Martin Ruskov @mapto@qoto.org

@helenajambor similar experience here. And then there are seemingly decent people that are still hanging out there

@cindyweinstein a nice grassroots project could be to start collecting and publicising all the nonsense trump said. This would flip the story.

Here's another one:
https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2/112754565349865983

@knittingknots2 a nice grassroots project could be to start collecting and publicising all the nonsense trump said. This would flip the story.

Here's another one:
https://mastodon.world/@cindyweinstein/112745798189314129

This has been now empirically established: We are already at the +1.5C warming threshold.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/08/temperatures-1-point-5c-above-pre-industrial-era-average-for-12-months-data-shows

@mastodonmigration just for comparison, this is one of Bulgaria's major dailies: title reads "Shock in France - Le Pen far from majority, the left is first"

Orban on a mission to try to sell to foreign powers as much as he can. He's done it already with Hungary, now he has very limited time to try to do the same in the EU, and apparently charlatans are piling onto the opportunity.

@skribe @evan did you just respond under this post?
https://cosocial.ca/@evan/112748428087300210

@typographische @mwichary one problem is that there are many characters that are different in intent, but indistinguishable to the untrained eye. These often get misused, most trivially during OCR. Some examples are e.g. the Latin and Cyrillic letter "e", also accents, such as "è" and "é". These are "English-friendly" examples. In Medieval manuscripts there's a huge variety of overhead characters that are now represented in unicode, but we (non-experts) have little sensitivity for what their meaning is/was.

@mwichary @jef @typographische this is a tool that does this last job for Cyrillic and is being used a lot: https://2cyr.com/
I suspect one needs some knowledge of the intention (in this case a clear indication that it's Cyrillic) to be able to do such a job meaningfully.
Otherwise, what would a "right encoding" mean?

@worik @cindyweinstein well, that's exactly the point. To an important portion of US citizen, being old is worse than being a felon. These are people that have a very poor idea of what teamwork in the government is.

Apparently there exists a viewpoint in the world that sustains that US rail is better than the (admittedly patchy) European network. Well, they seem not to be bothered that they put freight before passengers. Then high-speed is completely detached as a topic from cargo.

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/why-is-europe-so-absurdly-backward-compared-to-the-u-s-in-rail-freight-transport/amp

The new polars dataframes library looks big. I find the pandas syntax extremely unintuitive and prefer using it through pandasql (I know it's slow). Polars' syntax is much more query-like, which makes much more sense to me.