OK, thanks for the hint. I just found out that you will only be prompted to update if you:
here's to hoping the updates will allay the display issues
I vaguely remembered it offering me updates when I first set the dock up (purchased the dock much later then the deck). I'll make sure I have the latest version.
Yes, inspired by Alfons Mucha!
Just ask the parents what (s)he likes.
There was some degree of standardization. Especially for important legal and religious texts alteration, even if accidental, was considered a sin/vice.
Scribes very often simply had to produce 1:1 copies of existing texts. So the standard was right in front of them.
You wouldn't think how far clerical errors could go when it was laboriously copied by hand by exhausted monks in candlelight.
The whole Mary was a virgin thing (aka immaculate conception) was started because someone mistranslated young woman as (sexual) virgin. In some languages those terms are really close (even today for example in German: junge Frau Vs Jungfrau).
To be fair some languages like English or French have so horrendous and outdated orthography that I'm not going to fault the writers.
Writers. Why is there even a W in that word still? Ridiculous, write?
I initially wrote 'temptor' in the title but then double checked. Not today, Titivillus.
It's quite relevant if you consider that coal mining is concentrated to a much smaller area really. Besides the destroyed habitat, the pollution, the dangers of sinkholes and the cost of renaturation you also have to contend with rain and ground water constantly filling in the mining pits.
Don't know about the UK but in West Germany's Rhein-Ruhr area, a former coal mining hotspot, the energy used to operate the pumps that keep the water out will eventually be greater than the energy gained from burning all the coal. Can't find a source on the quick but I think it might have happened already. Of course it's not a simple subtraction as all that energy was used to generate more infrastructure and capital that can now pay for the pumps. According to this German source their operation costs around 300 million euros yearly which gives you a rough idea of just how expensive that is.
Well I will argue that they were precisely more media literate because their media literacy applied to a broader spectrum of what was in use and relevant then.
It's a sweeping generalization of course, but many people alive today had some form of media competency taught to them at school. To my mind what is taught at public school forms the base level for society -- the lowest common denominator -- because almost everyone receives it and other forms of education build on top of that. That's how we ensure that everyone knows how to read and has basic numeracy after all.
But media literacy has been geared towards classical print media for the longest time. Because technological progress is so rapid today what you learn in your early years is no longer sufficient to guide you through your entire life in this regard.
Take for example texts, or images generated by artificial intelligence. This wasn't even on educators' minds 30-40 years ago, the lag of implementing new and relevant curricula notwithstanding. For many alive today social networks (today's prime avenue for spreading misinformation) didn't exist when they went to school. Heck, many went through primary socialisation before consumer grade computers were even a thing.
TLDR: media literacy has regressed in the sense that what most people know is geared towards traditional media while digital communications have grown to be very different on continue to evolve still.
You're correct. I updated the image.
Here's a more detailed description for those that like to read up: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/nasa-spiders-drugs-experiment/
Curiously enough when a similar experiment was first performed decades earlier the original intent was to get the spiders to weave their webs during different times of the day, rather than alter the pattern.
To those saying it's likely hardware damage: nope, luckily not. Booting into a different USB image doesn't produce this. But booting into tone same ISO produces these errors every time (it starts out normal and progressively gets worse over time).