Zachariah

The frequency illusion (also known as the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon) is a cognitive bias in which a person notices a specific concept, word, or product more frequently after recently becoming aware of it.

Could we please quit it with all these American politics memes?

Ask not what your president can do for the citizens of this country, ask what the president can do for himself.

Oh, shit. This has been my all-consuming thought today. Weird coincidence to spot this now.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…

GHQ is a fast-paced two-play­er bat­tle game in which each play­er maneu­vers mil­i­tary units — infantry, armored vehi­cles, artillery and an air­borne reg­i­ment — to cap­ture the oth­er player’s head­quar­ters.

Chess Jurist!

It’s been a while since I’ve been there. Many of the longer ones are designed. The triangles are desire as far as I can remember.

Are you pasting the file or the image data?

If you’re opening the image, and copying the file’s contents, I could imagine it becoming uncompressed bitmap data to be stored on the clipboard rather than the clipboard containing lossy compressed image data. When pasting the contents somewhere, you can’t count on the destination handling jpeg data as often/reliably as you can count a destination being able to handle bitmap data.

edit: I hit the wrong reply button, but I guess this stands alone fine as it is.

What OS are you using? Perhaps it’s being converted because of limitations of the clipboard?