Which version are you on, out of curiosity? Wondering if you might be on an earlier version that hasn’t updated yet or if they might be doing A/B testing or something.

It takes up space on the screen, which I know for some folks makes it a worthless/intrusive addition. IIRC it was also the case early on in the nightly builds that there was no way to turn it off either, which bothered people as well.

Everyone has “modes” they get used to using their apps with (and I am no exception in that regard, which is why I am here with this question in the first place), and when something new is added which disrupts someone’s usual mode, that causes friction and a negative impression.

I know my experience is niche, being that I am a relatively newer Firefox mobile user who liked having that feature precisely because it more closely resembled the non-Firefox experience that was more familiar to me. So to an extent, I understand this decision that was made to avoid alienating the core user, even if that means potentially dissatisfying fringe users like myself. I also can’t complain because this is the nightly build, where things change on a whim and there are no guarantees that any feature makes the cut (I would have been on stable build if this feature existed in the stable build at all).

Not to mention that Mozilla also isn’t rolling in cash, especially with their future income model uncertain as the US government continues to go after Google’s partner agreements that are currently propping Mozilla up, so they have to make difficult decisions about which features to spend time and resources supporting and which to cut.

But it still stinks, y’know?

100% this.

Too many parents have things they wish they could do or wish they were good at, and their logic becomes “I wish my parents had forced me to do this when I was younger, so I am going to force my kid to do this even if they hate it.” Growing up in that sort of household sucks, and just causes resentment.

Good parenting is supporting your kid’s interests, while being upfront about expectations. If your kid wants to do art, support their endeavors but be clear that it’s not an easy field to make a living in if that is their goal so as not to set them up for disappointment later in life. Make sure it’s something they want for themselves first.

Your comment made me wonder if there was any such place where you could go and have pizzerias everywhere.

I couldn’t find anything like an entire plaza of pizza (though it wouldn’t surprise me if that existed somewhere) but I did learn that apparently Buenos Aires has the most pizzerias of any major city in the world. So if there is such a thing as a pepperoni piazza, I’d guess Argentina would be the place to check first.

Shattered by someone…or something.

It makes me sad because this used to be the kind of story one might be able to tell in the US, but no longer.

Happy to see that stories like this can at least still be told somewhere. Wishing Canada all the prosperity it needs and deserves to continue championing the cause of basic human decency.

What makes a pizza a granny pizza?

This “news” site appears to be artificially promoted using vote manipulation:

https://sh.itjust.works/post/37761735

Though Trump started that “nearly a decade” too.

That’s optimistic. The handlers are probably still at (or even orchestrating) the briefings.

Even then, though, this shit doesn’t fly here.

Shouldn’t have happened at all, but at least the hotel fired the shitfucker and tried to make this right, while in other parts of the country this behavior would have been celebrated.

Would love to see more institutions of higher education follow Harvard’s lead. At least here in the northeast, education is one of the largest employers. Despite how much government money plays a part in their operation, I feel like major universities are in a good position to start making demands and assert their autonomy given the resources at their disposal.

This also means states should work on filling the void left by federal funding for their educational institutions , which in large part is already done but could be taken further to ensure that they do not need to be accountable to the madman in Washington.

Don’t know who the heck downvoted you or why, but thanks for the info!

I seriously think it is only a matter of time before ads end up in textbooks issued to schoolchildren.

I can imagine it in the US at least.

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I mean, they are both old, I don’t think that’s a perspective that should be discounted. That’s not a discussion on policy or who one should vote for as much as it is the understandable concern about whether either of them would still be alive for their entire second term.

I would say hard leftism is often conflated with whatever the hell Tankies are doing, and I wouldn’t really consider them leftist. Most haven’t read any theory beyond Soviet/CPC praxis (if they’ve read any at all), which is pretty conservative/authoritarian by modern leftist standards.

Fuck that is dark, what is this from?

Then why the heck we call them gray matter?

Usually these solar arrangements are just feeding back into the grid to offset energy consumption for whoever owns them (or to make some money themselves), but it could in theory also directly supply local infrastructure like EV chargers, streetlights, other utility lines that draw power, etc.

I guess I’m of the opinion that this may as well be done. Parking lots are already terrible for the environment given that they just trap heat and, you know, take up valuable land space that could better be put to other uses. But if they’re going to exist, may as well turn them into solar farms to offset their net burden somewhat.

Why do I have a feeling the administration would still try to find ways to not pay nonwhite families having kids?

Trump was propped up by people who believe this bogus “Great Replacement” theory and I don’t think they would be willing to back down from that stance on account of a generally declining population.