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See, I'd take the stuff about antizionism not being antisemitism more seriously if the pro-Palestinian protesters had confined their protests to Israeli embassies and possibly congress/politicians' speeches/town halls/whatever. Instead they've made a point of protesting outside everything from synagogues to restaurants and other establishments owned by Jews, to say nothing of the vandalism. So while there's an academic case to be made for antizionism not being antisemitism, I think at this point that as it's currently practiced by progressives, it's a distinction without a difference at best .

Let me know when you find one.

I'm glad I never quit the indieweb.

Somebody really needs to tell him to have several seats.

Somebody really needs to tell him to have several seats.

$10 says that 98% of the people currently bemoaning Substack's nazi problem will make a lot of noise about leaving but will quietly decide to stay when everybody is looking the other way.

Man you're brave. I will freely admit not having the energy for something like this.

@sapphireangel You mean the Johnstone Family Christmas westerns? Which one are you on? Oh man those were so much cringe.

The upside to children's books is that you don't have to think while reading them, and since they're usually short, they're great additions to the year's reading challenge.

@noahcarver @VE3RWJ Yes. All of this.

@VE3RWJ From a reading perspective UEB appears to be a solution looking for a problem.

@VE3RWJ From a reading perspective UEB appears to be a solution looking for a problem.

@sclower @VE3RWJ Speaking for myself: Because UEB is missing a bunch of contractions in Grade II, it takes up more space. And in a world where braille cells are at a premium, (20-cell braille displays for example), that converts to way more scrolling, which depending on the display being used can be a slow process. All of this contributes to its being cumbersome to read. Separately from this, UEB is just aesthetically displeasing. It's ugly.

@sclower @VE3RWJ Speaking for myself: Because UEB is missing a bunch of contractions in Grade II, it takes up more space. And in a world where braille cells are at a premium, (20-cell braille displays for example), that converts to way more scrolling, which depending on the display being used can be a slow process. All of this contributes to its being cumbersome to read. Separately from this, UEB is just aesthetically displeasing. It's ugly.

@VE3RWJ As someone who uses all three of those I can tell you that the attempt at combining them all into one code hasn't worked out well, at least for readers. For one thing, Nemeth is still used despite the attempt at combination because the new combination lops off a ton of stuff we get in Nemeth.

I'm going with this.

@VE3RWJ Also I completely understand that I'm having a get-off-my-lawn moment, but yeah it's just cumbersome to read.

@VE3RWJ Why am I not surprised?

Yes I miss that contraction, as well as the ble contraction, the contraction of the word "to" depending on context, and I just miss all of it why did they have to make braille ugly?

Yeah I can't stand UEB. I can read it, but I have a 20-cell display and I absolutely hate the fact that they just waste cells because they think they can. Also it's ugly, which I know is a completely irrational position that is based entirely on aesthetic sensibilities.