Because emotions* are for girls and gays you silly goose
^{*that are not hate/anger/etc.}
Raising Cain: Protecting The Emotional Life Of Boys

Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons From The Myths Of Boyhood

see simon’s comment under my original comment and my reply, regarding passwords/sync

Yes, it will copy everything related to that profile. The passwords are stored in the key4.db file so it shouldn’t be copied in that situation.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data#w_what-information-is-stored-in-my-profile

Then there’s also the sync feature which might import the passwords even if the file has been deleted, so the sync needs to be disabled on the work pc.

Copying the profile folder should do it

You should also copy profiles.ini (which indicates the path of the working/available profiles)

Generally speaking, this should also work for other forks, but it might depend on which versions the forks are based on. If they are too behind the version that the profile is from then there might be “forwards compatibility” issues, for example in the way specific files/databases are structured (but maybe not, this is just a guess).

Also note that since forks tend to have different default values for some settings then if you didn’t explicitly set them through a user.js file or directly in prefs.js (or another method) then you would get the default from the fork instead of the one from the main version.

The pressure to review thousands of horrific videos each day – beheadings, child abuse, torture – takes a devastating toll on our mental health

What could be a solution for dealing with that? I wouldn’t want to be exposed to that type of content even if I was paid to do so and had access to health support to deal with the aftermath every time.

Israel Kamakawiwo’ole - Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Shawn Colvin - I’ll Be Back

Sonic Youth - Superstar (btw not originally by The Carpenters)

Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)

a kindergarten-level understanding of German.

I love the serendipitous use of kindergarten, with it being of German origin :)

I fear that this will be used as a pretense to have a Real ID tied to all of your online accounts, and that it will be publicly facing.

And then if people come to your house after you share a wrongthink, or if part of who you are clashes with “the good ole days”, well then that’s just an unintended but necessary evil, so sit down and shut up.

Sara Bareilles - She Used To Be Mine

And there’s also Tonight Alive’s Amelia that I couldn’t finish listening to even once because it was too heartbreaking

Unfortunately this doesn’t seem to cover the explanation for the process, but I did find an explanation (linked in my other comment)

I tried many years ago but couldn’t readily find an explanation for the process/reasoning, but I did find one now in the video here and it does make sense I also checked Wikipedia and learned more:

All fluoridation methods, including water fluoridation, create low levels of fluoride ions in saliva and plaque fluid, thus exerting a topical or surface effect. A person living in an area with fluoridated water may experience rises of fluoride concentration in saliva to about 0.04 mg/L several times during a day.[3] Technically, this fluoride does not prevent cavities but rather controls the rate at which they develop.

Fluoride’s effects depend on the total daily intake of fluoride from all sources.[51] About 70–90% of ingested fluoride is absorbed into the blood, where it distributes throughout the body. In infants 80–90% of absorbed fluoride is retained, with the rest excreted, mostly via urine; in adults about 60% is retained. About 99% of retained fluoride is stored in bone, teeth, and other calcium-rich areas, where excess quantities can cause fluorosis.[79] Drinking water is typically the largest source of fluoride.

Wouldn’t it be better to give families vouchers for toothpaste and toothbrushes? Or have subsidized lower price ones available?

I never really understood how water briefly swishing through your teeth with some minimal amount of fluoride in it has any effect on the teeth. (edit: explanation in the replies). Fluoridation comes across as a way for industry to legitimize toxic waste instead of having to treat it and dispose of it responsively and ecologically.

Meanwhile we are ingesting it when drinking tap water, along with our pets and all other animals that have access to the water supply, and we wash our hands with it and shower with it, and we ingest it further through crops/food that is grown/prepared with the water.

just making sure you’ve seen this nested comment

I’ve been using RSS to keep up with channels and it’s been great. I recently found out that you can use a different feed url to only get the main videos from the channel (to filter out shorts and livestreams)

So instead of the channel url (which gets converted to https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC...) you use https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=UULF... (might stand for User Uploads Long Form)

If you use an addon (like Feedbro) you can automatically get the first rss URL and manually convert it by clicking on Find Feeds In Current Tab when on the channel’s page, then right-click copy the “rss” hyperlink. Otherwise, you can look for the channel ID in the page source by searching for =UC.

Does it work for you when the word is at the start or end of the title?

I found that the previous/next post’s text interferes with that because it doesn’t recognize a line break between them (at least in my testing)

This type of flaw occurs when memory that has been freed is still used by the program

Am I understanding correctly that a memory leak has been fixed? Though it says that it relates specifically to “Animation timelines”, so does it mean that the fix only affects the (small?) portion of the memory that’s been used by that feature? Or any memory that should get freed but wasn’t previously?

It adds a list of the most recently closed tabs to the tab context menu

Tab Snooze - allows you to close a tab and have it reappear at a chosen time later

Media URL Timestamper - automatically inserts the current timestamp of the YouTube/Twitch video you’re watching and updates it in the history in case you accidentally close/navigate away from the page or go to a different time in the video

Feedbro - RSS reader with filtering capabilities

Redirector - auto-redirect specific URLs (for example, changing a YouTube Shorts url into a regular one, or changing Reddit links to always go to Old Reddit)

Undo Close Tab Button - allows you to restore recently closed tabs including the tab’s history in the back button (max amount = browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo)

Violentmonkey - using userscripts that allow you to change things on websites.

• For Instagram - unmuting videos + setting their default volume
• For YouTube - disabling the subtitles/captions + disabling “autoplay next” for playlists + disabling autoplay of channels homepage video
  • a way to disable specific keyboard shortcuts (you need to manually add the code as a new script). I use /^(Key)?(End|I|O)|(Digit|Numpad)\d$/ instead of /^(?:Digit|Numpad)\d$/ (thanks to this post), to also disable the End/I/O keys in addition to the number keys.
• Note that, at least for Violentmonkey, if the userscript doesn’t have the “://” part of the url in the @match line then you need to add it in the userscript settings after installing the script (for example, if the @match line of the script only has *.youtube.com/* then put *://*.youtube.com/* in the “@match rules” line in the settings)

YouTube Comment Reader - allows you to search through the comments of a video (by clicking on the addon in the Extension menu and then clicking on the “YouTube Comment Reader” at the top or the “X Comments” at the bottom of the tooltip)

Page Shadow - allows you to use dark and light themes on sites that don’t have the option to change it.

And if you’re like me and you find that some YT videos feel too slow but 1.25x is too fast, then you can use Enhancer for YouTube’s “Playback speed” feature to have smaller speed steps. Then you can hold ctrl and use the scrollwheel (while over the video) to change the video’s speed by the amount you chose (I use 0.05 speed variation, mostly changing to 1.05x or 1.10x)

To add and reiterate what others have said:

• It’s similar to following sports and knowing all the game results, who’s injured/out for the season, etc.
• People like to feel part of larger society/culture, and to feel knowledgeable, to feel “in on things”
• It’s a way to fill time/fill the void, a distraction from “real life” which can leave you feeling powerless/drained
• It can be a good conversation topic with friends when there’s not much to talk about (or when other topics can be contentious)