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This was two years ago, so not sure about now, but I basically ended up getting two separable monitors instead of a single ultrawide. Mainly for the price (and the number of pixels for that price), but also so I could throw things to fullscreen without thinking too much and still have space left.

In the long run this is good for the Internet.
Gab is having difficulty spinning-up new servers as the flood of traffic overwhelms them. Looks like their vulnerability is going to be cloudflare. Oh well. It's going to be a fine limited hangout for news until it collapses.

The twelve blue-pilled libertarians also live in this alternate reality

Robert P. Murphy: I have to stand back and congratulate the amazing ability of the Left to frame the political debate. It has just about been cemented in Official History that anybody who went to the Trump rally was a violent insurrectionist and white supremacist. These people are pros, bravo.
twitter.com/ThomasEWoods/statu #Mises #debate #Libertarian #Trump #trumprally

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Full-List of bots..

@wolfie @Elfie @GNUxeava @verita84 A good reason to push the user:admin ratio as close to 1 as possible.

大概会是个资源站串 

抛砖引玉,欢迎交流
jubt.cf/cn/index.html
推荐一个影视资源的入门级整合站,常用的磁力搜索站、在线站网址基本都有了。
分类也算清楚,找点啥只要不太冷门的,多翻翻应该都有。
BT磁力下载我使用qbittorrent,国内网盘离线只推荐115(虽然毕竟国内盘,也不怎么看好)

一些电子书站 

libgen.rs/
永远的神,遇事不决先上这个

b-ok.asia/
除了libgen之外,我个人经常挖东西的地方

digitalcollections.nypl.org/
纽约公共图书馆电子档,不少史料扫描档,可以找些古书和地图

the-eye.eu/
神秘又庞大的资料库,啥都有,现在大概已经扩到了140T容量,最好别想着全都爬下来。
我主要用来查TPRG相关和神秘学材料。

aozora.gr.jp/
青空文库,日文公版书永远的神。

vol.moe/
如果你想用kindle或者kindle app看漫画

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虽然这话此处有点多余,不过作为一个多少和卖字沾点边的,还是额外说一句:有条件请支持正版——至少如果您喜欢的书的作者还活着,且能收到版税的话。

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@abloo I love it when YouTubers shill for VPNs talking about privacy benefits and asking viewers to follow their Twitter and Instagram at the end of the video.

@march

Tangentially related: as someone who does programming comps, I've always wished that competitions could be more watchable/spectator-friendly, if you know what I mean.

I'm about to post something I wrote 2 years ago. I like embarrassing myself so here it goes.

Fukusyuu Programmer!! Sekai-ichi wo mezase!

In a world where programming competitions are serious business, 16 year old junior high school student Yamada Hanako is thrust into the strange world of hardcore coding competitions after vowing to avenge her family's tarnished repuation.

Chapter 1 summary:
1996, Tokyo Japan
"Hanako, cheer for daddy okay? After I win this programming competition we can finally afford the five hundred million yen treatment for mommy's Ultracancer, and we'll be together again. I promise"
Hanako's father, Yamada Tarou, enters the 1v1 computer lab and steps onto his mainframe.
Among a crowd of thousands, Hanako frantically tries to cheer for her father hoping to give her father some morale.
It is the finals stage of the prestigious Michaelsoft programming competition. The winner will get five hundred million yen and recognition as the best programmer in Japan.
Tarou's opponent, Matsuda Hiro, is a 16 year old junior high school student who shattered all expectations, quickly rising through the ranks, beating veteran programmers along the way, finally making it to the finals 1v1 stage.
As the match continues into the 5th programming problem, something seems amiss. Tarou's hands are shaking terribly and the audience has noticed this.
"What's this? It looks like Yamada-san cannot type anymore! He has just requested one of the judges for a timeout. This should be grounds for a temporary match suspension!" the match commentator exclaims.
"NANI!? THE JUDGE IS SHAKING HIS HEAD!? It seems that Yamada-san's request was denied! What could be the cause of this? Nevertheless, the match must continue, it seems."
It is the final problem, and from the jumbo screen displaying his monitor, it looks like Yamada was almost close to finishing. But the rules do not consider a solution creditable until it is completely done.
The audience is in shock as Yamada desperately uses his tongue to type the remaining few functions, an utterly shameful display. His daughter Hanako could not believe her eyes.
Unfortunately, Yamada accidentally slams his face onto the keyboard and closes the entire project without saving. It was at this point that it was clear to everyone, including himself, that he would lose. Realizing this, Yamada Tarou could do nothing but rest his head in the table and cry.
The time limit approaches, and Matsuda finishes just in time. Yamada could not submit a solution so Matsuda was crowned the winner of the Michaelsoft programming competition by way of Yamada's forfeit.
Weeks after her father's tragic defeat, Hanako's mother perished painfully as the ultracancer destroyed her brain. Her father was not there to witness this, as he had committed suicide because of the massive shame he suffered on national television.
Determined to avenge her family, Hanako joins her high school programming club in order to learn the ropes and get revenge on Matsuda, the one she suspects poisoned her father in order to win.
CHAPTER 1 END

Here's something I'm wondering. So there are a bunch of people really upset that Trump didn't win. And the common sentiment is that the protest he basically organized only inflamed spirits more, and got people more riled up and primed for violence.

But what if it's the exact opposite. What if this allowed the more ardent supporters to vent some steam, get a feeling that they achieved something, that they showed "them". And now, on Trump's word, they're gonna go back home, with some peace of mind that Biden's presidency can't hurt them, because they did take over Capitol building after all, and if something bad were to happen... "well clearly Biden wouldn't dare do something against the people, because he saw how powerful we were that day".
At the very least, I see the possibility that this event gave the people the illusion that they have power and control over their government, even if/when it's corrupt. And what can give someone more peace of mind than feeling that they are in control of their own lives?

Maybe I'm reaching here, hoping for a calmer future, but wouldn't it be nice if inadvertently Trump pulled one final 4D chess move before he left?

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