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@LucyWildboots No - they stick to the original wording, but ensure that the e-books are well formatted.

Converting old paper books to ebooks is not an easy task, and there tends to be formatting issues with freely available ebooks of public domain works (if you can even find them). Words are messed up, spaces missing, headlines appear as normal text, footnotes weird etc. Standard Ebooks are always a joy to read. :)

@thibaultamartin My experience is the opposite - I almost always feel better after a cup of coffee, and in periods when I drink more coffee I feel better than when I drink less. It's not due to addiction - I do not drink coffee every day, and I never suffer from it's absence. But a nice cup of coffee never fails to lighten my day.

There must be individual differences like with everything else. Caffeine is just part of it - it's the ritual, the smell, the taste, the break, the warmth. ☕

@fredbrehm @pkrugman I guess he has some natural sympathy for crypto considering it's success lately can only be compared to the one he brought on his own party.

@molly0xfff Totally admirable that you have a voice - but have you ever considered how much more powerful that voice could be if you used it to communicate the savoury flavours of Crispy Chunks Cereal™?

@brewsterkahle I got lucky - I always assumed wormholes were part of quantium theory and the force behind sister particles. Not because I connected the two theories like a genius, but because wormholes seem fundamentally impossible for me to understand. Whenever something seems impossible I just assume it's quantium physics.

It terrifies and fascinates me how far I am from understanding these things. My bullshit detector is rendered useless. It's like witchcraft. Amazing.

@tbernard Looks great!!

My immediate thought for a metaphor for a comic book icon woud be one of the onomatopoeia bubbles ("POW! "BANG!"), but I have a hard time imagining how to fit that into design guidelines.

@omgubuntu The photo used for this piece on the front page has me entertained. Well done.

@molly0xfff Ah, right - wasn't clear from the slideshow, and I'm clearly not well-informed enough. Making the list is obviously impressive in its own right, doing so with a self-hosted critical blog is beyond. Hats off.

Love the irony of the web3 developers two slides down.

@werefreeatlast Upon reading the article, I guess the clubhouse metaphor seems to be aimed at the local feed, which I imagine is a bit of a journalist club on journa.host.

I mean, fair enough. That is one way of using the platform.

The fact that content is not automatically shared far and wide to people who never asked to see it is, I can imagine, a substantial downgrade from the perspective journalistic users. Also fair. Not sure it's potent criticism, but fair.

@werefreeatlast @adamdavidson Which would make it more like a regular bar than a clubhouse - you don't get to set the rules, but as long as you abide by the norms of the establishment you're free to hang out.

I guess the clubhouse metaphor would be appropriate if it was important for everyone to be on the same server. Considering, however, that the whole point of Mastodon is that we're on different servers, it seems like a backwards way of describing the platform.

@EUIPO Did they file a trademark for an iTunes screenshot?

@Ciaraioch Home for Christmas on Netflix might be worth a look, if series are acceptable. It might come a bit short in the cheesy department, but at least guaranteed to be free of A-list celebrities.

@molly0xfff but of course, congrats!! This is huge!

@molly0xfff Is the theme of this list social media influencers, or is it just that this is the only crowd Forbes found it worthwhile talking about?

I'm trying to weight my words, but I feel like you could have deserved more... Diverse company. Surely our generation has other things to offer as well (?)

@megavolt @stavvers That would be what Kant proposes - he famously lashed out against giving money directly as selfish and unhelpful.

The salvation army is almost as problematic as it's name implies, but it's hard to argue against the utility of their soup kitchens.

There are a bunch of non-religious charities providing food and shelter. Many also work politically. Just make sure to read up in advance if giving to a larger one. Local soup kitchens often do wonderful jobs.

@karllouis @kathygriffin Sometimes things do get better. The fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union was remarkably peaceful. It's easy to point to reasons it went so well in retrospect, but few would have imagined such an ending in advance.

The history of the CCP does not inspire optimism, and comparing China to Soviet is almost as pointless as comparing Gorbachev to Xi.

That said, the situation is not bound to end awfully. But I'm afraid it is likely to.

@fredldotme @zygoon That's wonderful to hear - I'll throw in a donation for purely selfish reasons then :)

Thanks!

@zygoon @fredldotme Curious about this as well - any chance of Halium 7 ports? Or is this (probably) the end of the line for software updates for my Nexus 6p?

In either case, exciting stuff!

@ernmander@floss.social @downey Of course - it's only useful if something breaks. Which is of course always unfortunate!