This goes back to the days of AOL chat rooms, where they shut down forums for breast cancer survivors because they said “breast”.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/1995/12/02/america-online-admits-error-in-banning-word-breast/

Woo hoo!

You don’t need one. Translators are good at their job.

🦊

The 45 RPM adapter is this already, between generations.

Fascists lie.

As a reminder, Eich was turfed from Mozilla for joining an anti-LGBT hate campaign (and thus alienating a whole lot of developers, sponsors, and users); and his So Brave browser pushed NFTs and stole money via referral fraud.

exploiting the fact that literacy among blacks was lower

That wasn’t the exploit. The exploit was twofold:

1. Whites didn’t have to pass the literacy tests. For instance, in some states any man who could show that his grandfather had voted, was assumed to have the right to vote, without having to take a literacy test. This is the origin of the terms grandfather clause and to be grandfathered in.
2. The literacy tests were rigged with trick questions, geometry puzzles, and outright nonsense questions; so they did not effectively test literacy anyway!

Levitating. Ballistic. Catastrophe. Incandescent. Shivering. Sultry. Sauté.

Congratulations … you’ve trained a generation of junior product managers.

First step: Find a country with a navy competent to defend your undersea cables.

If you don’t want to be treated the way Stalinists treat dissenters, don’t voluntarily put yourself in places where Stalinists set the rules.

Stone two birds with one hit.

Tankies are against good things, because good things make the world more pleasant, and if the world becomes more pleasant then the people are less likely to want to destroy it.

Or an improv troupe, really.

Call me basic, but Captain America has been beating up Nazis for a long time.

Cobain died in April 1994.

The first Slackware Linux release was in July 1993. Debian Linux¹ 0.9 came out in January 1994; SuSE Linux launched in March 1994.

So yes, Kurt could have used Linux.

But he probably would have had to install it from floppies.

¹ It wasn’t called Debian GNU/Linux until later; see the 1994 revision of the Debian Linux Manifesto.

As a wise man once said — everybody must get stoned.

Case in point, Microsoft’s water use shot up from 6.4 million cubic meters in 2022 to 7.8 in 2023, in large part due to the “construction of more data centers.”

By way of comparison, the California almond industry uses 3.5 billion cubic meters of water per year. Describing datacenters as using “astronomical amounts of water” is a plain and simple lie.

Moreover, datacenters can be cooled with water that’s not suitable for most other uses. Google’s Finland datacenter is cooled with seawater, for example.

She’s not gonna pick you up, Phil, she’s just stopping for the iguana.