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There probably is, but this is what I mainly use:

https://fsymbols.com/generators/smallcaps/

BoOkMaRkEd, ʀɪɢʜᴛ ᴀʟᴏɴɢsɪᴅᴇ ᴀʟʟ ᴏғ ᴍʏ ᴏᴛʜᴇʀ 𝕤𝕥𝕦𝕡𝕚𝕕 f̴͎̠͕̈́̐͠o̸̡̪̼̿͐͐n̴̞͖̒̚̚͜ț̸̺͉̔̐̐ 𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖊𝖗𝖆𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖘!

Or JuSt UsE SpOnGeBoB CaPs!!!

…That’s actually really annoying to type, though.

Reading.

Or rather, how so many people seem fear and avoid it, or can’t do it. Something like 21% of adults in the US are illiterate, and the majority – 54% – read at or below a 6th grade level.

I’ve been a sight reader probably since I was about six years old. I absolutely cannot look at any words legibly written in my native language and not understand them. You couldn’t force me to look at words written in English and not digest them if you held a gun to my head. I fear no wall of text, no matter how tall it is.

It takes some effort to wrap your head around the notion that not only can most people not do this, but statistically speaking most or at least a plurality of people have to struggle or exert conscious effort to read and many of them are loathe to do so. And roughly one in five people simply can’t. This did not sink in for me when I was younger.

I can’t imagine having to live my life that way. You nerds have seen how much bullshit I write in a day; I’d go absolutely bats.

One wonders how much of this is down to the proportion of people on here for whom English is not their first language. I know that I struggle enough to comprehend any other languages which aren’t my native one to begin with (i.e. English, in my case) so a lot of subtlety surely flies over my head in those. Can’t imagine that situation is much different for others.

And demand a budget increase claiming its now it’s more dangerous that they have to work in the dark.

Yeah, just wait until you get a load of the number of things called “One.” Here’s a hint: It’s a lot more than one.

It did however at least lead to the pun in the Funimation dub about a “fishfull of dollars,”, since they baited Oolong with a wad of cash on a fishhook rather than Bulma’s panties.

…No.

when a calculator from the 80s can do the same thing.

1970’s! The little blighters are even older than most people think.

Which is why I find it extra hilarious / extra infuriating that we’ve gone through all of these contortions and huge wastes of computing power and electricity to ultimately just make a computer worse at math.

Math is the one thing that computers are inherently good at. It’s what they’re for. Trying to use LLM’s to perform it halfassedly is a completely braindead endeavor.

I see. Perhaps I misunderstood the format.

I’m not sure I’d use Bill Nye as the example of the asshole atheist, unless that’s the joke. Maybe Christopher Hitchens.

I know the headline is satire, but we all know this is exactly the same kind of half-brained report we’d get from someone who already knows damn well what the problem is and who caused it (i.e., themselves) but think they can weasel out of responsibility by pretending to play dumb.

Don’t tell me any useful information like there’s literally water pouring out of it (becauseyoufloodedthesecondfloorbathroomyoumoron). “Oh, there’s just ‘something’ wrong with it. I don’t understand all that technical mumbo-jumbo, maybe you could just come look?”

If it’s a trade war with penguins he wants, a trade war with penguins is what we’ll give him.

Incorrect, only because you’re still tacitly assuming that science (or anything else) must have some kind of external cosmic significance outside of human thought.

Science is important to us – or at least it ought to be – because it’s the method by which we understand how the universe works. Being important to us is all that matters, because we can’t think with the minds of anything else.

The flaw in all of this sophomoric philosophic whinging is that it mostly tends to start off with the presupposition that all of these concepts aren’t just human constructs. The only reason anything has meaning to us is because we decided it does.

The purpose of life is life itself.

In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, to alleviate the effects of the…Anyone? Anyone? The Great Depression passed the, anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act? Which, anyone? Raised or lowered? Raised tariffs to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects? It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression.

I already do. Flip a coin: Heads, the car is operating itself and is therefore being operated by a moron. Tails, the owner is driving it manually and therefore it is being operated by a moron.

Just be sure to carefully watch your six when you’re sitting at a stoplight. I’ve gotten out of the habit of sitting right in the center of the lane, because the odds are getting ever higher that I’ll have to scoot out of the way of some imbecile who’s coming in hot. That’s hard to do when your front tire is 24" away from the license plate of the car in front of you.

A metric ton, anyway, and provided whatever you want is water.

The obvious answer: Use your replicator to replicate more replicators.

The correct answer: The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer.

The clever dick corollary: 1m³ is actually quite a large volume, and ain’t no rule says you can only replicate one object at a time. If whatever luxury item or commodity you want is small in volume, which it probably is, don’t forget you can replicate a whole bunch of it within a meter cube.