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...there are dentists who offer anesthesia as a fun little option if you think you can't handle the pain?

...excuse me.

...WHAT.

I'm going to just say that I'm exteremely sceptical on how this will turn out, just because there has been quite a few Wikipedia forks that have not exactly worked out despite the best interests and the stated objectives they had.

Now - Wikipedia isn't exactly an entity that doesn't have glaring problems of its own, of course - but I'm just saying that the wiki model has been tried out a lot of times and screwed up many times in various weird ways.

There's exactly two ways I can see Wikipedia forks to evolve: Crappily managed fork that is handled by an ideological dumbass that attracts a crowd that makes everything much worse (e.g. Conservapedia, Citizendium), or a fork that gets overrun by junk and forgotten by history, because, well, clearly it's much more beneficial to contribute to Wikipedia anyway.

I was about to respond with a copy of the standard Usenet spam response form with the "sorry dude I don't think this is going to work" ticked, but Google is shit and I can't find a copy of that nonsense anymore, so there.

I hope Firefox implements a great and robust tab grouping feature. Because they used to have one that worked beautifully.

Firefox used to have Panorama view, which was a way to group tabs with a nice visual interface. ...and they removed it because not enough people were using it.

...Well if you stopped removing useful and perfectly functional features, maybe you wouldn't need to rebuild them later when it turns out people do want that feature, huh, Mozilla?

There's an extension that reimplements Panorama and it kinda sorta works like it used to.

Since it's not mentioned in the article: the device is a Nokia 9200 series Communicator. Had a perfectly functional SMS app for its era, of course.

Nokia Communicators were absolutely rad. Had a 9110 and it was incredible.

Aside of kilometers there used to be "myriameter" (a myriad meters = 10,000 m = 10 km).

Fun thing, in Sweden they use mil for 10 km. In Finland there's peninkulma for 10 km, but it's very archaic.

19th of November!

This gets askes every single International Women's Day. Tiny little traditions.

At what point did I give up on The Walking Dead?

About the time I couldn't keep up which streaming service had it this week. I mean, it was on Netflix here at first, but after that, it was anyone's guess.

Can this guy retire already? He's giving my favourite animals a bad name, and that's very sad. 😢🐢

That was what I really loved about Halo back in the day. You had a clear division of social playlists (serious), ranked (competitive) and the various more-or-less wacky modes (Infection, Grifball, Fiesta, whatever). Also, Slayer and objective types were kept separate. Something for everyone!

These things still exist in modern Halo but it's not as well communicated in my opinion.

I swear none of the American technobros went "paywalling a wheelchair with Bluetooth bullshit and doing screwy insurance shenanigans? damn, that's a little bit too fucked up, even for us". Instead, they went "that's ingenious, why didn't we think of it first?"

No, there are more elements. But there are only two elements there is an infinite supply of in the universe, Hydrogen and Stupidity, and we're not sure about Hydrogen. /forgot whose joke this was

I literally have a Tumblr blog where I post photographs that I've deemed "not necessarily the best".

Quality? You can't force me to stick to some arbitrary notions like that. No no no. I do what I want to do.