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First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV

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606 points saikatsg | 1 comments | 08 May 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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freetime2 ◴[08 May 25 17:10 UTC] No.43928453[source]▶
The pope is not a subject that typically interests me, but I must admit that I find announcing a decision with changing smoke color rather delightful. I wonder how long ago that started.
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ch4s3 ◴[08 May 25 17:16 UTC] No.43928553[source]▶
The white smoke means there's a pope thing started in 1914[1], but they've been burning the ballots for a very long time.

[1]https://www.history.com/articles/pope-conclave-smoke-color

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nosianu ◴[08 May 25 18:15 UTC] No.43929401[source]▶
Annoyingly, when I go to that page, even from Google where I found that URL too, I end up at the German homepage www.history.de (no path, the main page). I cannot go to history.com no matter what.

I hate "intelligent" websites as much as I like touchpad microwaves, and that means not at all. Why would anyone assume an enforced(!!!) connection between my geographic location and the language-version of the website?

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1. Sharlin ◴[08 May 25 19:42 UTC] No.43930492[source]▶
It's one of the classic falsehoods that programmers (or perhaps more accurately, product managers) believe about localization: that location equals language.