xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

https://www.activistpost.com/only-17-percent-of-young-adults-in-the-u-s-in-the-25-to-34-age-bracket-have-attained-the-5-major-milestones-of-adulthood/

Conspiracy theory: Stanley Meyer supposedly died of poisoning one day after signing a contract to work with the military on building water powered tanks. It's far more realistic that his death was in fact faked, and he went on to work with the military under a secret identity for the rest of his life and is now in retirement or has died of old age.

@xianc78 can confirm on diatomaceous earth. It's relativrly inexpensive for what it is and does. Good for soil, good for plants, good for birds, kills pests. It's basically volcanic ash, iirc.

anonymity is not the same thing as privacy

@Sovereign @dcc Japan gets cheap labor from jail, this is how Nintendo was able to manufacture their consoles in the 90s.

China gets cheap labor because their credit system mandates that. Work and get benefits. Do not work and die.

In other hand, Western countries have a huge and expensive welfare system for people unwilling to take a job, the US federal and states govt give them a nice paycheck every month for doing nothing, regardless of their immigration status.

The issue happens in Europe to certain degree. Germany have ton of parasites living at expense of the government, mostly immigrants.

bbs enthusiasts might remember the name Telegard - a bbs server written based on wwiv's source code and hugely popular with the ibm pc/ms-dos crowd

telegard had a long and tumultuous history by its authors, and its own source was eventually leaked and was modded into many more popular (pirate-friendly) ms-dos boards like Renegade, Oblivion and Iniquity.

while i was doing research a few months ago on the history of those systems, i found out that telegard.net - the original home of tg - was taken over by a domain squatter in 2010, populated with ads for the past 15 years.

two months ago, i noticed that the squatter had not renewed the domain, and it went into the long grace/redemption/auction/expiry cycle. i checked on it every single morning, and to my absolute delight, it was released this morning for purchase. 💸

the domain will be used purely for historical preservation of telegard and its many descendants

#bbs #warez #softwarePreservation

>4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq68j5g2nr1o

Okay my little sister's new place has a built-in wall-mounted tape deck radio
That's so retro it's *painful*

#retro #retrocomputing #radio

Hey @purism, fuck you. I don't understand why your company even still exists. I hope you fucking rot. Here's my post on the REFUND THAT TOOK SIX FUCKING YEARS

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/the-purism-libre-5-and-the-six-year-refund/

Fuck you and your bullshit products. Go die in a fucking dumpster fire!

@xianc78 Lyme's disease came out of a biolab at Ft. Dietrich.

This blows...