AnUnusualRelic

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[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Not his first one judging from the water.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Face cream? In the bath? Get out of here!

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago

There's even some space left for a little jar of marmite!

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

And it's been used pretty much forever... in pottery, in garments... Charlemagne had an asbestos shirt he'd throw in the fire to clean stains off in order to amaze his visitors.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

IPv6 is the natural Internet. Things are either allowed or forbidden to connect.
NAT is just a kludge.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

I think it's just a few domestic US ISPs. The rest of the world has been happily using it for quite some time.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 15 points 16 hours ago

Obviously. You can only access it in IPv10.

On the other hand, they got plenty of exercise and were in a splendid shape.

With stick insects, the eggs are very diagnostic

Insectology is a weird field...

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Most sugar is made from beets nowadays in Europe.

I had somewhat similar problems which were solved by learning how to cook (I went to a cooking school, although I didn't bother with the professional exam, so I can't actually open a restaurant, I later did the same for baking) and by getting technical manuals. I can't really suggest titles though unless you're fluent in French.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Duplo is lego though.

 

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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