“Humping” in this context means pushing the trailers onto a small hill and releasing them one by one to send them onto different tracks to make up new trains.

It’s efficient but it can damage delicate cars or fragile contents, hence the warning.

This is bad news for Lesotho, Gambia, San Marino, and Brunei.

Weird. Neither OpenStreetMap nor CoMaps does any automatic address interpolation or inference. All the data you see there was either imported from a suitably-licensed authoritative source or added by a contributor.

If you’re seeing misnumbering of addresses, it’s almost certainly human error, but it won’t be a regular thing.

EA actually weren’t able to secure a new license for FIFA.

They’re still doing football/soccer games, but it’s called “EA Sports FC” now. Catchy, huh?

Niiiiice, this lets me get away from Ghostery - thanks for the heads-up!

Oh, I was under the impression Consent-o-Matic can only agree to cookies, rather than refuse them?

Nice find. It’s a Claude project to at least some degree, which is a bit of a bad smell for me, but I agree that people should be cautious about Ghostery so it’s good to have options.

Gorgonzola, walnuts, capers, olives, chipotle flakes, and a little grated vintage cheddar please. If that doesn’t fit into the pizza man’s pizza plan, don’t trust the pizza man.

Ghostery, along with blocking trackers, has a “Never Consent” feature that declines these automatically. Since it understands the underlying platform rather than the text shown to the user, it should give the right answer (and it’ll block the tracking cookies anyway).

That said, Ghostery has had some telemetry drama in the past and not everyone trusts them, so despite this being super useful, don’t install it without a bit of research.

About a kilometer, if it was on the docks.

the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as himself. […] Then Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself. Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David…

- 1 Samuel 18

When they fuck up your “TikTok”

We all understand it’s a skit, right?

I’m not saying you can’t hate them, but I am saying that all you’ll achieve by that is getting angry all the time.

You’re fighting the tide. There’s never been a point in time where language had fixed, immutable definitions. It’s always been transient, no matter what you learned, and it’s not a good thing or a bad thing, it’s just how communication and culture work.

Just wanted to chime in and say that OP’s experience is exactly how it would go down at my workplace too, despite the deluge of downvotes they’re getting, and I also likely would have looked at alternatives instead of proposing it, for the sake of my professional reputation. I think it’s likely true for a ton of people.

That’s not to say that people aren’t being over-serious if they see the original branding and balk at it, but that’s out of OP’s hands.

Also, don’t use Brave.

Brendan Eich is both vocally and financially opposed to LGBT+ equality. The browser has actively enabled targeted ads. They’ve actively promoted crypto and have been in bed with specific crypto brokers to promote its use. They’ve been adding their own promo codes to URLs for private benefit.

They don’t give a shit about privacy. Don’t touch them with a barge pole.

For accessibility:

When I was early on in my transition I got in a Lyft, and the driver was this big country guy. I was a little nervous so just sat quietly in the back.

After a moment he changed the music on his phone to what sounded like a Hatsune Miku song. Curiosity got the better of me, so I finally spoke up and said “is this Hatsune Miku?”

And he said “Yep. You looked uncomfortable, and I know transgender women like Hatsune Miku, so I thought it might help.”

I think about that interaction a lot.

I don’t think that’s quite accurate. It was used in the Middle Ages on fast days, for sure, but we have earlier examples from West Asian cultures (e.g. the C12 Iberian Arabic Kitāb al-Ṭabīḫ and a mention by the C11 Persian author Ibn Sina).

Yeah, agreed, they look to be hugely bright spotlights facing into Pakistan. All my photos are from within India, so even if they were clearer, I don’t think we’d see the actual light fixtures.

(Edit: unless that’s what’s on the poles in all three pictures, maybe.)

I think the lights are probably on the towers dotted along the fence. Best I could find nearby on Google Streetview: