

[edit, popularity.report daily logins around 250k in the last 24h, 40k in the last hour, and fluctuating from 20k to 75k per hour]

Try using soft shell tacos, they have more authenticity and aren’t any tidier or messier than hardshell.

They should be easier to source from local producers, less packaging, and you won’t have to go look for them in a way that feeds the Waltons, some of the worst of the American oligarchy.

To be fair, there are so many moneyed Albertans in that part of BC that it feels pretty toxic there sometimes.

They are practically like ex-pats, importing a bunch of entitlement and impositions, not to mention the driving style.

Also, the far right has more international solidarity than the communists even.

The “GST discount”. Heavily in use in rural areas.

I do not welcome our teutonic overlords.

Oh yeah, that is a cool remote. My observation about the awkwardness of a laptop in the living room is more about furniture and the layout of most media rooms. A second screen or a place for the laptop usually isn’t quite right, or downright bothersome. Even a desktop can be a problem.

My media server is hiding in the tv stand because it is NUC sized, an old mac mini. It could directly play to the tv, but for various reasons I wind up with apple castoffs, so an apple tv running Infuse is the front end. If I didn’t have that gear I would be running a modified android player.

I wind up in a lot of living rooms mucking around in their media systems and the furniture aspect matters to a lot of people. Also convenience is paramount, they want a media appliance in front of the couch, computers are for desks.

I know my family is grateful that I no longer force them to mess with a computer to watch something. Inconvenient and frustrating.

This is awkward in most living rooms and the remote control sucks. Source: my house, and my job.

Less awkward, ironically, when using airplay to an appletv.

Oh yes, we just need one solution to our political problems, that’s all, just one solution.

edit: /s

I’m watching For All Mankind and enjoy the portrayal of this process.

This is one of the prominent definitions of ideology: thinking in a way that allows you to participate in your own oppression.

Some of them, for sure! I learned from covid that about 10% of the population is contrarian, and though that overlaps somewhat with conservatism, it’s also prevalent among self-described “antiauthoritarians” who are into alternative health and politics (they think). This pans out with the similar percentage of antimaskers in 1917 and during the smallpox inoculations.