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a long time ago, i fell in love with the internet because it was a refuge from the bullshit i had to put up with in real life. a place mostly populated by intelligent college educated people with norms of rational discourse and civility (which were still transgressed plenty often, there were still t...

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speising wrote:And then there are configurations with more than one monitor and you don't have a "border" or "corner" to bump your cursor on there.

You still have borders and corners of the overall desktop shape, even if it's spread across several monitors.

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Per Fitt's Law, menus (or anything to be clicked really) directly under your mouse (contextual ['right-click'] menus, gimp menus, etc) are objectively the best. Menus in the corners of the screen are next-best, and menus on the edges of the screen (like a top-of-screen menubar as in Mac OS) are next...

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Interesting. I would think they could have more elegantly solved the split-vote problem by reducing the ballot to a single option, the direct mandate candidate, and then inferring what would have been the second option, the party, from the direct mandate candidate's party. This kind of mixed represe...

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Moreover, asking someone "Are you sure?" isn't ignoring their advice.

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I'd expect R1 to come before IV, since that's where it's set chronologically and, unlike II and III, it doesn't really serve as a flashback of anything between V and VI. Kinda weird to start a series off with characters you're never going to see again, though.

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It would probably be good to remember that republican states are typically large producers, whereas democratic cities are huge consumers. Really? Wyoming produces more than California? California is the leading producer of all sorts of agricultural products, in addition to entertainment, technology...

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DC is not technically a state, but other than that and the e.g. lack of representation it entails, it's basically a state, in that it's a reasonably-sized part of continental United States territory where people live and isn't part of another state and has a name and all of that. And Indiana could b...

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I definitely saw McIntosh and Golden Delicious mentioned too.

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Yeah I guess the whistles that I was mimicking from the parrots were probably them mimicking human whistles they had learned elsewhere. Whistling doesn't seem to be their native mode of vocalization, which is more of a creaking sound (that I can also mimic, but only while inhaling, oddly).

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Is there a name for the two-tone whistle that's opposite the order of the wolf whistle? Someone earlier transcribed the wolf whistle as "whit-woo"; I'm wondering what you call the whistle that'd be "woo-whit", like to call someone's attention. I found a super short (0:09) YouTube...

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I was hoping the joke here would be something like a spectrum from Red Delicious through Golden Delicious through Green Delicious, then like Cyan Delicious and Blue Delicious and I dunno maybe an Indigo or Violet Delicious depending on what spectrum terminology you really want to use. Possibly with ...

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Given a VM capable of running another VM inside of it, there are likely a nearly-infinite stack of nested VMs, and thus the odds that our supposed "real" hardware is actually just another VM approach unity.

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Nothing in that website or in your earlier disagreement with Monika was about just feminism, though, which was the narrowness of the definition doogly and I were talking about. It is about related topics though; that site seems to use it to mean specifically avoiding letting marginalized people spe...

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Derail I have never seen reserved in the way you describe. This is not a strong rebuttal, but the first non-dictionary result I get on Google for "derail" is this site which seems to be at least in the ballpark of what I'm thinking of. FWIW I think it was Monika who objected to my use of ...

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This reminds me of a meaning-shift of "derail" that someone on this very forum first illustrated for me. In older internet usage, it meant to change the subject of any conversation away from whatever it was about before to anything else. But apparently now it means "to avoid talking a...

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ps.02 wrote:(Is it fair if, in return, I choose to assume that the US east and west coasts can pretty much be summed up as NYC, LA and Portland?)

Yeah that's about right except what's a Portland? Do we have a third coast somewhere I didn't know about?

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https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/terminology.png And it's even worse on the west coast, where "the midwest" is slightly to the east, "the west" is even further to the east, and "the middle east" is somewhat further west of "the east" which, as you've noted, is to...

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Not sure who "us" is for you, but for me it's California. Scotland is cool, I wouldn't mind hanging out with them over at Hawaii's place.

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Maybe California and Scotland can go off into an ocean somewhere and hang out together.

Hawaii can come too.

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In some parts of southern California, the US-101 Northbound freeway will see you driving into the sunset, and the Southbound likewise into the sunrise.

