throw an Indian router, an Israeli router and a Turkish router into the chain for extra security

Add some curry powder and bean sprouts and you’re halfway to Singapore noodles

Did Microsoft release the original Word source?

aka Maga Meghan

Member of party whose ideology is centred around the inherent rightness of power and domination discovered to be true to this ideology in a socially unacceptable way.

Mostly not, but there are normal people among them. In the fediverse, it’s mostly those who feel that they have no place anywhere else. (Occasionally a curious normie makes an account. You see vast swathes of these accounts which were last logged into 2 1/2 years ago while they engage and build clout somewhere where there are others like them.)

If you want to interact with normal people, it’s the least-bad game in town. You might even find some established journalists, musicians, authors and such.

There are a lot of people in third-world shantytowns who’d be appalled at the sort of things the most frugal of us fritter our money away on while they struggle to get drinkable water

Maybe if they sacrifice enough rare books, the Basilisk will save them

Oxygen is slowly killing you. It’s just better than the alternative.

With some VPNs (Mullvad and NordVPN to name two) you can use your own clients by downloading lists of VPN relays and whatever authentication credentials the protocol uses. Though if you use the official client, it often has options beyond the protocol, such as selecting multiple hops (i.e. entering at one relay and exiting from another), disguising your traffic as another protocol (useful if you’re somewhere where VPN traffic is blocked) or padding traffic to a constant size to prevent profiling (i.e. by comparing to known video streams).

Alternatively, (❤️ I LISP)

English did historically use æ, as the Latin ae-ligature (along with œ), though it went out of fashion at around the end of the Victorian era, and may not have been used in American English except as a stylistic affectation.

English historically has not done vowel symbols other than AEIOU and the occasional Y, leaving the speaker to bloody well figure out themselves which vowel sound a letter represents in a specific word, leaving it free to use ligatures and diacriticals as accents (i.e. the archaic dieresis in “coördinate” informing the reader that the “oo” is not a “ooh” digraph, these days seen only in the New Yorker). In contrast, languages like German and the Scandinavian languages treat accented vowels as distinct vowels of their own, moving them to the end of the alphabet in the dictionary.

Isn’t ø just the Danish/Norwegian equivalent of the German ö?

In any case, it could be used to disambiguate words with different o sounds; i.e., “polish” (to shine a surface by rubbing) from “Pølish” (from Pøland).

Å is what you say when you see an adorable animal

Or sometimes about melting salt

To borrow a tenet from another abrahamic religion, trust in God, but tie up your camel.

“Well, if it isn’t the consequences of my actions”

The Shah’s Amish now?

This guy would disagree