IIRC, they originally became popular because they saved characters for microblogs like Twitter. They’ve outlasted their usefulness though.

If only it worked on current generation hardware other than pixel and, iirc, fairphone.

In Singapore, chicken eggs come in packs of 6, 10, 12 (always labelled as having two bonus eggs: 10 + 2), 15, and 30. Duck eggs come in packs of 6. Quail eggs come in cans (NFI how many they include).

The Word For World is Forest by Ursula LeGuin. I hated most of the first chapter but it’s improved since then.

Yeah, nah. While copyrights are a problem as they’re currently employed, removing them would screw every content creator on the planet. Most of us don’t make much as it is, with only a few making a living from our work. Removing copyright would allow anyone to take what we produce without any compensation.

The corporations would love that.

The jobseeker program is just like the weight-loss industry. They do just enough to appear to be doing something, but not enough to actually fix the problem. If they did succeed, they’d be out of a job.