It was definitely pitched in western media as something we should all fear. I just found it funny that everything that they tried to scare us with (“it might be used to determine whether you get a job or can rent an apartment!”) applied equally to our credit scores.

E: So, yeah, completely agree.

Remind me, were we supposed to be disgusted and afraid of the Chinese social credit score system because it included woke BS like how nice you are to others, and how things you do improve society, rather than just laser-focusing on the only important thing— whether your existence can be monetized by rich assholes?

Waiting for all of the MAGA celebration as a celebrity learns to shut up about politics. In 3, 2, 1…

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That’s nothing! All countries starting with a letter can be mapped onto the surface of an oblate spheroid.

That’s what inspired me to write it. Hearing the song on the radio, I could only just imagine what would happen if Frosty ignored the traffic cop now that police have become power-tripping thugs.

An ADF file is just a track-by-track dump of the raw bytes stored on an Amiga floppy disk. It may or may not contain a filesystem. The early versions of AmigaOS used what was retroactively dubbed Old FileSystem (OFS). Later OS versions used the Fast FileSystem (FFS), which also supports hard disks. Games used their own, custom filesystems, if they used one at all.

The Linux kernel has supported OFS and FFS since the early days. However, AmigaOS is very flexible and modular, and many programmers wrote their own filesystems, and released modules that the OS could read from a disk’s boot block. The Linux kernel code can’t read those, because nobody has ported the filesystem code.

This new FUSE driver takes a different approach, and reads the AmigaOS module from disk, and executes the m68k code, in order to read the filesystem. Very cool.

The Professional File System (PFS) is widely used on contemporary Amiga systems, so it will be very nice to have native support on the Linux side in order to share files. It’s less useful if all you want to do is run classic games in an emulator.

There’s 7digital, which has a music store offering DRM-free MP3 downloads, as well as FLAC for many selections.

Astonishing to people who were not paying attention. American democracy was like a tree hollowed out by bipartisan rot for decades. This regime is the windstorm that finally toppled it.

þese sounds are already represented wiþ þe þorn

Agreed, English orthography doesn’t match pronunciation very well, but what’s the point of changing th to þ if it doesn’t improve that situation? In this phrase, the thorn represents two different phonemes: While terminal th may be pronounced as þ (voiceless) or ð (voiced) depending on the English dialect, for example, ðe would be a different word than þe. Adding a new letter to the alphabet just to replace a perfectly-serviceable digraph would just add another letter to the alphabet.

If we’re gonna bother, I’d say sort out the c / k / ch situation instead.

R is rhinoceros (serpentine variant)

Funny story, suburbia is systemic government slop that destroys individuality, too.

That’s the way you feel. Other people feel that a country in which the political duopoly supports genocide isn’t worth saving. Their opinion is just as valid as yours at the polling place, so if you want to see that nation saved, it’s on you to convince them to vote for your party.

By maybe not having it support genocide.

Hypothetically. The numbers show that genocide almost certainly was not a deciding factor in the election. Continuing to bang that drum, and blame imaginary voters, well, provides some strong hints about why your side lost.

As to Hinduism, see the example of India today. Specifically, the Hindutva movement, which is often considered fascist, or at least fascist-adjacent.

I’ll take your word for it, because it would be awfully hard to compare it to other billiard balls after we’d asphyxiated from the atmosphere dissipating into space.

Those look very similar in style to the 5-over-1s being built all over the United States. Four floors good, ten floors bad? Or does “left-wing architecture” refer to leaving the trees instead of paving every square inch of outdoor space for parking?

FWIW, a lot of the bougie drinks (fancy soda water, juices, pre-mixed cocktails, etc.) now come in 330mL cans, probably because at 11.7 fl oz, it’s a form of shrinkflation. And those mini cans of soda are technically 222mL.

Also, do note that a U.S. customary pint is different than an imperial pint. (You get 20% more beer in Britain.)

I mean, the private sector was by needs involved, because a space program requires industrial supply chains, and those were mostly private. They never would have achieved it without collective, government action. (Even SpaceX only exists because of NASA.) Saying that “capitalism did it,” when it manifestly did not, because of oversimplifications like “capitalist US” is misleading. At best, capitalist in that use is synecdoche. At worst, it’s political woo woo, since the US is far from pure capitalism.

Derpy headline. It’s cars causing the traffic backup. I know that this is a very difficult concept for many drivers to grasp, but it’s so obvious even a child in kindergarten can see it: There are traffic backups in plenty of places with no mobile speed cameras, probably even in that very Colorado Springs school zone. Yet there are no traffic backups in places with no cars.

Just like scented candles in the bathroom. Great, now it smells like Summertime Rain and shit. 🤮

Connections Puzzle #920
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Funny how the difficulty of this puzzle varies so much between people. I had green and yellow on the first read-through, which made blue a snap, but I’m still not clear on WTF purple was.