Querk [they/them]

Unix people today : “NICE NICE”

Unix people today from 20:28:10 to 20:28:20 GMT : “NICE NICE NICE NICE”

The patent story reveals a lot.

Government:

• creates and enforces a patent system

Also government:

• does essential research and doesn’t patent their own discoveries

Donate to propublica.org - they produce a lot of great journalism.

Well, the far right faction of Republicans did already side with Dems to oust the speaker.

That’s spoiling at that point

Do you think an average person in 13th century had a better quality of life than an average person living in the 21st century?

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/distribution-of-population-between-different-poverty-thresholds-historical

Is that a “random person on the Internet” take or something substantiated?

Most statements I don’t have qualms with, but from my understanding, “liberals embrace ID politics” seems way off. I could see an argument that there’s some kind of split across people who’d identify as or match a typical understanding of a liberal, along the ID politics line, given that it’s so divisive. Id say liberal as a concept existed way before ID politics, do when that became prominent, a lot of people got split along that line. I.e. Far right probably split 90:10, Conservatives probably split 75:25, Liberals probably split closer to 50:50, while social left split 25:75, far left split 10:90 and libertarians split 1:99.

Hey, at least your average, retarded, left take seems to be (at least from my limited experience here) somewhat more palatable than your average, retarded, right take.

Data I’ve seen suggests otherwise. Care to engage with me so that we can figure out where the discrepancy lies?

I had a Smaturday last week.

This describes stealing better than capitalism. And stealing is as old as nature.

I’ll get back to civ when I retire. It can get too life-ruiningly addictive for me.

Engineering: It’s not stupid if it works.

Sounds dope. I wonder if it will bring more clarity or more puzzles. My bet is on the latter. Which is great.

It better be. After all, it was blessed by the Almighty.

You can! And we do! In fact, then you can skip the whole fusion step, since the sun laser is already powered by fusion, and just collect the energy. I think that tech is called soul… Soul-Harp-N-L.

Big if true

What an appropriate homage - linking to one of markdown’s originator’s Wikipedia page using markdown.

“In 2002 Aaron Swartz created atx and referred to it as “the true structured text format”. Gruber created the Markdown language in 2004, with Swartz acting as beta tester … Markdown: Swartz was a major contributor to John Gruber’s Markdown,[249][250] a lightweight markup language for generating HTML, and author of its html2text translator. The syntax for Markdown was influenced by Swartz’s earlier atx language (2002)” from wikipedia

Proof of work “toll” for each request or session seems like a good option.