to sun.
If I'd been pooping instead of peeing, I would have missed the whole thing.
¶ 4:17 PM
Unnecessary cautionApparently Google has improved voice synthesis to the point where it's really hard to distinguish from an actual human. Google pretends to be worried about this, and "independent" "thinkers" are even more worried because RUSSIAN_BOTS caused OUR LORDESS AND SAVIOURESS HILLARY to lose the 2016 election which was HERS BY DIVINE RIGHT.
Google pretends that it will respond to their fake concerns by including a warning that the voice is electronic.
Unnecessary caution. You can already distinguish calls made by call centers. Whether the voice is software American or wetware Hindu, there's always a four-second 'hissy' pause before the voice starts, followed by an audible click. On the rare occasions when I have my phone bell turned on, this four-second pause gives me plenty of time to hang up before the spiel starts.
¶ 3:33 PM
Se-lu 24, tweaker edition
I'm always jabbering about how CIVILIZATION has channels for each non-criminal talent and skill, and provides a sense of USEFULNESS for useful skills. We no longer do it. We honor and pay for crime and murder and hyperlunatic delusions leading to genocide.
Here's a beautiful example of lost skills. This youtuber films the tweakers who inhabit his neighborhood and turns the clips into entertainment.
This clip has a nicely appropriate sound track, but if you LOOSEN YOUR TEMPLATE and decide to stop being entertained, you see something entirely different.
'Norma' is a natural organizer. She would be a good housewife or housekeeper or stock clerk. Even while organizing street litter with no purpose, every move is careful and constructive and efficient. She tries to make each item clean and neat and useful, and leaves the sidewalk clean.
CIVILIZATION would find a way to develop and pay and respect her talents. We no longer have CIVILIZATION, so her talent is only serving to entertain snotty dickheads like me.
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Note for clarity: I'm NOT criticizing or blaming 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 s