The Naughty Corner [aka, OT innit].
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@potmeklecbohdan They don't kill them, they just "remove" them
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@npro Yeah, poor bugs! Who has ever asked anyone to remove them from their natural environment?
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@potmeklecbohdan Many users! :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_cold_sweat:
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@Gwen-Dragon And there is a conspiracy theory about the fact the naughty patriarchy removed a w from the original Wow!-Man :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_closed_eyes:
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@Gwen-Dragon That's actually the opposite, shorter and high-pitched sounds contract the muscles faster and better for passive protection and strength accumulation, have you ever listened to Bruce Lee in his martial art films?
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Sad news. Save platypuses!
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Thanks to those who kindly posted illuminating responses to my query re V variant for daily default. It's always good to learn others' methods, attitudes & values IMO, so i appreciate it.
I was going to post a snide remark about the phrase...
@npro said in The Naughty Corner [aka, OT innit].:
Bruce Lee in his martial art films
...containing two entirely tautological words, but my official Addiction Recovery Therapist staunchly advised me not to go online at all today, lest i risk a total psychotic break. Honestly, i think she tends to overreact terrib...
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@hlehyaric Yes, this is...
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...unambiguously despicable, ditto our rapid annihilation of our koalas. Our contemptible record as world leader in mammalian extinction rates, & stellar performance also in reptile & invertebrate extinctions, leaves me in despair. We have a expletive expletive expletive^42 federal misgovernment full of flat-earth religious anti-science global-heating-emergency-denying racist xenophobic misogynistic old-boys-club big-end-of-town @rseholes, who on one hand pretend they're none of those things whilst actively doing all those things, & on the other hand ... nope, there is no other hand, they're simply malfeasantly myopically moronically mendaciously malicious. Some of them have the gall even to publicly describe some of our native fauna [koalas, in this case] as "tree rats" & actively advocate for farmers to have the legal right to exterminate them! Most of the others however are more cunning in their ghastliness; they publicly mouth platitudes about how important our fauna are, whilst all the time allowing all their native habitats to be destroyed in their insane desire to leave Straya denuded of all our old-growth forests [temperate & rainforests] in the banal cry of "Jobs jobs jobs" justifying ever more coal mines, CSG fracking, & wood-chipping in total denial of the palpably dire economic & ecological facts against them. The more enlightened parts of the world are finally moving forward on decarbonising their economies [needs to be much faster though], whilst our idiots here still hanker for a fossil fool fantasy... & for waaaaaaaaaaaaay too many of the past decades the reality-tv brain-dead electorate keeps paying no attention & just voting them back in.
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Unfortunately, we have all morons in governments. Here, it's all about so-called green policies. So we have many nuclear power plants, but it's fine. They are environmentally-friendly. No CO2 emissions. But nuclear waste. We don't know what to do with nuclear waste (highly polluting & dangerous material). Who cares? Let's build new ones, it's good for jobs & economy (= good for shareholders). Worst of all, a former French president said during the 2012 presidential campaign «Nuclear power is French energy independence». How? When? We don't have any uranium mines, we import uranium from Niger (a former French colony in Africa…). Obviously none of the most frantic partisans of nuclear power has ever offered to bury nuclear waste in their garden. It's far better to bury that elsewhere. Btw, windmills? No thank you. Not sustainable and it spoils landscape…Aaaarrrggghhh…
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@Ornorm said in New to Vivaldi-Is there an "automatic" translate feature?:
First tip before posting, please use Search and you'll be amazed
This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheeps' bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.
@Ornorm said in New to Vivaldi-Is there an "automatic" translate feature?:
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Oh be still, my beating heart! Did you do this as a secret gift to me? Haha.
@Ornorm said in New to Vivaldi-Is there an "automatic" translate feature?:
I hope this helps.
It sure helped me, anyway.
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@Steffie Reported (offensive irony about hidden irony).
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@hlehyaric Nope, it might change anytime
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I dunno -- it just feels to me like we draw ever closer to the future predicted by Douglas Adams... here's one more step:
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“Modern elevators are strange and complex entities. The ancient electric winch and “maximum-capacity-eight-persons" jobs bear as much relation to a Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Happy Vertical People Transporter as a packet of mixed nuts does to the entire west wing of the Sirian State Mental Hospital.
This is because they operate on the curious principle of “defocused temporal perception.” In other words they have the capacity to see dimly into the immediate future, which enables the elevator to be on the right floor to pick you up even before you knew you wanted it, thus eliminating all the tedious chatting, relaxing and making friends that people were previously forced to do while waiting for elevators.
Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented briefly with the notion of going sideways, as a sort of existential protest, demanded participation in the decision-making process and finally took to squatting in basements sulking.
An impoverished hitchhiker visiting any planets in the Sirius star system these days can pick up easy money working as a counsellor for neurotic elevators.”Once the elevator evolution is complete, maybe in another few decades we'll begin to see other projected developments, like the advent of the shoe-based economy, & if so, we already know where that ends up.
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@Steffie Those new elevators are very impressive. Progress can't be stopped .
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For once, I read something funny, quite interesting and so true on airliners forum (scroll to post#40).
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@Steffie I'm wondering how long it will take the hackers to change my Bach to some headbanging stuff?
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@Steffie, some companies have better methods of motivating employees
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@hlehyaric Nice! Any day that some random stranger alludes to the Total Perspective Vortex, is a pretty good day IMO.
@greybeard said in The Naughty Corner [aka, OT innit].:
change my Bach to some headbanging stuff
You worry that its byte might be worse than its Bach?
@Catweazle said in The Naughty Corner [aka, OT innit].:
motivating employees
OMZ that's horrific! I'd need to quickly get to a bathroom after that.