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[McTraveller]

Problem is, a significant amount of damage has already been incurred.  It will be a long recovery taking hard work, whether that work can start in 4 days or 4 years.  It seems like it will be like recovering from a large natural disaster or war.

[heydude6]

There is no US thread anymore so I don't know where to post this.

Looking at newspaper articles from last week, Trump seems to look really bad. As if he has aged 5 years in the last month.

Slightly hopeful, maybe he dies of old age before he can be inaugurated.

I remember once reading a newspaper article from his first election that argued that Trump never enjoyed being president. He only did it for marketing the first time and never expected to win.

My only question is why the man keeps running then?

[Loud Whispers]

I remember once reading a newspaper article from his first election that argued that Trump never enjoyed being president. He only did it for marketing the first time and never expected to win.

My only question is why the man keeps running then?

First time he ran with Eminem was just for marketing

Second time he got roasted by Obama so he got serious

Now he needs to stay out of prison

[Starver]

What the hell is up with the carat'ed-A's that have appeared around the page numbers and posts on the forums? Have they always been there and im just insane? Like this;


Posted by: Starver
« on: January 09, 2025, 09:13:01 pm »

[..]

Looks very much to me like it's a matter of what should be ISO-8859-1 (or similar) coming out at your end as if UTF-8. A number of extended characters might come out as what you see. A double-char starting 0xC2 might come out as "Â"+<something>. And (though I haven't checked), the UTF "Â" itself might even be ISO-encoded with a 0xC2 first character, so that might explain the later multiplying, as what you paste back in (client side) gets re-ISOed (server side) then re-re-UTFed (client side again). edit: ...or, on second thoughts... the second-byte of the 0xC2-starting pair also needs 0xC2ing in 16-bit, so you have 0xC20xC2<whatever>...

Assuming it isn't a glitch in the HTTP-sender, you might have accidentally done something with (depending upon the browser[1]) an override option to "View page as <choice of encoding system>". Maybe you've told it treat everything as UTF-8, at some point, if that option is somewhere under a tab-menu and maybe just one extra drop-out. (Might have been activated by accidentally hitting the Alt while typing "V" <something> <something>, diving into the menu while doing the opposite of touch-typing, or touch-typing whilst glancing away from the screen.)

The question is whether it has fixed itself. It might have only applied for the length of time the specific browser tab affected was open, with the assumption that if you wanted it to work globally then you'd actually go deeper into the settings to make it a default.


Or it could have been a server-side glitch that didn't send the "<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-WHATEVER" /> to you, for some reason or other. But I wouldn't expect that to be anything other than a single-page 'drop' or a continuing site problem that ends up happening to everyone.


But quite a lot of that is guesses, and as much as I can remoteley guess without the benefit of being at your desk. (Sounds like something I'd either come to your workspace and correcting so quickly that you'd wonder if you were seeing things or one that would send me away again pretty much stumped for the time being, maybe needing a second visit. If it was happening during my in-house IT Desk days. )


[1] It's not easily available on mine, but I've got "View | Repair Text Encoding" as an option that I've never ever needed. And wouldn't cause the problem, which is what I was hoping to trivially do.

[Folly]

There is no US thread anymore so I don't know where to post this.
Looking at newspaper articles from last week, Trump seems to look really bad. As if he has aged 5 years in the last month.
Slightly hopeful, maybe he dies of old age before he can be inaugurated.

Trump has accused the White House Staff of concealing from the country just how aged and incompetent Biden has really become.
I'm just saying, Trump has been guilty of pretty much everything that he accuses others of doing...

[Great Order]

After a long period of not having it, my precordial catch syndrome (Question mark? It's my best guess, sometimes I take a deep breath and get a sudden sharp pain and a feeling of something shifting, like something's sliding painfully back into position in my chest) came back with a raging vengeance. I think it referred a bit, because it started in my lower left chest and then shot up my flank too when usually it's extremely localised.