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You're asking me why I'm not kind to somebody who has fallen for / is shilling for an absurd scam? I slam the door on Jehovah Witnesses too.

It's as old as law itself, isn't it? From the Code of Hammurabi (translation from wikipedia): > If a merchant should give silver to a trading agent for an investment venture, and h…

Well if that was throwntoday's point, it's a distinction without a difference. The Korean War particularly, despite not being officially declared as a war, came disturbingly close …

Decriminalize piracy for natural persons (not corporations.)

How do otherwise intelligent people come to believe things this stupid? An NFT is a glorified receipt, the most it can possibly do is prove you purchased something but you can alre…

I thought this "end of history" narrative would be dead by now. It's incredibly naive to think that major wars are a thing of the past. The trade/commerce argument against the poli…

> GPS is probably the only useful satellite for the majority of the world, Synthetic aperture radar is incredibly useful to the military [and generally.]

OP link is a video of a discussion panel about a report which you can download a PDF of here: https://www.csis.org/analysis/boost-phase-missile-defense The TL;DW/TL;DR is that boos…

In the context of fighting a war, Kessler Syndrome is a meme. It reduces the expected lifespan of a satellite, but that only becomes strategically relevant if the new lifespan of y…

An attack 80+ years ago does not underscore the need for any reform today, nor for that matter does an attack 20+ years ago. Not unless you think nothing has changed between then a…

This site is excellent, worth a submission of its own.

Maybe Gopher or one of those similar inspired projects is the future after all. Too weird for mass appeal.

evil-mode In other applications I mostly avoid the ctrl-v/ctrl-c and use X's highlighting and middleclicking system instead. When those aren't available, I actually prefer context …

TikTok used to suggest all sorts of long-form articles. Tiktok is all short-form video; a bunch of vapid trash.

Local newspapers don't need cookies to sell ads.

> a rule stating that all takeout food must be packaged or covered > On May 6, 1986 Carmel City Council passed a resolution to enable a rewrite of the ordinance related to eating p…

You have a soul. That's a handicap if you want to keep up with bureaucratic bullshitting.

Evil-mode is incredible, for me Emacs with evil is the best vi-derived editor in the world, beating neovim and vim by miles. But as an ex-Vim user and fairly recent Emacs convert I…

> But Emacs predates CUA by a couple of decades Only a couple of years if you're taking GNU Emacs specifically. About one decade if you're talking about editor macros for TECO.

> basic stuff like CUA I don't care for the defaults either, but I also don't care for CUA, so if you had your way the defaults would be just as objectionable to me as they are now…

> Oh dear.. I'm not going to comment on that. I don't think it's productive. It's simple: Don't tell other people what they did or didn't experience. If you don't understand that, …

Okay, I have two computers on my LAN right now, one running OpenSUSE with KDE and Pulseaudio, the other with Debian and Pulseaudio. I want to send my audio from the OpenSUSE comput…

"Why didn't you just become a pulseaudio dev if you hate pulseaudio so much" Get fucking real, I have better things to do with my life than waste time ingratiating myself with the …