To be able to see what and how much exactly a penguin eats after a single fishing dive, the quickest way to do so is to force-pump water down its throat. The penguin is then held firmly, preferably under the armpit like a bagpipe and aimed at a nearby bucket. Pressure is then applied to the bloated penguin's stomach.

An alternative method is to force pump salt water instead, leaving the penguin to vomit everything out on its own. This is however can be more stressful to the bird than the former method, so isn't too common.
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I was in Kosovo, and a common saying about the US soldiers was "Do not trust a yank with a gun or a uniform, and for the love of humanity, do NOT trust a yank with both"
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"It's hard to tell whether he has an ace up his sleeve or if the ace is missing from his deck altogether."
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"The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war"

- Julian Assange, 2011
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these. -- Ovid (43 B.C. - A.D. 18)
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There's an old saying that, unfortunately, got deprecated by disuse: "If you know to bark so well, why did you get a dog?"
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How ill my fear they by my mercy scan,

Beware the fury of a patient man.
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x3blah on May 3, 2020 [-]

Incidentally, "Netscum" is a reference to Netscape Communications Corporation. They introduced SSL. This company was founded to commercialise a web browser, called NCSA Mosaic, that was originally co-written by venture capitalist Marc Andreesen of a16z.com as part of an academic project at U. of Illinois. The name "Mosaic" refers to its support for a variety of internet protocols, not all of them web-based. Netscum code-named their derivative browser "Mozilla", marketed under names like "Navigator" and "Communicator".
Fearing the growth of the web, Microsoft acquired rights to use the NCSA Mosaic code and produced a derivative browser called "Internet Explorer", which they included as part of Windows.

As web use grew, Mozilla Foundation, who inherited rights to publish the Netscape source code, added a "search box" to their derivative browser called "Firefox" and started directing search queries to Google, receiving large payouts in return. Mozilla Corporation was formed.

Google later hired developers from Mozilla to write another derivative browser called "Chrome".
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"I have yet to find a person that says C programming is fun." - Chuck Moore
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In the old days we invented gods to worship who we pretended lived in the heavens, and we talked about miracles and divine intervention. Now we invent gods who live right here on earth, and we talk about profit margins and market forces.
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Facing wine (one) should sing (for who knows) how long (one's) life will be?
Such as morning dews, past days are bitterly so many (while future ones are few.)
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Under Capitalism, man exploits man. Under Communism, the opposite is true.
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Capitalism, for all its virtues, tends to instill a preference for mere optimization in its subjects; the shadow of utility blots out the impetus for Glory.
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"We are on a chess board. You are on the White Squares; I am on a Black Square. --Michael David Crawford"
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So I've had a lot of fun, 50 years worth of fun.
It hasn't been... Well I started the same time as Bill Gates.

He took a different strategy. He was selling an operating system, and I didn't believe in operating systems. I was selling applications. I could only sell as many applications as I could program -- or as Forth Inc. could program. Boy did I miss the boat there.

We could have sold Forth as an operating system, as a programming language, as a development system. And we didn't. So, I guess he deserves the 50 billion dollars or 100 billion or whatever he's got.
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You know you're living under an empire with the most sophisticated propaganda machine that's ever existed when it can lie about literally every war it's ever been involved in and then when you say they're lying about the latest war people still act like you're a paranoid lunatic.
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 The monster isn't hiding under the bed, it's staring us right in the face and we're looking all over the room except where it's standing because to meet its gaze would obliterate our world.
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The US government is not afraid that unauthorized publication of government secrets will lead to Americans being killed, it's afraid it will lead to their knowing the truth.
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One thing I have learned is when to write and when NOT to write comments.

Comments should NOT explain how the language works, or some little known feature of the
language is being used here.

