Ok. It took some research, but I think I have it worked out. You have to either be using the gboard keyboard or go to the emoji kitchen website. From the website, you can just combine, copy, and paste. From Gboard, you need to select the smiley face next to the space bar OR click the 4 squares and then go into “emoji.” From there, you can select 2 emojis (assuming they are compatible) to create a new emoji, or select 1 and choose one of the recommendations. I can’t get it to work from my phone in the Voyager app, but I also can’t guarantee that’s Voyager’s problem vs. mine. It does work on my texting app, however, so I know it works. For further reference.

I’ll be the sacrificial dumb guy here. Are the posts here just copy/paste, or is there a way to force some emojis together? Secondary question, how do I just type in a Unicode value into my phone keyboard to get an emoji?

I love where he goes on a bike ride to show relative sizes and distances in the solar system.

But if I had to come up with my favorite obscure Bill Nye reference, it would have to be this spoof of a 90s dating gameshow on Almost Live.

Not the only reason, but the cost of living is higher in the U.S. than most other locales on the planet.

I thought I read an article stating that the Russians tried motorcycles and that it didn’t go so well for them. I take it the Ukrainians feel they have a better methodology using motorcycles?

“Get paid doing something you love and you’ll never work a day in your life!” Yeah, it sounds great, and a small handful of people accomplish it. For most people, this advice will just ruin what they love by turning it into a job. My advice is to find something you don’t mind doing and it can pay the bills. I work with computers. I don’t love working with computers, but it’s fine, I like it. My hobbies get to continue being things I enjoy doing after work. I don’t recommend finding a passion to inspire you to work (or study, assuming you would plan to study something that would turn into a job qualification). Instead, find something that you merely like well enough but there is a demand for in the job market, and then use that to fund your future passions, long term goals, and some emergency savings.

Btw, I don’t think your attitudes are unusual for your age. Large percentages of students begin university as undeclared majors and/or aimlessly switch their declared major many times over. And if homemaking really is your thing, consider taking classes and looking at majors that focus on cooking, nutrition, interior design, art, personal (or even business) finance.

toothpick of destiny

How much is 10 billion rubles in dollarydoos? Or any other Western-friendly currency?

They want $7500 for an eyeball? No, no, no! I can get you one for $750. Free range, not caged. Good stuff. Mostly legal. Meet me in the dark alley tonight.

I mean, sure. Anyone who can grow an entire human body, bit by bit, can assemble a perfect wife. I mean, have a perfect wife.

The Island? I don’t recall it being a big hit, but I enjoyed it.

Must have been some darn fine curry.

And what does it have to do with Ukraine?

Last I saw, he moved back to the UK and was struggling to find a job. The sudden, unexpected lack of communication is certainly concerning.

• says extremely powerful, offensively wealthy, politically well-positioned buggy industry’s spokesperson.

Adolph’s childhood would certainly be described by nobody as a good time. The one story I recall was him stripping naked to try and squeeze through the window bars in order to escape his father’s wrath, only to get stuck. He found the humiliation of his father’s laughter worse than the beating he was expecting.

Brilliant! Took me too long, but I’m on the same page now.

Here’s my take. I grew up in the Cold War. I saw no way out. Figured we were all done, with a state of permanent Cold War until an inevitable Hot War that ends it all. And then, very suddenly, in 1989, the Cold War was over. No nuclear explosions, no cities vaporized. Just a new and hopeful future.

And now, here we are today. I see no way out of the climate crisis, and it’s depressing. But I haven’t forgotten the lesson I learned from the Cold War. Just because I can’t see a way out, it doesn’t mean there isn’t, or that there won’t be. I don’t know how, but I’ve seen it before, humanity’s disaster somehow averted out of nowhere. Doesn’t mean we’ll skip climate disaster. Just means that just because you don’t see a way out right now, there still may be a way, and we should all work toward such a future.

Thank you for reading my Ted Talk. Fingers crossed.

There’s an awful lot of English going on in that photo.

Not sure why they felt the need to publish the plane’s cost in the headline. $4.5 million is pocket change in the world of aircraft values. Oh, Newsweek, decades ago, you were the best, and now look at you.