AnUnusualRelic

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[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Has he eaten anybody so far (that we know of)?

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

But tea isn't opaque...

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

How many times do we have to repeat that it's either one or the other.

Now in the cellar with you. A hot dominating lesbian will be there shortly.
Sorry? Why not? Oh. Ok. A bottle of water will be there shortly.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

americans go to another country to ‘expereince the culture’

Eeeehhhh... More or less.
Anyway you can't experience that much in the few days most US people have available. Remember that they have to go to London, Paris and possibly the Riviera, Rome, some place in Germany, and maybe two or three other places, all in the one or two weeks that they can spend in Europe before their boss requires their presence back behind their keyboard. It's a vacation of sorts, but it's also a game of tag.

Faced with so many changing vistas, they are bound to give up and enter a Mc D at some point. You would do the same, except that when you go abroad, you can just stay somewhere for a month and actually see a country if you like (assuming you can afford to, but then, visiting Belgium is fine too). So anyway, what I mean is that you have to account for the culture shock, which exists for them, although I'm not sure visiting a foreign Mc D will attenuate that. Because they are probably way more foreign than they'll likely expect.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Tumbler, twitter, they're all thingers, same difference.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Oh, right, we all saw that, of course.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Just use the kiddy distro. We don't have time for your questions! 🧐

Also there are probably thirty actual decent KDE distributions. OpenSuSE is one of the very old ones, there are many others.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not interested in it, because it was written for a console, Sony, I think, and will be ported to PC by AI (you know it's true) which means we'll get the usual port drama, only worse.

Anyway, it's like GTA5, the only difference is one digit, big deal. It's like those footy games…

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

For me, the problem with “Rocinante” is I don’t know how to pronounce it.

If you're using a European language, you're pronouncing it correctly, or close enough.

If your only contact with English is the written word, I guess it depends on what languages you're familiar with. If you're using AI / translation software, just ask it to read it to you. Maybe it'll get it right. Or not. Who can tell with those things.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world -1 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Technically, if you do that you'll be doing the same as a lot of locals. People love their "Mac Do" (for some reason).

Immerse yourself in the local culture (and have a beer at the local Mc D, assuming that's still a thing, I'm not really sure).

 

I was just watching "American Primeval", when it occurred to me (again) that the US was a place where oddball religions could prosper. Two recent successful examples of very weird ones being Mormons and Scientology (although the latter is a bit less successful lately).

Why is it that weird things catch on so readily in the US?

Of course, the "founders" were people that were kicked out of everywhere else because they were trying to convert them to their extremist religious views (and yet US people are fond of trying to find family ties to them... "hey, my great, great, great grand father was a religious lunatic! But yours wasn't")

So now, Mormons (Jews totally rowed to the US, for some reason, and then Jesus came there, and there were horses, and cities, and there's absolutely no archaeological trace, probably because god) have an astounding foothold despite their creed (I'm saying this because I have read the book of Mormon).

Then there's Scientology, and I don't even know where to begin with that one, given how fucked up it is... If you don't know about it, start with Wikipedia.

Also (probably not finally, there's certainly more) there's the innumerable bizarre Christianity stuff in the US. It's such a mess. I don't even think that most of the evangelical groups are technically Christians.

So apparently,, in the US, anything goes. The holy Flying Spaghetti Monster, blessed be it's meat balls, showed us that. But then what?

The problem with the typical US "let anyone do whatever" is that vulnerable get fleeced at best.

 

Plasma 6 changed the way scrollbars work for some reason. Now when you click somewhere with mouse1 the elevator jums there and the window content scrolls accordingly.

Previously, it would scroll by one window's worth in the appropriate direction. If you wanted to jump to a given location, you just used mouse2 (typically the scroll wheel button nowadays). It has worked that way everywhere for literally decades.

After reading the very weird explanation for the change, I can only conclude that the devs don't even know how to use their interface.

Hence my question, is there a setting somewhere to switch back to the traditional behaviour?

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