Much like how “ANSI” started colloquially meaning “code page 437”, I’m now increasingly seeing “ASCII” mean “plain text of any character set in any encoding.” UTF-8 encoded text containing Unicode code points far from the first 127? Well, if there aren’t emojis, it’s “ASCII”…
To be fair, “ASCII” in technical jargon has often meant “ISO-8859-1” for the sake of expediency but it’s like I keep tellin’ ya, that’s one too many bits.
👀 Canada's premier political cartoonist Michael deAdder is pushing back..
"I'm sick of these tactics. I see journalists [& cartoonists] bullied by the right. Conservatives are bullying their way into power."
"When I draw a #Conservative cartoon you don't realize that I've drawn almost the same number of Liberal cartoons. I've probably drawn more Liberal than Conservative because they are in power. You just see the Conservative cartoons and cry unfair."
@luciedigitalni@gemelliz A Cyrillic N would be H. In Cyrillic that character is a vowel, corresponding to English long E. I suspect it's meant to convey childish illiteracy rather than Putiphilia. #pedantry
Memory aid: no possessive pronoun in English contains an apostrophe. If it has an apostrophe, it's a contraction.
Possessive pronouns: his her/hers its their/theirs whose my/mine
"Her umbrella" vs. “That's hers” (same with their, my).
"It’s” is a contraction: “it is.” "It's a shame.”
"Who’s” is a contraction: “who is.” "Who’s up for pizza?”
Her's and their's are... just wrong.
When an object falls toward a black hole, it gets horribly stretched and distorted--a process called "spaghettification."
And we can see this process happening right now at the center of our galaxy. https://www.keckobservatory.org/x7/#BlackHole#space
The center of our galaxy is ~27,000 light years away, so in a sense you could say these events happened 27,000 years ago. But the information about them is reaching us now -- and that is the only "now" that really matters. #time#relativity#pedantry