AernaLingus [any]

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Cake day: May 6th, 2022

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  • When you have a script that can be read in columns right-to-left or in rows left-to-right, it seems like a strange decision to print button labels where you have four characters arranged in the corners of a square (i.e. spaced with equal horizontal and vertical distances) leaving no obvious row or column layout). Sure, for anyone literate in Japanese the words make it obvious what the intended layout is (rows, in this case), but why not just nudge the characters closer together horizontally to remove that tiny amount of mental effort for the person operating a passenger vehicle that can travel up to 350 km/h?

    Maybe I’m just salty about the mangaka who lay out 4koma in a square with even spaces between all the panels and then number the panels because without the numbers it’s impossible to know the reading order. Just add a few millimeters of space, FFS!



  • And on June 14th, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, “I need a caretaker.” So God gave us Trump.

    God said, “I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, fix this country, work all day, fight the Marxists, eat supper, then go to the Oval Office and stay past midnight at a meeting of the heads of state.” So God made Trump.

    I need somebody with arms strong enough to rustle [wrestle?] the Deep State and yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild. Somebody to ruffle the feathers, tame cantankerous World Economic Forum, come home hungry, have to wait until the First Lady is done with lunch with friends, then tell the ladies to be sure and come back real soon, and mean it. So God gave us Trump.

    That last part is borderline word salad. Both the script and the voiceover have gotta be AI generated, right? I love the awkward pause after “arms” which makes it sound as if God is searching desperately for somebody, anybody, who has arms.