Comments SHOULD explain the thought process (not the algorithm, nor the code flow, etc).
What the code statements do should be obvious. (Although it is possible to write genuinely
bad code in any language.) What comments should explain is the WHY. The higher level
purpose. What is NOT obvious from just looking at the code.
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The harsh fact is that few people know what to do with a computer. - Chuck Moore
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"Education is a good thing. But its lack is not the root cause of buggy software; lack of experience is. Software is never rewritten. Projects last longer than expected; programmers get bored or burned out; management moves on the newer challenges. The attitude of 'good enough' reflects reality.
Instead of being rewritten, software has features added. And becomes more complex. So complex that no one dares change it, or improve it, for fear of unintended consequences. But adding to it seems relatively safe. We need dedicated programmers who commit their careers to single applications. Rewriting them over and over until they're perfect. Such people will never exist. The world is too full of more interesting things to do.
The only hope is to abandon complex software. Embrace simple. Forget backward compatibility. A simple word processor is easy. Would anyone learn to use it? It seems that there's a window of willingness to learn to type. Once learned, people are not willing to relearn."
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"The difference between a conviction and a prejudice is that you can explain a conviction without getting angry." - anon
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"Courage is a key characteristic of future leaders and previous employees." - Jeffrey Snover
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I should have fled, but from my problems I can't get away
No matter when or where I go they're with me every day
I'm shootin' the dice and drinkin' the liquor to set my mind free
and tryin' to find a piece of my mind where problems can't find me
No matter what, I'm stuck, my mind is trapped inside the scene
So I release my anger through the chamber, gin, a pad and pen
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At the University of Edinburgh, they're contemplating courses without "Alice" and "Bob", in an attempt to "decolonize" the informatics curriculum for the sake of "inclusivity". They first should decolonize themselves by removing their heads from their colons.
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"A dog is able to learn up to 250 words and tricks and gestures. A dog can count up to 5 and perform simple math. Equivalent human age: 3. A cat doesn't give a fuck and is sick of your shit. Equivalent human age: 42"
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"If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up."
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 In 2012, a study published in the Journal of Ornithology reported on necropsies of six different flocks of waxwings that were found dead after flying into windows, fences, and other stationary objects. Cause of death: trauma sustained while flying under the influence.
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"I don't believe in universal editors." - Chuck Moore
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Any solution that relies on educating users is bound to fail.
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As we act, let us not become the evil we deplore.
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Evolution has created us as an inseparable, roiling concoction of homo faber, the tool-makers; homo sapiens, the knowing ones; and two additions I would coin as homo sociales, the social ones; and homo affectus, the ones who feel. Comprehending the whole of human life, the relationships among the parts of us that have evolved separately over eons, the harmonies and antagonisms, is something people have been trying to figure out for centuries, without notable progress. If I seem to be having trouble, I'll take comfort in knowing I'm not alone. - Ellen Ullman
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If an idea is 'Intel can do it, so we can do it too, especially because we are touched by the Forth spirit', you will definitely fail.
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No religions ban eating feces so far as I know.

Even the religious people are smart enough to avoid that on their own!
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The good thing about a language ahead of its time is that its time hasn't passed.
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With C you can shoot yourself in the foot, with Forth you blow your head clean off.
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Fun and profit considered harmful.
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When Adam delved and Eve span,
Who was then the gentleman?
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You should be less worried about section 230 and more worried about getting a job. 
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We, as human beings or even as a civilization, are not life. Life is much greater than all this. Flowers spring from a seed, grow, blossom, wither, and die. Humans are born, grow up, reproduce, grow old, and die. Civilizations rise and perish. Only life itself is eternal, never born and never dying.

We are not life, we happen in life. We are only an expression of life. A blooming flower or laughing child is a beautiful manifestation of life -- this is why we love them so much -- but they are not life itself. We think that we love our children or beauty or success, but in fact it is life itself that we love, and life will go on, even if all of us die and our civilization vanishes without a trace. And that's OK. It has always been and will always be that way.

While we are here, though, just keep in mind that it is love what you are looking for.

