AnUnusualRelic

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Emergent pack behaviour, fascinating!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Finally a trickle down economy that works!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

It tends to be heavier than air, it will therefore accumulate in low places.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think the US evangelicals really qualify as christians. They've created their own thing based on the same symbology, and have kept some of the names, but it has very little in common.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago

Your gouvernement is largely made up of conspiracy podcasters, so that figures.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Also co2 is easier because you can fill a pit with it, nitrogen will just float about and disperse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Someone has been skipping leg day!

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

Preposterous! What can code run on if not a browser!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

My SO can identify all actors by voice (she follows all films by ear because she's playing some kind of Candy Crush game — several of them, because she runs out of levels). And as a lot of them are foreign, and dubbed, she'll tell me that this was the guy that was doing the voice in (litany of roles).

Of course I have to pick films accordingly. She's never seen Tenet.

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

Well, if there's a choice between learning something relatively tedious and completely useless, and something relatively tedious that's urgently needed... I know what I'm going to pick!

Oooh, an installation manual for a 1935 refrigerator!

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

Do you have any leftover screws?

 

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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