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Today's stupid windows trick I'd forgotten.

Sometimes you'll get a window that's locked offscreen - it's shrunk itself into it's own title bar and relocated a million pixels THATAWAY off your screen. You can get it fullscreen with right-click-> Maximise, but you can't get it back *as a window*.

The trick: select the window in the taskbar, and use alt-space to open the traditional "move/restore/maximise/minimise" menu. Select move, then use the KEYBOARD arrow keys for a second. Just a second, it doesn't matter how long or in what direction - all you're doing is making windows know that you've "grabbed" the window.

Then move your mouse. The window, regardless of where it was before, is now located on your mouse pointer. Click to drop it where your pointer is (which is, obviously, on your screen) and resize back to normal to your heart's content.


There's also registry hacks to forget the saved previous position of the window, but fuck those.

Facepalms from here.

USSC rules that refusing to consent to a search of your home doesn't bar the police from making a "consent search" - all they have to do is arrest you after your refusal, take you away, and ask someone else. And that's good enough.

"So, do *you* consent to us searching your home? Keep in mind we just dragged off the last guy who refused."

(To be slightly fair, they weren't arresting him FOR refusing consent. He just refused consent before being arrested, and as the Dissent points out, THAT'S WHAT FUCKING WARRANTS ARE FUCKING FOR.)

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Conservative MP: "You know that time when I said I'd personally witnessed voter fraud actually happening and that's why we need to make it harder for poor people to vote? Uh, yeah, that was a complete lie, I was talking out my ass, it never happened. I made it up. Like all other claims that the purpose of this bill is anything other than to make it harder for undesirables to vote people like me out, it was complete and total bullshit."