mcc on Nostr: Lately when I use the Discord web app on Firefox on my Linux laptop, whenever text is ...
Lately when I use the Discord web app on Firefox on my Linux laptop, whenever text is italicized, the italicized text appears to be a single size level larger than any of the non-italicized text around it. And I'm thinking. The chances are really extremely high that this is somehow Donald Knuth's fault
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