Old good stuff:
Be sure to get an orange block to start things off... one of the ones like "click green flag thing" to start. You can also just mouseclick on the top block to start... and that has a different effect, it won't reset it all, so SWIRL for instance, will keep on swirling further and further.
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tutorial=home
https://www.extremetech.com/science/rats-enjoy-driving-tiny-cars-scientists-find
This just cracks me up. Am I no better than a rat? Or are rats just cool like us humans. BTW, no flipping traffic please, it sucks.
QUOTE: Kelly Lambert, neuroscientist and rat driving instructor, for The Conversation. "When I walked into the lab, I noticed something unusual: The three driving-trained rats eagerly ran to the side of the cage, jumping up like my dog does when asked if he wants to take a walk...."
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1405122
Is this 1997 all over again? So why in the HELL are popups a thing again? Stupid ass HTML 5 had good stuff but came with all the hidden ways to make it suck. Dirty, scummy computer companies. Let's destroy these popups again.
(((Ques was, get rid of Gmail login popups)))
Note, you can find a bunch of things to uncheck related to anti-facebook, anti-cookie setting popups, etc. I check all those things off, let's see how it goes.
Quote:
I found a fix by following a link prvided by jscher2000. The uBlock Origin add-on needs to be installed to Firefox. I made 2 changes in uBlock Origin Preferences. I don't know which change stopped the google sign in pop-ups, So I'll show them both:
Click Firefox's hamburger icon (3 lines) on the right side of the Menu bar. Click Add-ons and Themes. Click the 3 dots on the right side of the UBlock Origin listing, then click Preferences. Click to highlight My filters on uBlock's Menu bar. Click on line 1, in the big open space, and paste: ||accounts.google.com/gsi/*$xhr,script,3p Click the Apply Changes button. I think this is the specific fix, but I also made the following change. Click on the Filter list tab in uBlock's Menu. Scroll down to the line -Annoyances. I put a check in all the boxes in front of anything that had the word Annoyances in the filter name. Click the Apply changes button. Close the uBlock Preferences Firefox tab.
The link that I used: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/wiki/solutions/#wiki_how_to_apply_filters
My understanding is that a web site that subsribes to the google sign-on service runs a script on Firefox to trigger the pop-up. This fix blocks the script. I'm running Firefox v109.
Maybe read:
GOT to LOVE how this turned into a "cookie consent is bad"... naturally half the scummy sites out there make it painful, when it's intended to help. But the other popups are also a problem in 2024.
NOTE, this guy says:
I've built my own websites and intentionally made ever effort to not include any cookies on there because I don't actually need them, but because I use CAPTCHA to keep out the spam and I've embedded a YouTube video somewhere, I have to have cookies. And then I have to have more cookies to manage the cookie consent.
It's basically unavoidable.
Info here: https://www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/media/2024/Totenkopfpfeife.html
Sound here: https://caneuro.github.io/blog/2024/study-skullwhistle/
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The research team also obtained sound recordings of original Aztec death whistles as well as from handmade replicas. Listeners rated these sounds as extremely chilling and frightening. The Aztec death whistle seems to acoustically and affectively mimic other deterring sounds. Most interestingly, human listeners perceived the sound of the Aztec death whistle to be partly of natural and organic origin, like a human voice or scream. “This is consistent ith the tradition of many ancient cultures to capture natural sounds in musical instruments, and could explain the ritual dimension of the death whistle sound for mimicking mythological entities,” explains Frühholz. "
PULLMAN, Wash. — Unlike kids in the United States, hunter-gatherer children in the Congo Basin have often learned how to hunt, identify edible plants and care for babies by the tender age of six or seven.
This rapid learning is facilitated by a unique social environment where cultural knowledge is passed down not just from parents but from the broader community, according to a new Washington State University-led study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The research helps explain how many cultural traits have been preserved for thousands of years among hunter-gatherer groups across a wide range of natural environments in Africa.
“We focus on hunter-gatherers because this way of life characterized 99% of human history,” said Barry Hewlett, a professor of anthropology at WSU and lead author of the study. “Our bodies and minds are adapted to this intimate, small group living, rather than to contemporary urban life. By examining how children in these societies learn, we aim to uncover the mechanisms that have allowed humans to adapt to diverse environments across the globe.”
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/why-do-we-pronounce-ed-at-the-end-of-a-word
We hear /t/ in words like these:
hoped, talked, stopped, jumped, relaxed
We hear /d/ in words like these:
agreed, enjoyed, lived, webbed, snowed
Some adjectives were formed from past participles before the sound of the -ed suffix was reduced, and they retain the older pronunciation with a full syllable for -ed in some contexts:
blessed, learned, aged
These have an archaic or formal character. The addition of the final syllable gives a more official sound to marked and alleged.
Actually front view glare is 100 times worse, but the rearview vs. super high vehicles with LED lights is terrible also.
Read this all the way to final post... if want to try double tint on your rearview.
He tried this brand, and while it was a major PITA, he said it was worth it: https://www.vehiclewrapping.com/auto-window-tinting/kdx-anti-glare-mirror-film/
And funny comments here, maybe there will be a good idea:
https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckyourheadlights
