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• Post #2797045

  I certainly need someone to soothe society. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDoAWS6K-F0&list=RDzDoAWS6K-F0&start_radio=1

• Post #2797044

  I'm generally not one to dwell on the past, partially because I have a really kak memory and hardly remember any of it. Anyways, watching a soapy on ARD (on account of boycotting Netflix and all else American) featuring a child persecuted because he's a boy that wants to do ballet, I had a flashback to Christian National education primary school. We were all forced to audition for parts in the school nativity play, and the tannie picking kids for parts told me she had her eye on...

• Post #2797043

  After getting suspended by Elon for breaking some unwritten rule, I went back just now and saw this.

• Post #1693250

  Even if the amount you embezzle is just a piffling $220m, remember your boss will want his cut. Follow me for more state capture tips. https://apnews.com/live/kristi-noem-markwayne-mullin-trump

• Post #1693249

  I was trying to figure out why Putin would want his idiot minion Krasnov to attack Iran, but it's gradually starting to make sense what with the spike in the oil price and Krasnov removing sanctions on Russia. https://www.tradewindsnews.com/tankers/us-lifts-ban-on-russian-shadow-fleet-ships-to-india-in-stop-gap-move/2-1-1955762?zephr_sso_ott=tFI0qc

• Post #1693247

  So that's why Trump doesn't want Ukraine's proven drone technology. It would take business away from Don Jr and Eric. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-brothers-backed-aureus-merge-123728284.html

• Post #1693246

  Faced with a choice of either paying godaddy €37.87 in a few weeks or getting a bit of money for the domain, I've decided to let https://sowhereto.today go. Godaddy sent me an email saying there's an interested buyer who'd like to know my price. I've no idea what a site that gets hardly any traffic and earns nothing from Google's malvertising is worth, so said $100 and am awaiting the response. I've found the process of building an automated site...

• Post #1693245

  My reading phase for the past few months has been on trading routes, historical and current. The book I'm busy with is Ed Conway's Material World, which overlaps quite a bit with Chris Miller's Chip War in that it rings alarm bells on how precariously our modern world is balanced on a few monopolies, specifically one factory in Taiwan. The recurring theme in the story of trade routes is they act as a complex nervous system. Shock-waves in the Canton tea-trade rippled acro...

• Post #1693244

  What the US Navy asked Trump to say: "Our flagship, the USS Gerald R. Ford, along with the Nimitz-class USS Abraham Lincoln have had to withdraw from Operation Epic Fury due to minor glitches, laundry room fires, a reminder to remove the lint from your dryers, folks." What Trump said: "And then they hit us! They came from 17 different angles. They were here, they were there, they were everywhere. We ran for our lives and it was over." I wonder if Trump&#...

• Post #1693243

  Weird how Trump caused West Texas Intermediate to jump more than Brent, overtaking its price. I thought WTI always traded at a discount to Brent. I guess the Americans are about to learn the hard way how international commodity prices work.

• Post #1693242

  No idea how I've offended Elon, but if I'm not wanted on X, I guess that's it.

• Post #1693239

  I've done a web version of a "deck builder" using standard playing cards called "Card Capture" as a learning exercise for plain vanilla JavaScript. Not having ever been bitten by the Magic card game bug, I've little knowledge of deck builders. As long as one keeps ideally three "non-face" cards on the right-hand side so one can filter low-value cards out of ones draw deck and ideally only have one face card at a time on the l...

• Post #1693219

  There was a time I loved newspapers so much, I got into the industry and worked for them. Nowadays, I too just get my news from Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and Jon Stewart. https://newslab.org/school/jordan-center/poll/

• Post #1693211

  Have to confess the Pope emerging as the hero of our age was not on my bingo card.

• Post #1693201

  My fifth "mobile-friendly push cards around with your finger or mouse" game is up at https://newsgames.co.za/gridcannon/ Besides being an exercise in learning Javascript, CSS and HTML, it's also got me into the world of "modern solitaire card-games" which I'm really enjoying.

• Post #740556

  Only two more sleeps to the most important day of the year. https://www.georgeherald.com/News/Article/LifeStyle/biltong-milk-tart-for-national-milk-tart-day-27-feb-202602241052

• Post #740536

  A few more weeks of this and there will be a regime change, in the US.