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@boogiechild Stay warm Steve.

I should start doing weekly updates lol.

No, but you can cook for me since I added some more miles to the miles to Mordor challenge and I need to figure out what I'm doing for lunch. I backdated mine to the beginning of the year since I had already started counting before you shared that with us.

@TRodick93 OK, so a problem on the technical side. Which means you're suffering the effects of Twitter's severe throttling of the application programming interface used by third-party apps to communicate with Twitter. So essentally Musk's fault, and not the fault of Twitter users.

Wait who's giving you crap about Spring? Is it the Twitter site itself, or users on the site?

Do you have the option of having someone else switch out the beds while you take the dogs outside for some distraction in the form of ball-throwing?

@GottaLaff Thanks you two, muting all the things and walking away helps.

Hey man gotta make due with what's available.

Honestly there are a lot of days when I'm sorry I quit smoking. Still hanging in there but damn it's hard.

Good choices!

@DevilsChild1978 Yeah that's the same as an actual can of pepci. Is it cheaper than buying sodas?

@DevilsChild1978 So do you get caffeine with the soda stream, or no?

@mcourcel For some reason I thought you did and I'm surprised that you don't.

@ner These things are there for risk management purposes. Probably not necessary, at least the children climbing on TV part, now that we don't have consul TVs anymore.

I'd advise learning Excel to do your accounting, and there are some great accessible Excel resources.

Drafts? It has a pro subscription, but there's also a free version.

@theynege @Pawpower In the case of hashtags, camelcase does the work of indicating spaces between words, at least as far as text-to-speech is concerned. It still takes up extra cells on braille displays though. What happens with alternate letter capitalization is that in text-to-speech situations, capitalization of letters can effect the way they're spoken. The text-to-speech assumes that capital letters should be emphasized differently than lower-case letters, because the assumption is in acronyms letters should spoken out instead of pronounced. So this context gets ported to everywhere else, since text-to-speech dictionaries don't do specific contexts.

It's RTFM, but for meatspace.

@quanin Yeah me too.

@theynege @Pawpower Speaking for myself, spelling out words using spaces is annoying , mostly because if I need to know the spelling of a word, in a document or on a webpage for instance, I can move by character. In social media contexts, it's mildly annoying and I'll skip past posts doing this rather than waste time asking people to please not do this.

Mixed case makes me want to throw things, mostly because there is zero way to make sense of it, and in social media contexts, if someone does it all the time, I'm liable to unfollow them or mute them for extended lengths of time just to avoid the noise. Because it's quite literally noise as far as text to speech is concerned, and doing either of these things, spelling with spaces, or spelling with mixed case, unnecessarily takes up cells on a braille display. And cells on a braille display are valuable real estate.

Hope this helps.