[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

"People" is a generic term for more than one person.

"Persons" denotes a singular distinct grouping of people. Ie, Native American persons.

Are you sure about that? Cause it sounds like you've never spoken to a native English speaker about the terms here.

A group of persons with a commonality are a people. The individuals are persons within a group. You can say "a group of people", but that's different (like a sheep vs. a flock of sheep and also a distraction here). The group is a people. People is not a generic term for multiple persons, it's implicitly a group with some commonality. Nobody says "the American persons", it's "the American people". The "various peoples of North America" would refer to a plurality of various and distinct groups of persons.

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

Try reading it again you poor illiterate fool

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

My favorite thing about reading with an ebook reader has been the ability to quickly highlight and take notes as I read. New character? Highlight the first appearance of the name and when they re-appear later you can flip back to refresh your memory. Or search through the entire book for their name. I've also taken to making a note in my Agatha Christie reads when I first have a good guess about the murderer.

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

It sounds really counter intuitive, but wake up slower. It's really easy for me to startle awake just enough completely turn off my alarm, not just snooze, and fall back asleep hard. If I wake up to an alarm that slowly increases in volume from barely audible, then I tend to wake up much more gently and slower. That little bit of extra time means makes it much harder to fall back asleep and by the time I reach for my alarm to silence or even snooze it. I'm clear headed enough to not either actually snooze the alarm instead of turning it off or be awake enough to not fall back asleep at all. Going from awake straight to sitting up or standing is super stressful and just makes everything awful. Being mostly awake before my head even leaves the pillow is much less stressful.

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

How do you think they got these metrics? People aren't going down there to do science or tourism without being able to communicate back home. It is almost always just statistics from the identifying header information of web traffic. It's not at all uncommon for web traffic from Linux programs to not identify the operating system. I know in my experience identifying as Linux in a browser would be more likely to cause problems than offer any benefit.

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

We're talking about the history of racist voter disenfranchisement and this literacy test was a prime example of that from our recent past. Although national IDs exist they are VERY far from common and they are often relatively difficult, time consuming, and expensive to get.

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

But you can represent up to 999 lab techs with only 1 more digit. Or 946 lab techs with just 2 alpha numeric characters. Heck just 2 letters gets you 676 combinations. About 17,000 combos with 3 letters and more than 40,000 if you use 3 alphanumeric characters.

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

Do you mind sharing what brand retail UPS weren't lasting a year?

I'm dealing with similar brownouts and also an area with lots of lightning. I got about 5 years out of my UPS batteries. Wondering if I've just been lucky.

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

Funny. This is the same video I show to my friends to help them pronounce guanábana correctly.

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

EARasures are the ones I've been using. No idea if they're the best. A good fit for your ear is critical for whatever brand you choose.

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

Fair point. And we're back to regular bikes. But I think the fuel supply will still last longer than an e-bike.

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