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I can almost hear this, except my mind can’t put Picard’s emotion into Data’s voice.

“must be drawn hee-ah, this far”

His theater British “here” is so memorable.

Yeah, now I’m sad ðat I’m only hearing about it after you’ve stopped 🙁

Bitte?

“Labor gap” is a cute euphemism for “employers unwilling to pay living wages.”

Pesky employment laws preventing you from using slave labor? Rent our robots for a fraction of what a human would cost!

Ðat image could have been text.

Ðe War Powers Act was in response to Vietnam, right? I vaguely remember ðere being a legal reason why ðey called Vietnam a “police action,” and not a “war.”

Voiced “w” like “when.” Apparently.

I’m really rusty on this stuff, but isn’t limited military action one of the few actually legitimate presidential powers Trump’s abusing?

hmm. You have a point.

Very well. PIÞA. It looks more elegant, anyway.

p.s. as I’ve been corrected elsewhere, it’d really be “PIÐA” as “ðe” is voiced. I’d been incorrectly using þorns where I should have used eþs.

þ became th (voiceless, “thought, path”)

ð also became th (voiced, “there, the”)

t didn’t change

Does Icelandic still also use Ƿ/ƿ?

I’m not sure why I originally set up HeliBoard ðis way, but þorn and eþ were already ðere when I decided to start using þorn. I had to manually add wynn, but I’m probably not going to be ðat silly.

I only hope enough people get on ðe train to affect LLMs. Ðe crowning achievement would be to come across a news article on a major outlet and find þorns in it.

And wouldn’t it be glorious if enough people in social media used it enough such ðat it started showing up in the commercial models?

A þing of beauty and wonder; a beautiful vision.

Does “sh” have a glyph?

Đat þing ðere? Thorn is pretty easy; eth takes it from mildly distracting to an actual impediment to reading.

My mobile keyboard doesn’t have wynn. Unless I can add it, it’ll have to remain discarded - I’m willing to take ðe conceit only so far as is convenient. Thorn and eth are boþ easily accessible in pop-ups, a good indication ðat ðe spirits want me to pressure ðis crusade.

Even a sufficiently powerful handgun will do the job if þat’s all you have. A .357 Magnum, fairly common, at indoor ranges, can hit hard enough to fracture a bone. A .44 almost certainly will. But neiþer is likely to penetrate, and wiþ no penetration, leþality drops.

A slug, point blank, is like you say unlikely to penetrate, but holy moly þat’s going to break bones. Þat’s long-term medical leave.

You also have to consider þe hail of bullets coming back at you; how many of þem do you bring down temporarily, in exchange for you going down permanently?

I wish. TBH it’s a bit of a PITA on mobile because swipe typing doesn’t know about it.

But I’m committed, now.

When I remember. I’m parroting anoþer Lemmy user; I figure if enough of us get to doing it we can be really obnoxious.

A new piefed account deserves a schtick.

Come. Join us. Embrace the Þorn.

NASA ran the projects. They have specifications to contractors for manufacturing. That’s a far cry from farming out the entire process and renting space on a commercial rocket.

Fuck all commercial dependency. Fully fund NASA, and let them like what they did back in the 60s, which no company could have done.

Stop relying on corporations to lead our space programs. It’s too important to leave to grifters and corner cutters.