I used to have really bad chicken-scratch printing and I wanted to improve.

The exercise that really stuck out for me was to find a font I liked in a book on calligraphy and started practicing the alphabet.

Before I started practicing, I didn’t pay much attention to how I was forming a letter, I’d just draw it - and it would look messy. Once you start looking at each letter as a discrete number of strokes you start paying attention to the small parts and the whole looks much better.

If you’re really lucky, you’ll find a guide with arrows showing which way to draw each stroke. Super helpful. Note that this font uses a fountain pen, so it’ll look different with a standard ballpoint:

I suppose if you’re going to die of the beetus it might as well be in your sleep

In this economy!?

Aw man, in the tenth grade we had to do a music recital and this was the song I chose. Specifically because I knew thirty kids would have to play some music whether they were interested in the course or not, and I thought the whole sleepy thing was a funny bit.

All the cool stories really are made up :(

The cure for gender dysphoria is gender-affirming care, which includes treating human beings like human beings and allowing them a place in society.

Cry havoc! Let loose the goose of war!

HONK

I prefer to think of a regular size bee with a giant cowboy hat

I keep hearing promising things about certain types of seaweed being an additive to cattle feed that dramatically lowers their emissions.

But that costs money, so I’m not holding my breath on factory farms implementing it on their own prerogative.

I just shared this with my wife because she’s an artist and hates AI as much as I do.

Apparently she made an account last night.

Bob Loblaw lobbed law bomb: logged on Bob’s law blog

Giving ketamine to younglings would probably be one of the lesser crimes of the Jedi Council

“Red tape” is a pretty common idiom here. It’s similar to bureaucracy, but it’s more like the useless stuff you have to deal with in order to do something.

Say you want to update your driver’s license and you need to bring in some ID and fill out a form. That’s regular bureaucracy.

If you want to feed the homeless so you have to get a permit for an event, prove your volunteers have food-handling training, fill out forms for your volunteers, notify the police that there will be a public gathering, schedule an inspection of the facility, etc, that’s red tape.

Another way to look at it might be that Bureaucracy describes the system in which offices communicate with each other, and Red Tape are the tasks/forms/whatever you have to complete in order to get what you want approved.

Well of course, it’s an unwritten rule

I’ve heard before that the generous bulges of this era have something to do with knights having rampant syphilis and needing more room to breathe.

Isn’t history neat?

That’s a nice set of hooters

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Okay, say you’ve got four inner loops (a crime on its own, I know), do you use i, j, k, l or i, j, k, ii?

Ah, well you can definitely build for Android with it then. I haven’t personally, but so far every other platform I’ve built for has just been a few clicks and away you go

I highly recommend Godot for a new developer. I made the switch from Unity and it’s just been a pleasure to work with. I’m actually unlearned a bunch of patterns I had to use with Unity because Godot makes things even easier to access .

I don’t know if it’s got any kind of support for retro systems though

I hate this, thank you.

One thing I try to avoid when I’m writing is when two words repeat. Kind of like your example “the thing is is that.” If I catch myself writing it, I try to rearrange the sentence.

Although a pretty extreme example tickles me: “The cookie he had had had had no effect on his appetite.”