It was a bad day. A lot of bad stuff happened. And I'd love to forget it all. But I don't. Not ever. Because this is what I do. Every time, every day, every second, this: On five, we're bringing down the government.
Wednesday, August 18
An Observation To Be Expanded Upon Later
Not something restricted to the US, either:
On a lighter note, this is why we permit Twitter to exist:
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Monday, August 16
Breathtakingly Inane
This was posted after the Afghan president fled the country.
Update: Democrat voters - at least those who continue to vote thus - are retarded.
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I think what Nancy is trying to say is that we need to send Kamala over to investigate the root causes.
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Posted by: J Greely at Monday, August 16 2021 03:36 AM (ZlYZd)
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At first glance, it seems like you dropped an 's'.
It actually does make sense, when you remember that the Democrats are led by a bunch of deranged, power hungry sociopaths.
Pelosi is fine with the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan, and what they like to do to women and girls, but she remembers the feminists as being her power base, and she doesn't want to outright cheer and give the feminists something they can't ignore. So, get out in front of things with nonsense, and the feminists will look the other way.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Monday, August 16 2021 07:26 AM (DHVaH)
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It is funny watching Ole Nancy steadily getting ratioed, as the kids would say. Even the social media mob is not impressed with Joe and Company.
It is amusing to see how the differently predictable ways the 'correct' are trying to spin the Taliban victory as not the horrible thing it is, but special props for unawareness goes to George Takei, whose vapid and idiotic tweet appeared in my reading circle. I guess he did not get the memo to carefully avoid makings comments that, while attempting save Joe by slamming Trump, could just as fittingly, if not more, end up on Obama (And we can not have that.).
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Wednesday, June 02
Upheld 9-0
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I'm shocked they didn't include some 50-shades &/or Harry Potter in the commentary as well. Could it possibly be that our American judiciary simply isn't well read?
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Thursday, April 22
[tevye]Tradition![/tevye]
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Basic issue here is vicious academic morons taking it upon themselves to be spokesmen for 'our' community.
That was shown to be a profound lie, when certain entities cheerfully burned down a bunch of neighborhoods, while not, to my knowledge, burning down a single faculty office at a university.
There is zero overlap of community between these academic theorists supported in their claims by universities and anyone outside a university.
This particular asshole wants to talk about community self-enforcement or self-regulation instead of formal bureaucratic policing? That is vigilantism. When you explicitly replace formal bureaucratic policing with vigilantism, you explicitly accept the costs of vigilantism.
In a society where blacks and whites are mixed, especially if the ratio is 12%/60% or 14%/70%, the costs of vigilantism will include incidents that this childishly ignorant insane harridan would complain loudly about. If both blacks and whites have freedom of movement, you don't have complete control of which incidents will have white vigilantes seeking revenge, and which black vigilantes seeking revenge.
If you want black communities to be 'free' from policing, without any white vigilantes having access, you need a system of enforced apartheid. Which raises the questions of where the forces enforcing the apartheid will be recruited.
There are two choices for this. 1. Recruiting a segregated force of blacks, outnumbered by whites, and hence having possibility of being overwhelmed if the whites are sufficiently motivated. 2. Recruiting a segregated force of whites.
The advantage of such alternatives over an integrated police force eludes me, but perhaps that is my toxic straight patriarchal whiteness speaking.
There is no 'us' in the United States of America. The people speaking on my behalf do not represent me, whether they are talking about Covid policy, Christianity, white interest, GOP, conservatism, masculinity, etc.
I think that the 'blacks' are likewise not truly backing these sons of bitches in any sort of collective way. If I did think so, I would be obligated to consider the policy implications.
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And the account's now gone private. Probably best for everyone's sanity.
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, April 22 2021 04:17 AM (eqaFC)
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Apparently the lives of teens who try to stab each other don't matter to Bree.
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I'm just going to say: if they really want to go down this road, they're not going to be happy with where it ends up.
Or as Glenn Reynolds puts it: the police are there to protect the criminals from the rest of us.
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Tuesday, February 23
Daily News Stuff 23 February 2021
Minitru Approved Edition
Tech News
- Building ByteDance's censorship machine. (Protocol)
If you're using a Chinese online platform, the Chinese government reads everything you say. If you speak a language the spies don't know, you will encounter technical difficulties until you stop doing that.
- They both blinked. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Facebook is unbanning Australia after some minor amendments to the shitty new link tax legislation. They still have to pay the link tax, they just have more time to negotiate deals before any arbitration is triggered.
- Samsung's S21 Ultra is a brilliant flagship phone but. (AnandTech)
Lacks a headphone socket, has no options for expandable storage, and starts at $1200.
- JPEG XL is JPEG 2000 only good. (Cloudinary)
It supports transparency, overlays, animation (albeit very basic animation), and can be transcoded losslessly from existing JPEG images. That is, both JPEG and JPEG XL are lossy, but there's no additional loss in the conversion.
The sample images show that some of the competing formats - not JPEG XL - have interesting artifacts at high compression levels. That is, they don't look like artifacts; they're not blocky, blurry, or smeared. They just get the details wrong. Flick between the original and compressed version and some of the fine details move.
- JWCC is JSON with commas and comments. (GitHub)
Seems reasonable.
- Concise Encoding is JSON with the lot. (Concise Encoding)
And a fried egg on top and spam.
If you want JSON with the lot, the spec looks good. If you want it in a language other than Go, time to roll up your sleeves.
- Yes you can. (Late Checkout)
Article about Reddit - and how it is undervalued relative to the other social networks - mentions as a glaring flaw that you can't search within a subreddit.
You can. The UI isn't great; you either need to know the syntax, or enter your search and then choose to narrow it to a particular subreddit, but it absolutely works.
Much of the advice given in the article seems similarly wrong. The numbers are interesting, though. Unless they are also wrong. I didn't check.
Disclaimer: r/theydidntdothemath
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Wednesday, January 13
He Has A Point, You Know
Meanwhile...
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Big Tech is like group of entitled children - they want all of the power and privileges of a nation-state, but none of the responsibilities or expenses of one.
The current version of Edge is working nicely for me, except they managed to use a worst way of bringing up favorites than Firefox, Chrome, or even Internet Explorer! One long list, instead of separate boxes for each folder and subfolder, is not a good idea.
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Tuesday, January 12
Some Actual Reporting For A Change
Catherine Herridge from CBS is a national treasure: A reporter in an age of journalists.
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Monday, January 11
China, Working Tirelessly To Make You Feel Better About Whatever Fucked-Up Shithole You Personally Live In
Yeah, them again.
Population change, huh?
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Friday, January 08
Never Mind The Genocide, Feel The Width
Tim Cook hates Donald Trump. But he's just fine doing business with China.
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Yeah. I guess I'm not a sophisticated man, because all that is coming to mind is sarcastic commentary on the age and its standards.
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The cognitive dissonance of the Pro-Chinese advocates and apologists in the thread is nothing short of breathtaking. One of the earlier replies apologizing/excusing for the CCP by rubbishing Islam was especially amusing, given the default attitude such people normally have about that religion.
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Thursday, November 26
Twitter Archipelago
Back in Twitter Jail, which is the nicest part of Twitter to be perfectly frank. That's what I get for moderating my language.
Meanwhile...
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Oh great. Zombie Covid Minx. Next up, giant holographic space sharks with the grippe.
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Time-travelling peanut allergies.
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