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Lemmy and the Fediverse as a whole is a microcosm that doesn’t make much of a difference one way or the other. We can stab at the tankies all we like, but it wasn’t their influence in the Fediverse that caused the result, even if they did manage to hoodwink a few into voting for fake tan man.

Fears grow? Really? That’s what it’s been about for decades at this point.

Who knows what data type they’re using. Based on the values given, it’s already getting close to 128 bits, and most languages don’t have a data type that large in their standards.

I figure it will be more like “Vasily! Print another page of zeros!”

Yeah, Usenet was where it was at back at the turn of the millennium. Then again, I had access through a university. Access wasn’t free outside of places like that.

ISPs were spotty on coverage because even at that time, they needed at least a terabyte of storage to dedicate to it, and still not be able to cover everything that was on there. Of course, they might’ve got away with less if they decided not to carry the binaries newsgroups…

The way it worked was a lot like how Fediverse federation works now, or similarly, filesharing. It was possible to be reading a thread of messages and the older ones wouldn’t be available on your local/ISP news server because their space had been recycled for newer data.

If you were lucky, your attempt to access that message might cause your host to grab it on a future request to upstream hosts or peers, but some Usenet messages are completely lost to time because everyone purged them.

Google buying Dejanews, the largest archive of all messages, and merging it with the travesty that was (and still is) Google Groups just about killed the whole thing.

For those interested in getting into listening to internet radio, see also: https://dir.xiph.org (Icecast network) and https://directory.shoutcast.com (Shoutcast network), both of which have been around for ~25 years at this point if the domain registry is anything to go by. Definitely in their current forms for over a decade.

Caveat: Lots of commercial content and stations, which is, of course, antithetical to Fediverse ideology. Still worth a look if you can’t (yet) find what you want in the Fediverse.

(There’s also http://radio.garden which has a very pretty interface but has multiple negative points: in-browser only, needs a lot of JavaScript access to station-associated domains on a per-station basis, is HTTP(no S)-only and may not work for stations outside your own country.)

How to make it through school in China: Write the name Xi Jinping as the answer to every question. You cannot be marked down for doing this as Xi Jinping is never wrong.

Yep. If it wasn’t for the racist vote, Brexit would not have happened. That particular wedge of the pie was just enough to get it over the 50% mark.

Sure, you could argue for other wedges also being responsible if you order them differently, but, you know, racism is a pretty nasty one and given the context, it seems like the right one to point to as a culprit.

There, the spectacular drug is a BAC of 1%.

The terrain in Panama didn’t support it either.

Either way, my comment is accurate up to the word Gaza, “and then” or not.

That’s only part of the plan. The full plan is remove every last Palestinian from Gaza and then shove a canal through it. The other end will be at Elat, thus providing a western-controlled alternative to Egypt’s Suez.

There would be far more humanitarian ways of going about this, but murder is quicker and silences dissent.

You’ll notice that Jordan hasn’t been touched during any of this. Got to keep them onside because their port city of Aqaba is uncomfortably close.

You still have the bowl, Milhouse.

I know Tutu was Anglican. It’s just that he fairly frequently appeared in the news here (Britain) and given where Tutu was, his rank, and what he stood for, I imagine that might have been enough to unnerve the person I was talking about.

There’s also that Tutu was often used humour and was joyful, and the idea of that being scary to people who might think poorly of him is kind of funny to me.

A religious man I once knew reckoned the world would end if we ever had a black pope. Consequently, I kind of want to see that happen before they quit. (He wasn’t talking about the position sometimes known as “black pope” either. He definitely meant a man of recent African descent.)

I like to think the idea of Desmond Tutu gave him the creeps.

I’ve heard it said that Austria’s greatest trick was allowing the world to believe that that guy was German and that Mozart was Austrian.

Edit: I’ve been informed that I may have misremembered. See reply.

I was right about the dangerous fellow though.

Paid healthcare does exist here. We call it “private healthcare”, and there’s usually a regular subscription fee if not also insurance. I’m sure for those of us who have that, there are plans where you get vaccines thrown in as a “freebie”, but those people are probably paying more than £100 every six months for the privilege.

Why does God need men to do His killing?

Was this man killed in a way pleasing to God or only to the men who performed the killing?

Do the killers presume to know the mind of God?

That sounds awfully blasphemous to me.

The reason people aren’t bothering is that we’ve gone all USA healthcare with regard to the vaccines. If you want one, find a pharmacy that will provide one and be prepared to cough up at least £40. And be sure to shop around and/or be prepared to travel because some places charge £100.

A whole lot of people don’t have even the low end of that kind of money, even if “the right thing to do” would be to make sacrifices - like, say, go cold or hungry for a couple of weeks, how hard could that be? - in order to make sure they get it. And then do the same again every six months from now until something else kills them.

And even if someone has £100 to spare, that’s a lot of money that could be spent on something other than feeling like crap for three days.

There are exemptions (i.e. free vaccines) for those over 64, the infirm, and health workers, but the rest of us can suck it, apparently.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55045639

My use of “rent” in quotes was not to imply that no payment was being made, but that “rent” isn’t quite the right word in that context.

Sorry for the confusion.

The way I read it (specifically the Reuters link provided elsewhere), it’s the total cost of upkeep, not just any “rent” to China. The fact they’re on loan makes them an easy target for sending elsewhere to cut costs. Other animals might not have anywhere quite so easy to go back to.

A treaty that died the moment Russian tanks crossed the border.

Not saying Ukraine have nukes, nor that they should have them, but if they did, they wouldn’t be in violation of that particular treaty.