Ah, good old “two different things can’t both be true!” deflection.

They absolutely knew. There’s a note about them googling “time in Moscow” when their contact wasn’t replying, to see when they’d wake up and come back to work.

because I live here, you drooling idiot

no they don’t, they just want to be left alone.

the only reason the old constitution hasn’t been amended is because China regularly threatens to start a full scale war if there’s any amendment to reflect the current reality, they would call it a “declaration of independence”.

the letters are “supposed to be” for Latin, a language with only five different vowel sounds.

everyone since has just been making a bunch of shit up.

Can confirm, at least for Acast distribution, I generally get no ads when I’m not in an English speaking country at the time of download.

However, iHeart podcasts are always absolutely crammed full of ads everywhere.

it’s normal for unstressed short vowels in English to all come out as a “schwa”, which the most common phoneme of the language.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid_central_vowel

Fabric Bellard’s body of work is fairly strong evidence for time travel having happened already.

Or just genius.

sure.

i didn’t claim the Kremlin to be the most rational people in the world.

They would be liable to be sued for massive amounts for breach of contract of they just shut it off normally. The pipe destruction got them off that hook.

(i’m personally not 100% sure who did it, but there were realistic reasons for Russia to do it)

Terrific fun, yes, thanks.

Parties that don’t have people recycling tired old bOTh SiDeS wANt tO iNvADe talking points.

I see you post a lot, and it’s normally fine, never an apocalyptically bad take like this before. So I hope you’ll take this well.

The “West Taiwan” meme and the oft repeated thing about the constitution of the RoC still claiming the mainland is dumb. It’s only because the CCP threatens immediate war - if Taipei changes their constitution to reflect post-1949 reality, that would be considered “a declaration of independence” and trigger a missile barrage.

Only about 2% of people in Taiwan identify as Chinese, and I can guarantee they’re almost all old as rocks, maybe a lot of them went to school when schooling was still in Japanese. The vast majority of citizens identify as Taiwanese, the country has NO intent to “reconquer the mainland”.

You can actually still find moss-covered old fortifications in the hills above Taipei with slogans like that, but they were built no later than the 50s, in the White Terror era.

Please let this “West Taiwan / Best China” stuff die.

this is why h264ify is a pre-installed extension in RPiOS’ builds of browsers.

made sense, until the Pi 5 dropped h264 hw decode. still waiting for a good explanation of that.

It’s a good thing projects like Armbian are steadily improving support for Rockchip-based SBCs, to open up the market beyond Raspberry.

i’m guessing because she’s the only senator with a notable quantity of deepfake porn made of her.

if you don’t think (at least) Thomas, Alito, Barrett, and Kavanuagh are outright malevolent self-serving sociopathic evil - you haven’t been paying any attention.

IBM standard cards are one 48th of a barleycorn thick. I believe IBM measured from the 1932 Iowa Reference Barleycorn, now kept in the vault inside Mt Rushmore.

nor decoding 264 :(

a rather annoying regression from the 4 to the 5, especially when the 5 now supports more MIPI cameras where live encoding is crucial.

at least on a 4, this command will misleadingly return “disabled” even though your programs are able to use hwdec, because the h.265 decoder isn’t part of the Pi 4’s GPU, it’s elsewhere.

and the raspi 5 just doesn’t have it at all.

This one probably was a Ukrainian (pre-war stock) S-200 SAM - it was wayyy beyond Patriot range this time.

So now you’re saying politicians should only be prosecuted by members of their own party. Go to a doctor, tell them your brain fell out, ask for help.