• Man: Hi, I’m from Pakistan. May I move here?
• Other country: No.
• Man: I guess I’ll have to open a club in Pakistan.

Are you actually using Bash? You might be in a different shell. You can check with echo $SHELL

If some of the traffic (commercial traffic) is more worthy than other traffic (non-commercial traffic), why doesn’t the province institute tolls that would naturally clear the unworthy traffic out of the way of the worthy traffic?

You are defining “communism” to mean not whatever Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and friends did. That’s fine. Repudiating those monsters is great. However, when you do that you might as well call your thing anarcho-something and not “communism” to make it clear that you are not a fan of having a vanguard of idiots seize power and rule on behalf of a dictatorship of the proletariat in order to eventually hope to achieve a communist society by first having a strong central power as a transitional phase.

Keep on not licking the tank treads crushing freedom like the ones that destroyed the Prague Spring of 1968 and the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 and you won’t be called a tankie

I certainly block every .ml community I see and it’s working great for me.

I’m off Twitter and on Mastodon since November 2022. Mastodon is such a chill place once you’ve found people to follow and made sure the trolls are blocked. Staying off Reddit has been harder, but it’s also a shadow of its former self. Lemmy isn’t quite what Reddit used to be, but neither is Reddit these days. Too much noise, not enough signal

What exactly is a permanent ceasefire?

The South Korea-North Korea ceasefire has been in place since 1953

They might be thinking of malware spread on floppy disk or a usb stick. A restarting computer with sus media inserted might have treated them as a boot device back in the day and run the executable code with higher privileges

I would expect smog to block or reflect incoming sunlight, lowering local temperatures

Gnomecore

Moomincore

Yeah, and I’m sure the Kaiser’s Germans wanted a ceasefire on 1918 frontlines

The TreeStyleTab extension for Firefox has added vertical tabs for a decade

More misogynist for this specific angle, but I’m sure there’s a fair bit of misogynoir intersectionality there

It’s surprising to me

It means that in popular usage and there’s no utility in trying to change popular usage

“Awesome” and “awful” used to be synonyms. “Terrible” and “terrific” used to be synonyms. Popular usage is the real definition, not the word origin

Jazz musicians have a name for gibberish talking that sounds real: scat

We have to stop ignoring AI’s scat problem

Gen Alpha has a name for gibberish talking that sounds real: skibidi toilet

We have to stop ignoring AI’s skibidi toilet problem

The private sector takes the profitable popular routes first, which the public system is already serving, meaning the public system would not longer be able to use the fare revenue from the popular routes to subsidize the geographical coverage unpopular ones which are nevertheless needed to get the full network effect

We’ll soon be hearing that only Luddites care about continuity errors

Every gallery in the world did not rush out to exhibit every submitted photograph with no curation or quality filter when photography was invented

Huh, I didn’t know Tunisians felt strongly about their Carthaginian heritage

AI can’t count the number of letters in a word