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In countries where the usual punishment for such crimes is a lengthy term of imprisonment, the operating theory that justifies that cruel punishment is that it will prevent more crimes being committed — both by the imprisoned, who is kept safely away from people we care about, and by the victims who might otherwise take matters into their own hands and start an eternal murderous blood feud if their urge for revenge isn’t satisfied by the courts. Such arguments start to look increasingly indefensible in any case, no matter how heinous was the crime, as the decades go by without such events.

“Here’s a link, kid. Go read a book.”

In earlier days of computing people first became accustomed to computers “executing” the “instructions” they’d been programmed with. By the time anything resembling today’s software executables came along that was the established word for the thing computers did.

It’s hard to guess why you’re dissatisfied with blahaj.zone. Far as I know it still has a good reputation.

There’s a French community or two hanging in there, and I sometimes see German or Greek. Surprisingly little Russian or Japanese compared to the rest of what I see of fedi, but I don’t think it’s got anything to do with people being “accepting” of other languages or cultures — it’s just a matter of people who want to use them reaching some kind of critical mass.

Most of the “microblog” posts I’m seeing are pretty short. I seem to remember the images being way too big, though. I made a custom ublock rule or something to make both the lemmy ones and them equally small thumbnails just big enough to decide if I want to load a full-sized one. It’s kept working for a year or something, I had forgotten it was there, but I guess it helps even more now.

Edit: Ah, found it. It’s a firefox/librewolf userContent.css thing. Maybe something similar could be an mbin user configurable option some day.

@-moz-document domain("fedia.io") {
    .figure-thumb { max-height:90px !important; max-width:160px !important; overflow: hidden; }
    .view-compact .entry figure { height:90px !important; width: 160px !important} 
}

I like it. Always wondered why it wasn’t like that from the start.

https://fedia.io/threads should do it.

“Conservative” seems to have changed its meaning at least twice in my lifetime, but I guess the essential “the people currently in power should continue to rule the world as they please” idea remains constant even when their rhetoric superficially seems to contradict it.

No. 2, which the Internet tells me is 6.4 mm. It then grows longer, but a fresh haircut is the only time I think about it and it feels great.

Nespresso pods.

“It doesn’t teach the basic number facts, only to count faster,” says someone as quoted prominently on wikipedia.

I suppose it can be fast, but the main use I’ve got out of it over the years is to count automatically using only my fingers while my brain is busy doing other things.

In some web browsers, a mouse click gives the site permission to do things like open pop-up windows and play videos.

But it’s still probably more often about collecting data to add to your profile, recording which topics interested you sufficiently to get you to click the button.

If whichever nation gives it a try next bucks the trend and learns from the mistakes of the past instead of doggedly repeating them, it could go well for them.

I check in on hbomberguy’s channel once in a while hoping that some day we might learn whether he’s retired, or whether he’s just taking his time making a 14-hour video about the history of the smiley face.

No. This place is for serious discussion of facts and ideas only. Everybody stop having fun and being friendly.

The thing they used to show kids to try and get us interested in computer programming back when I was in school about a hundred years ago was called Logo. Apparently there’s now an online version called LYNX which might be worth a look.

According to my browser history:

• Music of Cowboy Bebop
• Folk high school
• The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
• Build Canada Homes
• Hominidae
• A Coney Island of the Mind
• American Chestnut
• Les Nessman

It’s not the same thing as slavery I think. But it’s in the same moral category as slavery. It would be impossible for me to participate in such a thing in any way.

Dubstep. Like, the kind that was super popular in 2010. It’ll probably be another 15 or 20 years before it’s sufficiently forgotten that the kids can properly rediscover it.