AnUnusualRelic

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

Most people aren't.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Oh right, he isn't. My bad. It would have been a better fit though.

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

Indecent proposal, more likely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

It's Skype Middle Earth Edition™.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

The russian kids yearn for the mines.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Is that fiction?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Same. It doesn't do crazy fancy things, and just works. But then I've long since given up on my phone doing any fancy things. I'm fine with it being boring. The only thing I want is folders on the main screen and a couple widgets.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

Is it a loophole for presidents too?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

The famous opium banking company. Which hasn't really gotten more reputable since...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't it a typo? Didn't they mean 80 hours per week?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Burritos should ride on the bus.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

It's a European drink, from the Valencia region of Spain. You might find it in Spanish restaurants or shops maybe.

 

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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