loaExMachina

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[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 hours ago

Aside from the very much sung "why didn't they use the time turner then", there's a bunch of "Why didn't they stop Voldemort then" that could be inserted at various points of the story; when you consider that:

1- Albus had a spy within the death eaters in the person if Severus Snape.

2- In "the Order of the Phoenix", while Voldy could take Albus 1 on 1, he retreated when more people arrived, implying they could gang up on him.

3- Sure they couldn't kill him without the horcruxes, but another important plot point is that they have a magical prison, staffed with creatures that absorb your life force. Sure, Azkaban seems like a joke considering the number of prisoners breaking out of it... But in the case of Sirius he could escape transformed as a dog because they didn't know he was an animagus and hadn't taken the relevant measures, and the rest were broken out from outside. Certainly, they could hold Voldy with the right measures. Albus was monitoring Voldemort and the death eaters activity the whole time. In the first book/movie, he even had him within his school, unknowingly sure, but he knew Voldemort was likely to try and get his hands on the philosopher's stone, and was just like "don't worry, it's well protected", not even trying to set up an ambush, or to pursue Voldemort once he knows he was there.

Whipping out the old classics, I see.

[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

The triangle's where it's really at ∇ . Hexagons fanboys are always saying "but what about benzene? Obviously only a superior shape must occur naturally like that!". But hear this, hexagooner: What about ozone? What about water? Also, don't you know we can make hexagons by grouping triangles ? Heck, you can make any polygon with enough triangles.The only question is why we'd ever want to do that if we already have triangles, because triangles are the best shape. Δ ∇ Δ ∇

[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh, this reminded me of a story from when I was active on some Facebook groups (somewhat nsfw so I'm putting it in spoilers, feel free to ignore)

TitleSo it was on one of the Neon Genesis Evangelion groups and someone had posted a pic of a figurine of Asuka with some orange goo on it. People asked, "what is it" and the man nonchalantly replied it was his cum, as if it was the most obvious thing. "But why is it orange?", the people asked. The poster of the image explained that some people had orange cum and that it was perfectly normal. His doctor had even told him it was "very strong cum", apparently.

[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Understandable, u and v are originally the same letter, so the words are really "vvvla" and "vvlva", just a small permutation...

Woman was already not fine, the first woman didn't want to be under Adam and demanded wings.

I tend to think of Valentine's day as the hum of a fridge: Easy to ignore until brought to my attention, and soon forgotten afterwards.

[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Isn't "thin blue line" one of these pro-cop phrases that resurfaced in reaction to BLM? If so, I think fascism might be a part of the problem.

[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not really, anecdotal evidence would be "I used to flush flushable wipes and my toiled got clogged". Which wouldn't be entirely worthless, but even assuming good faith it could have been a coincidence, so not worth a whole lot either.

Quoting a plumber, who'd be qualified on the subject, is an argument of authority. It's a bit more reliable as long as you recognize the authority of plumbers over all things plumbing. There's also room for error through misquoting, and of course like for all arguments, it could be a plain lie. But

  1. This statement seems simple enough to not be easily misquoted.
  2. The stakes of this conversation are pretty low, so unless we're dealing with a compulsive liar, there's not much point in lying.

I'd give this a solid 76% reliable. If I had some wipes I intended to flush, after reading that I'd probably look for more sources online to confirm before I do.

[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh wow, these are really getting better, I love that one!

 

 

I have several mailing accounts configured on Thunderbird, two of which no longer exist (from institutions of which I'm no longer a member). I don't wish to delete these, as they can still come handy when finding old messages or adresses of old contacts. I just edited the settings to stop fetching messages, but I still get notifications saying Thunderbird failed to connect to the server. It's a very minor inconvenience, but I'd rather Thunderbird not waste ressources trying to connect to them every time.

So, how's the standard way to deal with accounts that no longer exist but of which you'd rather keep the already existing mails and data?

 

I'm assuming this is in the scope of this community since Newgrounds was founded almost 30 years ago, tho I did notice posts here focus more on the small we than on bigger websites, so sorry if this post is perceived as inappropriate.

Newgrounds is a site for posting art, animations and games where I've had an account for a few years and I quite enjoy it. Since last year it's been becoming more pressing about asking for donations and morphing into a kind of "premium" model, where only donators get access to some stuff. I'm feeling a bit conflicted because I tend to shun sites with this model, but I also kinda understand that it might be necessary since hosting all that content probably costs a lot. But then again, it must have been costing a lot for a long time, and this comes up surrisingly close in time to the enshittification of Twitter and Reddit. Does anyone have any thoughts? Or maybe some more background knowledge about why Newgrounds has been making these decisions now in particular?

 

Few hips would be articulate enough to convey any precise message, which would be necessary to lie. Hers have the speed and precision required to formulate lies, in morse code for example.

 

Like, you can see a leaf on and think "wow, that's a beautiful leaf". You may even pick it up to admire it (especially if you're a child or a biologist). You wouldn't do that with a strand of human hair, a human nail clipping, or even less with the parts that aren't supposed to come off like hands or eyes.

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Init wars part 7 (sh.itjust.works)
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Hey, it's been a while.
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"You" can either mean the second person (Shakira in this case) or people in general.
Therefore, "I never really knew you could danc like this" can mean either "I didn't know you (Shakira) were able to dance like this." or "I didn't know it was humanly possible to dance like this". It is usually context that tells these interpretations apart, for example, the first one would only make sense if Wyclef already knows Shakira. But is Wyclef's character supposed to know Shakira's in the story of the song?

Two lines later, he asks her "Como te llamas?", which seems to imply that he doesn't. #However he later also says "Shakira, Shakira", even tho she hasn't answered yet, implying he did know her name. What gives?

I'm not sure either why he keeps saying "No fighting".

 

TL:DR : I just want xterm to not do anything special when I start typing ctrl+shift+u so I can write special character, so I must remove the ctrl+u default keybind.

I'm using xterm on a laptop (no discrete gpu and pretty bad integrated graphics, so gpu-accelerated ones like kitty are counterproductive, and I use i3 so an xorg based one sounds better). I also like using vim.

I'm also using a qwerty keyboard, but sometimes write in French and need accents. I've memorized the codes for those I often need, like ctrl+maj+u+e+9 for é, but it doesn't work in xterm because it executes the ctrl+u keybind (delete previous characters and then types "(" (because it's maj+9).

So, following online guides, I've created a .Xresource file with the following code:

XTerm.VT100.translations: #override \n\
   Ctrl <Key>U: none

And I also added the line

exec xrdb ~/.Xresources

But to no avail, even when restarting the x session or manualy running xrdb ~/.Xresources.

What am I doing wrong?

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Init wars part 5 (sh.itjust.works)
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Only one page this time, but the color is back... Sorta, I'm experimenting different methods.

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