...every site is doing some version of the Big Edit. I don't fully understand what was happening (something to do with https, I know), but couldn't this have been automated? They were able to do that for all the imgur links
...maybe they could have automatically migrated all http images to imgur?
Most of those edits on SFF were tag edits. Since we had to mess up the front page anyway to fix the images, we unleashed the beast and sorted out a few thousand tag edits while we were at it.
The Watch series by Sergei Lukyanenko describes the often bloodless struggle between the Night Watch and the Day Watch. It's a sort of cold war in which each side is only permitted to attack members of the other side if they break the Treaty in some way, this rule being upheld by the Inquisition ...
@Mithrandir Not sure why that should be the case. Don't the posts belong to SE anyway, by the terms and conditions?
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4:20 AM
Has anyone else here read The Stars are Legion? Started it tonight, it's kinda strange but also good. It's one of those books I have trouble pinning down thoughts on. Although I might get a question or two out of it
I am currently in the middle of Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. Twice thus far, he mentioned a manuscript that he brought with him to Auschwitz, and lost there.
When he first arrives in camp, and the prisoners' belongings are confiscated:
No one could yet grasp the fact that every...
The Assassin's Creed games mostly have a present-day component, where the protagonist's descendent enters the Animus, reliving the protagonist's life. Since this is merely replaying memories, we don't actually affect the past in the game, but, in Assassin's Creed II: Revelations:
However, from...
I am extremely upset by President Trump’s executive order on immigration. It is immoral, unconstitutional, and fundamentally un-American.
The community on Stack Overflow is made up of users from all over the world. At least 100,000 posts on Stack Overflow were written by users from the seven cou...
I think asking why a part of a series that purports to be about real events ignored pertinent real events is a reasonable question to ask. There may not be an objective, definitive answer, and that's okay. Suspecting that the simple answer is correct is well and good; demonstrating or proving it is a different beast entirely. — Emrakul ♦2 mins ago
user61230
I think this may be a pretty serious voting issue.
user61230
I'd be sad to see questions downvoted because the answer might be the simple one. Often the simplest answers are the hardest to actually demonstrate.
user61230
That doesn't make the question less valuable to ask, just harder to properly answer.
user61230
I could be totally misunderstanding why it's being downvoted, though.
It's very easy to aim books at adults. I just open the window and fling the books and I usually hit one. https://twitter.com/commute_life/status/841723337030160384
I was reading Mark Twain's Joan of Arc and Joan converses with the Dauphin of France. She made the
"King shake off his indolent attitude and straighten up like a man, and at the same time look immeasurably astonished."
And this is said of Théoden in the Two Towers:
"He drew himself up...
@Mithrandir I customized my collider (the little edit button over there)
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@Bookworm ...can someone please explain this question to me?
I don't know if I see the same connection that you do. A character stands up, and straightens themselves? Is there something more? ...the astonishment of Twain's passage is missing in in Tolkien's, and the eye color and gazing into the sky of Theoden is absent in the first passage. — Shokhet1 min ago
user15026
10:38 PM
@Emrakul to clarify, i wasn't saying anything about the simplicity or not of potential answers in my comment, just suggesting a possible reason why people might downvote the question as it seems to be about the author's motivation, and I can see people down voting that as we are unlikely to get Word of God on it.
user15026
Not saying they should vote based on that, it's just conjecture on my part based on other sites I have been a part on.
user15026
And i have no power to downvote as of yet, so it is entirely a guess on my part, as none of the votes are mine.
user61230
11:22 PM
@Ash Oh, yeah, don't worry, it's not an attack on you :]
user15026
Alright, I just felt super weird after saying that. I didn't mean for it to explode or anything, I just know I have seen people vote that way before on other sites.