It's a lot quicker than reading it! It's nearly half a million words, over if you include The Hobbit/Silmarillion.

Someone was claiming that the early chapters (I think it was the Old Forest stuff, after they left the Shire) were purposely written in a dense, slow style to make the reader really feel the weary progress. I don't think I believe that, but it's an interesting possibility.

Ask vague questions, get oddly specific answers, I guess.

Nothing dates it more than the reference to Boing Boing.

From the Lemmy docs:

• Active (default): Calculates a rank based on the score and time of the latest comment, with decay over time
• Hot: Like active, but uses time when the post was published

My default is set to

• Scaled: Like hot, but gives a boost to less active communities

This is the newest sorting option, I think, and it helps me not miss posts from the smaller comms - particularly ones where people are asking a question and there's been no engagement. Ideally I'd like to have Mastodon-style lists so I could have "quiet comms" or something and check them all every so often.

I will switch to new or top 6h/24h if I've been on recently and just want to see what's fresh. Top all time or 1y if I'm looking at new-to-me comms so I can see what type of thing to expect from it.

Fascinating, thanks for taking the time to write this up.

And they've highlighted the whole of the UK for "England". Scotland has the thistle, Wales has the daffodil and Wikipedia says that flax is widely used as a symbol of Northern Ireland.

I think of England's rose as red, because of the rugby.

Shine UV light on salty wastewater? Definitely sounds pretty straightforward.

I heard that one school (maybe the same school?) had success with a "three strikes and then you find yourself another school" policy.

Weirdly, the largest versions I found have the labels underneath instead of top:

Yeah, but the OED is basically the only British dictionary that thinks that way.

Are you saying you've disabled searching from the address bar and instead load up whatever.com and then type your search into there? I don't understand what you think you're gaining by enforcing this extra step.

You might want to know about this handy site: https://imgops.com/

The various reverse lookup services all seem to be strongest in different areas, but generally I start with tineye and Yandex and only try the others if I don't find what I need.