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Unfortunately, Merlin's character doesn't really line up with anything druidic until the 18th century. By the time the Roman empire collapsed, they had wiped out the druids completely, and all that was left was Roman propaganda, secondhand histories, and Celt myths and stories.

The Merlin character didn't show up in literature for another 700 years, about a century after other Arthurian stories started showing up.

The entire set of Arthurian stories are a result of real histories in Britain after the Roman collapse and Celt and pagan myths being written down in the 1100's.

Because of modern memes and stories, it's hard to grasp how thoroughly the Romans obliterated any and all knowledge of druidic history. The notion of nature worshipping powerful shamans is a modern conceit, and doesn't match any of the known written or oral histories.

Romans went scorched earth on religions they didn't like, and there's probably a dozen or so cultures like the druids where all we have left is bits and pieces of hearsay and mythologies.
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My approach, although incompatible, is to simply not use twitter for things it is really bad at. I'm happy with missing out.
Would you mind sharing more?
I can immediately think of one woke policy that is considered to be a material demand: UBI, also Medicare for all and reparations for black people.
It already happened with rape.

We need a separate word for leering, groping, fondling, sex with dubious consent, and violently beating someone during penetration without consent.

Rape used to mean only the last thing and it was regarded as basically the worst form of assault short of murder since it included every possible form of assault.

Today it's moved to fondling and people are trying to make it include leering. Using the same legal punishments for something that is clearly different makes very little sense and normalizes rape in the long term.
In the 90’s I worked for a company whose C/C++ code needed to run on at least 7 different Unix versions: SunOS, Solaris, two different AIX versions, HP-UX, DGUX, and whatever Motorola’s Unix was. The slogan around the office was, “There is no such thing as portable code, just ported code.”
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Ya but now you're flagged as someone who has something to hide, possibly trying to clear off devices before the change was implemented.

Hmm maybe that's their game. You don't need to scan, just need to see who deleted all their photo's over the last few days. A higher than random hit rate I'd guess.
After watching 1983 I became aware that there are many Vietnamese in Poland. It seems there are many in Germany too.

This is an interesting legacy of the Eastern Bloc.
> our personal devices should be inviolate unless there is a suspicion of crime, and even then a court order should be involved.

Even with a court order, your devices should not cooperate with a search, unless instructed to do so by you, their owner.
It's all about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimation
Is there an example you have in mind? That is, an example of a dissenting view point being treated ruthlessly?
It’s a respiratory coronavirus. We have decades of info on respiratory viruses and other coronaviruses. They peak November to April in northern hemisphere countries with strong summers. See page 4 here: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-virolo...

The late August peak has been a southern US phenomenon, seemingly associated with going inside during warm months for air conditioning. The south states were the ones that peaked early both years. Israel also had an early summer peak last year, associated with a heat wave.

In states and countries where people go outside, it is a strong bet that viral transmission will be stronger in the months when coronaviruses are seasonally strong.
What are the core principles of being woke?
You can't expect more when the discussion behind-closed-door is to whether "global-warming" or "climate-change" is a better term to get people to lean one way or the other. It's the idea that story telling is more important than actual and plain scientific evidence that will be the downfall of these important issues (that are being manipulated for short-term profits by green-agenda-profiteers).
> The "X" suffix is an attempt by younger Spanish speakers to introduce a neuter gender to their native language.

That's not what I've seen. "Latinx" isn't pronouncable in Spanish. The actual attempt to introduce a neutral gender uses the suffix -e. For example "les estudiantes ruidoses" or "mis amigues".
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Someone gets into a new school, he finds someone relatable that someone introduces him to a group of people who faces the same or similar issues like he does.

They grow up and when financially independent go through surgeries, hormone therapy etc. and come out as LGBTQ.

Should this be questionable?

If yes then, How do the majority of kids who are interested in programming/computers become software engineers? should be too.
Poor people in the US are remarkably well-off. According to [0], if you’re in the 20th percentile in the states ($25k income), you’d be in the 80th percentile of Germany. 20th percentile and lower is the OECD definition of working/lower class.

Personally I found the 80% figure hard to believe. According to something else I saw online, it was 20th percentile in the US = 50th percentile in Europe. Which still shows how dominant the US is!

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/business/global...
I've been known to commit poetry when I think people aren't watching me[1].

Strangely, I've always found it easier to tell people I invent my own languages[2]. If I accidentally admit to the poetry thing then people start asking me questions and wanting me to look at their poems, whereas leading with the conlang thing generally encourages them to slowly back their way out of the conversation.