Enjoy this expression of life while it lasts!
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If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first.
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It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti
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[H]umans understand the problem, judge the results and cheat as required. - Chuck Moore
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    My friends, I had not intended to discuss this controversial subject at this particular time. However, I want you to know that I do not shun controversy. On the contrary, I will take a stand on any issue at any time, regardless of how fraught with controversy it might be. You have asked me how I feel about whiskey. All right, here is how I feel about whiskey:

    If when you say whiskey you mean the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster, that defiles innocence, dethrones reason, destroys the home, creates misery and poverty, yea, literally takes the bread from the mouths of little children; if you mean the evil drink that topples the Christian man and woman from the pinnacle of righteous, gracious living into the bottomless pit of degradation, and despair, and shame and helplessness, and hopelessness, then certainly I am against it.

    But, if when you say whiskey you mean the oil of conversation, the philosophic wine, the ale that is consumed when good fellows get together, that puts a song in their hearts and laughter on their lips, and the warm glow of contentment in their eyes; if you mean Christmas cheer; if you mean the stimulating drink that puts the spring in the old gentleman's step on a frosty, crispy morning; if you mean the drink which enables a man to magnify his joy, and his happiness, and to forget, if only for a little while, life's great tragedies, and heartaches, and sorrows; if you mean that drink, the sale of which pours into our treasuries untold millions of dollars, which are used to provide tender care for our little crippled children, our blind, our deaf, our dumb, our pitiful aged and infirm; to build highways and hospitals and schools, then certainly I am for it.

    This is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise.
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"We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance."
John Archibald Wheeler
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The English language has many words for insanity. Probably for the same reason people who live way up north have many words for snow.
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I quite agree that you are right about Peter's disappointment. The idealist turned cynic. You point out that EITHER we are meat OR we are something special. Maybe the problem is we are both. I say this having read Isaiah Berlin and his thinking on value pluralism. I hesitate to use it here and perhaps it's not appropriate, but possibly both views are valid and equal, yet incompatible and come into conflict with one another in a way that admits of no resolution without reference to particular contexts of a decision. This clash constitutes the tragedy of human life.
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Is your mom hiring more incels to fill her basement? Sorry, I'm not interested. I refuse to share a basement with aristarchus.
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By the way, the program above is modeled after my life, no comp's if's and butts, all jumps!
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"...although one starts with grand ideas of being clean
 and orderly, by the end the process is somewhat of a mess, with
 a complicated makefile to keep it running."
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"Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it."
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"The government has a left wing and a right wing, and they are both attached to the same bird."
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what good is a long life to us if it is hard, joyless and so full of suffering that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?
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Life is a serious burden, which no thinking, humane person would wantonly inflict on someone else. -- Clarence Darrow
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"Our grandfathers lived badly, our fathers lived badly, we live badly -- why should our children live well?"
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"Whenever I hear people boasting of millions of lines of code, I know they have greviously misunderstood their problem." - Chuck Moore
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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. -- Kahlil Gibran
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The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason. - G.K. Chesterton
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"Mankind's dishonest; if you think it fair
Amongst known cheats to play upon the square,
You'll be undone.
Nor can weak truth your reputation save:
The knaves will all agree to call you knave.
Wronged shall he live, insulted o'er, oppressed,
Who dares be less a villain than the rest".

- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680), Satire Against Reason and Mankin
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I should not drink and public. --Michael David Crawford
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I had to find my own way out. But how, when I knew that I could not trust the things I heard, saw, thought or felt?
  --Michael David Crawford
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As a rule, it was the fittest who perished; the misfits,
Forced by failure to emigrate into unsettled niches,
Who altered their structure and prospered.
- WH Auden 
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Fundamental feature of capitalism since 1840's is, the proles are so poor they have to sell their work for the purpose of survival and keep living. That makes them a labour resource, similarly like slavery and serfdom made people a labour resource before that. Not much a diff. Placing proletariat into social/culture model where they have to compete to each other was instrumental for getting a cheap labour at any stage of industrial revolution.
Achieving even a weak degree labour equity of today is a result of tough, heavy, bloody fights in the past 150 years.

Now comes automation, AI and robotics to that.
Imagine a capitalist owns three hired human workers allocated to a specific job, working for a fair wage.
If just one of them is replaced by a robot, at the same cost, simply having one unemployed human creates a pressure to job market[1] for remaining two workers, weakening their negotiating position.
Lowering the wage when a specific human persona is swapped for another fresh human is imminent. It may be even cheaper to keep one robot and two remaining workers instead of getting three robots (and a serviceman) for the job.

