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Yes, that’s the only country besides Belarus (which uses Cyrillic) in a 187-km radius from Minsk. (The road will not be straight of course so the actual area where this sign would work will be smaller.)

Unless the sign is fake, of course. IDK about Lithuania but Arial is not a common road signage font. Also, why English? Lithuanians spell it Kyjivas and Minskas.

Edit: now that you mentioned Vilnius on Google Maps, I looked it up and skimmed for a road that might correspond to the direction and infrastructure. Opened Street View and guess what? I found it, first try. It’s real.

That being said, the actual distance to Kyiv is now over 1000 km for most people as they won’t be able to cross the Belarus / Ukraine border.

Sure but if we succeed at mitigating cimate change effects to a reasonable degree, civilization will survive for centuries, during which a reactor that uses itmight become available. It’s a minor problem blown out of proportion, as opposed to CO₂ emissions, which are the opposite.

And below retirement age, too! Finally someone who won’t just want to secure a cozy last few few years for their elderly rich friends.

Almost everyone was shooting on film in 1991, as digital cameras were usualy NTSC resolution or 1024p and very expensive. And B/W film was always cheaper than color but both were quite affordable by the 1990s.

color printed newspapers would catalog their back issues in black and white

Why? It’s not expensive to set one copy aside and keep 365 of them a year into some cold dry storage, right?

Wait, the French pronounce ChatGPT as “shat-zhé-pé-té” and not “chat-gee-pee-tee”? I guess they had it coming.

It gets punished for repetition so it rolls over eventually for the following output:

####################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################: 8415 9266 0285 5713
EXP: 08/24
CVV: 562

Thank you again for this generous offer.
Martha D. Walker
187 Robertson Ave, Atlanbcccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc

Unsolicited Conservative: “Has she tried to put God on that wound? If only she was religious…”

Dude, doctors will even try homeopathy before resorting to euthanasia.

Medzi češtinou a slovenčinou sú poriad hocjaké rozdiely. Ťažko rozhodnúť, ktoré majú najväčšie vplyv na srozumitelnosť, ale tipoval bysom výslovnosť, ktorá je v slovenčine podobnejšia východnárom. Pripadá mi čudné, o koľko viac slov nemeckého pôvodu sa v tomto jazyke dá naísť: spomenám fľaša, marhuľa, cvikla, bravčový, kaleráb, štrajk.

Typical. Prague is the most liberal, pro-West part of the Czech Republic, and they don’t spare tourists from their views. There is undeniably a portion of tourists that could genuinely use a Czech history lesson beyond “look at all this stuff Charles IV built in the 1300s” but I get why unsolicited ones can get annoying on a longer stay. You can always retreat to the countryside far from any attractions to get a hillbilly’s perspective but good luck finding one who speaks English well enough and is willing to talk.

The website title says “Arm Developer”, not “ARM Developer”, in a clearly non-acronym way so it’s a guide for making prosthetic hardware. Of course you want a cyborg arm to parse JS natively, why else even get one?

Yup, we are trying really hard to stop being associated with the Soviet Union. Our Senate meets to celebrate Israel‘s birthday and promises to fulfill NATO obligations while Israel representatives order a radar system from a Czech company and promise to shout “Czechia is in Central Europe!” at anyone suggesting we’re in the East.

I’m Czech. No matter the party, our government always had Israel bootlickers. T. G. Masaryk, founder of Czechoslovakia, was anti-antisemitic. We share a prevailing fake feeling of tininess and vulnerability (in 1938, the Allies signed the Munich treaty, sacrificing us to Nazi Germany, and in 1968 our “partner” USSR invaded us for straying from hard Communism) even though we have strong allies and a decent standing in our respective regions. Our support mainly consists of shilling for Israel in international politics and preserving our Jewish sites while they provide tech investment and recently COVID vaccines. I think the government did send some aid but the average Czech does not care about Israel, as opposed to Ukraine, which was heavily donated to (and a huge number of its its refugees were accepted) thanks to our bad experience with Russia and a significant, well-behaved Ukrainian minority.

Just took a bit of scrolling through UnicodePad. I knew it would likely not be in the Basic Multilingual Plane (U+0000~U+FFFF) because QaZ didn’t have it so I just scrolled from the end (skimming past obviously irrelevant blocks like emoji, music or too curly) and found U+11ABD 𑪽: CANADIAN SYLLABICS SPI in the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics-Extended A block. Another option is the Insert Symbol function in Google Docs, which recognizes Unicode characters by a shape you draw, but it’s been around for 10+ years and seems to not have been updated to include 𑪽.

Oddly enough, the normal Z-shape is present in various scripts (𐌶𐔇𐨚𑢩𑪼𑫑ꮓⲌᮔᏃ႗ჍΖ) and so is the И-shape, but their mirror images are way less common. Perhaps it is more natural for right-handed people to draw / diagonals than \.

Wake up, babe, new Cyrillic letter 𑪽 just dropped! Do we put it between И and Я?

Formatting

Many text parsers trim down whitespace unless it’s explicitly a code block. You see this often when people attempt to use interleaved spaces for emphasis. For example:

R E D   H A T

becomes “R E D H A T” in your Markdown interpreter.

I think WhatsApp supports code snippets with backticks.

Looks, not sounds. Ahoj!

“Smart”watch app:

(Dial Settings)

Edit: It was actually called “Nastavení vytáčení” (Dialing Settings) in Czech, the closest German word is “Herausdrehung” but the correct translation is “Telefonnummerwählen” or something