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Comment Re:Translation joke for Japanese (Score 1) 50

Wouldn't call this bloat. More of a bug that is unreported: I seem to be the only one experiencing it! This has been happening to me for at least six months. I probably should run it under X11 for a few weeks and see if that behaves better. I suspect it will somehow.

I stick with Firefox because of uBlock origin, and also because I can still manage to force the UI with CSS to look somewhat closer to the way I want it to.

Comment Re:that's what happens (Score 1) 60

No it is off topic. Not sure why what happened in 1979 to a different aircraft applies to this incident.

The preliminary reports coming out now don't support your assertions at all, particularly the bit about retracting the the slats stalling the wing. The plane did not climb because ultimately 2 of the 3 engines failed.

Comment Re:Translation joke for Japanese (Score 1) 50

Firefox does not competely freeze for me but it does very frequently start to get laggy and consume 100% CPU. Even with just a couple of tabs. I have to restart Firefox pretty much every day. I've gone into the CPU profiler and it seems to be something in the glib event loop that is spinning. I'm also wondering if the Wayland back end is part of it.

Comment Re: It's in the effort. (Score 3, Insightful) 60

Hahaha, what?

You say the pilot in control should have intentionally sheered off the wings (FULL OF JET FUEL) off during a dual-engine failure? You obviously have no idea about planes.

There is nothing that could have been done. They were past V1. There was no arrester pit at the end of the runway (which wouldn't have done much). We're talking about a vehicle loaded with 10,000s of lbs of fuel. Sheering the wings off would have spread chaos and destruction.

There is nothing that could have been done.

Comment Re: It's one reason Trump's leaning into redistric (Score 2) 92

They don't have to actually secure anything, though. All they have to do is stand around and look intimidating. And maybe arrest the occasional voter and demand proof of citizenship. Make you feel like a criminal when you dare to vote. These deployments are not about security. They are about reminding people who's in charge and discouraging voting among certain demographics.

Meanwhile I feel really bad for the national guard troops. Many of them know they are being deployed dishonestly. They are being taken away from their jobs and their families half way across the country to do nothing of any real value to the country. I've read the morale of deployed members in the DC area is very low.

Comment Re:Fire code violation (Score 0) 183

Also (outside of California) wrongful imprisonment is a legal justification for the use of deadly force.

But California is intentionally destroying their former high-trust society as a pretext for totalitarianism, so ... whatever ... get out like everyone else with a brain.

Not too long ago U-Haul was offering free one-way hauls TO California because the escape rate was so lopsided.

Comment Unlawful detainment (Score 1) 183

If a store does this and they give you any guff at all about being let out you pull out your phone, call 911 and report a kidnapping in progress. Because that's what it is. The store's within it's rights to deny you entrance, but to deny you exit they have to have reason to believe you've broken the law in some way. You haven't. Their policy isn't the law. Let the authorities explain this to them.

Comment Re:Satanic Panic all over again + Fake Culture War (Score -1, Troll) 42

Honestly the issue with the story is Ken Paxton, he literally has negative credibility. I know virtually nothing about Roblox or this case, but if Paxton is the first AG to pursue it my automatic assumption is he's prosecuting them because they either failed to give him a bribe or he thought they were helping Democrats register to vote or something.

Comment Re:Idiocracy feels more like the current society (Score 1) 108

Trump was not elected by the majority of Americans. He won at most 50% of the vote. Turnout was 63% of registered voters. And registered voters is approximately 75% of eligible US citizens. All told that means at most 25% of Americans voted for him. That's still shocking of course. But now you can see why the GOP is all about making voting as difficult as possible so that a mere 25% of the country can continue to force their will on the rest.

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