If you ask Americans about socialist policies without mentioning parties or ideology, then they overwhelmingly support them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’m learning Chinese now and it seems to have a similar change in pitch as European languages when asking a question. 你说汉语吗？

I thought the same thing. In the Netherlands it’s not allowed to have realistic looking toy weapons. I basically think that’s a good thing.

I highly recommend the Alt Right playbook:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJA_jUddXvY7v0VkYRbANnTnzkA_HMFtQ&si=__UZVQ3cmJRDigR3

Is that a problem? Is there a special reason these should be replaced?

I have literally never seen one that’s clear about this.

For popular stuff I stop seeding when I’ve uploaded 10x the download size. For other stuff I keep it uploading forever.

100 Gbit? Is there even such a thing as a 100 Gbit link? I want to know more!

I use Consent-o-matic.

Meh. I lose power every 3 or 4 years on average. A UPS just doesn’t make sense for me. (When I lived in Virginia it was once a month on average, so for sure it made sense…)

I wanted to buy music, but a CD that I got in the 00’s had some “protection” so that I couldn’t rip it and listen to it on my MP3 player.

Now, I ripped it from a Linux computer and had no problems, but was so upset that the record companies tried this. I realized that it’s not about right or wrong, but just about power and money.

Godzilla was from 1954!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla_(1954_film)

Definitely worth watching.

https://archive.org/details/BigGMovies

That was a wild ride!

DuckDuckGo-ed

I feel like we have a lot less reporting of the Trump drama of the day than in the past. It’s still a lot and still way too much, but less?

The purpose of the UN is so that nuclear powers have a forum to talk, instead of, you know, ending all human life on the planet.

Everything else is just sort of stuff that came along once you had all the countries of the world sitting around realizing that they should do something once they’re in the same room.

The President can declassify anything, apparently, so he wouldn’t need to sell any classified documents, just ask for bids on which to declassify.

Not the human rights of Lego, rather the human rights of suspects or accused people.

IIRC Osama bin Laden had three reasons for 9/11. One was non-Muslim soldiers in Saudi Arabia (he was salty because Kuwait asked the US for aid against Iraq and not the Taliban). The other was Israel. I don’t recall the third off the top of my head.

The biking culture in Amsterdam is fine. The problem is tourists standing on the seperate bicycle lanes - colored red, with pictures of bicycles on them - and thinking that they are being assaulted when a cyclist rings their bell to wake them out of their cannabis-induced stupor so they can get to work.

Fat bicycles modified to go faster than 25 km used to be a problem, but they get stolen so quickly now it’s less of an issue. 😆