This gives China a green light regarding Taiwan.

And gives the OK to Pres Putin regarding his takeover of Ukraine.

@#4 ... This is just a giant heist. Nothing more. ...

The Moon seems to be quite bright tonight.

@#2 ... Launches Unprovoked Attack ...

Taking a cue, apparently, from his puppet-master in Moscow.

@#3 ... That's not a country you want to screw with. ...

I know a couple of Marines.

I once made the mistake of ascribing to one of them that he was a "former Marine." I was respectfully corrected. He said there is no such thing as a "former Marine. I am a Marine."

Yeah, I have heard similar things about Finland.

@#4 ... OK, there were carriage returns inserted into that long string. ...

I should have stated ...

OK, there were carriage returns inserted into that long string by the site, not me

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More from the article ...

... Pentagon referred requests for comment to the White House, which didn't immediately return an email seeking comment. Meanwhile, the Federal Aviation Authority has banned U.S. commercial flights in Venezuela airspace over "ongoing military activity" ahead of explosions in Caracas.

Smoke could be seen rising from the hangar of a military base in Caracas. Another military installation in the capital was without power.

People in various neighborhoods rushed to the streets. Some could be seen in the distance from various areas of Caracas.

"The whole ground shook. This is horrible. We heard explosions and planes," said Carmen Hidalgo, a 21-year-old office worker, her voice trembling. She was walking briskly with two relatives, returning from a birthday party. "We felt like the air was hitting us." ...

@#97 ... I think any non-spaced string over 60 characters starts to push the margins. Possibly the reason the headiness are limited. ...

imo, the headlines of submitted articles are
limited to 60 characters more to avoid
what I call keyboard diarrhea.

:)

@#97 ... I think any non-spaced string over 60 characters starts to push the margins. ...

Please see ...

(now, if only I could get polls to work here ...)

:)

OK, that seems to have triggered the page width problem here.

Note that I had to post the link, without a "h t t p s : / /" prefix during the preview stage of the submission process.

When I posted it during the entry process, the link was reduced to the usual underlined URL link.

But when posted while in Preview, and without the "h t t p s : / /" the link was not processed by the site and, instead, posted win its long form.

The oh so long form. :(

Here's the link that may have triggered issues ...

www.google.com/search?q=empirical++mail+ballot+fraud&client=firefox-b-1-e&hs=rGl9&sca_esv=931119862e0c8ef0&biw=1333&bih=606&ei=DKtYaeXbFvW6qtsP4bWZ8Ac&ved=0ahUKEwjlkfa_0-6RAxV1nWoFHeFaBn4Q4dUDCBE&uact=5&oq=empirical++mail+ballot+fraud&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiHGVtcGlyaWNhbCAgbWFpbCBiYWxsb3QgZnJhdWRIpVhQ1j1Y7EBwAXgAkAEAmAFroAHSAaoBAzAuMrgBA8gBAPgBAZgCAKACAJgDAIgGAZIHAKAHWrIHALgHAMIHAMgHAIAIAA&sclient=gws-wiz-serp

Here's the link that may have triggered issues ...

@#5

Interesting.

The site seems to insert carriage returns for my laptop browser (currently Firefox).

I can read that string no problem here.

On to the next test ...

OK, there were carriage returns inserted into that long string.

Page width remain as expected.

Hmmmm ....

Now, let's try a long text string with no spaces ...

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

OK, that seems to be OK here.

OK a usual text string ...

dsfjwefoiw
fjfwqsf;oijwqf wd;foijswf;lkjqf q;jqs;lkfjsq qlfiqs98ewurwqef n oiwqefoiuef
wqeifwoieufowqiufwoieufw[oieuf[oewqi [ouewfr[poiuwqfw[eoiur

@#92 ... Maybe your giant blockquotes? ...

I cannot say with 100% certainty.

But to my views, it seems the page-width issue started with the #75 comment.

A similar problem has occurred in the past here.

I have not a clue what triggers it.

But my current guess is that it is triggered by long, oh so long,
string of characters with no spaces in the string.

This site cannot properly parse such a string with no spaces,
so it just expands the page width.
[previous few lines shortened manually]

Apparently long strings,like the tracking strings that google places in its links.

@#86 ... But you're typing on a cloud-based system in your house :-) ...

For the sunrise/sunset no one is typng anything.

OK, let me be more specific ...

When my house is running on a generator because power s down, and the Internet is also down, I want this program to continue to work as designed.

OK, that main aspect aside, why should I want to rely upon a cloud that monitors and exploits all I ask of it?

@#84 ... Sunrise and other astronomical data from the command line ...

Here's what I wound up using (with some modifications ...)

OK, I have been trying to create a poll here on this topic.

My efforts were not successful. Quite the contrary, they were frustrating.

At first i had thought that there might be a problem with the security I have installed in my browser (Firefox).

So I went over to my desktop and tried using Microsoft's Edge browser, for which I have nothing but the default install loaded.

In both Firefox and Edge, I was able to create and preview a survey.

But in neither could I save that survey.

There was no explicit error message, but there was a vague comment that I had to link the poll to an entry.

Yet the drop-down menu to allow me to do so did not work in either browser.

So, if I may ask, do polls work here?

If not, why are they on the menu?