5½ flaps per second is impressive; you must be playing Foldy Hummingbird.

This is a company helmed by the guy who bought Twitter and had their press contact email just autoreply with a 💩 emoji.

I don’t for a second want to sound like an AI apologist, but ignoring the AI being predictably shit, the reporting here is shockingly bad. The facts are basically true, but neither this article or the one it links go any way to really actually provide any substance.

From local news, it sounds like the original context given to the press was a second-hand report given by Police Chief Parker Sever to the Heber City council:

I read the report, and I’m like, “Man, this really looks like an officer wrote it.” But when it got to one part, it said, “And then the officer turned into a frog, and a magic book appeared and began granting wishes.” … It was because they had, like, Harry Potter on in the background. So it picked up the noise from the TV and added it to the report.

Thanks. I really wrote “Castilian” to mean that sources on the web suggest his dialogue is at least somewhat modern Spanish Spanish (so to speak) – but I’m ignorant of the differences between Spanish spoken in the Americas, including North America as you rightly point out, and the Iberian peninsula. I didn’t mean to suggest that Castilian was archaic.

For the unaware – which included me until a minute ago – they run a series with one comic a year posted on New Years Day.

The article has linked to the paper, which has 21 photos and a bunch of maps and diagrams.

I’m out of the loop - does the hyacinth emoji imply something, or did the responder just replace their original message wholesale with that emoji?

Thank you, that’s interesting to know!

I can’t find anything to really support the note about the faun speaking an early version of Spanish; do you have a link I could read/watch?

I’ve found people noting that Doug Jones is dubbed by the Spanish voice actor into Castilian (rather than any Central or South American dialect) and that his language is formal and somewhat archaic.

Every time this guy’s posts get shared, I briefly wonder why Edward Snowden is posting whimsical observational humor.

FYI, OnlyOffice is entirely Russian-owned, through a holding company in Singapore and a subsidiary in Latvia. I don’t know if money you give CryptPad ends up in Russian hands, but OnlyOffice put a lot of effort into obscuring this.

There’s just one good Christmas song, and it has low replayability.

As I understand it, if any seller is using Amazon fulfillment centers, the product you’re given is picked out of the same box regardless of the named seller. That makes it impossible to buy confidently from Amazon based on the reputation of the seller, and makes Amazon themselves an unreputable seller.

A quick search suggests that it’s specific dioceses in the States (e.g. San Bernardino in CA and Nashville, TN) that have given dispensations in the past few months.

For sure, but the onus shouldn’t be entirely on the consumer to individually fight invasion of privacy.

make sure the paint is DAMP and the paper is DAMN

I only have DARN paper, will that work?

What are chickens? We just don’t know.

Jurahundredssic Pahundredrk was a classic. Shame the film adaptation was so reductive.

Are we doing authors too? Because the Winnie the Pooh series by A Hundred A Hundred Milne is a classic.