[1] - Of course I wrote my own website to host them - https://rikverse2020.rikweb.org.uk/

[2] - The need to show the world my conlangs is what got me into web development in the first place. So something good came out of my weird hobby - https://gevey.rikweb.org.uk/
This is something I genuinely am curious about: how do you get equality of opportunity without first getting equality of outcome in a system where money opens doors and inheritance exists? Just-freed black people started with nothing when white slave owners had farms to pass onto their children. If (I think it is) obvious that wealth provides more opportunity, there’s no way for black people to ever have equal opportunity as the original white population.

(Edit: this isn’t to say I agree with equal outcome. I think there’s a lot of nonsense stuff in that sphere. But I’ve never myself been able to answer how to consider how to make equality of opportunity happen if we started from an unequal space and inheritance exists which persists inequality.)
Which country are you connecting from?
Razzle is what I used for a year or more, before moving over to Next.js. It's a solid static site generator and builder of full-stack applications.

Razzle is a far more hands-off approach, one of those tools that get out of your way, and disappears when you're using it. That has great value because it doesn't dictate how you write your application.

In contrast, Next.js is a framework, with its own universe of conventions, conveniences, ways to do things. It has a lot more functionality out of the box. Excellently documented, too.

I'd say Next.js provides great value in a team environment, to have a common, consistent and simple build configuration as well as application structure.

There's much to love about Next.js, but the only thing that bugs me is how they do opt-out telemetry. I have a postinstall script that runs "npx next telemetry disable", but it feels dirty.

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As for "bloated Next.js projects", surely that's not the fault of the framework. It does its best to produce a lean production build, so the bloat is up to the user. (Unless you mean the size of the node_modules folder during development.)
Lee from the Next.js team here. Could you share what features you’d like to see? Is there a GitHub issue or more information about the TypeScript declarations? Thank you!
> I’ve been called closed minded and a right wing asshole for saying that I would not date trans men, and that heterosexual intercourse will never be gay.

You're conflating two very different things here: "I would not do this", and "If someone does this they're not really gay".

It feels like a motte-and-bailey fallacy to me.
Yeah, I think that was the intended reading of that reply given the obviously similar phrasing.

However there's a word for anti-authoritarian leftists. We're called anarchists. Not all leftists are anarchists and not all leftists are anti-authoritarian. Even authoritarian leftists (or "statists") generally believe in the end goal being the ideal of a stateless, classless society.

Statists just tend to believe the only way to get there is with an intermediary socialist state established through a communist revolution and led by a vanguard party who directs the economic, social and philosophical evolution of the people towards bringing about communism. The differences between those groups are largely about what that intermediary state should look like and at what point it can be dissolved.

Some of the aspirationally communist states of the 20th century justified their continued existence with communism having to be rolled out globally simultaneously for it to b successful. Some instead argued that what they had achieved was "real socialism", heavily implying that's as good as it gets and any critics were utopian idealists who'd rather tear down the local optimum in the hope of an unachievable ideal. The USSR opened its markets and collapsed under the dual load of its bureaucrat aristocracy and capitalist oligarchs, China pivoted to Dengism to contain their "capitalist experiments" with the promise of a greater good coming from the temporary toleration of exploitation.

But for anarchists (and mutualists, who fall somewhere between anarchism and statism) the biggest problem tends to be that they usually either start out or end up surrounded by nation states with standing armies who want none of their nonsense.

The most promising approach seems to be dual power, i.e. building anarchist structures[0] within existing states through cooperation and solidarity so that when they inevitably collapse in the future, the people can fall back on those structures as an alternative to just reasserting the old (hierarchical) power structures.

[0]: To preempt the obvious joke: contrary to the portrayal of "anarchy" in most media today, anarchists don't believe in no organizations, just no hierarchical power structures, i.e. usually they agree with consent-driven forms of bottom-up organizing. The one exception tend to be egoists (see Stirner), but most anarchists try to ignore them because they're weird.
Interesting thought: isn't using a vpn a form of pirating? Can you even "pirate" something that is offered free (just not to you)?
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I am guessing it is mostly exercise and diet related.

People 50-70 years ago on average lived a very different life style in the US. The fear was that people weren’t getting enough food in the United States and the modern food industry was born and kind of over corrected and now obesity is the problem we are trying to solve.

