A Gourd for All Seasons

It sounds like this comes out the other way if instead of saying "open your phone" the agent said "press your thumb on the sensor," right?

he's not responding to a criticism that is directed at him, or there is not a bigger and more important criticism directed at someone else?

I think it is reasonable for Singal to respond to a criticism that is directed at him even if there is some bigger and more important criticism that is directed at someone else

Miguel & Valentino tinned branzino

This stuff is really really good

I'm a big fan of old-style numerals, but I prefer them to look more like lining numerals. The height is the important thing

even so.

I like the look of Martina Plantijn a lot, but I can't stand this style of old-style numerals. I instinctively read this as "Plantin eye eye oh roman" and probably always will.

Bluesky needs bookmarks

arbitrarily large, I should say

this is true, but the em can be arbitrarily wide relative to other characters

Plantin! there are literally dozens of us
(I mostly use Century Supra now, though)

Waluigi Mangione is a doctor who revived a CEO after a heart attack.

I know! It's remarkable

I wonder if there's a market for a typeface like "Times New Roman Mini" or something. Obviously that name would make it hard to say you chose your typeface in good faith, but you get the idea.

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The italicized phrase "This Is Ridiculous" written in Garamond font, with green lines showing the vertical letters. The lines are not parallel. They intersect! All over the place.

Speaking of italics, here's a reminder: Never use Garamond if your writing includes italics. The italicized verticals, for some reason, were developed via a random-angle generator. So distracting and chaotic. Avoid!
#Fonts #LegalWriting #Hideous #LookAway

Previous tweet saying that juries are generally pretty good and I trust their judgment

Re: Daniel Penny verdict

If the court thinks that Garamond is in fact too small, it could justifiably say that '14 pt' Garamond is not actually 14 pt.

Interesting that the rationale was "it appears smaller and lighter" and not "the italics are hideous," but I'll take it anyway

Side note: There's no law of nature that requires a typeface to be any particular size when you set Word to "14 pt." You can make a typeface arbitrarily small. ...

seems like a good time to apply the brakes rather than insist that what's needed is radical change, then.

my most reactionary pseudo-“bring back bullying” take is that it’s actively hurting a lot of these guys to be coddled about how this isn’t their fault, etc. and they could really stand a “get the fuck over yourself” type push on this issue

"upgrade your ramen noodles" is one of thew few internet food trends that is actually a really good idea

If you're ever told to be outraged about anything having to do with health insurance and the sole source of the outraged framing is the American Society of Anesthesiologists, just move on because you're being played like a fiddle by the major cause of out-of-network balance billing

The existence of clerics really does imply that warlocks are just the terrible metaphysical credit risks who couldn’t get a loan from an actually good provider. Subprime spellcasters.

Using only a restaurant, tell us where you went to college

> This determines if your child will be a doctor or drive an uber for a living.

Peer effects and school effects are real, but they are not that real.

I think this is at least partly about how it’s easier to look at phone than do anything else. But nobody mentally assigns time to looking at phone, even in retrospect. So pretty soon you have a depleted life (and live in a depleted culture) and your only explanations about why must come from Phone

Yes!

Word is not WordPad. If you treat it like a rich text editor, you will always be fighting it because that's not what it is.

P E N T I M E N T

(citizen sleeper is great though)

that's what my WoW guild calls me

Just briefly, your honor, I have a joke about the legal issues in this case, you may have heard it already but in case you haven't I'll try to quickly go through it, it starts back in June 1215 when Magna Carta was issu