The protest was not only about the social media ban, people didn’t give away their lives for a “social media company”, no matter what some imbeciles claim, this is also parroted by international news agencies. Nepal has a culture of corruption centered around the three major parties that has achieved a crescendo with a slew of outrageous bills (some of the more egregious being: tracking all movements of tourists, ministers getting to set their own pay, removing age limits for public posts), the straw that broke the camel’s back was the ban on social media with their vague requirements that was clearly a way to impose control. And by the way, they didn’t shoot adults, they shot and killed kids that came from school with their bags still on them, who are still unidentified by the way.

I’d even add that even if this were only protesting the social media ban, it would be totally valid unless you like being cucked by your government. You yourself and the community should be an agent in controlling one’s problems surrounding things like social media not your government that thinks you don’t have enough agency for it.

Google’s control over the internet will harm all users as they scram further to find places where profit can be squeezed more and more until they’re functionally bankrupt.

I’d say there is some truth in that; Russia has gained momentum and Pokrovsk will very likely fall soon — Europe isn’t aiding Ukraine because it cares about the people there, let’s establish that, they’ve shown their humanity with Gaza, they have their own imperialistic aims — to prevent this they need American support —more so since Russia’s state run military complex is outdoing the EU’s production combined — which will, in my opinion, only start another American war that never goes anywhere, only bringing suffering to Ukrainians. Ukrainian army’s morale is down, at least from what I hear, recruitment is forced, protests are breaking out, Zelensky isn’t getting re-elected after the war ends and he says he won’t give one inch of land; the war will persist, should he surrender? I don’t know, I’m not the Ukrainian people, but I don’t know what else they can do right now. I just hope the Ukrainian people won’t suffer.

Privacy has been dead since the NSA decided it can do whatever the fuck it wants to harvest user data. This is just making it conspicuous while it goes alongs its preordained path of exacerbation.

Je suis en train d’apprendre le français aussi. J’espère que je comprendrai cette langue bientôt et que je pourrai écrire un paragraphe plus long. J’espère que vous passez un bon moment avec cette langue.

He saw a donkey eating figs and suggested that it should be given wine as well

Hirohito rolling in his grave

function seesv
    column -s, -t < $argv[1] | less -#2 -N -S
end

I used this a lot when I had to deal with CSV files — it simply shows the data in a nice format. It’s an alias for the fish shell by the way.

Electrocuting elephants has gone out of fashion, now it’s killing monkeys with brain implants.

What is the endgame here? They certainly can’t be delusional enough to assume that killing civilians or bombing facilities will ingratiate them with the Iranian people to overthrow the government or even making the government surrender; how many more people will they radicalize through this process? How many more lives do they want to destroy? When will the middle east have peace?

It’s like in Catch-22 when Lieutenant Scheisskopf thinks that it’s in vogue to march with your arms barely moving, and no one knows any better.

Just like they liberated Afghanistan from Taliban…

I’ve found that many of these solutions/hacks block legitimate users that are using the tor browser and Internet Archive scrapers, which may be a dealbreaker for some but maybe acceptable for most users and website owners.

Nietzsche and out of context excerpts, you can’t possibly name a better pair.

It isn’t bad, it’s just the type of answer you’d see on reddit. I don’t know what i’d do, frankly.

Call as many political scientists and scholars as possible

This is the most reddit answer

Which is more or less like the reddit situation. “We will have a mass exodus as with digg!”, they say only to return back in a week or so.

Holden is nothing more than an angsty privileged teenager who is angry at the world

While that is true, you do have to consider that he is

I have no clue as to how that book got so famous. Ernest Cline writes like a redditor…

I once read an article praising the 1913 edition of the Webster’s dictionary and I have been using it ever since (in the form of GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English). That with etymonline makes the reading experience quite pleasant.