Skua

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[–] Skua@kbin.earth 3 points 4 hours ago

80% of Israeli Jews were born in Israel, they do not have an "actual home" to go back to

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 11 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

This one always makes me smile, because it's from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. It's just some guy's blog in which he comes up with new words to express experiences and emotions that are difficult to describe, and that specific one has thoroughly broken containment

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 3 points 4 hours ago

I made AltGr + / type an interrobang so I'd always have access to it

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 17 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Are there any scripts in which all the characters are symmetrical across the vertical axis? So that, when written like this, the letters would be the same either way.

Edit: oh wait, I know one! Ogham, from medieval Ireland. There is one character that's not symmetrical, but it's apparently one of the five "additional" characters that do not appear in the majority of known examples of ogham

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 4 points 8 hours ago

I do really worry that America would put boots on the ground in the event of an open Iran-Israel war. Especially if Iran starts winning.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 2 points 16 hours ago

Maybe Chile? They've got a tropical island and the mainland goes from desert to Antarctic

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 2 points 19 hours ago

They spent a fifth of their sovereign wealth fund covering their budget deficit last year, I'm not sure that Russia has the capacity to scale things up

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 7 points 1 day ago

Presumably you downloaded Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC), which I still had to do to make a custom keyboard layout in 2022. Funnily enough I was also wanting to use AltGr to add diacritics to vowels, because I don't want to have to go to the backtick key for àèìòù

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

For what it's worth, making a custom layout actually is a huge pain in the arse. That's a pretty niche use case, but there is definitely no reason for it to be as much of a hassle as it is

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ich kann nicht viel Deutsch erinnern, aber Miez ist sehr schön

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 26 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The museum is not pro-neoliberalism, though in that light if it does succeed in finding a new location it seems like a guarantee that this news article will become an exhibit in it

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Isn't a khopesh sharp on the other side of the curve from a shotel, though? It seems like sharpening the inside was the big innovation that makes shotels distinctive

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