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Is it ok for a pacifist to accept free entertainment from the military-industrial complex?

I'm not much of a pacifist, yet was uncomfortable with the notion of being conscripted, assisting an organisation whose purpose is at least discouraging violence through intimidation if not violence.
Felt better about it after being assigned to the payroll unit, with the intention that I could mayhap do a bit of good for the sake of people, in a tiny way.

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Anyone remember the longest post ever?

Rockster160 wrote:
[...]I think she's living alone right now, but we honestly don't speak as much as we once did.[...]

Perhaps that's all the more reason to check up on her...

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Help-QA feature poll: Changing Anonicons

Rockster160 wrote:
(Donโ€™t tell Yeti that I edited the poll...)

Rockster160 wrote:

DocteurRalph wrote:
Great I'm the only person that voted for it.. pffft.

For what itโ€™s worth, thatโ€™s the one I want, too! But I had already voted. ๐Ÿ˜…

I would sit back with a gloating smirk, but am using one of those kneeling chairs and gloating would not befit a yeti of good standing, nor eavesdropping.

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Help-QA feature poll: Changing Anonicons

Rockster160 wrote:
Can you elaborate on this? Not sure I'm understanding the question.
Is it difficult to make an anonicon unique per-post? I don't think so. It should be pretty easy, as the Anonicons are generated using a hash of characters. As long as the same hash is used, it spits on the same icon. So all we'd need to do is add the post id to that hash and boom- new unique hash per post per user.

I mean, to allow both simultaneously - say, by default it acts as now, unique per ip / user or whatnot. The user can change that to a setting of "per post anon", which adds post id to the anon input seed henceforth (no automatic retrospective alteration - posts made whilst on the unique setting will use the same ip only seed). Then they can change back, and new posts / replies won't use pid in seed.
But I'm kinda assuming on the whole structure, haven't really researched the anon generator code.

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Help-QA feature poll: Changing Anonicons

Yeah, I was thinking manual refresh more for the sake of getting the pattern / colour combination of one's preference, than obfuscation. :)
It seemed that goal was achieved pretty naturally in general - ralphie would always complain about my monthly avatar + name changes and take me for a new person, for a while. Eventually got to the point that the change's randomness was actually his cue...

Would you deem it difficult to create a user setting of per post anon - unique?

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Help-QA feature poll: Changing Anonicons

Or "every so often", or "manually in user settings".

But can't edit polls. :P

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Everybody go watch this terrifying AI documentary:

https://xkcd.com/1968/

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oh lord, this site layout brings back some memories!

DocteurRalph wrote:
I'm still looking for the one that used to blink.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100702164531im_/h...

(Credit to Al, 'fcourse.)

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oh lord, this site layout brings back some memories!

I think we should address the chihuahua in the room...

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Anyone remember the longest post ever?

Yeah, I meant putting that specific post's markdown elsewhere, not as a general solution (to a nonexistent problem; PoL is mount everest in the middle of flatland after all). Thence, one can for instance copy to and read from a tab delimited spreadsheet software, wherein 6k rows is trifle quantity.

At least ryan announced it, see: https://archive.help-qa.com/posts/598192-the-ol...

I think there was another admin in the beginning but don't really remember who. Perhaps @Padre_J_Roulston was better acquainted with the team.

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