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@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.
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Seriously, how can people tolerate this shit? I can't believe how slow modern Windows is. I need to compile the Windows binary later because I can't deal with this bullshit right now.

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@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.
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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

So it turns out that the used Windows 10 laptop I bought actually has Windows 11 on it, or it somehow automatically updated to Windows 11. Whatever, I'm only using it to compile and debug stuff anyway.

If you sell used computers, please double check the OS installed on the PC.

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And it turns out that people are already developing meat allergies in some places, to the point that some restaurants are now offering vegan menus.

Also the meat allergy can even make you reactive to the smell of someone cooking meat. It could force an entire household to become vegan.

thehill.com/policy/healthcare/

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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

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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!

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@xianc78 Lyme's disease came out of a biolab at Ft. Dietrich.
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If you live in the Eastern and/or Southern US. Stay the fuck away from high grassy areas and places with a lot of animals. There has been a recent outbreak of ticks, and these ticks might be the lone star ticks that gives you meat allergies and that the WEF and other globalists want us to get bit by.

yahoo.com/news/articles/invasi

Also there was an academic paper released last month about "Beneficial Bloodsucking", saying that the efforts to prevent the spread of these ticks are "morally impermissible". So this is clearly intentional.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/406933

Luckily, there are ways to fight back. If you are a home or property owner, you can use nematodes to kill off any ticks in your back/front yard. They work as a parasitic infection and are considered an environmentally friendly and non-toxic alternative to pesticides. There are other methods as well, such as diatomaceous earth, which is like broken glass on a microscopic level. It cuts up their exoskeletons and causes them to dry out, but it's completely harmless to humans and other animals.

thespruce.com/how-to-get-rid-o

Please spread this knowledge around. They know that many of us would not comply if they just simply ban meat, so they are pushing to make it so that we literally can't eat it.

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Happy 90th Birthday, @ronpaul!

You taught a generation that liberty isn’t just policy. It’s a principle worth living and a message worth mastering. Your courage lit fires that still burn. 🔥

Hand-painted art by @amytheartist 🎨

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