Normally I get around it by using Tor browser which works 95% of the time since it’s a totally normal-looking web browser — but here they’ve got the settings turned up so high that not even that works. It’s unusual enough that it probably wasn’t an accident, so telling them about it probably won’t help.

Scroll down that page a bit and you’ll see the message at the bottom stating it’s Cloudflare.

Site owners can configure cloudflare to block half the world if they want to, as they appear to have done here.

It would be an excusable mistake even if it weren’t inadvertent which it easily might have been. Unless he makes a habit of it I don’t see why anyone should care at all, let alone repeatedly demand that he apologise and try to make a national news story out of it.

So it took them twelve years from the time they introduced systematic website blocking — in a futile effort to protect copyright — to start blocking forbidden knowledge about women’s reproductive health. I wonder if that is faster or slower than average when it comes to making such progress.

Just common sense innit? You’ve got more money, you get more votes. It’s practically a law of nature. Trying to enforce some other system would be going against the natural order of things. It’s the best way to maximise shareholder value.

Sex and drugs are fine but don’t neglect your rock and roll.

A goose that lays eggs composed of heavy metals has serious health problems, yet we value it.

Why? What does “discussions about hurting people” actually mean? Even starship captains engage in such discussions at times.

• Youtube shorts
• Youtube comments
• Inane point-form fights about complex political issues
• Entities exercising so little brainpower that they appear to be bots
• Alberta separatism

What an exquisite combination of the wonders of the social media world.

Patrick Boyle had a pretty good youtube video about this “mercantalist-on-mercantalist violence.”

My impression is that Germany, like so many other places, is going to need to come up with a substantially new and different way to manage its economic system. Manufacturing cars is no longer the path to greatness that everyone 50 years ago thought it was forever going to be.

The memory clock might be measured differently — base clock speed vs “effective” memory clock. Anyway my 6600 running Furmark also says 875 and does about 92 fps without trying to optimize anything.

First it was the end of Moore’s law, and now the delicate balance that existed for so long between computers getting more memory and software getting more bloated has been wrecked by software more wasteful than anyone could’ve imagined. So much for the so-called Information Age. I guess it’s Disinformation Age time.

If you’re willing to ask even this ridiculous question here in public, I’m not sure why you’d need to go anywhere else.

This would be one of those times where your post would be a lot better if it included more than just the deceptive clickbait headline.

If Mexico and Canada were to make a trade deal and leave the US out of it, maybe it could be an actual free trade deal without any bullshit about ISDS, data sharing agreements, draconian new copyright laws, or anything else.

I suspect that your vague, unsubstantiated feelings that someone you had a passing interaction with might have been a bot (it’s possible! who knows!) is not the valuable contribution to this community that you presumably thought it was going to be.

Well there are several possibilities. For instance, pronouns could be based on simple clicking sounds that indicate one’s social proximity to the queen.

There ought to be some kind of 2016 css subset that everyone sticks to and then we can reconsider maybe updating it to include any newer stuff that’s absolutely essential once every ten years.

all of the outtakes from my trombone playing became a song called “Riker’s Mailbox”

Huh, there it is — in a dusty old corner of my record collection. Not sure if I’d call it a “song” exactly. I had no idea it was actual Riker trombone playing.

I suppose that due to his position Linus is forced to have some kind of opinions about it, but I am so sick of all the “AI” talk that I can’t even be bothered to click the link and find out what it is.