I suppose they meant that it slows down their internet, not the internet

I doubt he’s that open-minded. He’s one bottle of whiskey away from suggesting concentration camps for minorities and “woke” people

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This but unironically

The Usenet post I linked to claims it’s originally from the 1st quarter of 1990, but who knows if that’s accurate or not. I actually can’t find a good source for whether Stumpf is the original author or just the one who posted it to rec.humor.funny.reruns, but it’s usually attributed to him at any rate.

But yeah, fairly ancient by internet standards. I remember first running into it in the 90’s

Fuck, that explains a lot

I’m definitely getting pickier as I get older. Back in my 20’s I went through all the Dune books, including the ones written by Frank’s son which are… well, even worse. Doubt I could do it now. Probably the same with Foundation too if I tried reading them again.

Cavemen generally didn’t have alarm clocks

Climate change shouldn’t even be a PoLiTiCaL issue, but fucking reich-wingers have made agreeing with reality into a political issue

Even without the analogy I’m not sure what the original point is

Pretty sure he had a stroke writing this

Unfortunately no

Still not dead

Because ADHD I usually have at least 4 books underway at the same time.

• I’m just about to finish Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson.

• I just started Piranesi by Susanna Clarke.

• I’m also reading A City on Mars, a nonfiction book by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith.

• I started re-reading the Area X trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer, I think I’m still in Annihilation.

• I also started re-reading Dune by Frank Herbert, but honestly it’s such a slog that I think I got halfway through before getting frustrated. The worldbuilding may be interesting but holy shit is Herbert’s writing turgid.

“Free speech” platform where you get banned if you use the words “cis” or “weird”

Huh, interesting. Probably not “fine” though since if she’s at Gold / Int Base she’s probably being held against her will, considering that the whole base is sorta built around being like a prison compound and they even have private security “pursuit teams” to hunt down escapees.

Edit: not to say that everybody at Int is being held against their will, but it’s where eg. The Hole is so if somebody is being held, Int is probably where they’d be

I bet David had her killed years ago. They own the cops so nothing ever comes of the investigations

Hey don’t worry, neither will a lot of us Europeans who have had to live under right-wing governments. Reich-wingers love to emulate the US

“The narrative” that everybody should have voting rights?

Oh no, the horror!

A rotary notary, if you will