Are proles really poor? Yes. Proof: The common criteria of Swiss banks to determine if you are eligible for money lending, or, in other words, to discriminate if you are poor or wealthy are that simple: if you don't have to work to sustain yourself, you are rich. If you have to work, you are poor. Pure rentiers are even higher valued than entrepreneurs. Absolute value of property does not matter.

The principle is, if you are self-sustainable, you are also more sovereign in all life decisions and have a higher social influence potential.
Therefore, I always encourage people to become self-sustainable instead of employed.

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[1] It's not a real market if a participant is forced to participate in transactions by external conditions. So I call it "fantasy job market trick".
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I've recently gotten a spate of emails asking what software stack I recommend. I suspect someone's attempting an argument from authority, or trying to catch me contradicting something I said decades ago, or... or who knows what. I'll be adding this to my FAQ, but here's the long answer. Ahem:

Use whatever you think will work.

Software is terrible. Operating systems are worse. Some are worse than others.

I tend to put databases on ZFS, because databases are even more terrible and I want automatic snapshots. But: jails or chroots? Pffft. Everything is terrible. Choose your doom.

What do I recommend? I recommend abandoning technology, moving to a colder climate that won't be flooded as the oceans rise, and dedicating yourself to improving the soil as you learn to farm enough to feed yourselves and those you love. Or, if that's not your style, stop wasting more electricity than many countries to perform useless computations for deflationary pseudomoney. I solidly recommend that.
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Were Nature sentient, she too would pass from youth to age,
But Man's world is mutable, seas become mulberry fields.
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   ## The web sucks.  It is a mighty dismal kludge built out of a thousand
   ## tiny dismal kludges all band-aided together, and now these bottom-line
   ## clueless pinheads who never heard of "TCP handshake" want to run
   ## *commerce* over the damn thing.  Ye godz.  Welcome to TV of the next
   ## century -- six million channels of worthless shit to choose from, and
   ## about as much security as today's cable industry!
   ##
   ## Having grown mightily tired of pain in the ass browsers, I decided
   ## to build the minimalist client.  It doesn't handle POST, just GETs, but
   ## the majority of cgi forms handlers apparently ignore the method anyway.
   ## A distinct advantage is that it *doesn't* pass on any other information
   ## to the server, like Referer: or info about your local machine such as
   ## Netscum tries to!
   ##
   ## Since the first version, this has become the *almost*-minimalist client,
   ## but it saves a lot of typing now.  And with netcat as its backend, it's
   ## totally the balls.  Don't have netcat?  Get it here in /src/hacks!
   ## _H* 950824, updated 951009 et seq.
   ##
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We will pass away. I, Nezahualcoyotl, say, Enjoy! Do we really live on earth? Ohuaya ohuaya!

