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Very counterintuitive, but if you click on the customizer (to the right of messages) and move the slider for "larger font size" it actually shrinks the size back to what it used to be. H/t @Ethan Hunt who apparently found out from @cookie
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Good chance y'all have figured this out already but in case anyone hasn't - the page numbers are still there, just the same colour as the background. Highlight to see them. Bit of a pain in the ass but better than nothing.
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So. Over in other thread, someone predicted Giuliani is toast. Call me a cynic but I don't think so? Like, maybe he'll be toast after the election (god willing), but I can't see Trump dumping him over this. That said, definitely not going to help his credibility with regards to the Biden stuff. Not that he had much to begin with of course.
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The OFFICIAL BOT Top 100 Foreign Films of all Time Ever List Begins...
Jason replied to chasmmi's topic in The Speakeasy
My only other idea is to save the video as an mp4, then upload to youtube or something. -
The OFFICIAL BOT Top 100 Foreign Films of all Time Ever List Begins...
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Test: @chasmmi Can confirm this video is very resistant to being embedded here, -
I'm down for this!
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BOT's Top 50 Historical Fiction Films - The Countdown
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BOT's Top 50 Historical Fiction Films - The Countdown
Jason replied to The Panda's topic in The Speakeasy
False friends between German and English are a lot of fun because of the shared Germanic roots. My favourite is "gift", originally meaning "that which is given", taking only a positive sense in English, but the negative sense in German so that German Gift means "poison" in English. But in this case I'm pretty sure Coolio is just joking. The context makes it abundantly obvious that "Das Boot" means "the boat". -
BOT's Top 50 Historical Fiction Films - The Countdown
Jason replied to The Panda's topic in The Speakeasy
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Lmao. I just found out about this. @Lordmandeep (for anyone else who's wondering, Brampton is a suburb of Toronto - I grew up there) Update: It turned out to be a beaver. h/t @baumer via @grim22
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This was adorable:
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PREACH. So glad it's the official format in Canada - been my preference since I was a kid, the only format that's unambiguous, and also sorts correctly by alphanumeric ordering.
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Yes, because it was better than I had expected. We had been given a month to do it, and I procrastinated on it, then realized with two days to go that even reading all the papers I needed to read was realistically more than two days worth of reading (mostly because of the complexity of the subject). I skipped some of the readings, and ended up falling about one-third short of the required minimum length (~2,800 instead of 4,000 words). I also basically b.s.'d my way the whole "detailed experiments and expected results that could resolve the two hypotheses" part. I also didn't have time to follow the instructions for submission. We were supposed to put it in a binder, and I tried at least stapling but with the attached references that wasn't possible. I ended up putting it inside a big sheet of paper and taping it together or something like that. I was basically expecting to fail, or be given a barely-passing grade (D-).
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I can only speak from my experience in the sciences. So the thing is, there are a lot of things in the sciences that are very well-established facts. So if a student were to write an essay saying that the current rise in global temperatures isn't anthropogenic, or that evolution cannot be explained by natural mechanisms, they should absolutely fail. Not because they're disagreeing with the professor, but because to write such an essay you would have to ignore a truly vast amount of evidence. Now, there are genuine debates that occur in science. The problem is, for the vast majority of them, I could never tell if the professor favoured one hypothesis over another - the general gist was "we need more research, and I want to hear your ideas". When we wrote essays, the main thing the professor was looking for was our ability to figure out "what experiments need to be done, or data needs to be collected, that could resolve between these competing theories?", and argue for why that was the case. My topic in the third-year molecular genetics class remains the most difficult essay I have ever written. I didn't choose right away so my classmates took the easier topics. I got stuck with "The Catalytic Mechanism of RNA Polymerase II", for which there were (are?) broadly two competing theories in the literature. I had some vague ideas for experiments but it was supposed to be a 4,000-word essay and I definitely couldn't figure out the level of detail required to fill 4,000 words.
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My recommendations are all science/technology, gaming, food, or movie-related, and I intend to keep it that way. I don't watch politics videos on Youtube. (except for livestreams of debates) If I ever get a Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro etc. video recommendation on Youtube, I'm creating a new account and starting over.
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This might come as a surprise, but it's possible to walk and talk at the same time. While the government was very correctly pointing out that it was harmful and completely unnecessary to be avoiding Asian businesses, it was also successfully identifying and treating coronavirus cases, exhaustively testing potential cases, and doing other preparations for preventing a pandemic.
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@DAJK Someone I know in BC actually purchased the timbits cereal out of curiosity. I am waiting her report.
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I didn't see this before voting was closed. The poll is obviously flawed, but interpreting the results to mean "SW only" is the winner is one seriously whack interpretation, to put it generously. No way to actually know what the most common preference is between yes/yes, yes/no, no/yes, and no/no, when one of the options wasn't even offered. Even better, the two questions should have been asked separately. That said, I'm not running the list and I don't intend to contribute. Just commenting as a matter of principle.