Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

@pagrus @twistylittlepassages nitty gritty just stands like standard rhyming reduplication of an existing word to me (easy peasy, hodge podge, etc) but i did not follow up to check

@pagrus @twistylittlepassages have attempted some internet research and it looks like bad egg was the original invention, coming directly & uneuphamistically from how terrible rotten eggs are. There was apparently already an older term in British slang “curates egg” for when something is terrible, but politeness requires you to praise its good features anyway (wikipedia has extensive documentation on the history of this one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curate%27s_egg ) and if the term has any precedent besides the actual rotten eggs it was likely that

However apparently in 2002 a British police officer claimed that political correctness had gone “too far” citing phrases he claimed the police force had been banned from using including nitty gritty & bad egg. The British police claimed they didn’t have a list of banned words at the time, and there’s no evidence that either of them would be on said list if there was, so it seems like a fair assumption that the dude just threw “bad egg” in there to try to prove how ridiculous his non-existent PC culture problem was and then it accidentally got circulated into internet lore without the context

@JessMahler the word you’r looking for is responsive design, i think?

@melodicake@hellsite.site whats your handle over there?

@alis @Betty

@runpunkrun yeah i’ll be surprised if they let us keep asking questions haha

this does create a kind of odd dynamic where, between the “you can only ask q’s during meetings but we’ll keep answering them after” and the specific formatting requirements for questions, audience members are heavily incentivized to pre-prep any questions that come up between meetings and then just log in and immediately start submitting them regardless of meeting content

@runpunkrun well thats interesting? and makes the recent post in #announcement that they're committed to answering "at least 10 questions" during the meeting slightly more sensical

@platypus hmm thats odd, its much newer than even the last SE so you’d think if anyone who was still selling SE’s would be selling the 13 mini also? shame because it really is one of their nicest form factors imo

@platypus I have the 13 mini which is almost exactly the same size as the original SE (so, notably quite a bit smaller than the newer SE) and am very happy with it. If e you had the old SE and thought it was a good size, I’d recommend going for the Mini over the newer SE both for the better camera/screen/processors and the fact that it’s actually properly a smaller model

@platypus ugh yeah that sucks

@platypus yeah error beeps and confirmation beeps really need to be *clearly distinguishable*