It’s also an opportunity to reconcile. Not that OP seems to want that, nor would the aunts most likely want that, but sometimes such events just make things… Click.

Having okay relations with relatives is important, and afuneral is an opportunity for things to improve. That’s just pure sociology. You aunts will spin it into “God works in mysterious ways”, but it’s the same core thing with a culty religious spin.

So my take is: bite your teeth and attend the funeral. It’s a one-time investment of a few hours. Odds are the aunts won’t want to make issues. Maybe it fixes things. Your fathed did ask nicely, after all. And it’d be nice to honour his request. Any semi-okay relatives would respect that, religious or otherwise.

YMMW if they’re as fake as you say they are (religion is a hell of a drug), but if it doesn’t go the ideal way, you did your part and they failed theirs. If you don’t go, it’ll be the other way around because Christians unfortunately eork like that. And they like holding grudges. A funeral is (unfortunately) one of the few “chances” to reconcile. Shame someone needs to quite literally die for them to be this open to reconcoliation.

Speaking like an ex-christian raised in the tradition: this could be your opportunity to get things to smooth over. They’re bound be as open to reconciliation as possible. Just don’t force it. Keep your distance and honour your dad’s wishes. Forcing things will have the opposite effect of seeming disingenuous. No action other than showing up necessary.

The amount of families reconciled at christian funerals I’ve witnessed is in the low 20’s.

the default web UI

Isn’t that the Tesseract from the recent trama?

Because the city/PD wants it. That’s why they’re paying for it, and why they’ll probably pay for the new ones.

I think most of them will include videos, what with that having been the gold standard of untamperability way back when.

As quality audio was. AI slop is eerily good at nailing the hit-like formula. On the other hand, AI is probably much worse at making realistic real life audio.

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Wrong, fully possible as far as ActivityPub is concerned. Instances may (and most do) set the requirement themselves though.

you mean

glass Glass;

which is almost worse than stringing together random fancy words.

(Edit: added backticks for that nice mono font)

From what I gather (someone correct me if I’m wrong), carriage return and line feed do different things.

Think of a typewriter. It has two things. A large lever you spam which lets you move the writing position towards the start of the page (that’s carriage return), and a small wheel you spin which adjusts the vertical positioning of the paper (that’s the line feed).

Computers were modeled after typewriters. And in typewriter logic, to start writing in a new line, first you need to return the horizontal position to the start of the current line (CR), then feed a new line in (LF).

If you just CR, you’ll start to type over the text already present on thal line, and if you just do a LF, you’ll start typing in a new line from the same horizontal position, leaving a large gap of unused space to the left.

Newer models of typewriters made the large lever used for CR automatically do a LF as well as a quality of life improvement, as it was hard to nail down a consistent line spacing manually.

As computer programs atopped thinking in terms of being a 1:1 logical replica of typewriters (simulating ink being stamped on the page with a mechanical arm and supporting stamping over existibg text), but ratger in terms of layers and text boxes, selecting and editing), editors lost the ability to destruxtively atamp over existing text, so CR doesn’t do anything anymore.

Some systems only use LF (CR implicit) or verbosely say CRLF (what a typewriter would do).

Working for an idiot with peers that are his fellow idiots. Definitely worse than just working for an idiot.

though I’m not sure I’d call it discrimination.

It most definitely is discrimination. Because discrimination is “treating two things differently according to a discriminator”. Such as living alone or with a registered partner.

Now, the purpose of this is obvious (having a child is expensive and a good thing in the state’s eyes). Such cases where the discrimination “makes sense” (as it evens the playing field isntead of skewing it further) is usually termed as “positive” discrimination.

But as it technically fits the core requirement of discrimination, it is discrimination.

shool supplies and gifts

We don’t have that tradition so I get chills at the month of hyperactivity and bad teeth I can imagine. Especially if that cone is 100% candy.

I don’t think you’re supposed to eat them.

At least for me, Pepsi-sogged pasta doesn’t sound all that appetizing.

Sidenote: all 4 include plastic.

Well one person can (in their eyes) look at 5+ self checkouts.

They can still physically do checkout on only one register.

And the entire point of these supervisors isn’t (just) to make sure people don’t take something without checking it out.

It’s to have someone to blame.

Because if the company can’t find out who did it (the customer), yoi can bet they’ll know which of the supervisors is “responsible”. The company’ll pay out that way instead.

Some “smarter” store managers might double-dip and pocket the costs. Definitely a logical personal finance move for some morally challenged.

I’d choose gold. AFAIK most all money laundering rules deal with cash.

Even if a geine were to give you 500 tons of cash or gold, some governments may have a problem with that and choose to redistribute it.

Choosing gold makes the value much more liquid in my opinion.

Not to mention that gold doesn’t rot (unlike USD). In today’s economy gold is probably more value-dense (as in, a pound of gold is worth more than a pound of hundered-dollar bills).

Currencies also come and go but gold stays. If you’re thinking long-term, gold is the vastly better choice.

Wait, you guys reboot after an update?

Actually, both “persona non grata” (latin has cases) and “gratis coffee/beer/bootloader” both make sense.

Just convert the “x is gratis” into “you’re welcome to [relevant-action-verb] x”.

As in, “The kernel is gratis” = “You’re free to [use] the Kernel” (which is basically “it’s free” in everyday english).

For “Persona non grata” it would be “(You’re a) person not welcome (to [come] here)”.

This is what it originally meant. It has nothing to do with price and everything to do with gratuity. I (a provider) am grateful to you and welcome you to use/come/see/do/whatever.

“Gratis” would be the ketchup packet at McDonalds - they’re happy you paid for a burger so they’ll give you a ketcup packet as they’re grateful you did.

“The most uneditable proprietary shit in the world that’s somehow nonproprietary and ultra popular but really has no right to be any of these”

Aka one of the biggest paradoxes of modern computing.

So, how do you say “J” then?

“ᒋ”?

It isn’t Jason, it’s Jayson. But yeah, basically indistinguishable.

And the only sane choice, as opposed to Sequel.