precisely. a fucking shame.

i always thought that some canadians do get sarcasm.

China is an entire economy built on intellectual property thievery and slave labor.

so, just like the united states when it suited them, no? do read about united states in nineteenth century once. oh, and: you do realise that slavery in some circumstances is still legal in the u.s.?

it’s a bloody biweekly caliper gentlemen’s club meeting in the replies there

“don’t imitate other people’s accents, it’s rude”. less than 10 words.

i would swear that in an earlier version of this message the optimal batch size was estimated to be as large as twenty.

maybe try to learn from the past

we did. you just don’t listen.

the aggrieved attitude of “but i am a socialist” is really adorable.

(it’s programming dot dev again, isn’t it?)

stalinists, like pigeons, are gonna shit over every place where they congregate. it is a pity that they have half the brain and quarter of the cuteness of the pigeons though.

…and that’s one of the dudes personally invited to the site by its main moderator (see, the public invite trees can be useful sometimes).

there’s this lovely nostalgic thread by the very dude working for baikal, and you can play the game “spot the serb in the thread without looking at the names”.

ironic eugenics is genocidal the same way

there is no unobjectionable eugenics

tbh i would not call richard hanania “an ex-white nationalist”; he’s a white supremacist through and through and never stopped, also, freddie deboer is as far to the left as the late unlamented gregor strasser, and probably much less.

and even with these caveats, it’s a pretty damning piece, even if every other careful reader is probably aware that siskind engages in whitewashing scientific racism and white supremacy for fucking decades.

…or just use the qrencode’s -t ANSI256 or -t ANSI256UTF8 output format and read your qr code directly from terminal.

oh, it’s like russia’s idea of ukrainian and belarussian. fucking orphans of the empires…

and perhaps a little bow to lem’s “cyberiad” (automateusz, translated as automatthew, from the story automatthew’s friend)

whee, i missed that one completely. it seems that some over-eager hachyderm mod suspended @dgerard@awful.systems 's account. nothing that can be done on our side. (unfortunately i don’t have a backchannel to the hachyderm mods).

thank you, that’s perfectly awful :-)