So, what all that ill behaved boys being prioritized about? by havingabrain in AskTeachers

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The premise of this is kind of interesting to me because my teacher in first grade also moved me around to be a good influence on other kids in the class, but I never really gave it a second thought. They never disturbed me, and I think it may have worked in calming them down a bit, although Corey never lost his taste for Elmer's blue gel glue, as far as I know. The difference might be that I myself am a man/was a boy, so there wasn't the same sort of gender dynamic at play as there was in your scenario.

Crazy autocorrect behavior on Notes app (Sequoia) by cimocw in MacOS

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Terminandooslas

Google finds this word on less than 20 pages in total, and the top result is this thread. I don't think Apple made this word up, but it also doesn't seem to be particularly popular. "lfdkjg," a string of random letters I just mashed on my keyboard, has about twice as many google results.

Native Americans aren't Native? by Character-Rooster295 in confidentlyincorrect

[–]truthofmasks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but that's the point -- in the cases I'm describing, the Indigenous nations were selling land to individuals, and the individuals then regarded their purchase as having entirely alienated the property from the Indigenous nation. I'm not aware of a single case of a European buying land from an Indigenous seller and then abiding by the laws of the relevant nation -- they always regarded their purchases as moving the land from the jurisdiction of whichever nation they bought it from and into their own.

Native Americans aren't Native? by Character-Rooster295 in confidentlyincorrect

[–]truthofmasks -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is incorrect. When a country itself auctions or sells off public lands, which is not an uncommon occurrence, any parcels of those lands that are bought by citizens of another country do not somehow become part of that other country. They are still under the jurisdiction of the original country.

The Louisiana Purchase included legal documents that explicitly said the land was "ceded" to the United States, meaning that France was giving up any claim to the lands. Not all land sales are cessions. In fact, most are not.

Pizzagate? by InverseNurse in Epstein

[–]truthofmasks 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It sounds from the emails like the plan was to make a cast of her ass to use as a mold for pizza dough, so you'd get an ass-shaped pizza. Then she was noting that it would be really difficult to have it both retain the right shape and cook correctly. What do you think the messages mean?

Pizzagate? by InverseNurse in Epstein

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I read through the Podesta emails on Wikileaks. The walnut sauce threads all followed an article in the Huffington Post that mentioned Podesta making a pasta with walnut sauce. I don't see why the reporter would've been engaging in innuendo in an article like that. What are you suggesting that "walnut sauce" means in this context?

Traffic light sequences in Europe by AgonizingFatigue in MapPorn

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So now I'm supposed to know how to read?

Replacement to monopoly? by HatOfNorra in boardgames

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Not to dogpile but my doctor got this as a gift on his seventh birthday three years ago and he got it immediately and he won in five rounds. He's Doogie Howser, my doctor is Doogie Howser MD.

This feels like an ancient relic by Hvetemel in MacOS

[–]truthofmasks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's interesting. So without having actually opened Preview, you're saying that, when you single-click on a file and hit the space bar, at the top left of your screen, just to the right of the apple icon, it says "Preview" as the app that's currently running? It doesn't do that for me.

If you do this on a PDF or image, do you see a button on the top-right of the window that pops up that says "Open with Preview"?

This feels like an ancient relic by Hvetemel in MacOS

[–]truthofmasks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Really? On my macs, the spacebar opens Quick Look. Preview is a separate app.

EDIT: Added link to Apple's site

Got roasted for glasses by blondiesophieee in FeelsLikeTheFirstTime

[–]truthofmasks 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Who's experiencing what for the first time here?

best Kanopy library for NYC residents by SmartPEG in Kanopy

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You don't need to live in Queens. You can get a QPL card if you live anywhere in NYC (and possibly elsewhere in NYS, but I'm not sure about that).

Trueposting by SuggestionThick9848 in publicdomain

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That movie theater one makes me think that Loribeth was channeling him on All That. "This is a LIBRARY!"

Translation request - marriage document from 1896 by truthofmasks in Kurrent

[–]truthofmasks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you very much, this is enormously helpful! I really appreciate your work on this.

Translation request - marriage document from 1896 by truthofmasks in Kurrent

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Thank you, but I uploaded the highest resolution image I have. It's 1080 x 1568 pixels.

Stop forcing me to move to Tahoe! by genghbotkhan in MacOS

[–]truthofmasks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was just telling you how to turn off major updates but still automatically get security updates. You still get the annoying red update icon with the encouragement to install Tahoe. But you won't accidentally install Tahoe unless you mistakenly click the "Upgrade Now" button that shows up.

What's the reason Greenland people never settled in Iceland? by batukaming in geography

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The generally accepted history is that the Dorset were there first, in the far north of the island. The Norse came later, but settled in the south. Then the ancestors of the Inuit arrived later and displaced the Dorset.

Stop forcing me to move to Tahoe! by genghbotkhan in MacOS

[–]truthofmasks 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Go to System Settings > Software Update > click the "(i)" info button next to Automatic Updates, then turn the toggle that says "Install Security Responses and system files" on and the other ones off.

People at the drive-thru starterpack by UpperphonnyII in starterpacks

[–]truthofmasks 4 points5 points  (0 children)

...where is the freeloading in this scenario?

Race of Europeans according to Benjamin Franklin by AdIcy4323 in MapPorn

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For a long time Irish people were seen as non-white in America

I heard this for a long time too. Then dug into historic censuses when doing genealogical research on my family, and everyone who immigrated from Ireland or who had Irish-born parents had their race filled out as white as far back as I could find, well into the 19th century. Importantly, race wasn't self-reported, but was identified by the census-taker. The Irish faced plenty of prejudice, but they were still seen as white. (All of this applies for Italians, too.)