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WTF I just posted this quote in another thread like half an hour ago.

The state is a lecher.

Reminds me of one of my favorite stories, from Phaedrus : > Now the king of all Egypt at that time was the god Thamus, who lived in the great city of the upper region, which the Gr…

The inspections. Actually, I think it would be legal to do so, but if the builder sells the home and they don't disclose problems with the house they'd likely be opening themselves…

WTF. I'm fairly certain that would be illegal in my state.

I had this on an old brick phone, but I forgot which brand. You'd triple click the power button and it'd start ringing a few seconds later so you had time to move your hands away f…

Yeah she was so popular they had to rig caucuses in her favor, and superdelegates had to defy their constituents.

Relevant: https://news.utexas.edu/2017/06/26/the-mere-presence-of-your...

Still bitter we never got the chainsaw emoji a few years back.

I thought the issue was duty cycle, and that low refresh rates kept the screen working longer. Has e-ink tech gotten around this?

Yes, and the superdelegates, whose job was to make sure people didn't pick the wrong candidate (how democratic of them), picked probably the least popular politician in America at …

Superdelegates hamstrung the process. Kate Brown for instance, the governor of Oregon at the time (who btw was an unelected governer during that term, as her predecessor had steppe…

This goes back to 2016, when Dems decided it was better to nominate one of the least popular American politicians in living memory than the alternative candidate who had broad work…

The generation raised by iPads are in HS now and American IQ tests scores are in decline, especially in the last 10-15 years.

I've been happy with the One, but two Ethernet ports is definitely not ideal for even casual home use.

Funny because I met quite a few Japanese that liked Trump leading up to his first term. They thought he was really going to fuck with China.

> I hope their experiments with the "OpenWRT One" keep going. OpenWRT Two is scheduled for late 2025 from GL.iNet and should go for ~$250. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4351…

Forth would be neat on an RPN calculator. /random

Seconding this. I'm looking for a fanless industrial mini PC with out of band ECC and I'm having a hell of a time.

America is in love with privatized surveillance, it helps get around that pesky Constitution that prohibits unwarranted search and seizure. "Wipeth thine ass with what is written" …

We've always been at war with Eurasia. Not all threats are external.