the clipmaker. When you've got entertainment like this available, you might as well use it. I'm criticizing the uncivilized setup that rejects and ruins the GOD-GIVEN gifts of unfashionable people.
A bit of courage in the tech world!
In earlier decades tech types were often at odds with Deepstate warmaking myths. For instance, electronics types and radio hams had a more realistic view of Russia during the first cold war because we talked with real Russians and knew something about the workings of Russian industry and academia. Engineers are familiar with real Persians and Arabs because lots of real Persians and Arabs study engineering here and stay to work in the oil industry.
This reality-based heresy has been silenced recently, as techies are leading the RUSSIAN_MEDDLING pogrom and cheerfully helping to obliterate both Russia and Persia.
Here's a rare exception, a caution against myths from the TechDirt website.
Persia's black-robed demons banned the Telegram social media service. Rouhani publicly disowned the ban, saying it's counterproductive.
The reaction to these bans has, unfortunately, largely been of the shrugging variety. The reputations of Russia and Iran in America being what they are, some of it undeserved, many simply waved this away as authoritarian regimes doing what authoritarian regimes do. With perhaps a dash of Islamophobia mixed in when it comes to Iran, care for the impact on the people there appears to have gone out the window, too. After all, the Supreme Leader chose to block the app, so what is anyone to do?
Well, it seems that, counter to the misconceptions many might have about the way Iran works, President Hassan Rouhani has come out criticizing the block on the app, saying both that he had nothing to do with it and that he disagrees with the move.
And perhaps more practical than ideological, too. Rouhani had a front row seat to the Arab Spring that occurred in recent years in several countries in Persian and Arab nations. He saw first hand what happened when governments attempted to stave off dissent by clamping down on internet communication tools in this sort of heavy-handed way. I imagine he probably doesn't want his own country to repeat these mistakes.
BRAVO for a return to the old tech realism.
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Thursday, May 10, 2018
Constants and variables 91, MYOB NYOB edition
New Yorkers have been a source of evil since the start. Always globalist, always imperialist, always genocidal, always using theories to smash reality. These satanic qualities have remained constant for 400 years through a variety of ethnic and religious supervisors. First Dutch, then Anglican, then Presbyterian, then Catholic, then Jewish, now trending toward Hindu.
What is the measurement of a New Yorker? How can you spot a New Yorker immediately?
In other words, what is the NYoleth?
Humans are localist and modular. MYOB and MMOB. You mind your own business and I'll mind my own business.
New Yorkers are globalist. A New Yorker is always minding YOUR business. Your thoughts are not permissible until they are identical with NY thoughts. Your goals are criminal unless they serve NY goals. This is the source of imperialism and globalism and neoconism, variable names for the same NY devil.
To a New Yorker, humans are ungulates. Beasts of burden with no soul. Humans are oxen to be harnessed and then slaughtered, cows to be milked and then slaughtered, sheep to be fleeced and then slaughtered. Variable metaphors, constant ungulate.
Humans use MYOB.
New Yorkers use NYOB.
Speaking of 'pay the two dollars'....
My morning walk was a little long, covering a block I hadn't seen recently. Three nice houses in a row are occupied by people with enough money to buy new cars. The houses look almost abandoned. Back yards are full of windblown branches and furniture, front yards unmowed, sprinklers and hoses out in the same position through several winters. It's an odd combination, denoting a careless attitude toward money, or perhaps living entirely on credit.
As I was thinking about this I noticed money in the street. A new one and f