On top of that I am shocked by how little the average American exercises, and I just don’t mean going to the gym and running, I mean basic, walking and doing something, anything physical.
> isn't using a vpn a form of pirating?

sorry, what?
Still true. Apple makes money off adversting just like anyone else. they also get paid obsurd amounts of money to from Google to make them the default search engine in Safari.
No idea, but i love McWhorter ideas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDlmSn3aGYU
Speaking as someone who has my pronouns on my Twitter page, the main purpose is to keep those who get bothered by it away, especially because it should be such a little thing that those that manage to get worked up over it are not people I'm interested in spending time on.

I have no problem being on friendly terms with people who think it's a bit silly of me to have them there. But people who are so offended they don't want to follow me? Good riddance.
Do you mean English pronouns?
Don’t get me wrong, storytelling is important, and these kinds of films are important for the sector of the population that still doesn’t get it, and still needs to hear the call to action, but I’m not sure I would call them documentaries.
> a potential alternative to the awkward/ambiguous singular they

Spivak pronouns go back a very long way, though they were most popularized in the early '80s by Spivak using them in technical documentation. The popularity of singular they as a general purpose pronoun is much more recent.
It's appalling how this comment is not being flagged.
Would be nice to see what there is available, instead of having to sign up just to see that
A bit more than a decade ago, I was on the receiving end of a C level (CEO/CTO that is) decision to target Linux, BSD, Solaris and ... Windows, for a C++ application.

I think I can imagine your pain.
One option you might consider is learning to code yourself. I understand you may not have the time or desire to but if you did it would be much cheaper (and possibly faster. It's hard to hire devs right now, especially good ones)

As a founder you'll also have to give up coding eventually, so it's not like you have to become a shaolin master. Just good enough to make an MVP+
I don't like what GP is saying either; it's sneaking some very judgmental opinions under the umbrella of "they want to force me to have sex with X", which is bad faith.

But you don't know how his argument with his friends went, so it's a little arrogant to tell him "they were probably mad at you because you said X".
Man this is horribly sad.
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I'm looking for alternatives to docusign and other esignature platforms. The biggest drawback is the cost, especially when it comes to making me the only user. I've seen some apps that forces the customer to integrate their docusign account, but the use case of this app is slightly different.

The app is pretty simple. It generates a contract and passes it to individuals for signatures within the app and/or email. Is there something wrong with just "drawing" out your signature every time? Or possibly a service that is cheaper and better suited for my use case?

If going down the custom route, I'm not sure what sort of legal hurdles I'm going to come across.
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Propaganda is still propaganda, regardless of whether it's used for "good" or for evil.

From watching hundreds of similar documentaries over the years, these here look exactly the kind that I'd avoid watching because they manipulate the truth and tell half-truths (unnecessarily) just to propagate their agenda, which is usually not exactly enviromental, but seeming like they are care.
I have a friend in Europe who informed me matter-of-fact that American corporate explicitly asked them to sport pronouns in their social media profiles. Or else I suppose.
Dave Jones disassembled a mainframe CPU from a 90s vintage machine. It was the size of a paperback. Check his chanell on Youtube or Odysee.
I noticed there's a way to add a payment method, but I don't see any paid content on the site...
Our brains have evolved to be attracted to stories and story telling. I'm not exactly knocking it down when it comes to social situation (or even business/advertising), but when it's being used in the context of presenting factual evidence it's being used as a brain-hack to propagate an agenda.
You don’t know the core principles of the thing you want to cancel? What do you know about the thing you want to cancel?
liberal would be good enough
I think in some cases silence is violence. For example, the silence of ones witnessing co workers when a woman tries to report being sexually harassed in her workplace. Like if a woman describes witnesses to her being groped by a co worker, and all the witnesses just shrug and say nothing to defend her, that workplace has in effect allowed sexual harassment to occur and condones continued harassment of women.

That being said I do think it’s dumb for putting ones pronouns or whatever. But I think when we paint “wokeness” with this extremely broad brush we’re just doing the same bullshit that we’re accusing “wokeness” of doing.
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IANAL and my understanding is quite limited.

But I can direct you to Hercules which is an IBM Mainframe emulator. It is open source under an OSI approved license (not GPL but rather QPL). Their problem appears not so much that they emulate the s390 architecture (I think that the Oracle v Google Java API case set rather a conclusive precedent there, in the US at any rate, but perhaps I will be corrected), but that the license terms of IBM mostly prohibit running any of their operating systems on the emulated hardware.

Of course there are exceptions and workarounds (IBM System/360 is public domain software in the US, but MMV in other territories, and some customers have a disaster recovery contract clause that could perhaps justify their running stuff on Hercules). But my point is that this project might be a good place to start when investigating the legitimacy of commercial/proprietary emulators of others' hardware.

