floofloof

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floofloof,

I think the point is just that young people don’t participate as much as they would because they don’t have the money for it. In previous decades young people had more money to spend.

floofloof,

The customers will obviously go and buy their tickets from the competition instead.

Oh wait…

floofloof,

But in a society where no one but the wealthiest can afford to own property, does it still make sense for its value to continue to appreciate, putting it further and further out of reach until everyone is renting from corporations who own the housing stock, except those born into wealth?

floofloof,

There’s only one real way to discourage Israel here:

  1. Tell them how what they’ve done is a bit much
  2. Insist to everyone else that they did nothing wrong
  3. Come down hard on anyone who suggests that perhaps it’s not nice to keep bombing the refugees they’re starving
  4. Reaffirm your unswerving commitment to backing Israel up no matter what it does
  5. Threaten any country that disagrees
  6. Threaten any protesters who disagree, and
  7. Send Israel another few billion dollars’ worth of bombs.

With this approach, Israel is sure to turn its behavior around any day now.

floofloof,

Ok, Israel decapitated Palestinian babies and the media are not reporting it.

floofloof,

Just to be clear, is Israel’s shelling of a Palestinian refugee camp reported here a different event from Israel’s bombing a Palestinian refugee camp a couple of days ago? So Israel bombed one camp and shelled another?

floofloof,

I wonder whether they’ll say it’s a mistake this time too.

floofloof,

The poor and low-polluting people of the world are being punished for the actions of the wealthy and highly polluting.

floofloof,

The academics I know are all pretty miserable these days. They can see that it’s a corrupt, exploitative system and they feel powerless to change it. They spend their time writing grant applications and chasing money, then pumping out papers they know are fairly trivial, but they have to write them to keep the funding coming in. Some of the scientific disciplines are in a slow state of crisis due to a serious loss of confidence in the credibility or value of much of the research. And the younger ones know they’ll never get tenure and are on a shit career track potentially forever. But even the ones with tenure seem pretty unhappy, working for these organizations that relentlessly seek money and superficial prestige.

This is so far from what academia ought to be about, and from the enthusiasms that brought these people into it in the first place. I got out 20 years ago because I found this stuff repellent then. It’s worse now. it’s sad that our society can’t provide a place for smart and enthusiastic people to do honest research without all this corrupting quasi-commercial (or sometimes simply commercial) influence.

floofloof,

Put it on the pile with the other tens of thousands of tragic mistakes by the IDF. And with the ones they’ll so accidentally make tomorrow.

floofloof,

I bought Windows 95 on floppy disks when it first came out. I think it was 13 disks.

Microsoft used a special format for these floppies, called Distribution Media Format (DMF). It allowed them to fit 1.68MB onto each disk instead of the standard 1.44MB. I just went looking for information about that and found a web page that has not been changed since 1997:

www.winimage.com/wimushlp/wini1a1y.htm

floofloof,

I think at least some editions of Windows 98 couldn’t boot from the CD-ROM either but had a boot floppy with the drivers. I hit this problem recently when trying to set up a Windows 98 machine.

floofloof,

I saved it from the disappointment of being obstructed by Earth. Anyway, it’s not like it wasted any time on the journey.

floofloof,

Also missing the handy celebrity gossip, weather and irrelevant stonks shit that pops up every time you mouse past it in the Taskbar.

floofloof,

They’re not the most miraculous miracles. A person might miss them if they weren’t specifically searching for miracles.

floofloof,

I’m not sure the choice between Bing or Google, two search engines controlled by giant corporations who make money from advertising, is enough of a choice for a truly free Internet. And as the Bing outage last week showed us, most other search engines are just Bing repackaged.

floofloof,

It’s OK though: air conditioners make climate change worse. So they’re doing their Republican part.

floofloof,

They’ll just say God’s punishing them for not killing the right people, then they’ll double down.

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