They’ve literally corporatized everything over there, everything is designed by committee now in hopes to hit as wide an audience as possible. They’d rather not take creative risks and create slop to get number to go up.

Ahh, a ~/.local/opt folder makes so much sense. I’m currently just using a ~/.opt folder, same purpose.

Give the shieet xeet a read to really cringe. “Secretary of War”, “lethal kinetic strike”, “Designated Terrorist Organization” and “narco-terrorists” stand out. They’re really trying to make it sound like they know what they’re doing and presenting it as anything but war crimes.

Did you mean to say a nuclear reactor being delivered by steam engine?
It’s a great photo though, kinda nuts how fast things moved then. It also reminds me of that story of a Chinese train driver standing next to the train he drives a few decades apart, from steam to high speed rail.

The history of insulin is exactly that. Although it’s not attributed to a single person but a few.

How about house them in a way that take away their voting rights and use them as cheap labor? Member how prisoners were used to fight the Palisades fires in January?

That’s a lot of toots to go through. I think they started with the best one though: systemctl start -v to start a unit in “verbose” mode meaning it goes straight into journalctl -f -u mode of the unit you’re starting. Neat.

Shows how fast life goes by. She came out at 40 years old, only got to live 1/3rd of her life as gender she felt was the right one. Her wife, Jennell Jaquays, also a trans woman, died last year in January. Sad story.

I think you’re onto something. My gut tells me it related to car culture, but it could also be some specific cultural entitlement related to something as simple as “the customer is always right” and “have it your way” mentality.
It’d be fun to figure out if this happens elsewhere in the world. I don’t think it happens much in Europe, but I only live in one of the countries, Denmark, and we all have to use a 10 or 20 krone coin (like 1½ dollars and 3 dollars) or a token that fits (often free from the store) to “rent” trolleys and I think that psychologically help give some temporary feeling of ownership of the cart making one more likely to return it.

Aye! I was rummaging around his socials hoping he was on peertube as well, but alas.

Or Haiku 🍂

That “Someone” turns out to just be Action Retro. Classic. But then again, maybe everyone isn’t already watching his wacky content regularly like I am.

Soon there’ll be mail order bride ads like there were in the 90s/00s about women from east Europe, but instead it’ll be women from USA.

We shouldn’t forget about the Bellamy salute. They had to change it of course, but the propaganda is still the same.

Or the “How Much Sawdust Can You Put In A Rice Crispy?” video where they loosely tested how many percent of a rice crispy could be replaced by sawdust.

It wasn’t even close.

How will they spin it this time? Last time with the pagers it was the most ingenious James Bond spy maneuver most of the western MSM had ever seen, while in reality it’s just terrorism.

The Danes

As a Dane myself, assuming the entire country is pro-surveillance annoys me to no end. Just a few weeks ago there was enough signatures to send in a proposal to folketinget to stop this insanity.
It ends with:

Når Rusland indfører masseovervågning, ryster vi på hovedet og kalder det diktatur. Når EU vil gøre det samme, er det “for børnenes skyld” og forventer, at alle bare nikker.

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When Russia introduces mass surveillance, we shake our heads and call it dictatorship. When the EU wants to do the same, it is ‘for the sake of the children’ and expects everyone to just nod in agreement.

Woah, that’s wild. If you run the browser in fullscreen mode (F11) it’s almost like you’re running it on your own machine. Pretty cool service.

Congo coming out of nowhere and projected to grow almost 4 times its current size surprised me. Also, I wasn’t aware of just how many people lived in Ethiopia.
Brazil and Indonesia going down in population seems a bit odd to me.