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Try to take deep breaths. If it’s low blood oxygen as others say, that could help.

Alternative if your brain/body won’t allow it: Try holding your breath. You might have control over that. The aim is to hold long enough trigger a gasp reflex which will, hopefully, shake you awake.

The hard part is finding the presence of mind to remember things to try when you’re in an altered state of consciousness.

UKGOV haven’t started on things like Wikipedia yet. They know kids use it for school and blinded by ideology though they are, even they can see there’d be an enormous backlash if they blocked it any time soon.

If that’s going to happen at all, I doubt it would be before the next election. That’s whether Labour get re-elected or the Tories make an unexpected comeback. You can tell how far Labour have fallen in the eyes of their party faithful when they’ve taken a Tory-drafted policy and made it their own.

Ironically, the up and coming third option fascist party, have said they’re going to repeal the Online Safety Act. They have other fish to fry if they get in, and they’ll want to keep their preferred demographic(s) happy while they do it.

I assume that eventually something like the OSA would come back to “protect the children”. They love the current US President.

None of this is hopeful. Take this as more of a rant.

Are you sure? They’re both unvoiced th, which is what thorn is for if you intend to distinguish.

I can’t tell whether Old English used eth for those words early on - though the unvoiced quality in modern English makes that seem unlikely. Did we also devoice them? Eth died out fairly quickly in favour of thorn in all cases, voiced or not. Possibly because its name is “eþ” not “eð”. It doesn’t even use itself. (Though, ironically, ‘w’ also doesn’t and it replaced ƿynn, which does.)

There was another commenter - actually might have been the same guy, I’m not all that sure - who did use eth for voiced instances, to similar controversial effect in comment sections.

We have a diacritic in English text already. Rather than above or below, it goes to the right of the letter it modifies and looks an awful lot like a letter h.

And if you don’t quite buy that, remember that a lot of diacritics started life as letters that were eventually moved above a preceding letter and then simplified. The tilde on ñ was an n itself; the ring on å was another a; and in at least some cases the umlaut was an e.

Modifying-h may only be stuck where it is because technology did away with the need for economical scribes before they had a chance to start messing with it.

Hahaha, that’s not dystopian at all, hahahaha.

Deaf people will almost unavoidably copy the mouth shapes they’ve seen when other people have spoken. This means that how they sound will be at least somewhat informed by any hearing people they observe as well as indirectly through other deaf people who have also learned from hearing folks.

So yes, aspects of voice accent do carry over to deaf people.

There’s also the concept of “accent” within sign language too. How people move between signs, carry themselves and act when expressing an emotion, which is usually exaggerated for the sake of clear communication, can vary from community to community, even if the base sign language is the same.

Well that’s good to know at least. Still not sure I would have opted for that name, but then, these are clearly the games of sharper minds than mine.

That name puts me in mind of things like “Stormfront” and “National Front”, if not also things like 4chan / 8kun.

…but that might be the point?? If so, I can’t tell if it’s a joke or serious. Disturbing.

If I’m going out, I change from cosy indoor clothing to tidier clothing so that I don’t look like I’m wandering around in public in my pyjamas, so I guess I’m fitting to a societal expectation, and thus dressing for other people in that regard.

That said, I wouldn’t want to sully my indoor clothing with the outdoors anyway, and I don’t like going out as a rule, so I think I prefer to be dressed for myself.

Xbox was an indication of what Microsoft have always really wanted to do, what Apple have always done, and what Microsoft have tried to do with the Win 11 roll out:

A narrowing of the technical specification and focus in order to minimise support and required testing. That costs money.

Cost bad. CEO mad.

Each Xbox release has been a release of a bunch of clones. Yes, they are based on PC hardware, but it’s one set of identical hardware to support across tens of thousands of instances, as opposed to hundreds of thousands of actual PCs, barely any two alike.

Then note that many people don’t want to use a computer at home. Computers remind them of work. They want to play games and goof off in their spare time. A games console is ideal.

And if that console happens to be based on PC hardware, the games can eventually be ported to the myriad actual PC options. But they can get the game out and running quickly on that one well-supported platform and cash in quick.