This hate boner against Comic Sans is weird. It's completely OK as long as you use it for what's supposed to be used for - comics.
It works for me:
Fair - what I said was kind of ambiguous. But yeah, "self-built" as "I bought a computer-of-Theseus 20y ago, and as I've bought new parts nothing of the original remains, so it's a new computer."
I get that you weren't disagreeing on the main point. And I think we agree that Mastercard is trying to have the cake and eat it too - it wants to be a censor without being acknowledged as such.
After being gifted a bag full of rangpurs, I even considered to make some jelly out of it. I gave up once I realised how much effort it would take. (Instead I juiced them, and dumped the skins in some vodka. See me drunk 3m later.)
I still use it to convey things like:
Double reply regarding Stripe's open statement, as it's related to this topic:
Stripe is claiming to be "pressured" by an unknown party. But it's going out of its way to defend that party, by not naming it and by claiming it's a "partner".
What they’re saying is: “we haven’t called out any specific games, but we told steam if they can’t prove a game is “lawful” well cut them off”.
That interpretation is inviable because Mastercard is claiming to allow "all" lawful purchases on its network. And, given a purchase is lawful unless proved contrariwise (as a consequence of innocence unless proved guilt), it would need evidence that a purchase is unlawful, in order to prevent it.
So it's more than just dictating what can be sold without actually stating it - people there are lying.
Now the real issue is that at the end of the Mastercard is in a position where this matters and they can influence things. Should work just like cash and leave the government to decide what items are legal/illegal.
Full agree.
Mastercard has not evaluated any game or required restrictions of any activity on game creator sites and platforms, contrary to media reports and allegations.
Our payment network follows standards based on the rule of law. Put simply, we allow all lawful purchases on our network. At the same time, we require merchants to have appropriate controls to ensure Mastercard cards cannot be used for unlawful purchases, including illegal adult content.
So, Mastercard is claiming either
Either way it smells like bullshit.
Solanum is the tsundere genus - half of the species want to feed you, the other half to kill you.
On a more serious note:
The researchers found that each ancestral parent contained one key gene that—when combined—allowed tubers to grow. Tomatoes contributed the SP6A gene, which acts like a master switch to begin tuber formation. And from the Etuberosum side, another gene called IT1 controls the growth of stems that become tubers.
I did some websearch to check what the SP6A gene does in tomatoes, apparently the SP stands for self-pruning; it probably tells the plant to stop growing an appendage. I couldn't find much info on the IT1 gene from Solanum etuberosum, but if I had to guess it tells the plant to dump carbs in the rhizomes.
If that's correct, IT1 makes the plant keep pumping carbs into rhizomes for further growth, then SP6A says the growth is over, the carbs accumulate and you get a tuber.
...well, not like I was planning to move my blog (that nobody reads) to a Neocities page... that might be the final push.
On another matter: I think the right approach is to pressure governments to make hate discourses illegal. Yes, it's tempting to screech 'DEPLATFORM!', and short-term effective, but
I regret not posting it before Canvas 2025, but hopefully it'll be useful for people playing it in 2026. All letters are 5 pixels tall, and most 3 pixels wide (some 4, a few 5). I've also included a few Cyrillic letters and the digits.
I tried to make it even smaller, but it gets really funky.
GOG is making some amazing advertisement for itself, for the cause, and for the games. Genius move.
(I don't know a single one of those games, but I'm redeeming the code anyway. Just to show support.)