missfrizzle

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[–] missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Newspeak was inspired by Esperanto, because George Orwell had an annoying Esperantist roommate. "bad" in Esperanto is "malbone," literally "un-good." "terrible" in Esperanto is "malbonege," literally "very ungood."

[–] missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Chinese scientists worked to create the "humanzee," a human-chimpanzee hybrid in the '60s. Female chimpanzees were impregnated with human sperm. The experiment was cut short by the Cultural Revolution - the scientists were sent to labor camps and a three-months pregnant chimpanzee died of neglect. The Soviets attempted a similar program in the '20s.

[–] missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

slavery wouldn't ever be voluntary, since any rational person would only decide to sell themself into slavery due to material hardship, so they'd be a victim and the slaveowner would profit from their suffering, thereby indirectly funding the economic conditions that led to slavery. and any irrational person would lack the mental capacity to have signed such a contract. in either case the contract would be unconscionable, rendering it invalid.

[–] missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Hive minds would be a superior form of consciousness than lone individual minds. If the technology ever materializes, we should install brain implants to create a form of wireless telepathy, allowing the sharing of senses, ideas, knowledge, feelings and subsume our self-awareness into group awareness, like little Borg cubes.

will old cellphones become UXO for gen alpha?

[–] missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de 44 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

the number of times I've wished for a time machine so I could transition sooner... 😣

[–] missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Russia... Russia never changes.

[–] missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

the most secure possible? you'll need to learn a ton. you'll get there, but it'll take a while.

decently secure? install Linux Mint, install your updates, don't run sketchy commands with URLs in them unless you know what you're doing, maybe follow a hardening guide. you'll be okay.

if you need to be extremely secure and private, install Tails on a USB stick. it will be slow and frustrating, and you'll need to save files to a second USB drive, but it will probably keep you pretty safe, and it's decently user-friendly. just make sure you keep Tails updated! you'll have to do that by flashing the new Tails onto a new USB drive, there's no easy way around that.

those are your two most user-friendly, safe approaches.

[–] missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I wasted twenty minutes of my life learning enough tumblr to understand the second note. tumblr is a strange and fascinating country, like Listenbourg.

[–] missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

whoa that one is like 4000% worse than the others. Jesus. they're not all bad though, just wildly inconsistent. it's giving radical centrism.

my dad's tongue turned black and he developed jaundice when he was living in Germany. they sent him to a tropical disease institute. never figured out what it was; it eventually went away. I'm guessing he happened to cross paths with someone who traveled from an exotic location.

there's a lot of viruses: rhinovirus, other coronaviruses, RSV, etc. and other kinds of bacterial infections too. checking ProMED Mail I don't see anything too out of the ordinary. there's usually a flurry of emails there before an epidemic emerges.

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