Load virus on to banking system to embezzle fraction of cents on each financial operation.

As a parent of a teenager who has tonic-clonic seizures (aka grand mal), this story made me nauseous. A patient recovering from a seizure has absolutely no ability to respond or understand what’s going on. Police should be helping and making sure he’s on his side, not tasing him. Whoever these cops are should be fired immediately. I hope Mr Frankel bankrupts the department.

Seems appropriate to drop this here:

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-reichstag-fire

On February 27, 1933, the German parliament (Reichstag) building burned down. The Nazi leadership and its coalition partners used the fire to claim that Communists were planning a violent uprising. They claimed that emergency legislation was needed to prevent this. The resulting act, commonly known as the Reichstag Fire Decree, abolished a number of constitutional protections and paved the way for Nazi dictatorship.

Just got back from a 3 day trip to Brussels, we loved it. Plus, Smurfs (Les Schtroumpfs) everywhere. We did take a day trip to Bruges though, that was even better than Brussels IMHO. Especially since I could walk around saying to my wife “If I grew up on a farm, and was retarded, Bruges might impress me but I didn’t, so it doesn’t.”.

Not with that attitude

Kirby said that he has seen the IDF ‘take actions - sometimes actions that even I’m not sure our own military would take - in terms of informing civilian populations ahead of operations, where to go or not to go. They have taken steps.’

How is this controversial? The daily mail is an awful source.

Meanwhile, me over here with the self-doubt slamming ctrl-z

Sometimes it’s like wiping a marker

Assume positive intent. Amazing how much lower stress your stress levels will be if you don’t feel attacked (on the road, on social media, in conversations, etc).

Oh yeah, and buy a bidet. Your bum will thank you.

Classic: A Christmas Carol, the 1951 version with Alastair Sim. Sim’s giddy portrayal of Scrooge on Christmas morning is one of my favorite performances of any actor.

Modern: A Christmas Story, and Elf.

I haven’t seen The Always Sunny podcast mentioned yet. If you like IASIP, this is a must listen.

This paper describes the paradigm in detail, they’re called Orthodox File Managers.

I learned Norton Commander way back in the 90s, then moved to Midnight Commander, and it’s still a key part of my toolset. Using the keyboard in a hybrid shell / tree view mode is still the single most efficient way I’ve found to manage files. Need to find files under a subdirectory? Press F7. Need to move an entire directory somewhere else? cd to it, then press F6. Want to move all the pdf files under a subdirectory somewhere? Use the find dialog, then move the search results. No mouse/trackpad needed, everything is at your fingertips.

I guess it depends what one calls “the media”. Something like IEEE Spectrum is top notch for tech news. Reuters and AP generally are pretty good for normal news. Past that, maybe something like The Conversation?

Gross, yet probably not unusual for the Red line.

There are some amazing journalists over on Mastodon.

By far the best for breaking news is Steve Herman of the VOA. https://journa.host/@w7voa

For analysis, The Conversation. https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS

And if you just want a curated feed of interesting stuff going on, follow Lisa Melton. https://mastodon.social/@lisamelton

Any one who worked on an Oracle DB when they had the 30 character object name limit learned to make names like this. You’d figure out all your domain objects, and abbreviate them all (person could be PRS_, account could be ACCT_, etc). It was a horrible experience.

V.J.s Drive Inn in Winnipeg MB Canada. Greasy heaven.

Any products that support Koch Industries. Horrible people.

A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, The Annoying Orange