I’ve been meaning to mention—and I got a paid subscription so I could—that the way you use Substack’s blockquote formatting causes problems when reading in certain settings.
This is Substack’s fault, not yours. The blockquote formatting you use is actually for code blocks—computer code, that is—and code blocks usually don’t have text wrap (automatic line breaks), but on Substack they do.
The code block formatting becomes an issue when reading via Substack RSS (or a browser “reader view”), where the code blocks are shown without text wrap, so each paragraph stretches like a thousand pixels off the side of the screen. This behavior makes computer code more legible but has the opposite effect with most natural-language prose.
Fortunately, Substack does have regular blockquote elements, and these _do_ support text wrap newsreaders and reader views. So if you just use blockquotes instead of code blocks (unless you’re quoting computer code), it would fix this problem entirely.
As for this being Substack’s fault by using a nonstandard presentation of code blocks (and making you think they behave differently than they actually do), yes, I should probably file a bug report about it… I just haven’t gotten around to it, yet.
Sadly there seem to be a minority on the left who seem to have decided that Brand is one of them still and are defending him in the same way as those on the right.
They seem to be forgetting the amount of evidence there is and the power imbalance in this situation
A "world of difference between a shagger and a rapist"? In fact, it's a very fine line, particularly if the girl - because he only wants them young and impressionable - changes her mind at a point where he just decides that he didn't hear her, and goes ahead anyway.
If you're 6'5" tall, there are very few women or girls who can feasibly escape.
Lidl-brand Leni Riefenstahl is a perfect description of the odious Allison Pearson. Somebody call time on that god-awful woman's career, please?
I’ve been meaning to mention—and I got a paid subscription so I could—that the way you use Substack’s blockquote formatting causes problems when reading in certain settings.
This is Substack’s fault, not yours. The blockquote formatting you use is actually for code blocks—computer code, that is—and code blocks usually don’t have text wrap (automatic line breaks), but on Substack they do.
The code block formatting becomes an issue when reading via Substack RSS (or a browser “reader view”), where the code blocks are shown without text wrap, so each paragraph stretches like a thousand pixels off the side of the screen. This behavior makes computer code more legible but has the opposite effect with most natural-language prose.
Fortunately, Substack does have regular blockquote elements, and these _do_ support text wrap newsreaders and reader views. So if you just use blockquotes instead of code blocks (unless you’re quoting computer code), it would fix this problem entirely.
As for this being Substack’s fault by using a nonstandard presentation of code blocks (and making you think they behave differently than they actually do), yes, I should probably file a bug report about it… I just haven’t gotten around to it, yet.
Sadly there seem to be a minority on the left who seem to have decided that Brand is one of them still and are defending him in the same way as those on the right.
They seem to be forgetting the amount of evidence there is and the power imbalance in this situation
A "world of difference between a shagger and a rapist"? In fact, it's a very fine line, particularly if the girl - because he only wants them young and impressionable - changes her mind at a point where he just decides that he didn't hear her, and goes ahead anyway.
If you're 6'5" tall, there are very few women or girls who can feasibly escape.
Just a stupid boy with delusions of grandeur.