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[–] grue@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I have a similar issue (also Firefox on [K]ubuntu 22.04) every time I open a link on a logged-in site in a new tab, but in my case merely refreshing the page is enough to get me logged back in.

I assume is most likely the fault of the fairly aggressive mix of extensions I'm running rather than Firefox itself, but I haven't actually tried to troubleshoot it yet.

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The name of that island is "South Georgia," not just "Georgia."

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

Nah, exactly 50% "of the world" is closer to Georgia than Georgia because the dividing line forms two perfect hemispheres. It just doesn't seem like it because more of the world's land area is closer to Georgia.

The fact that the map fails to color in the oceans doesn't help, of course.

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Shit got weird with the “hanging chads” but we moved on fairly well.

That's an understatement! People think that Jan 6 was the only coup attempt in the United States since the Business Plot in 1933, but nope: not only should the Brooks Brothers riot count as a coup attempt, it was a successful one!

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pro tip: the arguments to main() don't have to be named argc and argv.

Also, you forgot to #define an alias for atoi, and number, n, and i could've been named something more on fleek.

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

"Reduce, reuse, recycle" is listed in order from best option to worst. Bandit has improved the outcome by reusing instead of allowing you to recycle.

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

bicycles won't solve the climate crisis

Not with that attitude!

More specifically, not with that disingenuous attitude that implies giving folks bicycles and changing nothing else, trying to shame them into using a mode that's worse for them in order to altruistically help everybody else. Of-fucking-course that's never gonna work!

Instead, what actually has to change is the zoning laws that shape the built environment the bicycles are operate in. We have to stop limiting density and mandating parking requirements, which not only physically force destinations farther apart (putting fewer within walking or biking distance) and cause the space between to be filled with car-infested asphalt (making walking and biking unpleasant), but also subsidize driving by forcing an oversupply of parking, driving down the price.

Removing the regulations and allowing developers to build as compactly as the market would dictate would cause people to freely choose bicycling because it would become more convenient than driving, and that is what would help solve the climate crisis!

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

LOL, my faith snapped the better part of a decade ago.

At this point, I've realized that they're deliberately exploiting the charitable attitudes of people like you in order to troll us.

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Guliani turned into Ghouliani only because of greed and dementia.

This incorrectly implies he wasn't already a ghoul even back when he had all his faculties.

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Look up "Topsy the elephant" (among other things).

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The folks responsible for the sexy costumes, Roddenberry and Theiss, died in 1991 and 1992, respectively.

See also: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheissTitillationTheory

The sexiness of an outfit is directly proportional to the perceived possibility that a vital piece of it might fall off.

This basic theory underwrites Stripperiffic clothing, Impossibly Cool Clothes, and pretty much anything else you stick characters into: what makes clothing sexy is the potential for a catastrophic Wardrobe Malfunction. The Trope Namer is William Ware Theiss, costume designer on Star Trek: The Original Series, who first codified the concept.

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Though Theiss was a costume designer, according to Inside Star Trek: The Real Story by Herb Solow and Robert Justman, most of the costumes — following this theory — were actually somewhat more modest before being "improved" by Gene Roddenberry.

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

That's the thing that annoys me most about Duolingo: if they're going to show you ads, the least they could do is show you ones in the language you're trying to learn instead of your native one.

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