[-] Liquid_Fire@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago

Are you sure you don't have some other software updating Firefox in the background?

Normally this only happens on Linux when your package manager updates Firefox while it's running, and on Windows that doesn't happen because Firefox updates itself only when you (re)start it.

[-] Liquid_Fire@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

I better give my consent then, all these users are just waiting for me to give the OK.

[-] Liquid_Fire@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

I'm pretty sure it's impossible to keep everything arranged "correctly" geographically while keeping the proportions correct and having them be regular shapes. If anything it's impressive that you can get it as close as this.

[-] Liquid_Fire@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

But then shouldn't there be a delay when using actual Chrome?

[-] Liquid_Fire@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I thought pounds could be used for either mass or force, and in modern usage just saying "pounds" usually refers to mass. Wikipedia seems to agree:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_(mass)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_(force)

[-] Liquid_Fire@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Those are British though. Though I'm sure there are also American examples.

[-] Liquid_Fire@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

I would have said 平和 (heiwa). As another learner, I've never seen 安泰, and ピース I see mostly used as a reference to the "peace sign" (the hand gesture).

[-] Liquid_Fire@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

A plane starts the day at the airport, does an even number of flights back and forth, and then one last flight and ends it at another airport. Repeat the next day but in reverse.

[-] Liquid_Fire@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sea urchin is "uni", ~~the cat is actually called "Yuni".~~ It's just Google Translate translating it weirdly.

Edit: after looking it up, the cat is indeed actually called "Uni". It does say "Yuni" in this post though

[-] Liquid_Fire@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Only if they only spoke one language. Googling indicates there are somewhere around 1.45 to 2 billion total English speakers, so just knowing English might hit 25% already.

Edit: Also, the graph only lists languages with 50 million speakers, so the real proportions are smaller.

[-] Liquid_Fire@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

While we're being pedantic,

lit. "octopus balls"

It doesn't literally mean that, it's more like "grilled octopus".

[-] Liquid_Fire@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

There is an advantage to the "new" model - when you subscribe, you retroactively get access to all past content as well.

Obviously for a newspaper or similar time-sensitive content this is not a very useful feature, but for other media/services it can be worth the trade-off of losing access after your subscription ends.

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