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My hope is that the GOP loses this election as the country's changing demographics catches up to it. Then they fade away to irrelevance, like the GOP in California. (They haven't won a state-wide office in years.)

So taking away those books is supposed to stop all kids from turning gay?
Why haven't all the thousands of straight character books turned gay kids straight?

Enough of this stupidity.

'Wish I could upvote a second time for great use of the term "event horizon"!

Why are the pyramids in Egypt?

Because they were too heavy for the British to steal.

Thanks for the reply. That symbol isn't showing (or customizable apparently) on Mac Firefox, but...
TIL that the keystroke Command-Alt-R will display a page in reader mode. Cool.

Ubuntu has good documentation.

I remember reading mode on Reddit, but with Lemmy how do I use reading mode?

Action Park

"Many of its attractions were unique, attracting thrill-seekers from across the New York metropolitan area. While extremely popular, Action Park had a reputation for poorly designed rides, undertrained and underaged staff, intoxicated guests and staff, and a consequently poor safety record"

soft paywall

"If we live in a computer simulation, it needs better writers."

Many of us fret he won't.

“Listen,” said Ford, who was still engrossed in the sales brochure, “they make a big thing of the ship's cybernetics. A new generation of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation robots and computers, with the new GPP feature.”

“GPP feature?” said Arthur. “What's that?”

“Oh, it says Genuine People Personalities.”

“Oh,” said Arthur, “sounds ghastly.”

A voice behind them said, “It is.” The voice was low and hopeless and accompanied by a slight clanking sound. They spun round and saw an abject steel man standing hunched in the doorway.

“What?” they said.

“Ghastly,” continued Marvin, “it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Look at this door,” he said, stepping through it. The irony circuits cut into his voice modulator as he mimicked the style of the sales brochure. “All the doors in this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.”

As the door closed behind them it became apparent that it did indeed have a satisfied sigh-like quality to it. “Hummmmmmmyummmmmmm ah!” it said.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

via: http://technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=135

In all fairness, VSCode is awesome. And I used to be ABM (Anything But Microsoft).

Story time! Details please!

Yes, and oddly specific.

Once in Southern California I experienced such thunder. It was an entirely different kind of experience from the normal rumbling, with the occasionally near strike. Even the lightning strikes that were pretty far away had the same hard sound. That was the first time that lightning actually frightened me.

Yeah, and this time they should take their share of the national debt.

Yes, sadly there's more money to be made from violence. Politicians can rake in political donations from fear, get lobbyist support (bribery) from arms manufacturers and watch your stock portfolio swell from voting for gun ownership and war. How do we stop this madness?

"Vilifying Climate Protesters" is a common occurrence on 9GAG.

I've found off-brand bags on ebay, I believe Amazon has them also (but I seriously avoid buying anything there).

HEPA filters remove very fine particles from the outgoing air. Our White Star model has such a filter, which is easy to replace and seems to make a significant difference.

Our previous vacuum would pick up most of the dirt but also threw a lot of dust into the air. This Miele White Star doesn't do that.

PS: I'm in the US, so your results might vary. Tschüs!