Lobbying is and always has been legalised bribery. That they’re extending it to parties that aren’t political (at least, not officially), is not a surprise.

That the law allows this scope creep ought to be a surprise, but alas…

Welp. I’ve altered my comment to reflect my mistake.

Sites are getting better at frustrating users who remove elements from pages, so I expect that Reddit would have implemented the latest tech.

But perhaps more importantly, this is about mobile, not desktop, so there’s no uBO anyway.

Edit: Didn’t read my source properly at all. My bad.

Once I read the article it became abundantly clear, yes, but my attempt to imply that my initial impressions were from the headline alone wasn’t a good one.

It’s an indictment of our society that I wasn’t completely sure if this was going to be about ethnic Chinese targeting their own, or ethnic British taking advantage of foreign students.

The fact the headline mentions Chinese specifically had me leaning towards the former, but there was still an element of doubt in my mind.

And I’d still not be surprised to learn that the latter also happens.

“Your plan was not ‘Rid the land of all the troublesome brown people’ and so we must reject it. Feel free to try again.”

The difference between Gaza and Greenland is that Greenland is a European dependency (or colony if you prefer). This shouldn’t make a difference, of course, but it does.

I’ll grant you that if this drilling is to be on indigenous-owned land, there’s a possibility that there might be an unpleasant echo of Palestine.

It’s all going to come down to how far Denmark are willing to put up with Trump.

That’s why I made the recommendation in the paragraph after that. If they start murdering Greenlanders after the drill, and only the drill, is blown up, that’s likely to get Europe to call foul.

Well, that’s a very (current, if not always) US way of going about it. I was opting for a more humane alternative.

At least at first. I’d wait for the US to fire the first light weaponry, and then, if you’ll forgive the mixed metaphor, the gloves would come off.

Sounds like the way to head this off is to clearly announce that any unsanctioned drilling will be taken as an act of war. Say that the moment any US drill cuts Greenlandic soil, the shooting will start.

And I’d recommend that the first shot be heavy artillery at the drill after a very loud and distinct warning, in English, to stand clear.

Growing pains. The eastern arm of the new Himalayas is just getting started.

Will our descendants be around to remember that we knew all this time ago? Will something else evolve in the absence of our lineage and be intelligent enough to figure it out like we figured out the original Himalayas?

But in the meantime, and perhaps long after, we’re in for a few rumbles and broken pots.

Did people go out and learn modern Italian after seeing Gladiator?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against anything that might be good for Greek and Greece in general. Good for them and those who choose to learn the language. It just seems a bit… misplaced?

It’s still poor taste to glorify past transgressions, no matter whether each have given as good (or bad) as they have to each other.

And the last thing Zelenskyy would want is for Poland to decide to ally with Russia. I’m sure Putin would love that. Another few million troops, and then no-one to defend Poland or Ukraine when they’ve both destroyed each other, so he can roll in and take control of both.

I think your reading of the situation is a little twisted, but I agree that Zelenskyy has made another poor choice here.

That is, the UPA weren’t Nazis, they were playing the “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” game and trying to take advantage of the destabilised political situation in Europe at the time.

What the UPA did, however, is not forgivable and Zelenskyy should have thought twice about invoking that memory.

Good point. I should have realised.

Meanwhile in the Known Issues: “Entering Exclusive fullscreen mode crashes the game on Wayland”

You’d think they’d fix something like that before making the game Wayland-first.

Low effort. Boooo.

Mint all the way for me. Mint’s based on Ubuntu unless you’re adventurous and choose LMDE which is based on Debian instead (Ubuntu is also based on Debian, so it cuts out the middleman.)

And the Cinnamon desktop, which is the default, is very Windows-like and native to Mint. Perfect for refugees. I was one when my Win 7 SSD died and I thought that that was a perfect time to switch.

I can’t speak to Fedora (I still haven’t forgiven Red Hat for what they did to CentOS), but Mint has honest-to-goodness old-school forums where you can ask for help if you get stuck.

Edit: typo

Binface could easily do better than Farage has. I mean, it’s not exactly a high bar.

Farage barely shows his face there and almost never in Parliament.

You can guarantee that Binface would be more than willing to show up in both places frequently. He might even go so far as to represent Clacton properly. Perish the thought!

(I can imagine that if he won they wouldn’t let him into the Commons due to not being dressed sensibly and then refusing to recognise him if he does so, because that’s the sort of dirty trickery I’d expect from Parliament. So I’d be very interested to see what he does in order to comply with both directives at the same time.)

Do you use the “Restore Previous Session” feature of your web browser between reboots? Do you use keyboard controls to open new windows like Ctrl+N?

If yes to both, chances are that your mystery window had remained part of that continued session, and was reactivated with a Ctrl+Shift+N or equivalent. Shift is right next to Ctrl so if you fat-fingered a Shift at the same time that could explain the apparent necromancy.

As to where it went originally, you could have moved it to a different virtual desktop, moved it off-screen accidentally or, heck, even misclicked or miskeyed to have it actually close. A reboot would then have closed it for certain, except for the fact that it was still lurking in your session.

Another thing that can cause windows to move around is when a HDMI or DisplayPort monitor disconnects. Unlike with older connection types, those disconnecting is detectable and modern window managers try to “save” windows by throwing them on any remaining active monitors. If you have both types of monitor connection, or had at some point in the past, it could be that your mysterious window was lurking on a screen you couldn’t see but the system still thought exists, at least until it was closed for certain.

Admittedly unlikely, but you could rule that out by checking the system monitor arrangements in the settings.