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The manual has a diagram of a FET (field-effect transistor) with the source, gate, and drain. Someone wrote on the diagram: Nixon FET. Economic Drain. Water Gate, Unimpeachable Source.

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For those for whom those references are a bit before their time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal

I was born in 94 and don't live in the US.

References to Watergate are ubiquitous (especially thanks to the angle journalists like to take on the current US president) and it was probably mentioned in history classes in school too at some point. I know it's supposed to be part of the curriculum in history classes in some German-speaking countries.

Granted it might not be familiar to someone from a non-western country though.

He's tanned, rested, and ready [1], and now available in convenient PEZ dispenser form factor [2].

"I'll give you my Millard Fillmore PEZ Dispenser when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!" [3]

[1] https://louisianavoice.com/2015/07/02/taking-a-break-to-addr...

[2] https://www.momopez.com/dispenser-detail.asp?ID=7583

[3] https://www.momopez.com/dispenser-detail.asp?ID=5954

Thank you, very valuable comment.

Yes, it is. Not everyone can see well enough to read text in images. For those who have that difficulty, describing the content of an image enables enjoyment of a joke that would otherwise be inaccessible.

Many people may not be aware that Twitter allows you to put alt text on an image so people using assistive technologies can get a description of the image. I encourage people to use this feature.

It's too bad their implementation of the feature is so poor [1], requiring it to be first enabled via accessibility settings [2] that most Twitter users probably never look at.

[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jbigham/pubs/pdfs/2019/twitter-alt-t...)

[2] https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/picture-descriptio...

Meanwhile, Mastodon has it right in front with OCR built in. Someone often comes along to reply with a description if you don't/aren't able to do one.

Yep. I was going to take a potshot at Twitter about how they must be feeling some competitive pressure from Mastodon if they need to rip off features, but it looks like Twitter has actually had this feature since some time in 2016, and I'm not sure when Mastodon added it.

Either way, anything that makes Twitter a little less awful is nice to see.

> but it looks like Twitter has actually had this feature since some time in 2016, and I'm not sure when Mastodon added it.

Mastodon started in 2016, so it was a bit early. It added this feature in 2017: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/commit/4ec1771165ab8dd...

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