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There was a period of my life where I had recurring dreams of a (better) alternate life in which my only real problem was suffering from recurring nightmares that were of my real life.

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Label every box after some niche genre of porn, and keep a translation key for yourself, e.g. fisting = dishes, double penetration = linens, etc.

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As I said in an earlier thread: you don't personally have to want to gas the Jews to make voting for Hitler a black mark on your character. It's bad enough that you find his desire to do so not terrible enough to oppose him.

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Alice and Bob are nominally friends. Alice is always a super nice person who doesn't do anything to attack or hurt people. Bob thus far hasn't really done much of exceptional note against Alice, so Alice, nice person that she is, is friendly with Bob. Then one day Bob reveals himself to be a jackass...

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One thing I've noticed about myself is that I'm more likely to run up stairs than to run on the level. I've no idea why I do this. I've noticed that I tend to walk harder or sometimes run uphill than downhill. I think it's because I'm expending effort to counter the direction the hill wants to push...

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My dad has been building One Conspiracy Theory To Rule Them All since he got internet access a half dozen years ago. It started with 9/11 Trutherism. 9/11 was an inside job. Then he read about some kind of convention that happened just before 9/11, where a bunch of supposedly authoritative people ca...

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Exactly. She knows what her reasons are. Pfhorrest is accurately reporting what her reasons are. Stop trying to insist you know the "true heart" of a woman you've never met better than she and her actual family do, especially when you're doing it because it paints an embarassing picture. ...

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I feel sad. Bad things are happening. If I were a better person bad things wouldn't be happening to me. A good person could deal with these things and make them not bad, or else not perceive these things as bad because they really aren't, I just wrongly think they are. I am a monster.

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If you were treating them as a rational moral agent, you'd be taking their self-stated desires (getting rid of Muslims/Mexicans/etc.) seriously and engaging them on those terms. I was assuming their stated reasons for wanting to "get getting rid of Muslims/Mexicans/et" would have some fac...

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I sometimes like to say "tech support hates me". Not because I'm a difficult clueless moron customer who can't follow their directions, but because by the time I'm calling tech support, I've already gone through all the things they would normally walk customers through to try to fix it, an...

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You did read the part about "Hillary is literally a Satan-worshiping Illuminati", right? That is the crazy part. If she had some kind of actual reason that she thought outweighed the threat to her survival, that's something I could just agree to disagree. But when I raised that concern, sh...

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a bunch of idiots voting against their own best interests out of some kind of confused stupor The mistake you make here is that you are defining someone else's "own best interests" for them. I gave a specific, very personal example of that. My mother is disabled and survives entirely off ...

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A defense treaty with our neighbour to the north would help. I kinda don't think Oregon's going to bring much defense to the table, especially if they're still part of the USA themselves. ;) I think leaving in a peaceful manner could work, like what gets proposed in the U.K. with its countries. It ...

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From my perspective (a left-wing European) it appears that many Americans want the freedom to impinge on the rights of others. To me that doesn't appear to be freedom as it restricts one, or, usually, more people to increase the benefit to another, so is, in fact, a reduction in freedom. If everyon...

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I'm just saying. If this is your method of coming to terms with yesterday's outcome, then all the more power to you. But just know--it ain't gonna happen. Period. I didn't bring the topic up, I was just commenting on the ongoing conversation about it. I did conclude by saying that California leavin...

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And now that I've compared Trump to Hitler a couple of times, I want to share some thoughts slightly in the other direction. Earlier tonight I read this list of things Trump plans to do in his first 100 days , and aside from a few things that I already knew and still find as inexcusable as ever (his...

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I've never been one to call anyone who supports Trump a racist/misogynist/etc. No, you haven't, which is why I haven' taken issue with anything you've written, as far as I can recall. Sorry, I didn't mean that to be something personal about you and me. What I meant was: as someone who harbors stron...

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Merry Pizzamas?

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Today, my hope is that some people will come to realize that they have slandered those who conditionally supported Donald Trump. I don't expect him to Make America Great , but I do expect him to Probably Not Make America The Hunger Games . I've never been one to call anyone who supports Trump a rac...

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