I asked this question a while ago and the answer was too vague. Any #linguist specialized in #Mandarin able to chime in?
Ok here goes; why are Western alphabet representation of Chinese words use the letter X when clearly letter combinations (tch, tchj, dj, sch, chz, etc) would make more (or at least some) phonetic sense? Is there a historical fact I miss? Is it a remnant of British imperialism? Just aesthetic? Whatever it is, I need to know it's driving me crazy!
@evan
Pretty sure Pixelfed is an old-school LAMP package.
I've got it installed via YunoHost, so I haven't really looked at the internals -- it might be using PostgresQL instead of MySQL, or it might work on either. Definitely PHP, though.
Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here, I don't know a lot about the great depression.
But I've been thinking about the great depression lately, for reasons that I assume are fairly self evident, and I'm thinking about the mechanisms that enabled it, and I'm drawing conclusions and modern parallels.
I don't know if these conclusions are right, or if these modern parallels are sensible. I don't know the inner secrets of the universe. These are just some things I'm thinking about.
@ajroach42
Not a correction, but an alternative view I found interesting was that the Depression was an economic "market correction" due to the US economy flipping from an agrarian to an industrial basis.
Industry existed in the 19th century, but it wasn't the dominant form of wealth production until the early 20th century.
Many social values, laws, and market practices were still based on agrarian models.
I'm not sure where I first saw this idea, but it made a lot of sense to me.
I think I probably picked up this idea from "Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future" by Paul Mason. (2017).
But of course, the undermining of the economy of material production (inherently scarce) by the flourishing of the economy of information production (inherently non-scarce) is something I've been thinking (and writing) about for quite some time.
NOT making it means-tested also has a great political advantage: it takes the wind out of accusations of bias.
A popular (right-wing) way of attacking welfare programs in the USA is to depict the recipients as an undeserving class, often playing on racist or classist beliefs. E.g. Reagan's "welfare queen" narrative.
Either way, this gets used to build populist resentment against the programs. UBI could be more proof against this kind of attack.
@doctormo
What might be useful in my current case is some option to resample images to a lower resolution when embedding (or after). I suspect this would be frequently useful. Probably could be implemented as an extension.
In this case, I just used full resolution images when I really should've scaled them down prior to importing them. I knew this was probably a bad idea at the time. 😅
Painted myself into a corner, really. I can fix it, but it'll be a chore.
Just extracting and replacing with the smaller image does NOT work -- it must remember transforms as a factor, not absolute extents .
Looks like "Paste Size" and the alignment menu can be used to replace the images one-by-one without too much hassle (have to transfer the clipping, of course).
I always say I need to write it down, but everytime I cook aloo gobi, I watch Gurindar Chadha's little cooking video on the "Bend It Like Beckham" DVD. It's becoming a tradition.
Unfortunately, I'm missing some of the ingredients. Turmeric?! How am I out of turmeric? We had so much! So I'm just using curry powder w/ turmeric in it. Also fresh cilantro/coriander. How did I forget that? So, dry coriander seeds, I guess.
One of the things I liked about her recipe is that it's the only one I know that calls for cilantro stems. We use the leaves all the time in salsa, of course, but the stems usually get thrown out.
My contact with this group of people is admittedly limited, but I do believe this will give them pause.
I do know Republicans for whom Trump was just a step too far.
Some will decide not to vote. Some will decide to vote for a 3rd party (I think RFK, Jr. is a nut, but some of them won't, others will find the Libertarian, Chase Oliver, attractive). A few will hold their noses and vote for Biden.
The danger is not past, but I do think it has been reduced a step.