Exploding Cigars? Yeah, it was funny, y’know? Light your cigar, then — bang — it explodes! Funny right?
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Headlines that tell the entire story
Hey, news editors writing headlines that tell the entire story—be praised! The ordered presentation of facts and not the grooming of responses is what citizens want. And despite likely higher click-through rates, the rest of you can fuck off with the coy questions, implied mystery, fortune telling, and all the other horseshit. Oh btw, "facts" are all the things you can know without opening up anybody else's head. Inside the head stuff is called "
Yes, again it is the promise of apocalyptic judgement that is the core of their manipulative powers.
I needn’t repeat the only apocalypse any of us face is personal and inevitable and natural.
Trump Supporters Think They’re in a Fight to the Death - The Atlantic
I run my mouth a lot, so I should make clear...
...because maybe somebody does read this, because maybe ON the OFF chance that somebody does read this, and perhaps thinks if I’m criticizing software in some sort of abstract way it must actually be about the platform I am posting my criticisms on, so perhaps Twitter, or where I secretly really hang out, on micro.blog. Well, it is not. I like twitter for what it is, mostly, and micro.blog is groovy, does just what it does without fuss.
Hey, #cybersecuritypros the only question you must have a yes answer to: When any of your systems do something you either did not ask for, or are surprised by, can you reach the on/off switch? Astounding how many times * scenarios I hear “I didn’t know you could turn it off.”
Software is really just very very very very small hardware
Software is really just very very very small hardware. The only moving parts are the words, and they take up exactly zero space. This is another reason why so much software is garbage. No one can see what the hell is going on in there ;~}
Remember officers, sacrifice is a value reflected universally in
Remember officers, sacrifice is reflected universally in religions and secular frameworks, a value that becomes self-evident upon reflection, and a value which civil law enforcement is unlikely to ever cease demanding be made manifest by those in its charge.
Good god—sorry for all of the obviously he hasn’t read this at all type of typos. [ EDIT: this of course refers to some typographical errors I made in the last post, which I have of course now gone back into and corrected, because who wants to leave that stuff laying around, right? ]
Not that anyone gives a hoot, but we notice even if we don’t say anything, right? Right.
To comfort you in this desperate time let me share this typo. It happens to all of us, one way or another.
Even when the dead are the only ones asking questions, don’t forget—only the living can hear the answers.
Frankfurt am Main - City Center
This is not a great reproduction, but it is a great map, especially for tourists at the time.