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@lupyuen I do believe Loongsoon is part of China 2025. They should be able to do better than VIA did when they made notebooks for students.

I do have a critique of China's approach and it is almost entirely down to the instruction sets used. Without a proper standard, they are going to have many problems getting software working properly.

There really should be a cure for sleep.

I'm watching LA vs Austin and the properties of water are the best part. Soccer in the US, water is cool.

@mike805 @lmrocha @freemo Dying in one's youth to a machine that can peacefully agree to stop using their favorites in exchange for not stopping what caused them to be used. They essentially agreed to have another war but a humane war. Those were the terms for fighting in the future.

Perhaps they could have done something better.

@lmrocha @mike805 @freemo This isn't a perfect world. The fear goes away when there is no action. Everyone is different.

From Duck and Cover to now, there hasn't been a time where all children could feel safe. I remember the Anthrax, SARS and a forgotten scare The West Nile Virus. I was poking the dead birds with a stick as it occurred to me that with all of them around and some dying where I could see. Oh yeah it's here and I might die but that's not going to be caused by poking a fully dead bird with a stick.

I believe that the bird was a Robin. It was a beautiful bird with magnificent wings. I put the stick down, washed my hands and went with my friends to play football. After 9/11 and the Anthrax letters, it seems that everyone had adjusted. There were a few bomb threats at the school and evacuations.

Children are incredibly capable of adapting to many environments where adults might not make it. I only included the Robin because I could appreciate the beauty of the bird. We avoided the dead birds when we were playing football. That's the world we lived in and the news did what it always does. A child won't be kept down by fear. Abuse of various kinds will but only so much. They aren't unaffected but they will be okay. They might not react to graphic images because those are just dreams. They might die a painful death in their dreams and wake up alive.

The last one leads to some confusing times. It might require a shower and a moment to get fully back into reality. They will learn to not be afraid but it could take time. School shootings are not what they are sensationalized to be. There can be worse things and those will never leave the mind. It would be nice for kids to be safe but political parties still exist and accusations go ignored.

@freemo @lmrocha @mike805 People of different colors can hold this power and that is what truly has made many laws pass. The laws that take away freedoms are almost exclusively targeting undesirables and the poor. When one can live behind a gate with private security goons, they make these laws.

The 80s and 90s were the rise of the disco drug but not in the salt form. People with certain skin tones might have been more likely to use this drug. As with armored vehicles that hold currency, the currency generated by this trade has to be protected too.

Racism, hate and fear were the basis of these laws and it's not difficult to see that while they were allegedly to protect these people, arrests tell a better story. This is the equivalent of The White Man's Burden. A life sentence for possession and slavery were the respective solutions by those in power. Every new administration washes their hands while the people they rule don't need to be brainwashed. A nation divided by parties and full of hate doesn't need the CIA to change them. They will do horrible things.

Children see adults as models. How can we be so surprised when they follow our footsteps? Government needs to control us more as we are incapable of doing so ourselves? No, we need to change as a society to address our problems and much of that would need to begin with our own shortcomings.

@lmrocha @mike805 @freemo There were fully automatic weapons a century ago. The Thomson SMG and the first version of the BAR were in existence. The latter wasn't used in the first World War due to fears of it falling into German hands.

There were international conventions that came together to make rules about how people can be killed and how war can be waged. Apparently anything other than a full metal jacket bullet was outlawed. So there's something odd about this. Countries agreed to not use certain rounds but not killing people was out of the question.

Numerous governments from around the world signed an agreement that made using prohibited ammunition a crime but killing another human being was morally right with a full metal jacket round.

We have defeated Small Pox, Polio and Syphilis among other diseases. There is so much good that is done but people don't seek these positive things out as the morbid fascination with death and destruction generates more money and furthers political goals.

@thor I'm sure there's a hidden message in the film from that.

I finally got a new skateboard and put it all together. Like despite the rough patch in my life I feel happy.

@jeffcliff @kravietz @letsencrypt @PawelK I've heard good things about it but I haven't personally used it. It's not going to be absolutely secure because current hardware comes with the ability to intercept keys and many more cool things.

It's a good idea but the internet needs an upgrade too.

@PawelK @kravietz @piotrsikora There's a lot going on in this conversation. Sorry I had to sleep as I try to limit myself to two days now.

RISC-V, Sopine, FreeBSD, possible malware, MIPS and much more. I try to understand language but I believe I missed much.

I see English being used so I assume they can understand me to some degree. After being asked simple questions in Russian and being unable to answer with my tourist level of understanding or using the Chinese I was taught and being asked to stop because I essentially made a dick joke, I am fairly certain that I should refrain.

@thor NASA successfully tested a Rotary Detonation Rocket, it's not ready for use but it is getting closer to being ready.

There's a good critique of American news in Don Henley-Dirty Laundry. It's very accurate despite being old.

@thor England's English is rather odd. Some English people can speak intelligible English but others have some cursed dialect referred to as Cockney.

Can is short for canister. American English is from Shakespearean Era English and has preserved more of the old language. In the conversations I've had with people from England I noticed something unique. They tend to be verbose and dance around the information that could have been revealed with fewer words.

American English seems to include more words from different languages. The one thing that American English did was homogenize the different dialects of English so it would sound the same.

So Americans standardized English and borrowed words became common with the arrival of more Immigrants. We kept the language and it hasn't changed much since then. It's relatively simple for English and it was standardized before England's English. England's standard is referred to as RP or Received Pronunciation.

As for the rubbish bin, I will have to look that up. A bin is a container.
Rubbish might have come from Old French.
Trash might be Scandinavian.
Oddly they were introduced around the 1400s in English.

@thor It could have been nearly anything.

@thor They smell of fish?