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So does this mean that the “Second Breakfast” contingent of the Fellowship can be stored in one Hobnibble? Seems apt.

Okay, say you’ve got four inner loops (a crime on its own, I know), do you use i, j, k, l or i, j, k, ii?

“Divisive” might not have been the right word here. I just meant that it can add to the confusion :)

The 2 or sometimes characterized 2S refers to the Two-Spirit community.

I’m realizing now this may only be a thing in my part of the world, which may go to show that an overly inclusive acronym is actually divisive.

I have a couple different opinions on the order of the letters. Normally, I’d say that order doesn’t matter because it’s a collective, and the order comes from the point that communities merged together. For instance, there were originally alliances of Lesbians and Gays in the 70’s, but Trans often wasn’t considered its own thing until sometime in the 90’s. And since Queer was originally used as a slur, it didn’t make sense to add it until even later when sentiment had changed.

So usually what you see happening is more letters getting added on to the end at the point of adoption. However, and I just learned this today, the government of Canada today is now using 2SLGBTQI+ as their official acronym. This breaks convention for a couple of reasons, in that Two-Spirit is represented with ‘2S’, which means that it now has precedence and more symbols than the other communities in the group.

They say this is to represent that the Two Spirit community would be the historically oldest group in the collective. I’m not sure if I really believe that though, since these labels are about human sexuality, and that’s been around as long as there have been humans. There was no ‘first’ sexual or gender minority in my opinion. This feels more like a do-nothing feelgood thing where a government that’s failed to do right by its indigenous people pats itself on its back for being inclusive. Which doesn’t mean I’m not happy to see it, it just also feels jarring and weird, and I doubt that the acronym will actually see much practical use when people are talking to each other.

Hello, I’m one of those queer people.

For my two cents, I find in conversations it’s easiest to refer to it as the “queer community” or “gay community.” If I’m feeling an acronym, the first one I reach for is LGBT. And that’s me speaking as one of those q+ folks.

Now for me, I prefer to use Queer because it’s sort of an umbrella term. For instance, all lesbians are queer, but not all queer people are lesbians. It’s also great for people who don’t like labels, because it doesn’t pigeonhole someone into a specific box.

The term “queer” has a little history behind it too. When I was in middle school, being called queer was like, the ultimate insult. It was used pejoratively, and it felt bad to hear it. Nowadays we’re reclaiming the word, and it loses its evilness. That all said, you can call people “queer,” but don’t call a person “a queer” or else you’re being insulting. It’s to be used like an adjective, not a noun.

For my money, this is the most inclusive flag without singling out a particular community.

Generally speaking, I don’t like an overly verbose acronym. It’s part of why I stop at LGBT or LGBTQ instead of going all the way to LGBTQ+, or as my government seems to want to say, LGBTQ2IA+. In my opinion, the effort to make the community more inclusive by adding more sub-communities to the acronym has the opposite effect.

You’re going to love/hate 3D printer pens

The rabbit’s left ear looks like it should be a backslash (\_/)

Backslash is an escape character used in formatting, so if you want to actually display a backslash you need to use two (\\_/)

I might be getting wooshed because this is wordplay, but ‘bill’ in this context is used like ‘invoice’ or ‘expense’

Something like less than half of americans can afford a $1000 surprise expense.

Came here to quack, was not disappointed

I don’t mean to be pedantic, but just so you know: illicit refers to things which are taboo, illegal, or frowned upon. I think you mean elicit which is to evoke a feeling

For me, it’s the sound of heavy rain on the roof. Grandma’s house had a tin roof, and we lived in a climate where it rained all the time. The rain hitting a metal roof makes a distinctive sound that I had forgotten about for many many years until I moved into my own place and replaced the roof with steel. It’s just so soothing knowing the world’s having a fit, but you’re safe and cozy in your home

I discovered comic mono a couple months ago and I’ve never looked back. It’s the perfect font

I’m the same way. If I drink something really sugary my palate gets all mucked up, and then I don’t taste too much of anything else

We have a few here for really short trips. They’re basically river crossings

I mean, maybe, but in the same way that Looney Tunes are sadistic

I want to preface this by saying this teacher used to be my favorite teacher. He was really good about talking to our level, but not treating us like little kids (this was the seventh grade). You could have an adult conversation with him and he was good about engaging the class.

So anyway, for History class we had this project about the Canada Home Children. For those not in the know, while Canada was still a British colony in the 17th century, the government started this program where colonists in the Canadian territory could adopt British children from orphanages to help on their land. In practice, this meant that people were ‘adopting’ unwanted children so they could have cheap labour. In class we learned that the kids were treated basically as slaves and typically went through lots of abuses.

At the end of the term we had this project where we had to summarize the typical child’s experience. For my project I decided I was going to make a satirical comic. I drew several strips that each detailed something we learned about in class. I remember a kid getting lost overboard on an overcrowded passenger ship, one getting frozen solid in ice because of the harsh Canadian winter, and another being made to eat a raw turnip while the rest of the family was having a Christmas dinner.

My teacher gave me a D for the project because he said it was disrespectful to the children.

I went to a lot of effort for this project, really went above and beyond because I love comics. I felt I was showing the abuses the kids had gone through, and I thought the comics were funny but tasteful. I also felt that it was pretty clear that since I’m drawing the abuses of literal friggin’ children it went without saying that I was also condemning the program as inhumane.

We had a parent/teacher meeting about it because I’d never gotten such a low grade in my life. And I was pretty upset too, I worked hard on this thing. My teacher goes on to explain that if you have to be careful with this kind of thing, because satire is tricky to get right without offending people. He then goes on to talk about A Modest Proposal, a satirical essay from around the same time where the author proposes that since the Irish were having a famine they should just eat their babies. He was talking about this as if it was the appropriate way to do satire.

My dad asked how my cartoon about abuse was any different from a story about eating babies. My teacher didn’t have an answer, but I still had a D

In hindsight, the story did teach me a pretty valuable lesson. If you’re going to make satire, you’re going to offend people, and you’re probably going to suffer for it. I like to think he was trying to teach me that there are stakes for speaking against injustice, and you have to be willing to accept that people are going to be critical or dismissive of you. But if you’ve offended someone with your satire, then… that’s kind of the point. Anyway, I’m happier thinking there was some lesson to it other than him just being a jerk about my project

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% is the placeholder for the value

.2 tells it ‘two spaces after the decimal’

f tells it that the placeholder is a float

The funeral home offers 2-for-1 on the caskets, but the tombstones only come in a club back of three

Don’t get me started on the offerings for side-by-side plots, it’s cheaper just to get a mass grave if you’re buying in bulk