#coverage limitations

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What Are Exclusions in Health Insurance? Understand the Hidden Gaps in Coverage

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[kaidatheghostdragon]

Prompt: Jason and Jazz are the reincarnation of Thomas and Martha Wayne

Either bruce or alfred realize it when they walk in on jason and jazz dancing in one of the lesser-used rooms in the manor to one of martha's favorite vinyl records.

[bytemycupcakes]

I like to think Kinger is prone to "digital hallucinations"

Especially those of a certain.. Queen.

side hc that he stays in his fortress bc its hard to get hallucinations if you cant see anything in the first place. (at least thats his logic.)

[alwaysbewoke]

the fix is in!!

[adhamabbas]

Don't treat me with logic and its severity, if the event was "heart".

[pathesis]

Not saying killing a CEO is the right way to go but it sure is affective.

[kiragecko]

Obsolete and Variant Latin Characters (Consonant Edition)

Saw a post about 'sharp s' ('ſ') and wanted to share a bit about the VARIETY of characters you can use for (fake) Old-Timey Spelling.¹ Not including any vowels, because too many of them are still popular and used for FAR too many sounds, but I strongly suggest adding 'Æ', 'æ' everywhere. Æshes are FUN!

Note: A lot of letters look really different in different styles of writing. Most of these do not have separate characters in Unicode - if you want to write a certain shape of 'h', you just use a font that uses that shape of 'h', for example. Like, Blackletter fonts don't have separate characters in Unicode (except for the ones used by weird German linguists!) even though they can look VERY different from other fonts.

But certain sometimes there ARE separate symbols. Gaelic speakers got frustrated enough by stupid English 'g's that we have Insular variants for a bunch of letters that have historically been written differently in Ireland, for example. Instead of having to use a completely different font when writing for an Irish audience, you can just set up a keyboard layout that will call up the Insular characters, and if you change your font, the characters won't change to English versions. (They might become blank boxes if the font doesn't SUPPORT those characters, but that's a different issue!)

We also have a bunch of variants for characters that can be written multiple ways in the same Medieval manuscripts, because Medieval historical linguists/paleographists have a LOT of influence over Unicode's development. (And Angkorian Khmer paleographists seem to have NONE 😭😭) This lets historians distinguish which variant is being used in a manuscript, which can let them learn about subtleties of use.

And some of these variants are still in use in some languages! They can be stored as variants in many fonts and automatically applied without needing a separate Unicode character, but not everyone wants to trust the appearance of their writing to a computer's decisions, so it's good to have distinct characters we can choose to use ourselves.

Finally, there are a few characters that are actually distinct. Not variant forms of another (Latin) character at all! We're going to start with those:

thorn - Þ, þ

used to make both of English's 'th' (/θ/ and /ð/) sounds, as well as the same sounds in Scandinavian languages, and in Middle Scots. From an Elder Futhark rune ('ᚹ') called 'þurs' (or 'þorn' in Anglo-Saxon). Still used in Icelandic. Alternated with 'ð'. Restricted in use to common abbreviations after becoming very similar to 'ƿ' ('wynn') and 'p', and eventually replaced entirely by 'th'. Now often replaced by 'y' in fake-old text, because early printing presses did not have thorns, but did have 'y's, and they looked somewhat similar.

wynn - Ƿ, ƿ

used in Old English for 'w' (/w/) sounds. From an Elder Futhark rune ('ᚹ') of the same name. Replaced by 'uu' which developed into 'w' (but see 'Anglicana w' below!) Fell out of use after becoming very similar to 'þ' ('thorn') and 'p'.

Variants and Alternate Shapes:

Insular d - Ꝺ, ꝺ

Shape of 'd' used in Insular fonts. Still in use in Ireland.

ðæt/eth - Ð, ð

used to make both of English's 'th' (/θ/ and /ð/) sounds, as well as the same sounds in Scandinavian languages. Alternated with 'þ' ('thorn'). Seems to have derived from 'd', possibly through 'ꝺ' ('Insular d'). Still used in Icelandic. Some people like to pretend that 'ð' stood for /ð/ (in 'that') and 'þ' stood for /θ/ (in 'thing'), but it was rarely that clean and simple.

Insular f - Ꝼ, ꝼ

Shape of 'f' used in Insular fonts. Still in use in Ireland.

Insular g - Ᵹ, ᵹ

Shape of 'g' used in Insular fonts. Still in use in Ireland. Affected a LOT of other fonts and how they developed.

yogh - Ȝ, ȝ

derived from 'Insular g' ('ᵹ'), this character was used for 'y', 'gh', and a variety of other velar and palatal sounds (/j/, /ɣ/, /g/, /ç/, /dʒ/, etc.) all of which were written with 'g' in Old English. Fell out of use after becoming too similar to 'z'.

Insular r - Ꞃ, ꞃ

Shape of 'r' used in Insular fonts. Still in use in Ireland. Very similar in appearance to 'Insular s' ('ꞅ').

r-rotunda - Ꝛ/Ꝝ, ꝛ/ꝝ²

version of 'r' used after round letters like 'o', 'b', 'p', 'h', and 'ꝺ' ('d'), especially in blackletter fonts (where the letters are really close together and square). Basically use the previous round shape as their upright line.