Not forever on earth, only a brief time here! Even jades fracture; even gold ruptures, even quetzal plumes tear: Not forever on earth: only a brief time here! Ohuaya ohuaya!
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Ask yourself, Who Am I?
Don't answer yet, let the question sink in
Ask yourself, Am I Aware?
Don't think, let the question sink in
Is there something that mind cannot grasp?
Something spacious and peaceful?
Good! That's who you are
Now answer from that perspective
Do I have a shape?
Do I have a size?
Do I have a color?
Don't think, don't rush, take your time
Do I have an age?
Am I a body?
Without thought, am I still aware?
Have I ever changed?
Is there any other like me?
Am I boundless, timeless, pure awareness?
Now that you know, remember
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Before the thorough Chinese destruction of the US industrial base, there was a joke going around which seemed quite `a propos: The US destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan retaliated by destroying Detroit and Pittsburgh.
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"The obedient always think about themselves as virtuous, rather than cowardly."
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"It's a cinch, getting old... much nicer than getting dead." - John Rible
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"One day this is going to happen to each and every one of us. The question is what we will have accomplished by then in this transient world, and whether we'll have enjoyed our life?"
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"It's a brilliant thing that Bill Gates has done in selling the world on the notion of operating systems. It's probably the greatest con game the world has ever seen." - Chuck Moore
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The tales about paradise of all cultures have one thing in common: The people in paradise are unemployed.
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"No matter how it looks at first, it's always a people problem."
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"With adequate profit, capital is very bold. A certain 10 per cent. will ensure its employment anywhere; 20 per cent. certain will produce eagerness; 50 per cent., positive audacity; 100 per cent. will make it ready to trample on all human laws; 300 per cent., and there is not a crime at which it will scruple, nor a risk it will not run"
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If you want to learn truly low level programming without experiencing a brain aneurysm, total insanity, or both, you need to ingest large quantities of psychedelic drugs on a regular basis.
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[P]eople aren't going to limit themselves because someone somewhere might be offended. That's how we get politicians not progress.
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"promises only bind those who believe them" - JL Gassee 
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"[W]atching somebody try to escape the propaganda is like watching a mime trying to escape an invisible box."
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Those who choose the global good over the local good are anomalies. Which is a shame, because the norm is getting us killed.
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"Those who make peaceful reform impossible, make violent revolution inevitable." --JFK
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United States of America - revolting since 1776.
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Science itself is a non-holistic way of looking at the world, blind to what is not measured.
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Note to philologists. This is an artifact of the Marin County airhead version of an oddity of the late Twentieth Century called "non-sexist writing" which attempted to linguistically divorce women from the family of mankind. With the appearance of artificial intelligence, this trend led to the construction "s/he/it", which rapidly passed from the vogue taking the whole movement with it. The term is still heard in Texas but has a different meaning and is probably unrelated in derivation.
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Problems are not complex. The things we ask computers to do are basically simple. Otherwise we couldn't program the mindless devices. But we can make a problem complex by refusing to see its simplicity.
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"By gifts one makes slaves, and by whips one makes dogs."
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consider the late Michael David Crawford. He had a variety of tricks for dealing with trolling that work. One was to take the troll seriously, even the most absurd, and then draw out the troller. I often don't have the mental attitude to make that work, but that's my problem not the strategy.
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> You are not forgotten - you have not died.

Pour^wrub one out in memory of our late homie.
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Technology wouldn't have solved slavery if it wasn't simply and objectively better than it in every imaginable way.

Slavery:
  - Pay an obscene amount of money up front for somebody whose aptitudes you can only guess at.
  - Be 100% responsible for their entire livelihood and health. If they get sick, you're paying to fix while they're also not working.
  - If those slaves aren't happy, you've just surrounded yourself with a bunch of people who literally know where you sleep.

Industrialized market labor system:
  - Pay a negligible hourly rate for somebody who can then be dismissed if they don't work out
  - You have 0 responsible for anything beyond what you agree to pay them. And if they're not working, you're not paying them.
  - If those people aren't happy with you, they're free to quit and go get a job they might like better.

I'm not even hitting on the morals of it all because I think it's all relative. Our system relies on coercion to keep society churning. People spend most their lives doing things they mostly don't like, because otherwise they're not putting food on their plate. In a post-scarcity society where somebody can afford to sit around gorging themselves on nachos and holoporn until they die of heart failure, all without entailing any cost on part of others - then that society will probably look upon our system of work not especially differently to how we look at slavery.

There is literally no benefit to slavery when you have access to an industrialized market labor system in a reasonably developed economy. But consider, for instance, what will happen during our colonization of Mars. You now need lots of long-term workers in a world where money no longer has any meaning, doing lots of stuff that most people probably would not want to do. And the cost to get them to their job is going to be immense in both real costs and abstract costs, like time. What's the solution? 'Joe's Mars Mining Company' pays for your trip, training, and domicile at massive up-front cost and you, in turn, pay it back through an agreement for years of labor: indentured servitude, a hair's breadth away from slavery. And I'm not even being critical of this system - it will likely work quite well for everybody involved, except with some outlier cases as always. It just emphasizes that slavery ended largely because it simply had become obsolete. When it does serve a purpose, it will return in a heartbeat.
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"Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining."

