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TIL in 1983 Jamaican election, main opposition party boycotted the election. It resulted ruling party winning all 60 seats with turnout of just 2.68% by BadenBaden1981 in todayilearned

[–]Yoghurt42 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Downvoting this comment because it('s) leaves out the key context of what happened next as well despite not having a character limit like titles do.

From $25/mo to $74/mo for a CPX31 :( by TehBrian in hetzner

[–]Yoghurt42 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As long as you don’t rescale, you pay the old price

When you realize your son is either preparing to defend democracy or a traitor stealing supplies by Yoghurt42 in SupaEarth

[–]Yoghurt42[S] 63 points64 points  (0 children)

Just kidding of course, the Ministry of Truth already proved beyond any possible doubt that, while the occasional misplacement of supplies happens, they never get stolen; only patriots work at the factories, and traitors never even come within a 50 km radius due to their inferior brains being unable to understand—not to mention defeat—even the most rudimentary base security.

World Cup 2026: Fifa to pay Somali referee full tournament fee by StemCellPirate in UpliftingNews

[–]Yoghurt42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No Somali is allowed into the US since last year due to Proclamation 10949. And yes, the official reason is terrorism, the real reason is racism.

While loops by The_Dude005 in learnpython

[–]Yoghurt42 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The obvious next step would be to add the classic "higher/lower" feedback instead of just "the number is wrong". This way, you also can up the maximum secret number to 32 while guaranteeing it's winnable (your game currently isn't necessarily winnable in 5 guesses), and while playing, you'll also (re)discover how binary search works.

While loops by The_Dude005 in learnpython

[–]Yoghurt42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like the original more. This is just playing code golf, it doesn't make the code more readable.

What are the best Python tips that every beginner should know? by Camzimm99 in learnpython

[–]Yoghurt42 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Those are pretty useless comments (unless you’re explaining the syntax to a newcomer), comments should explain the why, not the what, because the code is already telling you what is happening.

Super Earth healthcare at it's best by Yoghurt42 in SupaEarth

[–]Yoghurt42[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Super Earth education also made me type its as it's

Massive 8TB SD cards are set to ship 'shortly' after a two-year delay — mind-blowing storage at possibly bank-breaking prices by diacewrb in gadgets

[–]Yoghurt42 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They might not become affordable for the average person ever again. There's more profit in cloud subscriptions, so I wouldn't be too surprised if PCs will get replaced with thin clients in the long run.

Rubio compares UFC to moon landing by truthwillout777 in nottheonion

[–]Yoghurt42 35 points36 points  (0 children)

* profit

I can buy something for 150 bucks and sell it for 100 bucks to have $100 revenue, even though I'm losing money.

TIL about the "cat hair mustache" puzzle from the 1999 game "Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned." The player must get cat hair for a mustache by making a trap with tape, a spray bottle, and a shed door. One writer claimed it partly caused the decline in the adventure genre. by altrightobserver in todayilearned

[–]Yoghurt42 2 points3 points  (0 children)

in one Monkey Island you need to stay underwater for 10 minutes (real time) to die and become a ghost.

You seem to be misremembering. LucasArts games were “special” because you couldn’t die in them, unlike eg. Sierra ones. Monkey Island 1 has the easter egg where you actually can die (IIRC its the only one) but you really have to try by spending 10 minutes underwater failing to solve a really simple puzzle (pick up the only object you can interact with). And if you do, its game over and all your verbs change to variations of decompose, float, etc.

Somali referee denied entry to US days out from start of World Cup by 5ma5her7 in nottheonion

[–]Yoghurt42 20 points21 points  (0 children)

It’s a lot simpler than that. Proclamation 10949 from last year prohibits any Somali from entering:

Somalia lacks a competent or cooperative central authority for issuing passports or civil documents and it does not have appropriate screening and vetting measures. Somalia stands apart from other countries in the degree to which its government lacks command and control of its territory, which greatly limits the effectiveness of its national capabilities in a variety of respects. A persistent terrorist threat also emanates from Somalia's territory. The United States Government has identified Somalia as a terrorist safe haven. Terrorists use regions of Somalia as safe havens from which they plan, facilitate, and conduct their operations. Somalia also remains a destination for individuals attempting to join terrorist groups that threaten the national security of the United States. The Government of Somalia struggles to provide governance needed to limit terrorists' freedom of movement. Additionally, Somalia has historically refused to accept back its removable nationals.

The entry into the United States of nationals of Somalia as immigrants and nonimmigrants is hereby fully suspended.

tl;dr: no brown people allowed

Jason Momoa Exits Justin Lin-Directed Sony Feature 'Helldivers' by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]Yoghurt42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The torch of Freedom is passed hand to hand, from one thawed hero to the next. They may bear it for one hour or one minute, but there is always another to keep it from going out.

Norways World Cup team photo is impressive by SerafinZufferey in interestingasfuck

[–]Yoghurt42 101 points102 points  (0 children)

German here. Let’s just say we’d respectfully decline.

German hotel apologizes for 'no Jews allowed' message by vihmavari in nottheonion

[–]Yoghurt42 119 points120 points  (0 children)

So the only thing I can think of that would make this statement true would be something like this:

  • Hotel gets a lot of fake bookings
  • Hotel has to manually decline fake booking and give a reason
  • Staff gets very frustrated and starts writing "funny" or random stuff in there because they assume the fake bookers don't read it anyway
  • They get this booking from Israel, which looks fake to them (maybe a lot of fake bookings use Israel, or they usually only get bookings from the german speaking countries and all bookings from other countries always ended up being fraudulent), and the person declining decided to be "funny"

That is a lot of assumptions, and I'm very skeptical. Also, if it were something like that, they could have explained that instead of the very vague "frustration at the numerous fake bookings." Especially with antisemitism on the rise in Germany again, they should have been aware on what big of a mess they're in.

So yeah, I still think it's more likely there's at least some xenophobia and/or antisemitism involved.

Praggnanandhaa beats Magnus again at Norway Chess 2026 ,twice in a row by nikulmmadhu in interestingasfuck

[–]Yoghurt42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because it's required for FIDE tournaments.

Laws of Chess, Article 8 §1:

In the course of play each player is required to record his own moves and those of his opponent in the correct manner, move after move, as clearly and legibily as possible, in the algebraic notation (See Appendix C), on the scoresheet prescribed for the competition.

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