Allowing the quote to be affected by the punctuation around it seems to undermine the “verbatim”-ness of a quote. If the period goes outside of the quote, then the quote is always a discrete unit of text that can be moved around the sentence as needed.

Example:

He said, “It’s fine”.

“It’s fine”, he said.

I would accept always including the period inside the quote for that case, but it causes other problems. If you put the period inside the quote, how do you indicate a quote that must end in a period, but does not end the sentence?

Example:

The spec sheet read “88 m.p.h.” on the back.

Or whenever I please, as in feisty and seize!

I’m no expert, so I can’t tell for sure, but my guess is that they’re storing two different chemicals. The left one looks like it’s a non-flammable, extremely hazardous material that shouldn’t be exposed to water (maybe an alkali metal, like lithium or sodium). The right one is a hazardous material that is a fire hazard above 93°C (200°F), but otherwise stable (maybe some kind of diesel?)

So… If I had to take a wild guess, diesel and lithium batteries?

o7

Thank you for your service.

It sounds like when a person stammers or mumbles because they’re uncertain.

Parent (sternly): What were you doing when the vase fell over?

Child (shlarmling): I was… umm… I was over at the _hermidgd…

Damn people… They ruined humanity!

I got food poisoning in high school. I was exhausted and unable to keep anything down for several days.

The first day that I started feeling better, I actually felt great! In fact, I woke up starving. I went downstairs and had a generous breakfast. Then my parents told me we had to take down a tree in the backyard. They asked if I was feeling up for it, and I was… right up until I was 15 ft in the air, sawing away at a branch. Suddenly, I realized that generous meal had decided to keep on giving. I said “Hey, I’m not feeling great. I’m going to climb down.” I made it one branch before I knew this wasn’t going to wait. I gave the best warning I could to those below, and I held on as my stomach gave the ol’ heave-ho.

Fortunately, all the cutting I had been doing generated plenty of sawdust, so it practically cleaned itself. I think we decided the rest of the project could wait for another day, though.

When it comes to recovery, take it slow, folks…

I’m guilty of this for texting or other phone-specific communications.

Sure, I could take a screenshot on the computer, email it to myself, download it to my phone, then add it to a text… Or, I have a camera right there. There has to be a good reason to not take the easy route.

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Did you rank these in a particular order, or is it just four that you like?

I used Jerboa when I first transitioned from Reddit, but eventually someone recommended Voyager because it is similar to the RiF app I used to use. I like the interface of Voyager more than Jerboa, and I’ve been using it for a while, but I’m still open to checking out other apps.

It feels weird, like maybe over-practiced, but I agree that it sounds human enough to fool me.

I subscribe to and have notifications enabled for about 13 channels that upload every single day; I only get notified like once a month about a random video whenever YouTube decides it wants to actually do the thing I have told it to do.

This has not been my experience. I subscribe with bell for almost every channel I follow. If anything I almost get too many notifications, but at least I get to decide whether each notification/video is worth watching or dismissing. The new video notifications aren’t always immediate, but I almost never see a video on my subscription feed that I haven’t already been notified about.

I’d like to get started as soon as possible, but a lot of places seem to like to wait until the last possible second to send me my information.

I think we’re finally at the point where I should have everything I need, so I guess I should get started.

Fred, is that you?

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Also, “lasts”.

You start to realize that there are things approaching that are the last time you’ll see or do something. The last time you visit where you grew up. Last time your kid lived at home. Last car you’ll ever own.

Yeah, the lasts suck.

I remember being in college, and this Onion article gave me a little bit of an existential crisis.

My browser says the font used on the site is Latienne Pro.

Fonts Ninja link

Is it Latienne Std Regular?

I checked the image with What the Font?

I understand that this may come across as flippant and possibly condescending, so apologies in advance, but I mean it as a genuine question.

What would it take to break the… inertia?

I imagine you’d move if your chair caught fire, so there must be some line. How low can the bar be set?

Alright. I’m finally hearing enough about pixelfed to start looking into it. Are there any good resources for jumping in?

I see it’s decentralized. Do I just go to pixelfed.org and create an account, or is this like the fediverse where you have to pick an instance to get started?

Edit: for anyone looking, the Pixelfed website has a list of instances, so you can try to find an instance that most appeals to you.