Malgas

The war on Christmas must not end until Christmas ends its illegal occupation of November.

I don’t want to diminish slavery in any way

Speaking of the ambiguity of language…

being unable to move the titlebar further up

I know KDE has an option to disable this behavior, though I forget what it’s called off the top of my head. Then it’s just a matter of grabbing the window with super+drag to put it wherever you want.

but it seems too good quality to be custom work and is definitely an official controller.

Custom official controllers are a thing.

Love Demetri Martin.

But the real story is weirder: the color is named after the fruit. Prior to the 16th century it was “yellow-red”.

Also carrots were not commonly orange when oranges arrived in Europe. The carrots we’re used to were hybridized from the earlier yellow, red, and purple varieties in the late 18th century.

When public officials tamper with elections, it’s election fraud.

Shit in, shit out. That’s AI.

“On two occasions I have been asked, – “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” … I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”

—Charles Babbage, on his analytical engine, 1864

Do you also believe that the Democratic Republic of North Korea is a democracy just because the name says so?

Technically, what he’s doing is election fraud.

Depends on the distro. Some have a configuration setting to allow unfree software or not, others have separate repos.

A similar argument is what finally caused the value of the vi family of editors to click in my brain:

They are designed to be fully functional over even the shittiest possible* remote connection. You can’t always count on ctrl, alt, or even the arrow keys being transmitted in a way that is understood by the remote machine.

*Well, I guess the worst possible terminal would be something like an actual teletype, and in that case you’d probably want to fall back to ed or its descendants. To save paper, if nothing else.

Gah, you’re right. I had it that way at first, but then glanced down a list to check my count and they listed 2002’s Harem Adventures as a separate game even though it’s just the Java phone port of the original.

I’d just like to point out, for the record, that that isn’t the original trilogy. Sands of Time is the fifth Prince of Persia game.

You say that as though he isn’t one of them.

Yeah I’ve definitely heard “up to [amount] or more” used in advertising. Which is just completely meaningless.

apropos is also helpful if you want to do something but don’t know what the relevant tools are.

Yeah, same tune, originally by Samuel Barber. Homeworld used the choral version, Agnus Dei.

No, it’s the national symbol of Ukraine.

Fascists love to try to co-opt national symbolism, and sometimes they succeed, but ceding ownership of a 1000 year old symbol (it was used as a seal in Kievan Rus) because some assholes adopted it in 1993 is just letting the fascists win.

One thing I always liked about slashdot is the ability to tag votes with things like “funny” or “informative”.

Indeed, friend citizen. Would you like some Bouncy Bubble Beverage?