I mean both vets suggested it for a reason, and I agreed - but notably the cat did not agree to it either time.

Earl Grey? Smoky? Not Twinings, anyway.

One of my cats hates the vet because twice at the vets the vet went and stuck a finger up her arse, and you know, I think that’s fair enough.

Only if they have parts.

I believe Apple had the rainbow beachball of death ages ago

How have we fallen so far as a society?

How can you live with yourself now?!

I didn’t need to read that >:(

I feel this a little bit every time I see the time got to 10PM

Any question that starts “which language is easier” depends on what languages you already know well. You don’t specify, other than to write your question in English.

Yeah. Whenever we try to sleep in past 5AM, one of our cats freaks out 😭

Uhhh possibly? I think it’s clearer with Shen because the open eye is just a circle like a letter “o”. Here’s an example of Hobbes squinting

you can see it’s similar, and presumably not inspired by the symbols, so there’s a precedent :)

Oh my god, hours? How will you live.

Anyway, I have now.

Yeah I’m still going to call Turkey Turkey. And I’m not going to demand the Turks stop calling the UK Birleşik Krallık either - that’s insane. To me, that is exactly a colonial attitude: “you must call us what we want to be called, because your language isn’t important to us.” It’s as coherent as demanding any other word in a foreign language be changed; you don’t have the right to it just because it’s about you. From your Turkey example it sounds like you think we ought to call Deutschland Deutschland if ever a German asks us to.

Wales is not being colonised, and Welsh is not being erased, but if it were, I would say that the remedy is to decolonise, grant Welsh official status, support it in the curriculum, and in general the exact kind of measures that are being taken. Not try to make a little linguistic exclave in the English language.

A new press regulation that required equal-prominence corrections would be welcome. I can imagine some issues with it (you’d need a lot of corrections for live unscripted programs!) but let’s assume they’re manageable. Then, what need is there for this trustworthiness categorisation? Any outlet that doesn’t abide by those rules is getting fined into oblivion.

Anyway, the law handles false commercial speech all the time. So why is this any different?

Because false commercial speech is typically only handled when it causes damages, which can then be estimated and sued for. How do you estimate the damages attributable to one paper printing a false rumour, which it said was printed in good faith and corrected at the first opportunity, but which may have led to riot? Maybe the riot would have happened anyway. Maybe it wouldn’t, but it also wouldn’t have happened if the rumour hadn’t been circulating on Facebook.

How do you estimate the damages attributable to the BBC for allowing Boris Johnson a platform to lie about the benefits of Brexit? To what extent did that contribute to Brexit happening? How much has Brexit cost the country? (There are estimates, but with a huge degree of uncertainty)

Commercial speech leads to identifiable decisions by definite parties through more or less identifiable processes. That is completely different when the decisions are taken by the millions of inhabitants of the country. You could attempt to apply the same process, but it would be an absolute quagmire and would definitely lead to wrong decisions due to the massive level of uncertainty inherent in doing that.

Canary is a shit rag that mainly prints polemic, not fact (just like Novara) but that doesn’t mean they should be cut off from services like banking.

So you know, this first surfaced years ago

The symbol is used in emoticons like this: >_o to mimic the wrinkles that show up when you’re scrunching your eye closed. Nerd artists use the same symbology in comics.

“statistics” can mean two things: it’s a field of mathematics, and it’s also the application of that field to the real world.

There are many theorems in statistics: the central limit theorem, the proof of the t-test, for example. This is maths.

But if what you’re doing is assuming a certain real distribution is normal, or testing for normality of real data, that’s not maths any more.

Just like calculus is real maths, but once you’re solving real integrals for real scenarios, you’re doing science.

There are multiple, but I’m looking out for the negative one: decreased quality and quantity of rental properties.