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> Break free from Google and Apple

Step 1: Buy a Google phone


> control to the House of Representatives

There is an entire branch of government whose purpose is to execute the will of Congress.


Let me know if you find it because the Presidency is no different than a monarch. Might be more believable if the Presidency didn't have a pardon power and wasn't elected in an extremely undemocratic fashion.

The young web had no ads at all.

For a very narrow definition of "the young web".

The period without ads lasted ~4 years, during which almost nobody used the web, and even fewer used a graphical browser.

Mosaic 0.5 was first released in January '93 (yes, there were other graphical browsers preceding it, like Viola, but none saw broad distribution)

Netscape was first launched in October '94.

By '94 the first banner ads existed.

DoubleClick started selling banner ads in '95.


You're misremembering the young web.

Did you see any ads in 1993?

Hmm... Most pages that time were grey with very few images.

Ads were certainly very rare in 1993.


> graphics that were wanting

Prodigy established a (limited) graphical online service in 1988.


I'm imagining that this is the work of the Boy Genuis

People living in the tropics don't need clothing suited for temperate climates.

People who live in temperate climates wear tshirts, underwear, and socks, if I'm not mistaken.

Then they won't take the donations, problem solved?

The problem is that they do and leave massive piles of winter clothing laying around as garbage.

I like this aphorism someone once stated on bothsides-ism: When an arson burns down your home you don't pause to consider their side of the situation. Standing up to a bully doesn't mean the bully is being treated unfairly. They're just not accustomed to pushback on their BS and quickly don the caul of victimhood whenever their position is exposed.

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What are you talking about? This had absolutely nothing to do with Israel until you injected that.

what is it about?

Israel is a perfect example of what's being talked about — a bully that acts like a victim to gain sympathy so it can bully you further.

GP is Israeli, so of course he thinks of Israel.


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I thought of Israel because the parent comment was about Israel and I read that comment. I thought that was quite obvious. There's no need to get hostile.

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For the same reason that the Russian province of Donbass has been attacked by Ukraine for its entire existence. Explaining it in great detail would be far too off–topic.

This comment is surely satire?

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> already people were accusing Israel of genocide

It's not like the death tolls reset on that day.

Israel can have the moral high ground when they stop killing huge amounts of people. Calling them out isn't blood libel. Stop making that argument.


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What's the deal with the settlers? That's really where I lose all faith Isreal has good intentions.

I understand from your comment, please correct me if I misunderstood, that you oppose Jews building houses in the West Bank.

The West Bank is a part of the state of Israel that was occupied by Jordanian forces from 1948 to 1967. It was then captured by Israel and many Israelis, many of whom lived there before it was occupied by Jordan, moved (back) there.

The West Bank was settled by both Arabs and Jews before 1948 - for literally thousands of years Jews had lived there. In 1856 many more Jews and Arabs began moving there due to changes in Ottoman law meant to encourage settlement of the area (the Ottomans needed tax revenue). It should be noted that Jerusalem was Jewish majority even before the Ottoman land laws changed in 1856. In 1936 there was a large Arab slaughtering of Jews in Hebron, so many Jews were evacuated from Hebron. In 1948 the Arabs rejected the UN partition plan, and started a war. Israel won that war, and thus became the sole successor state of Mandatory Palestine. Jordan occupied part of that successor state (the West Bank). In 1952 (I may have the year wrong) the Arab league declared that no Arab assistance would be provided to those displaced in the war, because only the suffering of those displaced will cause the destruction of the Zionist Entity. In 1964 the Soviets advised a group to represent the Arabs of the West Bank, the Gaza strip, and those displaced in 1948, and that group adopted the name Palestinians to refer to the populations it represents. Israel conquered the Jordanian-occupied territory in 1967 after Jordan attacked Israel, two months later the Arab League adopted it's policy of No Peace, No Negotiation, No Recognition of Israel. In 1995 the West Bank was divided into separate areas. Predominantly Arab areas were given autonomy for self rule, under the Palestinian Authority (mostly PLO) with the intention of all parties to see the establishment of an Arab state called Palestine after final borders and other issues are agreed. Predominantly Jewish areas have Israeli rule redeclared in three year cycles, pending final border agreements. Every single final border solution has been rejected by the Arab side, who have also employed extreme violence both in rhetoric and in actions.

Where in all this are the Jews who live in the West Bank a reason to "lose all faith" that Israel has good intentions. Israel's first intention is to secure the safety of her citizens, just like any other nation. Israel has committed to, and taken reasonable steps to, establish a separate state for those who demand Arab rule.


> what's the business with those weirdly formatted articles from wired?

You must have missed the 90's Wired magazine era with magenta text on a striped background and other goofiness. Weird formatting is their thing.


> The drives are huge

You can get 5.25" bay drives.


I believe they are all 5.25in, some are just in a case. Even the library drives are just two 5.25 bays put together, a full height drive; vs. the much more common half height.

Project Xanadu will be ready any decade now.

MbedTLS

I don't know if it's still the case, but MbetTLS used to change its API as often as I change my socks.

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