I hate to say it but pg's tweet was reasonable. Some asshole carrying water for Mike fucking Lee deserves to be blocked.
gerikson
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To be fair Drew has tried to be a better person lately.
I've had to do a number of "aptitude tests" in conjunction with applying for jobs[1] and RPMs have been a staple.
- Swedish Defense Force aptitude test (you kind of stand out as middle aged among all the yoofs taking it)
- one for a job at a state-owned enterprise
- one for a job at an outfit selling this stuff for other companies[2]
I never really got a good score on them either!
[1] I don't really like this but beggars can't be choosers
[2] like I said, beggars can't be choosers, lucklily I didn't have to take the job
As I predicted, he's out on bail, cannot leave France, and must report to a police station every 2 days. Hardly an oubliette in the Bastille, which people seem to have been convinced would be his fate,
Writing "fact" after a statement doesn't magically make it one, bub
Speech-suppressing US media prevents me from reading this...
I knew this was good stuff when the majority of HN commenters where huffily complaining about the tone.
This is frikken hilarious.
I can't remember if a oneliner for the weekly thread title has been posted already, so I made one for GNU date:
date --date="next Sunday" +"Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending %A %e %B %Y"
Note, this is locale-dependent.
Wild-ass theory: Putin convinced Durov to travel to France to get himself arrested to rile up millions of Telegram users and make France look foolish/despotic.
Everything is terrible
Conservatives in particular have, for culture war reasons, recently recommended Telegram—an “encrypted messaging” app that has many parts that are not encrypted and which does not have a clear governance structure—over Signal, an app that is open source and by all accounts uses one of the strongest encryption protocols ever created, on every chat that happens on the platform. Because conservatives have promoted Telegram recently, some of them now see Durov’s arrest as a particular crackdown on America’s right wing, free speech, and, possibly, a political incursion against the Russian government and military, both of which use Telegram.
https://www.404media.co/how-telegrams-founder-pavel-durov-became-a-culture-war-martyr/
When the revolution comes, we have to cut off the hands wearing this abomination of a watch before we cut off the owner's head:
https://www.ablogtowatch.com/new-release-jacob-co-oil-pump-44mm-watch/
Price: $280k, limited to 88 pieces...