Insular s - Ꞅ, ꞅ

Shape of 's' used in Insular fonts. Still in use in Ireland. Very similar in appearance to 'Insular r' ('ꞃ').

long s - ſ/ʃ

alternated with 'round s' ('s') in ways that ALMOST followed rules. Usually wasn't used at the end of words. Seems to have stopped being used simply because printers thought they looked old-fashioned?

sharp s - ẞ, ß

derived from 'ſʒ' (a 'sharp s' and 'tailed z'. Possibly also from 'ſs'). Used in German languages. Stands for /s/, with complex rules (which have changed over the years!) for when it alternates with 's' and 'ss'.

Middle Scots s - Ꟗ, ꟗ

derived from 'ſs' (a 'sharp s' and 'round s'). Stands for /s/. Very similar to 'sharp s'.

Insular t - Ꞇ, ꞇ

Shape of 't' used in Insular fonts. Still in use in Ireland.

Middle Welsh v - Ỽ, ỽ

a variant of wynn (or at least related) this character was used for 'u', 'v', and 'w' (/u/, /v/, /w/) sounds in Middle Welsh.

Vend - Ꝩ, ꝩ

a variant of 'wynn' ('ƿ'), either through the Old English letter, or the Elder Futhark rune ('ᚹ'). Used for /w/.

Anglicana w - Ꟃ, ꟃ

Modern 'w' derived from two 'u's together (or 'v's, they were variants of the same letter at the time). The 'uu' ligature (letters squished together) replaced earlier 'wynn' ('ƿ'). Except the story isn't that clean.

Wynns kept being used alongside double 'u's. And sometimes they'd be used WITH 'u's! 'Uu', 'uƿ', 'ƿu' and 'ƿƿ' were all possible ways to write the /w/ sound during the Medieval period. 'UU' was combined into 'w', but some of the other combinations were also squished together into really WEIRD (to modern eyes) 'w's, now called 'Anglicana w's. They've got little '3's on the right side!

tailed z - Ʒ/Ꝣ, ʒ/ꝣ

variant way to write 'z', the reason why most cursive 'z's have tails. Comes from Medieval Gothic and Early Modern Blackletter fonts.

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¹ Actual use for Old-Timey Spelling should be questioned. You can makes things really hard for screen readers very quickly!

² Ꝝ, ꝝ are actually Medieval abbreviations for 'rum', a common Latin word ending. I wanted to show how flat the tail could be, you shouldn't actually add the line.

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Thank you @floppergostic for letting me know which characters weren't showing up!

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[You can stop here if using a screen reader.]

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[johnnyshrine]

★ 020 // “Birthday Wish”

[fidgetspringer]

Røst is about to live his best 80s fitness instructor life.

[re-discover-communication]

Another little thing about my Next Semester fic.

Screenshotted from the Interactive AIDS Quilt, the website of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. If you don't know what it is... blame it on the embarassingly small coverage the whole AIDS pandemic currently has, because I didn't know it existed until I saw the 4hours documentary about it.

These quilt were made for victims of AIDS by their friends and relatives and gathered all together as a memorial. It features quilts of some celebrities too, like Freddie Mercury and Rock Hudson.

You can look it up online and visit it. Here.

[runawaymun]

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[the0ther-side0f-dawn]

ahahaha our building has no fucking power and noone can get inside but our RM/Ceo is saying to 'keep an eye on it' and to open asap

[etoile-gracieuse]

why. why does it take a masters to become a librarian. my bachelors is LITERALLY 90% of what the #1 program in the states is. so like let me pick up the 10% on the way i just want to be Happy

[paranetics]

Have sympathy for the guy all you want but don't call thus 19 year old man a child. Yeah it's a pity he was forced into it but he wasn't a kid. Don't add to the issue of adult men being infanfilised whenever something bad happens.

Especially when there were ACTUAL children on that refugee boat.

hey come off anon and be fucking stupid with your face attached to it. you deserve to be shamed all the way to hell you disgusting little reprobate. if you think 19 years was long enough on this planet that’s the dumbest thing i’ve ever heard in my whole life. you think adulthood is measured by the legal statute of years lived instead of experience in life, you are completely mistaken. a majority of 19 year olds aren’t in college. they can’t drink. they can’t rent a car. they still haven’t decided on personalities.

the double standard in the media coverages is a valid talking point NOT somehow choosing to make this about “infantilizing men” you moron. the greecian disaster was a horrible fucking tragedy, unfortunately i am one human person and not a news outlet or a conglomeration of people blasting out posts at the speed of light. i am one dude who was sad about a 19yo who died cus he loved his dad, while people were trivializing his death because it was funny the CEO of dumbshit corporation decided to ignore basic safety to attempt a 12500 ft dive.

you’re a mean spirited ugly person who can’t think their way out of a cardboard box and you’re even worse for doing it on anon, because you know i’d block you sight unseen.

[tache-noire]

nude ppv when

[menlove]

i think doctors randomly rescheduling appointments without asking should be illegal actually