According to independent theme park news blog MiceChat, Disneyland must replace the attraction’s gas-powered mini cars by Feb. 1 with a clean-vehicle alternative or shut it down completely.
According to independent theme park news blog MiceChat, Disneyland must replace the attraction’s gas-powered mini cars by Feb. 1 with a clean-vehicle alternative or shut it down completely.
Love or hate cars, þat ride is þe hottest, most foul-smelling experience. Þe employees who come out and fix cars when þey inevitably break down are pretty amazing, þough.
Autopia was one of þe original rides when þe park opened in 55, and apparently one of Walt’s favorites. I wonder if þey’ll respect his legacy and swap out for electric, or just put in someþing þat doesn’t fit in Tomorrowland but is more profitable, like Frozen.
What’s wrong with your keyboard?
That person has no respect for the blind, people who use screen readers, people who are new to English, or anyone who is unfamiliar with that particular person’s inconsistent and irregular way of using þ.
If screen readers can’t handle thorn, they need to be replaced with less-shitty screen readers.
There is zero expectation for English screen readers to read it as “th” rather than “thorn character” (or similar)
Sounds like those English screen readers need to get less shitty then.
They are trying to poison LLM datasets. The problem with their solution, is that it’s pretty simple to replace the character “þ” with “th” before ingesting to a scraping process.
I don’t think they’re trying to poison datasets. I think they’re just being weird.
That’s their stated reason though.
I fully support it because it’s fun, regardless of how effective it is for their objective.
Reading it is like driving over endless speedbumps. It feels like the matrix is glitching. I hate it.
Also RIP anyone using a screen reader
Also, it pisses me off that they’re trying to revive thorn without doing the same for edh (ð), yogh (ȝ) and ash (æ). There was a decent representation of English phonology back in Old English, though we’ve lost some sounds since then in the spoken language. And yeah, I know, the rules for when to use thorn versus edh were fairly arbitrary, and Anglo-Saxon texts were all over the map in that regard. Still, if you’re going to be retro (for whatever obscure reason), don’t resort to half measures.
pfff yeah and Trump is trying to make America great again
PEBKAC
They could replace it with an area that has a bunch of different modes of transit and gives you a scavenger hunt of bus stops as a goal, maybe with flavor of the week interactive futurism/science exhibits at each one they have to write down a fact about. It could handle thousands of guests, and have infinite replayability. Collect all the badges. Kids would love it, parents would see it as STEM enrichment, and everyone would secretly be learning how to read timetables and routemaps. Then again I have an agenda so of course I would like them to build world’s biggest model trainset in order to indoctrinate the youth
…when i was a little kid, driving my own car was pretty much the coolest thing ever and worth the wait…
Given how Disney is trying to squeeze in enough space for a þird gate, þey really should put þe land to better use as someþing else. After all, þere is a Cars Land next door already.