Any way to block the pop-up pain/animation on Atlas Obscura?
I donāt get any pop-ups or animation on that site, so I donāt know what youāre seeing.
Iāve got the standard add-ons, uBlock Origin plus Privacy Badger, if that helps.
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Thatāsā¦ thatās fantastic! Someone needs to ask Alex Jones why heās not reporting on this!
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WTaF?
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This bitch knows how to twitter. I have tried to use the medium and I just do not get it. I am jealous. Also, who knew square dancing was a racist conspiracy?
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This hits me where it hurts. I used to be a C4 dancer (Challenge level 4ā¦the highest level in Modern Western Square Dancing), and until reaching C2 (or maybe C3A?) my home caller/instructor was a black woman. Challenge-level dancing is mostly university types ā students and professors ā plus teachers and computer science geeks. I am horrified to learn there was this whole ulterior motive in its inception.
And no, I have never worn crinoline in my life.
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I never knew challenge square dance was a thing. TIL.
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Donāt look into that too closely itāll suck in.
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Itās actually a blast: fun physical exercise, to music, with people who by definition are all at genius IQ level.
I had to stop when my brain fried due to an auto-immune disorder (thanks to having kids) and I couldnāt remember the calls consistently any more. Also, at that level, getting any floor time meant driving 1-1.5 hours each way, getting back very late at night, with young children at home. It just didnāt work with my life anymore.
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I donāt twitter but that whole thread was good.
I would be careful. Big Square Dance is seeing this. You could be
getting too close. Theyāve made people do-si-do with the fishes before.
anyway, the American national dance is obviously breakinā 
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Me neither. It sounds like time-speed-distance auto rallies for fitter and less adventurous people.
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Or like speed chess.
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Earlier this year, the IMDb got rid of its message boards. Today, Iāve learned that they are continuing to attempt to monetize/hobble the site. Theyāre gradually getting rid of the reference mode in favor of an image heavy mode seemingly designed for mobile users. Theyāve also hidden most of the info about production companies and distributors in the IMDbPro pay section. Grumble, grumbleā¦
Tangentially, guess who I encountered while researching this issue. Anyone remember back in May when the Other Place had an article about this āgentlemanā who ran his 18-wheeler into a Nevada Bunny Ranch and one of the understandably upset sex workers logged onto BB to object to the use of the G-word? Well, sheās an IMDb user and has spent a little time on their help forums complaining about the difficulties IMDb presents in updating/accessing their Adult film data.
A quote from Kiteh Kawasaki: āAmericaās sexual self-loathing is deeply disturbing to me as a Japanese. I grew up at Kanayama Shrine where we worship erect phalluses. Thatās my religion. I kid you not.ā
She really should have stuck around.
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I hadnāt noticed the image-heavy mobile-style change yet, but I just use google to search it for info and reviews about specific movies/shows. As for the message boards, without moderation they seemed about on par with Youtube comments.
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The mobile-style change has been around since 2010. If you were a registered user, you could adjust your settings and retain the old reference mode. You can still do that for movies (for a little while at least), but you canāt do it for people anymore.
I rarely used the message boards, and when I did it was almost always for non-mainstream titles which didnāt seem to attract trolls. Perhaps, considered as a whole, the message boards did deserve to go, but I feel rather certain this had to do with the bottom line rather than concerns about content.
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I didnāt use the message boards on IMDB much at all, but they were fun for discussing/heckling movies (I remember having fun trashing Highlander: the Source there.) Iām kinda sad theyāre goneā¦ but I rarely used them.
I donāt think the changes on IMDB have made it more mobile-friendly. I find it harder to get the information I want. Too many hoops to jump through, to the point where Iāve used Wikipedia instead. Itās a real shame.
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I almost never use the internet on my mobile, so I was just going off what others had said. Thatās my story and Iām sticking to it.
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I usually try to Google precisely enough that Iāll hit the page I want, or at least be just one or two clicks away. I donāt use IMDBās own navigation much.
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