Allowing the quote to be affected by the punctuation around it seems to undermine the “verbatim”-ness of a quote. If the period goes outside of the quote, then the quote is always a discrete unit of text that can be moved around the sentence as needed.

Example:

He said, “It’s fine”.

“It’s fine”, he said.

I would accept always including the period inside the quote for that case, but it causes other problems. If you put the period inside the quote, how do you indicate a quote that must end in a period, but does not end the sentence?

Example:

The spec sheet read “88 m.p.h.” on the back.

Edit: It’s been two days, and no reply. I think they might have actually died on this hill.

Or whenever I please, as in feisty and seize!

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Thank you for your service.

It sounds like when a person stammers or mumbles because they’re uncertain.

Parent (sternly): What were you doing when the vase fell over?

Child (sharmling): I was… umm… I was over at the _hermidgd…

Damn people… They ruined humanity!

I subscribe to and have notifications enabled for about 13 channels that upload every single day; I only get notified like once a month about a random video whenever YouTube decides it wants to actually do the thing I have told it to do.

This has not been my experience. I subscribe with bell for almost every channel I follow. If anything I almost get too many notifications, but at least I get to decide whether each notification/video is worth watching or dismissing. The new video notifications aren’t always immediate, but I almost never see a video on my subscription feed that I haven’t already been notified about.

I’d like to get started as soon as possible, but a lot of places seem to like to wait until the last possible second to send me my information.

I think we’re finally at the point where I should have everything I need, so I guess I should get started.

Fred, is that you?

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Also, “lasts”.

You start to realize that there are things approaching that are the last time you’ll see or do something. The last time you visit where you grew up. Last time your kid lived at home. Last car you’ll ever own.

Yeah, the lasts suck.

I remember being in college, and this Onion article gave me a little bit of an existential crisis.

I understand that this may come across as flippant and possibly condescending, so apologies in advance, but I mean it as a genuine question.

What would it take to break the… inertia?

I imagine you’d move if your chair caught fire, so there must be some line. How low can the bar be set?

They really shouldn’t. It is a monument to man’s arrogance.

Absolutely fair response. I’m sorry that I came across as attacking your point. I just meant to provide another reason why the cameras shouldn’t be recommended, using the context of your quote from the article. I’m sorry that I wasn’t clear about that.

That’s great, right up until Ring unilaterally decides to give the police access to your videos without a warrant, or when the police use a warrant to grab video from ALL of your cameras, even if you’ve already complied with their request, and the video is not relevant to their investigation.