# Don’t mind me

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**Created:** [March 15, 2021, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-mind-me/937905 "2021-03-15T01:14:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-mind-me/937905/10 "2021-03-18T00:23:58Z")

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I was all excited to learn that Markdown has an explicit image tag, since it meant I could embed LaTeX with an [online generator](https://latex.codecogs.com/eqneditor/editor.php) directly instead of with [extra hackery](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gravity-and-time-dilation/920109/7), but it was not to be. Discourse tells me that:

> Sorry, you can’t embed media items in a post.

That seems silly, since we can in fact embed media items. It’s just that we can only use the auto-embedding method (which can go wrong) instead of explicitly.

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