boatswain

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[–] boatswain 2 points 10 months ago

FYI I've got the app installed from the Google Play store, and it shows the same version as GitHub:

[–] boatswain 10 points 10 months ago

As always, there is a relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/345/

[–] boatswain 5 points 10 months ago

My understanding is that the business names are there because Inari is a kami associated with merchants and businesspeople. They donate a gate, slap the company name on it, and Inari provides.

[–] boatswain 2 points 10 months ago

Thanks, I'll check this out after work. Definitely been seeing this problem lately.

[–] boatswain 14 points 10 months ago

I mean, I use Discord pretty much every day, and that's what I assumed.

[–] boatswain 2 points 10 months ago

Oh, and Dunsany! Can't believe I forgot him.

[–] boatswain 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

They're both mass-market pulp that are entertaining to read. There's plenty of sci-fi and fantasy that's literature: Ursula LeGuin, Tolkien, Gene Wolfe, NK Jemisin, Vonnegut... the list goes on.

[–] boatswain 5 points 10 months ago

I've been using Miryoku for almost a year now, and I love it. The home row mods became natural surprisingly quickly. I do still need to tweak a setting somewhere; I tend to leave accidental "j"s around when I get found fast and an going for a capital on the left hand.

[–] boatswain 6 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I mean, it's Tom Clancy. It's a fun read, like Dan Brown or Brandon Sanderson, but it's not literature or anything.

[–] boatswain 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

People worry about conservatives just having more kids but realistically they work lower end jobs and don’t have money for that. Imagine raising 3-4 kids in this economy, not many will do that.

I suspect there are a lot of corpos voting red, especially once you get to the C-suite. I don't think it does any favors to anyone to assume that Trump's sweep was just the redneck vote.

[–] boatswain 2 points 11 months ago

Puerto Rico is lovely

[–] boatswain 25 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Oregon here. Black or blue pen, in the comfort of your own home. Ballots get mailed out weeks ahead of time to everyone in the state, then you can pop them in the mail or bike over to the local library or wherever your closest dropbox is. Ranked choice voting for Portland for the first time this year, too.

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