Spring to fall, I drive in bare feet whenever it’s appropriate. It’s so much more direct and comfortable. That said, I prefer bare feet when possible anyway - I realize it’s not for everyone.

tiered looking palaeontologist

Suspicious at best. Pyramids are in on the conspiracy.

For sure, this analogy would only work if we could ask the sea what it wanted to be called. I reckon Nahá (“great water”) is a solid name, though.

I guess when they’re called “penitentiaries”, the clue’s in the name - high security prisons have never pretended to be about rehabilitation.

There’s some discontent around Sync at the moment because of apparent infrequent developer updates that mean it hasn’t kept pace with changes to Lemmy. There’s nothing wrong with financially supporting developers - quite the opposite - and app development isn’t a cakewalk, but it’s worth doing a search to get users’ opinions before spending the money in this instance.

You picked a great picture to illustrate this - it’s from The School of Athens by Raphael and not only does your crop depict Plato, to whom quotes are often misattributed, but Raphael was thought to have modeled him on Leonardo da Vinci, who also crops up a lot in these contexts.

Last frame before it gets redacted, because I found it impossible to make out on Imgur:

What happened in Berlin, Germany, on 4th june 1989?

Okay, so I need to figure out what happened in Berlin, Germany, on June 4th, 1989. Let me start by recalling what I know about that time period. The late 1980s were a pivotal time in Europe, especially with the Cold War coming to an end. The Berlin Wall was still up then, right? It fell in November 1989, so June would have been a few months before that.

I remember that in 1989, there were a lot of protests in Easter Bloc countries, including East Germany. The people were pushing for reforms, more freedoms, and against the authoritarian regimes. Maybe there was a significant protest or event in Berlin around that time

Wait, I think there were protests in Tianan

So am I!

Nothing to do with the browser, FYI, just the markdown interpreter - regardless of whether your client is a web app or otherwise.

As you say, two spaces before a carriage return indicates a line break in most flavors of markdown. Two carriage returns indicates a paragraph break.

I was able to find and report the same item in the Shop app, within the “YZY” store.

Took a screenshot. Not happy about uploading a picture of a swastika, but wanted to capture it in case he backtracks.

::: spoiler :::

The Shadow of Meowgoth.

I agree - but parallels can be a quick and effective way to communicate information where the specifics aren’t important, even if they have to be consciously discarded for someone diving further into the detail.

I won’t argue the point further than this message, and I appreciate the details you’ve provided, but the point of analogies is drawing parallels to quickly aid understanding at a surface level.

Nothing analogous to finding a needle in a haystack actually involves rooting through dry grass for a sliver of metal, but the analogy still stands.

I like your comment for the most part, but:

obviously comes from a mishearing by someone who didn’t read books

This is assumptive and prescriptive. The link I sent demonstrates that it’s been used extensively and for a long time by people who not only read books, but write books. I’m on board that “set foot” is the better phrase and likely to be the earlier one, but trying to dictate which is correct is - respectfully - a fool’s errand.

Sure, but OP’s image says:

hell, pollen isn’t analogous to sperm,

Pollen kind of is analogous to semen in a very broad sense, though, in as much as the pollen grain produces (rather than carries) sperm and delivers it to the ovule, right? It’s not the same when examined closely, but that’s the point of analogies. Grainy semen.

“Set foot” might be better established (and sound better), but “step foot” is not new.

Say no to socialism, pragmatism, empiricism, altruism, and especially that filthy foreign devil, metabolism.

Don’t be absurd. Most French cafés don’t serve grapes.