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i do think it is a cultural loss but i also do not think that private corporations should be stewards of our culture in the first place

that is the real problem which needs to be addressed

obviously people use the git repos that gitlab is looking to delete; if people didn't use them, they wouldn't save money by deleting them

professor juniper…

bug pokémon……

just for three seconds please assume that the person you are speaking to is not current on the past three decades of leftist thought and furthermore does not give a shit

“but the problem of today is capital” no the problem of today is organizing and you’re failing at it

these people are always getting interviewed for a piece because there’s never any reason to interview them in their own right

you ever read someone get interviewed for a piece and be like “oh my god can you not be a leftist weirdo for like five seconds”

muppet kobold: rawr

if there aren't muppets in the new d&d movie i'm not watching it

man who invented wikipedia's neutral point of view now upset wikipedia's point of view too neutral

« In Changqing, there was a Buddhist monk who had followed the Way in admirable purity. Though more than seventy years old, he was still quite healthy. One day he fell down and couldn’t get back up. »

« His son blurted, “Huh! You going to climb a stairway to heaven?”

“I have certain skills,” he replied. »

hmmm

« When he returned to his own neighbourhood it was as if he’d just awakened from a dream. In reality, he’d been dead for three days. »

« My enthusiasm quickly gets away from me and sometimes my comments are out of control—basically, I just can’t restrain these remarks; I always express my feelings, since I feel no need to hide them. Won’t I simply provoke outbursts of laughter from circumspect individuals? »

important context: this is a translation

the annotation is in a smaller font

love it when i open the book to the first page and it is 27 lines of annotation for 4 lines of text

the former is a very usable gaming laptop (well, the keyboard is wearing out) but it is basically always hot and loud

loud laptop is an original first-generation retina macbook pro running bootcamp and streaming laptop is an M1