[-] palordrolap@kbin.run 91 points 2 days ago

The way things are going, libraries themselves will be outlawed.

[-] palordrolap@kbin.run 19 points 2 days ago

"Homelessness is a direct political choice."

Talk about a quote that can be read both ways.

[-] palordrolap@kbin.run 1 points 2 days ago

It's complex I guess. There's a stereotype that doing a good deed in China usually ends up backfiring on the doer of the deed.

Here she died and was praised, but then, the backfire had already taken effect.

We could conclude from this that the only correct way for a Chinese citizen to do a good deed is to die in the process.

Then note that the praise could be not for doing the deed but for saving whatever other forces are at play from having to provide the backfire.

The hard part is determining the shades of truth of all the various aspects here.

[-] palordrolap@kbin.run 6 points 2 days ago

You'll forgive me if I ever-so-briefly misread your boilerplate link as "And then I woke up."

[-] palordrolap@kbin.run 11 points 3 days ago

No, this is an actual irony.

Humanity is unable to remember, for any length of time, a fact about whether goldfish can remember things for any length of time.

[-] palordrolap@kbin.run 9 points 3 days ago

thatsthejoke.gif

[-] palordrolap@kbin.run 7 points 3 days ago

Ironic, isn't it?

[-] palordrolap@kbin.run 22 points 3 days ago

Ah, an excuse to attack an organisation that worships something other than Mighty Xi and the CCP.

Using children as the pawns too. Masterful.

[-] palordrolap@kbin.run 7 points 3 days ago

anaemic* (Sorry, that bothered me for some reason.)

As for capture groups, you'll have to find another way. Perversely, perhaps BusyBox continues to be included on certain systems because they know that the extra space is required for the code that works around BB's shortcomings. That sounds asinine until you realise that "solving the problem properly" most likely leads to that one XKCD comic about the proliferation of competing standards.

At worst, multiple sizes of BusyBox itself.

[-] palordrolap@kbin.run 14 points 3 days ago

The real punishment ought to be an atomic wedgie. For everyone who was a C-level for more than a month at that company in the last 10 years.

This ought to be the punishment for a lot of unethical business practices. You can't delegate that to a customer's wallet.

[-] palordrolap@kbin.run 20 points 4 days ago

I've said this before and I'll say it again: There are better things to attack Trump for than how he looks, what physical conditions he has or how he smells.

At face value, those sorts of things have little effect on the ability to run a country well.

Even his hair is a better target because how he wears it would appear to show vanity, a quality that might actually interfere with stable management. That's still a relatively big stretch without other evidence (of which there would appear to be plenty) though.

Attack his ideas, his intents, his politics. He makes this easy enough, right? Start there.

"LOL u smel" is something you expect in the playground. Something Trump himself might use, perhaps.

We have to be better than that.

[-] palordrolap@kbin.run 30 points 4 days ago

For "academics" read "two guys we found in the cafeteria at a local university" unless otherwise specified.

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