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look mate some of us just like fonts. don’t kinkshame

For that you need a different electoral system. FPTP tends towards dominance by two parties

The first two principles for virtual currencies that they have listed are “Price indication should be clear and transparent” and “Practices obscuring the cost of in-game digital content and services should be avoided”, so if EVE is honest and up front about it then it should be fine

It is circa, but I like to think it’s “chemist’s approximately”

They do work for those of us on mbin

Trick question, Sonic is Barry Allen’s fursona. They run at the same speed because they’re the same person

“Cats Living Together”

I will absolutely not share specifics of this since it would be doxxing him, but I found one of his other social media accounts and it had a post from a week ago that seemed ordinary enough. Whatever got him to stop posting here, it wasn’t something so drastic as to prevent him from engaging with his interests

(Also Squid, if you see this, I am happy to explain how I found you over DMs if it concerns you)

I would assume Australia would use it to monitor their own seas, rather than the Arctic. They already have a system that watches the sea north of Australia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jindalee_Operational_Radar_Network ), so they have proven experience in the field

Things like that can definitely be accomodated. A famous example is how the UK would keep pumped storage hydro power ready for moments like half time in major football games or breaks in popular TV shows, because the entire country would pretty much simultaneously put their kettles on

Charging a car is a much bigger draw than powering a kettle, obviously, but the point is that these things tend to be reasonably predictable and we are able to ccount for them if we know they are coming

There are a lot of paid mods for the original AC, so I expect that will be part of it. However, I do think that there are two other reasons for the devs to want to host a platform of their own:

• Being able to remove content ripped from other games, which will help keep them out of trouble
• Giving users the option to automatically download the mods necessary to join a multiplayer game

I agree, although I think that they would understand how harmful a lack of mod support would be to the game. I hope they do, anyway

They’ve said it will be moddable in the full release and that they intend to create their own platform to host mods

I can! Here is the first episode on their website https://lingthusiasm.com/post/154520059101/lingthusiasm-episode-1-speaking-a-single-language

The episode can be listened to via soundcloud on that page. Slightly further down the page, it has links to the episode on Spotify, iTunes, and Youtube as well, plus an RSS link. The hosts are Lauren Gawne and Gretchen McCulloch

I hope you enjoy it! The podcast is in English, but they don’t always talk about English linguistics. One of the two hosts works primarily on Nepalese languages, and they frequently have guests on to discuss their work

I’m a fan of Lingthusiasm. It’s two linguist friends chatting about interesting things in their field. They keep it pretty approachable for non-linguists (like me)

The article says that it is cut off for ten months per year, so I assume the two months of accessibility are only the absolute peak of summer. That would suggest that they’re right at the start of the ten month period just now

Seems like they’re not, although I get your thought process. If we take Old English (which was English before the Norman conquest) and modern Swedish (since Sweden was never conquered by anyone from France or the Romans) as comparisons, we have

Eleven: OE endleofan, Swedish elva Twelve: OE twelf, Swedish tolv Thirteen: OE threotiene, Swedish tretton Fourteen: OE feowertiene, Swedish fjortun

I think you can see the pattern. These actually all have similar common ancestors going into Proto-Germanic, so they’re way older than the French influence on English.

Since other Indo-European languages like German and Russian do the same thing as English where the line between “one word numbers” and “two word numbers” is 20 to 21, I suspect that originates waaaaay back in the history of these languages

I love it. It’s right next door to a museum aboard an actual ship from 1901, the Discovery. Old and new contrasted against each other

Ahh, that thing about the editions tracks with when I was playing on the tabletop. There were a couple of necron armies in the group I played with and they were always right stubborn bastards to put down. They didn’t hit that hard, but you sure as hell had to hit them hard if you wanted to make any headway