HTH and good luck.

http://www.hercules-390.org/hercfaq.html
Well, i'm a political emigrant. I left Russian because i believe it's a bad country. Obviously i don't want my child o grow up Russian (and it works, at the age of 10 she can't read Russian at all and speaks it as a so-so foreigner, but has fluent English and Greek).
Could you elaborate on what their agenda would be, if "not exactly" environmental?
Correct, the majority speak Haitian Creole, though that is a language derived in part from French. I don't want to debate whether Creole-speaking and French-speaking Haitians should be considered Latin, only point out that many people do consider them Latin, since Hispanola is part of Latin America.

French typically uses no suffix for masculine words and a -e suffix for feminine words. I am not a fluent French speaker, nor an expert in French etymology, but it is my understanding that Latino and Latina are words borrowed from Spanish (or arguably from American English), and are not originally French words themselves. Latinoaméricain(e) is also derived from Spanish (latinoamericano).

I'm love learning new things about language, so feel free to teach me something new if I have misunderstood something.
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> Latins (later known as Romans) were white

It's more complicated than that: https://acoup.blog/2021/07/23/collections-the-queens-latin-o...
Same for me. Message appears right on the front page.
I really like Linear— what I like best about it is that almost every functionality is accessible via keyboard shortcuts. I would go so far as to say that should be a first design principle of any productivity tool, especially one aimed at developers. Kitemaker is similar, I used to use it but switched to Linear
By my own personal assessment it changes the way I view them, because this is the most overtly anti-user, anti-privacy thing they’ve ever done. Perhaps I should have never had any level of trust for them, but you live and learn I guess.

Feel free to respond to my point about the alert catalog inevitably being leaked and ruining lives. Or you could just have a go at gaslighting me a little more if you prefer.
The CDC page is pretty clear about aerosol transmission methods. And that’s only updated as of May 7th: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...

The widely documented superspreader events are impossible to explain by droplet or fomite transmission. Literally impossible. You think an infected bar patron goes around within 6 feet of 80 other people and shakes their hands or breathes on them?

224 people were infected at this Quebec city gym. Aerosol is the only viable mechanism to do that: https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/superspreading-event-canada-m...

Here’s a couple articles summing things up:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/07/why-arent...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/opinion/coronavirus-airbo...
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This is wrong on so many levels but I don't blame you as it's the false narrative that's most pervasive in most media.

First of all, "starts with nothing" isn't specific to black population. Many (most?) immigrants also start with nothing, yet often outperform locals (including whites) (the important question that almost noone is asking, is why?). Among those are Nigerians, so clearly "because they're not black" isn't the correct answer.

Your question already contains the "correct" (IMO) answer, which is: help poor people. To the extent that poverty correlates to being black (or any other categorical characteristic), both solutions are equivalent, except that mine is (1) non-discriminatory (e.g. it helps white homeless people as well), (2) self-correcting (when "racial equality of outcome" is reached and poverty is no longer correlated with skin color, my solution will continue to do "good"), and (3) non-wasteful (why would society spend any amount of resources helping e.g. Obama's daughters, who are by "inheritance" (of political connections) some of the most privileged people on this planet?).

Edit: I might have been too focused on the "race" part of your comment. If you're wondering about inherited inequality in general, well, yeah, that's one of the paradoxes of meritocracy & similar concepts, e.g. assortative mating - the end (stable) state is a society ruled by the (hereditary) "intelligent" class. But I think that's unlikely to happen naturally because there seems to be quite a lot of genetic variation in intelligence (and other traits our society treats as "superior", e.g. height, beauty, etc.); if anything, that's more likely to happen because of genetic manipulation/embryo selection, which doesn't exactly require a meritocratic society...
The system is designed as if iCloud photos is already E2EE. It's not currently, so Apple could have simply done mass decryption server side and scanned there.

But the way the CSAM system is designed works exactly as described. It's technically pretty cool. Each matching hash builds part of a key. Only when the key is complete (~30 matches) can the matches and only the matches be decrypted for review. This also only works on photos destined for iCloud, and actually makes it harder for LE to show up and say 'here is a warrant to scan all photos for X' since the matching hash db is included in the iOS release.
Maybe it's for donations? There might be a plan to attract users with quality content and use the platform to connect potential donators to environmental NGOs.
it works pretty well if you stick to C and target Linux and want to support a multitude of distributions. As soon as you throw something else into the mix (C++, or OSX or ...) you're heading for a world of pain.
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