Ah yes, I see what you mean. OP has posted content from Ten Epstein Revelations You Might Have Missed, which is the article that I see after the Israel/X story.

You scrolled past the (annoying) “read more” button and are now on the next article.

Yeah, this is most wholesome and relatable thing I’ve seen on Lemmy for ages

Bad news on the backbone
I couldn’t scan a single ASN

I’m trying to figure out what pronunciation or accent the author uses to have this rhyme. A heavy South African accent, so backbone is more like “berckben”? Pronouncing ASN as “a-sone”?

In the other post, you claim you’d ordered them from Etsy. Is it your Etsy shop? I’m struggling to see how both can be true.

I’d assume that most people are familiar with the term Trekkie, but would have to use context to figure out Trekker (“you like long walks?”)

Whatever the intention, coining/identifying as a separate term suggests someone taking it quite seriously. I just consider them synonyms.

edit: FYI, this shop is OP’s shop

Found them! This lets me cheat and figure out the ones I couldn’t name (or knew I’d got wrong like Digital Ocean that I thought probably wasn’t Commodore 64).

These are really consistent, do you print them yourself?

[he wrote] a sequel to 1984.

I didn’t know this bit of his story. Anyone read it? I’m assuming it’s not very good/coherent but perhaps he was as gifted a writer as he was a coder.

Element Effects

Zodiac sign elements create elemental affinities and oppositions:

Boosted Combinations (tasks thrive under compatible elements):

• 🔥 Fire (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius) × CPU tasks: 1.5x boost
• 🌬️ Air (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius) × Network tasks: 1.5x boost
• 🌍 Earth (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn) × System tasks: 1.4x boost
• 💧 Water (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces) × Memory tasks: 1.3x boost

Hang on - Aquarius, the water-bearer, is an air element? I’m beginning to think this astrology stuff doesn’t make much sense.

I like that water is responsible for memory, like how homeopathic medicine works.

I’m thinking of it the same way, and not having the readers be trade secrets but published specs is good for future digital archeologists.

For example, Dyson uses trade secrets instead of patents, so it would be harder to recreate their tech in the future.

Edit: patents not parents 🤦

“We are a technology licensing company”

This is good news from the point of view of being able to create devices that can read these crystals; as a comment on the linked site says:

The realistic lifetime of storage is the life of the last manufactured or surviving retrieval device.

Our local wizard who casts these spells is @mykl@lemmy.world

  // this is bollocks, delete it

That’s almost certainly from a Brit.

  // this looks like I'm being a fancy arsehole, but this is all because  
  // the window shows up white for some reason when first opened, and this  
  // disguises it.

Could be either.

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The article shows that that’s not what’s going on:

YouTube, which is owned by Google, confirmed to The Intercept that it deleted the groups’ accounts as a direct result of State Department sanctions against the group after a review. The Trump administration leveled the sanctions against the organizations in September over their work with the International Criminal Court in cases charging Israeli officials of war crimes.

“Google is committed to compliance with applicable sanctions and trade compliance laws,” YouTube spokesperson Boot Bullwinkle said in a statement.

Did you read the article or just the headline?

And then the other guy reverted that… eatingpopcorn.gif

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