America is doing something wrong to have so many fail to vote

Australia has 90 to 95% voter turnout

We hold elections on weekends

We use a single transferable vote, so you can safely vote for who you actually support

We have a rule that you must vote, enforced by a tiny fine

I found everything I recalled posting to the page and no broken links, but my Geocities page was pretty flat, about two levels - index.html and files linked from there

I think the “under construction” and web ring links were broken

Someone archived Geocities, and I was able to find some of my old stuff by searching for my old username

He’s in a comic, he read the speech bubble

BG3 enemies rarely drop clothes, only weapons and armour, though when we loot a place with clothing it’s a 30 minute fashion show and dying session

Clothing dying is the thing my group most save-scums for

Evangelicals are decidedly not Catholic

Make up something quickly stand-up is only 30 minutes after starting time

Sadly or luckily I missed the seatbelt controversy by not being born until after it was all settled

Happy Days was fine when there wasn’t much on. The Golden Age of TV was much more recent though. People born in the '90s probably had the best TV at the right age. In 20 years they’ll be nostalgic for some really good shows

Those of us from the '70s and early '80s probably had the best movies and the most disappointment in their remakes and sequels (what’s the thought process? “We’ll get in on this movie nostalgia and redo this movie from the '80s. Let’s optimise it for 10 year olds”)

They think '50s hotrods were faster than later cars because later cars were “detuned to meet environmental rules”

Most of the Chinese speakers seem to be the youth

Source: I live near their timezone, and used to spend time on chat roulette and Chinese students wanted to practice their English there

Social credit scores were a thing. People were punished for low scores. It only happened in a few cities and it was described as a pilot.

Obviously the pilot got a lot of bad press in and outside China and it is no longer happening

Indeed

Yeah he needs a file or directory list after a space after the f

Traditional is /*

It got flattened, the screen is sticking out a bit

English spelling had a bit of a disaster. Spelling got settled over the same time pronunciation was changing, at the same time printers became a thing and people getting something printed had loads of ability to change what would be standard spelling and they liked to show off how much they knew the history of the language by inserting silent letters reminding them of the Latin or Greek root word

Also English has many more vowels than the Latin alphabet so it’s practically impossible to accurately reflect the way a word is said in its spelling and some words got frozen in text just before they changed how they were spoken and others just after so there’s no consistency

You just wait for the right bit too be flipped and the wrong ones flipped are flipped an even number of times

Looks like perl, they send the result of a regex match in scalar context. IIRC that gets the count of matches of oo in foobar (1)

A pile of bananas to the moon

The descriptions I have read have let me think that the only 3d printed part is the receiver, the rest is made from matching spare parts

The receiver was the only part with a serial number (law has changed recently and now all parts are marked)