Oh, I wasn’t bitching at you or anything.

If you’re actually curious, the funky letters are the upper- and lowercase of the Old/Middle English letter Eth that represents the “th” sound.

Why anyone would use it today? Maybe they think it’s “quirky”?

To get you to engage with questions like that. Just ignore it.

It’s just so dang cute!

Split ends and highlights?

Much easier to fall off a balcony than through a window. Convenient feature in Russian culture.

And that’s how docker was born!

As I understand things from my own reading, Student Loans typically can’t be discharged with bankruptcy, and they start garnishing your wages eventually if you don’t pay voluntarily.

Short of keeping all your money in cash and living off the grid in a hovel not worth the trouble for the bank to foreclose on, I think I’m pretty much fucked.

He does talk some mad shit.

That you, Morgoth? Stop trying to trick me into revealing the location of Gondolin.

Right? Alabama doesn’t even have 10 million people.

Mostly referring to the recent rumblings about their potential IPO. Once shareholders get their hands on something, it’s all downhill.

Matrix supports “bridges” for a number of third party services so you can keep in contact with friends who haven’t made the transition to federated services.

Other than Lemmy, I’ve got a self-hosted and federated Matrix instance. I don’t actually do much with Matrix at the moment, it’s mostly the result of me tinkering with self-hosted services. I did recently bridge it to Discord, and I’ve let my friends know it’s a potential alternative if Discord continues going down the shitter.

You’re encouraging violence! clutches pearls and swoons

ETA /s tag for the braindead

An important point to remember with these IM landers is they’re attempting to land on much rougher terrain than anything we’ve accomplished so far, and it’s attempting to do so autonomously by constantly snapping photos and analyzing them in real time to determine a safe landing spot. This was just their second attempt, I wouldn’t count them out yet.

Trade it for something a little lies swastikar-y.

Those Erlkönig performances do get intense sometimes.

Recently finished a re-read of Lord of the Rings, and am working my way through The Silmarillion again now. Found them in gorgeous hardback editions that also have Tolkien’s illustrations. Ideally once I’m finished with Silmarillion I’ll start in on Tolkien’s other works that I’ve never read at all - Unfinished Tales, Morgoth’s Ring, etc.

The density of your take rivals that of a Strange Matter star. Impressive.

I’m sure those of us already on the SAVE plan will be receiving our notice of unlubed surprise buttsex soon enough.

Face eating leopards are going to be morbidly obese by the end of this administration.