- Sonny Liston
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   Sources say the system's working great,
   and the government is your friend.
   Commerce is the same as freedom
   and wealth is the same as happiness,
   according to sources familiar with the matter.

   Sources say you should hate the Russians,
   and also you should hate the Chinese,
   and also you should hate Iran,
   and also you should hate anti-vaxxers,
   and also you should hate disobedient podcasters,
   and really just hate anyone but your owners.

   Sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, say we would never lie to you.
   We've been speaking to you since you were young.
   You can trust us with your mind.
   If we were lying to everyone
   everything would be a mess,
   and the system would be a failure,
   but it isn't,
   so we can't be,
   sources say,
   sources say.

   Sources say that you are finite,
   and that a better world is impossible.
   Sources say there is no magic coursing through your veins,
   no miracles lurking in the great unknown,
   no potentiality crackling within our species,
   no leviathans swimming in our inner oceans,
   no dragons soaring through our mind's sky.

   Sources say you are your body,
   and you are your thoughts and your labels
   and what you've been told you are since birth.
   Sources say that small child's voice within you
   whispering your primordial name
   is a liar
   and you should drown it in a bowl of Netflix and whiskey.

   Sources say sources say sources say
   look at this shiny thing over here,
   look how interesting it is,
   keep looking at this,
   don't look within,
   don't look without,
   pay no attention to the gasping biosphere,
   pay no attention to our nuclear Russian roulette,
   pay no attention to that man starving from sanctions,
   pay no attention to that man shivering on the street,
   pay no attention to that man behind the curtain,
   pay no attention to those angels in the attic,
   pay no attention to the swelling music of the forgotten gods,
   just look over here,
   just stare at this vapid celebrity wankface nothingman,
   look look,
   he is doing a thing,
   ha ha ha ha he is so interesting and so relevant to our present situation.

   Sources say don't trust your own Sources.
   Trust our sources; they are official and authorized.
   The world is predictable and revolution impossible;
   stomp down that light that's been emanating from your chest cave.
   Your Source is a liar.
   Your Source can't take care of you.
   Your Source probably doesn't even own any aircraft carriers.

   Our sources say no one else will ever love you.
   Shut up and get back to work,
   sources say.
   Ignore your Source
   and keep cranking that gear
   for as long as your worthless body will let you,
   and then get out of the way
   and get into the hole
   with the rest of the corpses
   in our thriving corpse economy
   on our spinning corpse planet
   as we exterminate our way into paradise,
   sources say.
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How stupid are we? I mean, that's a rhetorical question with an obvious anwser that probably subverts my argument.
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Suicide is the sincerest form of self-criticism. -- Donald Kaul
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  In an effort to get people to look
  into each other's eyes more,
  and also to appease the mutes,
  the government has decided
  to allot each person exactly one hundred
  and sixty-seven words, per day.

  When the phone rings, I put it to my ear
  without saying hello. In the restaurant
  I point at chicken noodle soup.
  I am adjusting well to the new way.

  Late at night, I call my long distance lover,
  proudly say I only used fifty-nine today.
  I saved the rest for you.
  When she doesn't respond,  
  I know she's used up all her words,
  so I slowly whisper I love you
  thirty-two and a third times.
  After that, we just sit on the line
  and listen to each other breathe.

  Jeffrey McDaniel, "The Quiet World"
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"If all of us are thinking the same thing, then some of us are not really thinking."
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"We are living in toxic times, and they're bleeding into all of us."
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"One day a man named Truth and a man named Lie stood by a river just outside of town. They were twin brothers. Lie challenged Truth to a race, claiming he could swim across the river faster than Truth. Lie laid out the rules to the challenge stating that they both must remove all their clothes and at the count of 3, dive in to the freezing cold water swim to the other side and back. Lie counted to 3, but when Truth jumped in, Lie did not. As Truth swam across the river, Lie put on Truth's clothes and walked back in to town dressed as Truth. He proudly paraded around town pretending to be Truth. Truth made it back to shore, but his clothes were gone and he was left naked with only Lie's clothes to wear. Refusing to dress himself as Lie, Truth walked back to town naked. People stared and glared as naked Truth walked through town. He tried to explain what happened and that he was in fact Truth, but because he was naked and uncomfortable to look at, people mocked and shunned him; refusing to believe he was really Truth. The people in town chose to believe Lie because he was dressed appropriately and easier to look at. From that day until this, people have come to believe a lie rather than they believe the naked truth."
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"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression... There is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such a twilight that we must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." - William Douglas
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> extreme weather events would happen anyway, no matter how climate changes

