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  • Absolute truth must exist, because if it doesn't, "there is no absolute truth" is absolutely true, which is a contradiction.

  • Tha mi an dòchas nach coinnich thu ris a’ Ghàidhlig

  • The uBlacklist extension brings it back

  • We can also do 2+90 here in the UK. There's a nursery rhyme about "four and twenty blackbirds" that I think the kids are still learning.

  • I have no idea who all you deranged people are who actually like the POV navigation

    I use both POV and up=north depending on my use case. For some routes where I don't care about the details of the route I find it useful to have the POV view with what I need now zoomed in and correctly oriented and what I'll need soon still visible and smaller but still distinguishable.

    The problem with up=north is that when you've zoomed right in to see the detail, all the wider view stuff is missing, especially when out of built-up zones. It'd be better if the detail level would be replaced/augmented with a detail density setting, so that when you're out in the sticks with only you, a small single track road with grass down the middle and one sheep visible all the way up to the horizon in any direction that you don't have to zoom right in to the individual blades of grass before you see the road you're on.

    Other times I do care about the route, and in those cases I'll use up=north and manual zoom as needed. I still get caught out though when travelling south and the arrow pointing left means I need to turn right.

    When I first saw POV I thought it was a stupid gimmick. But then I tried it out and really liked it, but not always.

  • My bishops cast "River of Salmon", which causes the bears to do nothing but eat and sleep for the rest of the game, while my knights cry out "Ni!" and distract the black queen with a shrubbery. The rest of the game is plain sailing.

  • Chrome is no longer available in my Start menu.

  • Best power yours off solar then, cos everything else is generators.

  • Your requirements appear to be contradictory. You want to kill it, i.e. not see it any more, and you want to stop moderating it, but you don't want anyone else to moderate it.

    So stop moderating it, and block it. It's not up to you to tell 200,000 people that they can't continue to have a community; doing so makes you appear to be acting as some kind of landed gentry. Just walk away and don't look back.

  • Yes you're right. Church activities have a lot in common with hobbies and clubs, and church folk criticise me for saying that. Any time people get together for shared activities will exhibit a lot of commonality.

  • There is plenty of science with a non-reproducible basis. Richard Dawkins has gone as far to say that evolution is fact. And yet we have never observed one species changing into another - sure, the headlines say we have, but when you drill right down into the source material the best you can find is "these creatures do not normally reproduce with each other". Note the wording: "do not normally". Not "cannot", which is what the headline fundamentally requires in order to be truly accurate.

  • No thanks. I switched to automatic shortly after I moved to Reading where I found in all the stop start traffic I was constantly dancing the clutch fandango and heading for having a left leg like a tree trunk.

  • I hacked the Super Shotgun in Quake II to autorepeat quickly and take clips up to 999 large instead of 20 at a time.

    Gibs the Makron in about five seconds. (No not that French geezer.)

    Edit: oh yeah, I did the same with the rocket launcher too. I'm not sure which of those two is my favourite.

  • Math are hard but maths is harder. American math is 20% easier than English maths. And yes I have seen that "[UK flag] English (Traditional); [US flag] English (Simplified)" gag.

  • I did a bit of maths at school and I know 218>215, and 53>47.

    That is what I call a minority in both places. If all D get together and say "no", and all R get together and say "yes", then where a simple majority is required it'll be an R victory. Any D victory will need some Rs to either swing (and likely get fired), or abstain. Of course if a 2/3 majority is needed for something then R will need some D support to get it through.

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  • Do people still use google? I haven't touched it for yonks now. Except GRIS, that still works well.

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  • Software engineer in the UK, currently 9 months into making a big fat zero cos nobody's recruiting, and those that are have stupidly inaccessible offices in city centres.

  • To be fair to them though, they did just get comprehensively voted out from everywhere. They don't have a single majority to make any difference to anything. If I were them I'd be sitting back with a large bowl of popcorn going "yal'l voted for this, or at least didn't vote against it, hope you enjoy getting the full force of this orange idiot right in the face". But from the headlines I've read it would appear they've had a few things to say about Fart's latest hot smelly air.

  • Can't a 3D printer double as a 2D printer? It'd only have to print one "slice"; you'd replace the heated nozzle with some sort of writing stick, hey presto instant plotter!

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