Fire, aurora borealis, or just bad white balance?

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Mapy.cz (9.55.2/9550200, last version before Premium, also before the dot-com rebrand)

Someone should add -b, -t and -w flags to the Archinstall script

They have lots of controversial symbols. The male pregnancy emoji pales in comparison to an actual swastika. Clockwise, counterclockwise, with dots and without.

https://feddit.org/post/24121844/10940248

Some banks issue stickers for phones without NFC. It’s another physical card but contactless only and very thin (probably with an aluminum strip antenna).

Looks more like a model of a small resistor. Only the tiniest THT resistors and inductors have this shape because normal-sized ones’ wire-wound or vapor-deposited cylinders are long enough to get both terminals encased in resin separately as opposed to dunking all of it into a blob. And resistors of this size can have their entire datasheets printed onto them, color bands are again just a space-saving measure. Not to mention, the only reason it would need to be this bulky is power rating, and a sphere is the least ideal option for heat dissipation.

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Oglaf: Escape Room (NSFW)

Yup, and they didn’t even try to hide it. The etymology is literally bra + vixen (female fox)

…PC meaning Pokémon Center, not Personal Computer?

Edit: Apparently not. Wtf

LMDE

Probably not, considering I was allowed to attend

Depends on the country. I’ve been to one in Germany and the cops did their job.

13 again, and flag-accurate (assuming Hawaii is part of Floxas and Alaska part of Maintana). Why print maps on flags (Cyprus, UN etc.) when altering the map to a more flag-friendly design is an option?

TIL, thanks

Whatever, I’m not convincing anyone with my use of metric and username. I’m avoiding some other weird phrases though, for example you won’t usually see me type “14 days” in English although Czech speakers prefer it to “2 weeks” (idk why, it’s the same number of syllables).

UST UCKING GOOGLE IT

FTFY

Outlines are fine, the tell is the utterly different lighting (could have been solved with a non-lightbox photo)

“Cheaper” means “less expensive”. 2x cheaper means 2x less expensive, or less expensive by a factor of 2, or 0.5x as expensive. I can say 2x shorter, 2x slower etc. and I don’t see a problem. The adjectives “cheap” and “expensive” don’t relate to a number quantity called “expensiveness” or “cheapness” but “price” or “cost”, which is what the factor applies to, and the word specifies if it’s an increase or decrease. Everyone I know would understand that it’s the reciprocal of the original price, although I get that in a country whose president can say he slashed proces by 500 % without instantly having to resign, fractions and percentages might have to be specified but that’s longer to say for the same number of significant figures.

Yes, I can find people debating “two times cheaper” (English) but not “zweimal billiger” (German) or “dvakrát levnější” (Czech), in fact the phrase is often used in promotional material. The only results suggesting it’s wrong are English Reddit discussions’ automatic translations to German or Czech, and Google’s AI summary that cotes them.

I won’t stop using it just because people with inferior education sometimes don’t get it. Similarly, I provided the metric value and conversion rate, it’s Americans who need to practice mental math.

Here’s some KDE lore.

https://community.kde.org/Konqi

Canonically, they hatch from eggs, but as usual for child-friendly characters, the genitalia question is not explored in the lore. Kiki is a robot representing an antropomorphic squirrel. In general, animal and robotic characters don’t need to wear clothes to be considered “appropriate for all ages” as long as they don’t have genitalia or sexualized antropomorphic features like boobs. However, the fact that Kiki, Konqi and Katie are canonically a boy and girls means they should not be sexualized, ever.