Does it help calm the anxiety? Or is it simply a ritual?

If you stick with a particular translation for legibility or whatever, at least be passingly familiar in how (maybe even why) your given translation differs from others.

Hey man, it’s either take a nap or enter The Waiting Place ^TM. I have to have an alarm either way…

I know the DwarfFort wiki when I read it!

You’ll always be our spud princess here on Lemmy.

Your life may not be blwodjtnfyhc, but my cousin in Poland lives a life that very much is.

Ain’t that some bullshit that every time they win the primary I have to “hold my nose” and vote for their coprophagic ghoul, but when DSA sweeps the primary it’s “damn, I hope you had fun driving away moderates”

A very solid game. Manages to successfully wed the replayability of procedurally generated games and the resource management and logistics of citybuilders.

I suspect I culturally missed the mark: [Boss Hogg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_Hogg) was a villain in his story, so I thought that was the reference…

Not really? The poem is from the perspective of Martin Niemöller, a man who absolutely saw the stages of increasing repression as the unfortunate costs of a safe society. Until the Nazis came for him.

More analagous to kinda aloof WASPy Democrats who are all about clearing encampments in the pursuit of urban ‘beautification’ or the very moderate incurious Republicans.

Noone? George Washington warned about them in his farewell address?

I was faffing about in the designer; did they remove the option for power windows entirely?

It stands for Really Simple Syndication. It’s basically a subscriber feed of websites - you choose a website to get updates about and the aggregator will keep an ear out for updates.

I mostly use it for webcomics.

Gender: dark mode.

The film has both Wag and Dog capitalized. The term has only Wag capitalized.

EU leaders on Friday issued a sharply worded statement…

You’re caught up.

It’s my understanding (not British, nor a lawyer) that they weren’t technically ‘charges’, but bonus time, like how in the US, you get bonus time for robbing a liquor store with a loaded gun instead of an empty one (very American, I know).

How do the ECM car not interfere with the ID and comms car?

Good callout - reading is hard.

The story is O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi”

It’s a short one, if you haven’t read it yet.