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I haven't used any essay-checking or exam-taking software yet. Even so, based on what I've heard from my immediate superior, I'm flagging somewhere between 10-20% of all of the pla…

Only for the purpose of giving additional political representation to southern white men. Otherwise, they weren't people at all.

I try to get away from all that by hosting a site on gopher. Neocities would be another option, if you need the eye candy. I hate social media, going so far as to delete both my re…

There's also a Firefox extension called "Disable JavaScript" that places a JavaScript toggle switch on your address bar and remembers whether you want JavaScript on or off on each …

Agreed. I would have replied earlier, but I've been digitally detoxing for the last few months, so I'm fairly inactive.

I think you misunderstood the comment above yours.

I'm in Western Canada and Greyhound is gone now. A couple of replacement bus lines started up prior to the pandemic, but I don't know if they've survived. I never had a problem wit…

An unbelievable act of humanity, especially since it appears to have been undertaken by a man the French abducted the year before.

That really is the worst thing: that they discovered the cure and then lost it.

This is a good point. They had issues years ago that they had to deal with.

If you want to set up slrn -- as suggested in another post -- I can help. It's not particularly intuitive. I first used Claws Mail and Thunderbird and then set up slrn. I still use…

Go to eternal-september.org, sign up, set up Thunderbird or another NNTP client, and you can experience Usenet today in all its glory. Comp.misc is a good group to start with.

Past definitions of creation were more careful. Most "creation" in the past involved transforming matter. No one ever "created" matter (well, except God in their intellectual unive…

I agree that a liberal society and the profit motive create an environment that fosters creativity. Freedom of movement between jurisdictions is important too. But people are down …

This is completely speculative, but Suncor was filthy rich in 2011, so a temporary stoppage wouldn't have hurt the bottom line too much. Also, because of the Royal Tyrrell Museum, …

Speaking of great little BBS-like communities, Solderpunk is actually the admin of zaibatsu.circumlunar.space.

There is! I read this on a gopher mirror of the Hacker News, so I thought I'd better come on over to the web version to respond... In fact, several regular gopherites have commente…

For those who are interested in The Day the Universe Changed, you can find copies of the episodes at the internet archive or on Dailymotion. It really is well worth watching.

If you read the Globe and Mail (Liberal) and National Post (Conservative), you'll see a similar -- though not quite as extreme -- phenomenon.

I remember playing that game at the arcade as a kid. It was a lot of fun. If I recall correctly, some versions (or levels?) had pretty intense gravity effects.

I don't know, but I was really happy when I found it too. See you on the oldschool side...

You can register with eternal-september.org for a free usenet account. Then you can set up Thunderbird, Claws Mail or another email app (even slrn or alpine on the linux command li…

I still hang out on usenet. comp.misc has a great little community -- and most of the discussion revolves around stories that are also found in places like HN, Slashdot, Soylent Ne…