There are also "public restrooms" in major city places. If need be, you can always enter a shopping mall with their free and mostly clean restrooms. Or you go to big stores and use their customer toilets for a small fee. Sometimes even a restaurant may allow you to use the bathroom if you ask politely. Anyway, it only emphasizes Walt's major point, that public restrooms are a necessity. And a sign of civility, as I would add.
.oO on this day, 38 years ago, Richard Stallman filed for incorporation of the Free Software Foundation, to support the GNU Project and the Free Software Movement, started a little over two years before. happy FSF anniversary to all users and developers!
And those "Realists" say Ukraine has no chance of winning and needs to come to the negotiation table, thereby conniving at the barbarity of Russia's regime and armed forces. And thereby exculpating both. As it is not Russia's but Ukraine's fault... In fact, the Ukrainians force the poor Russians to act that atrociously. If Ukraine would only give up, then Russia wouldn't be forced to act that barbarically. In fact, it's Urkaine that is brutalizing Russia, not the other way round, it's Ukraine forcing Russian soldiers and the Russian regime to suppress all their humanity and act that cruelly. Look what the Ukrainians do to the great Russian soul. Yes, it's Ukraine that needs to face the International Court of Justice, not Russia... That is the argument by the unity front of fascist Russia supporters, a majority of Russia supporting Global South countries, and the International Cheap Left. Of those who demand "peace talks". Who won't confront their own barbarity lying at the bottom of their demands.
Been reading that faux German loanwords thread the whole time while waiting for my breakfast order, so I almost let out "danke schΓΆn" when I picked it up.
> Harvard senteces are collection of sample phrases that are used for standardized testing of Voice over IP, cellular, and other telephone systems. They are phonetically balanced sentences that use specific phonemes at the same frequency they appear in English.
This is a highly informative long thread on Patreon, its functionality, its insights into how to treat audiences different from customers, its problems, its origin in the "long tail" discussions of 2004, its apparent cracking the problem of micropayments (i.e., making the payments-to-fee-ratio work) until... well, that is all in the thread.
To me already the winner of the "Thread of the Year"-Award.