Mathematically, they won't. Eventually, almost all weather becomes mundane, because the extremes will already have been hit in the past. It's only if there's an underlying trend moving the average that extremes will continue to be made.
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"Life is too short to do anything but noble work."
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"If your world view requires a large proportion of the population to be evil and/or stupid then you have probably been captured by someone else's narrative, and are mistaking their thoughts for your own"

-Daniel Schmachtenburger
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They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

And here let me emphasize the fact-and it cannot be repeated too often-that the working class who fight all the battles, the working class who make the supreme sacrifices, the working class who freely shed their blood and furnish the corpses, have never yet had a voice in either declaring war or making peace. It is the ruling class that invariably does both. They alone declare war and they alone make peace.

Yours not to reason why;
Yours but to do and die.

That is their motto and we object on the part of the awakening workers of this nation.

If war is right let it be declared by the people. You who have your lives to lose, you certainly above all others have the right to decide the momentous issue of war or peace.
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Richard Nixon was not a crook!

SoylentNews is all politics all the time. Richard Nixon was POTUS when the dd command was introduced into Unix.

I write a lot of Bash code. I wrote my own web server in Bash. I wrote my own YouTube downloader in Bash.

I have need of a buffer to smooth the throughput of a pipe because wget will write as soon as data arrives which is usually the right thing to do but there are some rare times when YouTube produces data very unevenly.

Ken Thompson wrote dd back in June of 1974 when Nixon was in power and every Soylent political troll was definitely already alive.

Now dd is not a buffer but a buffer can be constructed using dd and a pipe.

Producer | dd ibs=4096 obs=65536 | dd ibs=4096 obs=65536 | Consumer

Yes there are two invocations of dd and both invocations are identical. Block sizes are uneven so dd will collect small blocks and output large blocks. Blocks flow from the first dd through the pipe to the second dd and together dd and pipe are the buffer.

The dd pipe buffer is an ingenious construction but its history is hard to find and it might have been reinvented many times since it is deceptively simple. So I will attribute the dd pipe buffer to Carl Dong [superuser.com].

Cue political trolls because SoylentNews.
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"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
- James D. Nicoll
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The things you might want to do are infinite; that means that each one has 0 probability of realization.
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I can't solve the problems of the world. With luck, I can write a good program.
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Religion is a kind of opium that allows a nation to lull itself into wishful dreams and so forget the injustices that are being perpetrated against the people.
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I can do multivariable calculus, recite Plato, dream of sending rocketships to new planets, and yet I can't stop myself from buying Butterfingers at the grocery store and then chowing them down like some kind of marshmallow-test-failing monkey
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Wanderer: What is the secret to eternal happiness?

Guru: To not argue with fools.

Wanderer: I disagree.

Guru: Yes, you are right.
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A Russian and an American get on a plane in Moscow and get to talking. The Russian says he works for the Kremlin and he's on his way to go learn American propaganda techniques.

"What American propaganda techniques?" asks the American.

"Exactly," the Russian replies.
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A centipede was happy - quite!

Until a toad in fun

Said, "Pray, which leg moves after which?"

This raised her doubts to such a pitch,

She fell exhausted in the ditch

Not knowing how to run.
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If you don't know what the problem was, you haven't fixed it
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There are 2 kinds of software in the world: software that starts out crappy and eventually becomes great, and software that starts out crappy and stays that way.
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Specialization is for robots.
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Necrophilia: the urge to crack open a cold one.
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