Length isn’t everything you know. Unlike me, a humpback could hardly take a bus to the town square to release their mating call from the most efficient location

I feel like I’ve seen that cat somewhere before…

While you were out chasing booty, I studied the bootloader. While you were partying, I mastered the fstab

Back in the day, there used to be Swedish politicians worth assassinating. That’s gotta count for something

First distro: Arch

Flying real close to the sun there

It makes more sense if you look at it as a declaration of intent

That’s why I only use hardware

Agglutinative languages can be wild

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Back in 2018 the world got to shake its head and move on as Palestinians marched in protest against the Israeli occupation. It was great target practice for the IDF as they got to shoot thousands of protestors, medics and journalists. Palestinians should keep doing this until the world shakes its head so hard that Israel will start feeling bad for killing people that they don’t consider people.

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Syndicate (1993) has a great concept, but the controls are annoying and some mechanics need balancing.

I have a compartment in my closet where I put all the shirts I’ve worn but I feel still are clean. Unless they smell bad it doesn’t really matter imo.

Until the 13th century, the Church exalted poverty as a holy state and engaged in distribu­tions of alms, trying to convince the rustics to accept their situation and not envy the rich. In Sunday sermons, priests were prodigal with tales like that of the poor Lazarus sitting in heaven at the side of Jesus, and watching his rich but stingy neigh­bor burning in flames.The exaltation of sancta paupertas (“holy poverty”) also served to impress on the rich the need for charity as a means for salvation. This tactic pro­cured the Church substantial donations of land, buildings and money, presumably to be used for distribution among the needy, and it enabled it to become one of the richest institutions in Europe. But when the poor grew in numbers and the heretics started to challenge the Church’s greed and corruption, the clergy dismissed its homilies about poverty and introduced many 'distinguo." Starting in the 13th cen­tury, it affirmed that only voluntary poverty has merit in the eyes of God, as a sign of humility and contempt for material goods; this meant, in practice, that help would now be given only to the “deserving poor,” that is, to the impoverished members of the nobility, and not to chose begging in the streets or at city gates. The latter were increasingly looked upon with suspicion as guilty of laziness or fraud.

From Caliban and the Witch

if you don’t like my electrical grid, just use another one!

I’ve heard of this being done intentionally in many countries, as (partially) self-sustaining households cut into the profits of electricity companies. Spain is an infamous example, though they seem to have ended the practice in 2019.

Legislation introduced in 2013 by Spain’s then-ruling Popular Party made it compulsory for any individual or company to hook their solar panels up to the national grid to be metered and taxed, or face fines running into millions of euros.

Upholding the Minsk agreement would have been an option up until 2022 at least.