Allowing the quote to be affected by the punctuation around it seems to undermine the “verbatim”-ness of a quote. If the period goes outside of the quote, then the quote is always a discrete unit of text that can be moved around the sentence as needed.

Example:

He said, “It’s fine”.

“It’s fine”, he said.

I would accept always including the period inside the quote for that case, but it causes other problems. If you put the period inside the quote, how do you indicate a quote that must end in a period, but does not end the sentence?

Example:

The spec sheet said “88 m.p.h.” on the back.

I’d like more information. What was brought to a vote?

So this was the House Judiciary Committee? None of those people are my representative, so I can’t threaten to vote them out. Does my representative have any power here?

Or whenever I please, as in feisty and seize!

A million years ago, Wisconsin had an “unpopular” governor. Democrats put in a lot of work to organize protests, which were well-attended, so they thought they had the general populace on their side. They organized a recall, the election was held, and… Governor Walker won by an even wider margin than he did in the previous election against the same candidate. That pretty solidly killed any momentum the protests had.

I hope that the current movement is trying to avoid the mistakes of the past. Somehow, there are still a bunch of die hards who will support this administration literally to their grave. You might be able to win a few recalls in more progressive areas, and hopefully that stokes support, but the risk of killing the movement’s momentum in more purple areas should not be undersold.

I’m no expert, so I can’t tell for sure, but my guess is that they’re storing two different chemicals. The left one looks like it’s a non-flammable, extremely hazardous material that shouldn’t be exposed to water (maybe an alkali metal, like lithium or sodium). The right one is a hazardous material that is a fire hazard above 93°C (200°F), but otherwise stable (maybe some kind of diesel?)

So… If I had to take a wild guess, diesel and lithium batteries?

Can someone clarify how you identify autism from smartwatch data? It seems like, if that were possible, the diagnostic process would be much simpler.

I think they’re just throwing it in there because they can learn a lot of other information about people (not just location/activity, but possibly more sensitive things like pregnancy status). Once they have it, it’s not like we’re getting it back.

It sounds like when a person stammers or mumbles because they’re uncertain.

Parent (sternly): What were you doing when the vase fell over?

Child (shlarmling): I was… umm… I was over at the _hermidgd…

I got food poisoning in high school. I was exhausted and unable to keep anything down for several days.

The first day that I started feeling better, I actually felt great! In fact, I woke up starving. I went downstairs and had a generous breakfast. Then my parents told me we had to take down a tree in the backyard. They asked if I was feeling up for it, and I was… right up until I was 15 ft in the air, sawing away at a branch. Suddenly, I realized that generous meal had decided to keep on giving. I said “Hey, I’m not feeling great. I’m going to climb down.” I made it one branch before I knew this wasn’t going to wait. I gave the best warning I could to those below, and I held on as my stomach gave the ol’ heave-ho.

Fortunately, all the cutting I had been doing generated plenty of sawdust, so it practically cleaned itself. I think we decided the rest of the project could wait for another day, though.

When it comes to recovery, take it slow, folks…

I’m guilty of this for texting or other phone-specific communications.

Sure, I could take a screenshot on the computer, email it to myself, download it to my phone, then add it to a text… Or, I have a camera right there. There has to be a good reason to not take the easy route.

Did you rank these in a particular order, or is it just four that you like?

I used Jerboa when I first transitioned from Reddit, but eventually someone recommended Voyager because it is similar to the RiF app I used to use. I like the interface of Voyager more than Jerboa, and I’ve been using it for a while, but I’m still open to checking out other apps.

I’d like to get started as soon as possible, but a lot of places seem to like to wait until the last possible second to send me my information.

I think we’re finally at the point where I should have everything I need, so I guess I should get started.

Fred, is that you?

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Also, “lasts”.

You start to realize that there are things approaching that are the last time you’ll see or do something. The last time you visit where you grew up. Last time your kid lived at home. Last car you’ll ever own.

Yeah, the lasts suck.

I remember being in college, and this Onion article gave me a little bit of an existential crisis.

My browser says the font used on the site is Latienne Pro.

Fonts Ninja link

Is it Latienne Std Regular?

I checked the image with What the Font?

I understand that this may come across as flippant and possibly condescending, so apologies in advance, but I mean it as a genuine question.

What would it take to break the… inertia?

I imagine you’d move if your chair caught fire, so there must be some line. How low can the bar be set?

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My experience with Whataburger is that the food is mediocre, and if it weren’t for bad service, they’d have no service at all. In fact, there’s one Whataburger that I have failed to eat at twice because no one came to the counter both times I tried.