Did you find any convincing linguistic or etymological source for nusse? I can find a lot of near-verbatim articles repeating it, including the NatGeo article you’ve linked, but nothing independent and scholarly about the word.

• Piri piri
• Piri-piri
• Piripiri
• Peri peri
• Peri-peri

• https://floss.social/@CoMaps
• https://sopuli.xyz/c/CoMaps
• https://matrix.to/#/#comaps:matrix.org

It wasn’t a criticism of including the link! It’s definitely better to have it than not. I just wish the discussion was a little more useful and a little less trite, but c’est la vie.

Thanks for your contributions.

Did some quick reading on this. A few articles linked back to Belgian news site 7sur7, so I’m referencing that article here:

• The group who did this was Stop Arming Israel, not Palestine Action.
• They targeted OIP Land Systems because they’re a subsidiary of Elbit Systems, who are a major manufacturer of weapons sold to Israel.
• OIP used to sell military vehicles to Israel, but haven’t for a couple of decades.
• The result was a one-month delay in delivering the vehicle shipment to Ukraine.
• The CEO described the activists as “sympathisants du Hamas”, which personally makes me mistrust anything else he says.

I don’t mean to condone the damage they did - Ukraine needs all it can get - but it would be easy to read your message and think they’d deliberately taken action to hurt the Ukraine defence effort by raiding a company unconnected with Israel’s genocide.

I really want to know the original context of the photo. I suspect the face and hair are prosthetic and it’s a younger rider doing something like a Jackass skit; like you say, the bike is easily upwards of $10k.

Hah, sorry, I was just kidding, but I do love to see people on this platform doing the legwork (and I try to do the same myself) – it makes it so markedly different to most places on the web. Respect.

It’s a Specialized S-Works Epic - a high-end cross-country bike. With the saddle dropped, I think any normal sized rider would look the same.

Check out the 9-minute mark on this video for a comparison - I don’t know if it’s the same version of the bike, but it should be comparable.

Every time I don’t understand one of these comics and check Disqus, I regret it. Maybe I’m just grumpy or my sense of humor is different, but they’re always a bunch of the least funny, forced, terrible puns.

Apparently “pithing” is destroying the brain of a lab animal by inserting a metal rod into the base and wiggling it about. Often the other biological functions, like the heart beating, will continue and can be observed after this is done.

All of the infographics are AI slop, but some are worse than others. The one about Jacobo Árbenz in Guatemala is baffling:

1954 bananas! Tanks up for 10 days! United Fruit had 550,000 land!

take an old telephone line, cut it in half and a couple of resistors in specific places. You take that modified cable…

Number 9 is a 3D-rendered stock image of a cancer cell made by Giovanni Cancemi. I would guess it’s based on electron microscopy like this breast cancer cell imagery, but I don’t know anything about the topic.

Here’s the open letter sent to the Organic Maps shareholders from many of the community of contributors, prior to the CoMaps fork.

Here’s a follow-up post with some details about the response.

The CoMaps announcement blog post says that they made no headway in resolving these issues, hence the split.

Organic Maps has faced some recent controversy, circling around use of donations to fund personal vacations, development of some functionality in private repositories, commercials partners (e.g. Kayak), and hints that they’re building the company to sell for profit.

I can’t speak to the truth of all this, but CoMaps is a stable community fork with active development and FOSS-embracing principles.

The dialogue system isn’t identical, but we’ll absolutely be including those features as dialogue options. We recently cast the last few open roles, including major characters, so although VA is a bigger job than in any published TES game, we’re well on our way.

So much dialogue and random NPC banter will have to be cut out if they want to voice act every single NPC like they to plan to do.

Egrets from Skywind here. We’re really not cutting anything in that regard (or really in any respect). For lines that are very repetitive, we might reduce the number of NPCs that deliver those lines to avoid auditory fatigue and immersion issues, and some lines are being tweaked to avoid feeling too encyclopedic in their delivery, but our ultimate solution is just a ton of voice actors (hundreds, literally) and a lot of work to implement them all.

Tenth, eleventh, twelveth. It’s not the normal spelling, but I like it.

Relevant bits, without corny jokes, from the original Ashcroft Fire Rescue post on Facebook:

A quick investigation revealed the cause of this fire. It was determined to be a fish. The fish had an incredible journey, considering the river is 3km east from the point of origin. The fish had been dropped by a local osprey onto the hydro line causing embers to drop, along with the fish, to the dry grasses below. We do suspect by the size of the fish and the heat of the day probably caused the rather tired bird to drop its catch. It has been verified that our prime suspect sustained no injuries in the incident.

Maybe some kind of lobster trap, or just something made just to pass the time?

Buckminster Fuller only coined the word “geodesic” in the late 1940s, so it’s hard to know what to search for!

If you’re gonna use a single line break with Markdown, you have to put two spaces on the end of each line:

Bacon
Turkey
Mushrooms
Green onion
Garlic clove
Sugar Peas
Kalamata Olives

or put an asterisk and space before each line for a bulleted list:

• Habanero
• Gruyere
• Bleu cheese
• Red grapes
• Blackberries
• Strawberries
• Honey