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Cake day: November 15th, 2023

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  • I get your point, but, no.

    Finding out who he’s planning on damaging is important. But an article that starts with “Trump says…” is already too conciliatory.

    Every article reporting Trump’s insanity should be written appropriately: “In full damage-control mode Trump tries to pretend his name may have been planted in Epstein files.”

    “Trump violates the constitution again, in claim that…”

    “Despite ruling from superior court judge, Trump pushes ahead with illegal kidnappings.”

    This is what the media needs to do, and every time they don’t, it’s a failure that doesn’t deserve our attention.





  • I think you missed the point.

    Trump won’t release them because his name (and others in the GOP) is all over it and he could be facing actual prison time.

    The Democrats didn’t because…well, we know that Clinton at least was involved with Epstein. I’m sure many others were as well.

    Besides which, other powerful people outside of politics are likely to have put strong pressure on the US to keep them locked up (e.g. Prince Andrew).

    The problem isn’t one party or the other, and it’s not that “all parties are the same,” but in this particular case it IS almost guaranteed that too many people are named and shamed for any group in power to release them.



  • The premise of a web business model is that websites must make a profit - either directly or indirectly.

    That’s utter bullshit. Some of us are old enough to remember when the web (or for that matter, the pre-web internet) was there for sharing of information, social interaction, and community. Schools, the government, and nonprofits provided hosting for free.

    Later on, ISPs started to add hosting as part of their internet service - along with usenet access and an email address. The cost to them was negligible, especially vs. the benefits of being able to say “switch to us and create your own website!”

    Nowadays you can run a site from your home PC in a VM, punch a hole through your firewall, and pay a modicum for DDNS to a custom domain for under a hundred bucks a year. If you’re a bigger site with more traffic, maybe you spin it up on AWS and pay ten or twenty bucks a month.

    The very idea that “The Web” is a homogeneous, for-profit entity is a profound and fundamental mistake that is made by every money-obsessed organization around - not just the financial rags like Forbes and The Economist, but essentially corporations as well. Take a look at the support site for your favourite product and try to convince yourself that they didn’t just put the minimum required effort in to send customers into the arms of their competitors.


  • Nope. For some stupid reason, Canada pays servers passably (not great) but has almost exactly the same tip culture of the US.

    Here when it’s time to pay, they bring a wireless machine to your table. You punch in the tip you want, and then either tap or insert your card to pay. A receipt printer is built-in, so you can get your paper as well.