No, I sent this off to TheDarkroom, in LA/Socal. But they were so underexposed that their scanner didn’t handle them well, so I rescanned them at home.

SFO was my first thought too. It’s usually not quite this well timed in my experience; this is still a cool shot to catch.

I’ve actually never played any Star Trek games before - I think the closest I’ve gotten is Stellaris, which definitely made me think of star trek. I don’t know if that disqualifies me, but I might pick this game up anyways, sounds like a good time right now.

This concept actually makes me want to have AI take my job

My c++ is pretty rusty, but I hopped through the changelogs. I think this is the source for it here https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/toolkit/components/antitracking/URLQueryStringStripper.cpp

X with serifs, but only on the right side

In a similar vein, I’ve been rewatching TNG and find myself thinking that they really should have put a cctv camera in engineering. Could have saved them a lot of trouble.

Their writing systems have their own cool histories. Japanese technically has 4 writing systems (kinda 5 if you count the original purely chinese-character based system). Korean used to have Hanja, a Chinese based system, but then some emperor just decided “nope, this sucks, I’m making a new thing”, and came up with hangul. Imo hangul is one of the coolest systems out there.

Baltic languages are awesome. I only wish I could master those case systems!

Chinese did influence a lot of east Asian languages, but it’s more like the relationship between Latin and English - lots of borrowing and influence, but it’s not an ancestor.

Linguistics. Did you know English and Bengali are related? They share an ancestor about 5000 years ago. Russian, Latin, Farsi, and Greek, and lots more are in that family too.

Do you know what languages are not related at all, absolutely 0% aside from borrowings, even though if you know a bit about em they seem like they should be? Japanese and Korean.

It’s always nice to get a positive take on how things are improving in North America. I’m excited to see where things will go in the next 10 years. I just had a conversation with someone the other day about not just “running away” from the problems we have, and actually working to solve them.

What a dumpster fire. Meanwhile, I’m still getting alerts from my local fire department through twitter. Doesn’t exactly make me feel safe.

The ones I got for myself are very orange. The ones I’ve seen other people buy tho… pretty sure they’ve been scammed. And some of the pairs are rather expensive too

I was always confused by how the “blue blocking” glasses just looked clear. Like, if you look at something colorful through them like a rubix cube, you can still see the blue color. Shouldn’t something blocking blue light look kinda orange through it?