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Van Hasselt said he thinks the blade’s inscription has religious ties that are written in Latin.

...if it's written in Latin, couldn't they just read it? What is it I'm missing here, making this theory somehow worth reporting?

I think you missed the joke.

(Also, regarding trees on Easter island, it's a popular theory, but if I remember correctly it has been a bit debunked in recent years)

I guess fundamentally the problem is with the electoral system and politics - it's impossible to safeguard anything while knowing that a party like the GOP has a 50/50 chance of getting into power in four years.

I am not hopeful that electoral reform is on the horizon, but at least I think the GOP will collapse badly once their cult leader is dead and gone. :)

Yeah, it's impossible to tell. But time flies - with four new years a lot could happen. :)

(Or it could be reformed. One could dream)

Thanks, I had completely missed that ruling. Of course four years ago would not have been any better than today - it's the same SCOTUS.

Hopefully four years from now the situation will look different.

I still think this is a great possibility for the judiciary to step up, as I doubt federal legislators are going to touch this issue, and it seems pretty fundamental to me. Seems like it's not the most welcome discussion in this thread though!

Shoot - I just read the article and saw the related links, but it didn't occur to me that it's completely out of date.

Did they ever make it to the SCOTUS? I guess not?

As long as you're not bleeding or anything, you could safely jump in the water and swim with them!

Fellow Dvorak user here. Can't recommend it enough.

In one of my classes at the beginning of my doctoral studies we talked about parth dependency, and QWERTY was used as an example. All studies showed that even experienced typists would increase their typing speed within just a few days of switching, and that it's just a superior set-up. But because of path dependency we all write QWERTY.

I changed my layout the same day and I haven't looked back. If you want to start messing around with your keyboard and you use it for typing, switching to Dvorak should be the obvious first step. Colemak is a compromise solution that is still a lot better than QWERTY and probably quicker to learn.

No need to get a new keyboard. Dvorak is designed around touch typing, you won't be looking at the keyboard anyway.

Pretty deadly for the sherpas though, who have to deal with the shit of the rich idiot tourists going there in massive numbers. So if they want to insist it's extreme, at least there's that.

Well, it's expensive technology to develop, and there's no other business model behind it than surveillance. So I think it's fair to expect the surveillance part of it to be difficult to neutralise.

A Fairphone with /e/OS would do.

I don't currently run /e/OS on mine - for now I've just disabled the Google app instead. But it's a solid option, and last time I used it my banking apps and everything worked with no problem.