Tar_Alcaran

The US war of independence started mostly because super rich shipowners didn’t like the idea of tea not having to be transported to London first, but could come directly from India and Indonesia.

That would save a ton of money for the American colonists, but it would cut out all those wealthy shipowners (and smugglers) who ran the London-America routes.

So they lied to the people do their dirty work for them.

I dislike this fact, because I very clearly remember when it was brand spanking new

Yes, but not competent ones.

Let’s hope the destroy themselves before they elect competent fascists instead of this bunch

Exactly. Basically nobody in their 30s can, say, drive a manual car without a synchro, unless they specifically practiced it, because there is zero need to learn that skill. And basically nobody under 20 can set port forwarding on a router because there is basically zero need for that skill.

When I wanted sound on Arkanoid, I HAD to learn IRQ settings, so I did. But now that stuff just works.

Designing a basic nuclear bomb is a piece of cake in 2024. A gun-type weapon is super basic. Actually making or getting the weapon’s grade fissile material is the hard part. And of course, a less basic design means you need less material.

And doing all of that without dying from either radiation poisoning, or lead-related bleeding is even harder.

What? Are you telling me that “baby one more time.mp3.exe” I got off of Napster isn’t actually reliable? Gasp!

Because they have a LOT of money riding on convincing people not to vote blue. Gee, I wonder who benefits from that most.

Actual piracy involves a lot of corpses of mostly innocent sailors, IP violations are a victimless crime.

Correct

What a weird focus on the US democratic party. Every single US government has been doing this exact same thing.

Less than zero

The German thing is a bit different. It’s kind of like if English didn’t have “they” as a neutral alternative, so people use “**e” as way to mean neither “he” nor “she”.

That’s fine in writing, but it looks pretty weird, doesn’t work well in other forms, and you get things like “e gives the ball to h”. It also really doesn’t work outside the written word, because how do you pronounce that?

And I do understand that you don’t want the female form to be the neutral form. If youre genderneutral, it probably feels weird to be constantly adressed as a woman.

With a wooden stick in it half the height of the burger, if you could.

just a few days after Firefox implements the features that have been blocking me from switching for the last few years.

Which are those?

Vibes count as stats, right?

In Dutch “they/them” is “zij”. Which is very annoying, because “she” is also “zij”.

Which means the Dutch genderless pronoun has mostly become “hen”, which is “them” in the dative (3rd) case, which is only rarely used otherwise, and thus available.

So, Putin said “stop defending yourself against us and stop letting countries join you to defend against our aggression, and if you don’t, we’re going to attack someone!”

I kinda meant that if the internet fails for a significant period of time, it’s probably a society-breaking problem that causes logistical issues for the entire world. Pizza will not be a priority.

If the internet goes down, nobody will be doing deliveries. Or making pizza, or driving, really.