AnUnusualRelic

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

From that Wikipedia article:

when pub owners in Bamber Bridge were told to segregate their facilities by the US military, they installed signs that read "Black Troops Only"

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago

That's pretty good, they're fairly small targets.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago

Well, with the tariffs and all, it adds up...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Amazing music choice. Very fitting. I wonder who came up with that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Drawback, you'll likely have to defrost those regularly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I still have a cool laptop (with Mandrake and kde) with 192 megs of memory somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Just turn the case around. Problem solved.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

"unexpected item in the tickle area"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But no pants is fine?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Which rulebook is that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The Big Big Enormous Globe?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Well, if you're going to start listing the US firms that helped Nazi Germany, we're going to be here all day.

 

I was just watching "American Primeval", when it occurred to me (again) that the US was a place where oddball religions could prosper. Two recent successful examples of very weird ones being Mormons and Scientology (although the latter is a bit less successful lately).

Why is it that weird things catch on so readily in the US?

Of course, the "founders" were people that were kicked out of everywhere else because they were trying to convert them to their extremist religious views (and yet US people are fond of trying to find family ties to them... "hey, my great, great, great grand father was a religious lunatic! But yours wasn't")

So now, Mormons (Jews totally rowed to the US, for some reason, and then Jesus came there, and there were horses, and cities, and there's absolutely no archaeological trace, probably because god) have an astounding foothold despite their creed (I'm saying this because I have read the book of Mormon).

Then there's Scientology, and I don't even know where to begin with that one, given how fucked up it is... If you don't know about it, start with Wikipedia.

Also (probably not finally, there's certainly more) there's the innumerable bizarre Christianity stuff in the US. It's such a mess. I don't even think that most of the evangelical groups are technically Christians.

So apparently,, in the US, anything goes. The holy Flying Spaghetti Monster, blessed be it's meat balls, showed us that. But then what?

The problem with the typical US "let anyone do whatever" is that vulnerable get fleeced at best.

 

Plasma 6 changed the way scrollbars work for some reason. Now when you click somewhere with mouse1 the elevator jums there and the window content scrolls accordingly.

Previously, it would scroll by one window's worth in the appropriate direction. If you wanted to jump to a given location, you just used mouse2 (typically the scroll wheel button nowadays). It has worked that way everywhere for literally decades.

After reading the very weird explanation for the change, I can only conclude that the devs don't even know how to use their interface.

Hence my question, is there a setting somewhere to switch back to the traditional behaviour?

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