loutr @ loutr @sh.itjust.works

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Empathy, like tolerance, should really be considered a social contract. If he doesn't have empathy for the less fortunate than him, I have a really hard time having empathy for him.

Jesus.

Now's the time, seeing how the party is polling right now, they wouldn't lose much by dissociating from it.

Jack Daniel's is pretty popular here in France, though I doubt people are willing to pay a 200% tax on it and will just switch to other brands.

If you're into metal you should check out rokk-app.com. Kamelot's drummer is involved, and they claim to pay artists much more than the alternatives. You can also select a particular band which will get a direct share of your subscription.

It just came out last week so it's rough around the edges for now, but it might be worth checking how it evolves over time.

I was a teenager when he released the Slim Shady and Marshall Mathers LPs. It was pretty obvious to me that the more extreme takes were an act. Which is very different from Tate and the like, who claim society lies to men and they are revealing the truth.

Exactly, they're removing them so they can buy new ones from Elon.

Here's the repo in case anyone is interested in hosting an instance: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy

The VBA part of the meme is real, VBA is (was?) localized. Turns out it's a horrible idea: some keywords are badly translated, some are not translated at all. Googling localized error messages is useless, so you need to guess the original error message from the translation. Want to copy/paste a function from SO? Not so fast, you need to translate the keywords first! And the variable names as well while you're at it.

Ironically, you end up spending a lot of time on translation-related issues. I've worked on a french-VBA app, and it was a miserable experience (well, even more miserable than english VBA).

I'm sure he will learn his lesson this time.

Sure but they still wouldn't have my email password or recovery codes, which was my point.

Print or write down your recovery codes, and stash them in a safe spot. And don't store your primary email password in bitwarden either.

With your current setup, you're one keylogger away from losing all your stuff.

Just tried framed out of curiosity, it works fine on my Pixel 9.

His supporters are gullible or weak or both and won't fight yhe narratives that will come out.

With the current state of right-wing news and now social media, they won't even see these news. They have more important concerns anyway, like which people can use which bathrooms, and ending wokeness.

As others have said I believe the meme didn't originate in Russia, but was used disparagingly by its enemies. That said, a Russian author did write The Last Ringbearer, an alternative perspective on the events of LOTR:

Kirill Yeskov bases his novel on the premise that the Tolkien account is a "history written by the victors".[1][2] Mordor is home to an "amazing city of alchemists and poets, mechanics and astronomers, philosophers and physicians, the heart of the only civilization in Middle-earth to bet on rational knowledge and bravely pitch its barely adolescent technology against ancient magic", posing a threat to the war-mongering faction represented by Gandalf (whose attitude is described by Saruman as "crafting the Final Solution to the Mordorian problem") and the Elves.[1]

Sounds familiar?

Yeah, it also says that they have a low opinion of the local government, which they blame when the reforms promised in the state press fail to materialize.

Regardless of the country, I'm very suspicious about such unanimous acclaim. There's just no way 9 out of 10 people are happy with any given government. Have you ever been in a group of more than 10 people, trying to make a choice that's OK for everyone?

Look, I'm not saying that the west is perfect and China is horrible, but maybe try considering the opposite is not true either.

Yes, I am aware that .ml lives in a fantasy world where there are no dissidents in China. It also helps that speaking ill of the CCP has never been harshly repressed in China.

OK maybe not started (couldn't find a definitive origin), but they did use it quite a bit.

Additionally, the original image of Xi and Obama together as Pooh and Tigger, and the subsequent picture of Xi and Shinzo Abe as Pooh and Eeyore, emerged as group pictures of world leaders, but only the comparison of Xi to Pooh stuck.

Maybe because the others didn't throw a tantrum about it. Or maybe because Chinese users have to use euphemisms and memes to avoid censorship.

Further, that doesn't explain the immense popularity among westerners in portraying Xi as a yellow bear, nor why it seems to be especially popular among western right-wingers.

If you say so. I for one had not seen this meme for quite some time and had completely forgotten about it until you brought it up.

You'd have to ask the Chinese internet users who started the meme. Or there is a detailed wikipedia article if you're interested in the backstory.