My thoughts exactly.

Looks just like the ones we have in San Francisco! We have two that only get out for special occasions.

Not Icelandic, but I’ve been following the situation closely.

This is an evolving issue. Grindavik, the town on the far side of this has been severely damaged by earthquakes and is currently surrounded by a berm that’s (mostly) holding the lava flow back. The Svartsengi power plant is likewise protected by a berm and has had the pipes supplying hot water to Reikiavik damaged and repaired.

Geologist Sean Willsey has been providing outstanding coverage on the subject.

It is an odd tone. So much “I learned” and “I found out.” It comes off as a youthful essay.

I work in electrical power delivery for municipal transportation, supervision-level. Before that, I was a shoreside engineer (basically a mechanic, not an engineering degree) in marine services. My work has always come very organically, often starting in floor-sweeping assistant positions.

I’m not a linguist, but here’s how I understand it:

This is why would is so fucked: it’s used both in the conditional, and the subjunctive mood. However, nothing I see in the online resources really talks about would being used in the subjunctive.

When someone uses the phrase “would you like a coffee?” I’m nearly certain that it’s the subjunctive, polite way of saying “do you want coffee.” It’s very similar to the Spanish quieres/quisieras pair. In Spanish you get an irregular conjugation, but in English, the whole verb changes from to be to will.

As a non-linguist, native speaker, these mood changes come naturally to me. I never had to study them. As a second language learner, this is always one of the most brain-melting facets of a new language.

Edit: “do you” obviously isn’t exactly using the verb to be. I’m not sure what to call that expression. It seems like it could be its own post. This is giving me a headache. This post gets into it, but doesn’t really give the specific answers that I suspect you’re looking for.

Truly unbelievable language. I love it. So easy to start, then you hit that wall of 25-letter words.

It isn’t broken. It’s quirky, and they all are.

What I appreciate about Spanish over English is the ease of spelling and pronouncing new words. What I appreciate about English over Spanish is the ease of creating new words.

I have some limited ability/understanding in other languages, but not enough to judge. Except for French.

Wish they had a photo of the thing. That’s not a 280 ft trailer.

Really weirds me out when that happens.

I’m a sober alcoholic. I probably don’t remember it.

In addition to weight, there’s cost. They would have to be integrated into the design, not just normal, flat solar panels, so there’s a significant cost increase. It’s no problem on a delivery van, but anything curvy is probably prohibitively expensive to develop and produce.

claims that the company often uses machine learning to review user projects for signs of illegal content

OK, so what happens when Florida starts deciding more content is illegal?

Literally big brother shit.

I’ll look into proton drive. Thank you!

I care, but I don’t know how else to edit my photos on my phone and seamlessly back them up.

I use Lightroom on a Google Pixel. It costs $10/mo for a terabyte of storage and an editor that’s constantly being updated. I’m not arguing that it’s the best option, I just don’t know any solid alternatives.

If anyone else has a solution this use case, essentially the same as someone who wants to leave Google Photos’ storage/editing suite, I’d be happy to ditch Adobe.

Edit: a word

I have the yellow box, fully assembled, sitting on my shelf, staring at me. I’ve had it for a month. I still have four smart things hubs running everything. I’m a little worried my system won’t reach without all the back hauling those are doing.

Took time off this week. Might try to at least get the software installed.

This article has some amazing photo comparisons.

Check out São Paulo

Any headline that runs with “(figure) says” is an automatic skip for me, but athlete says is about as bad as it gets. That’s right up there with deckhand says or house painter says.

Ah, That makes more sense. Character creation would help a lot with this issue.