palordrolap

@palordrolap@kbin.run

Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitates it, trying to be amusing and informative.

Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.

Is on kbin.social but created this profile on kbin.run during a week-long outage.

Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. For a complete list of posts, browse on the original instance.

palordrolap , to World News in Putin says Russia and North Korea will help each other if attacked, taking ties to a ‘new level’

NK's narrative is that SK is separate from the one true Korea because it's occupied by, or at least heavily influenced by, the US. That means that if Russia were to, say, declare war on the US - however unlikely that might be - NK would theoretically be in favour.

Kim would almost certainly be interested in finally getting to lob a couple of bombs at an actual target.

Less seriously(?), you could also argue that Putin's pining for the glory days of the USSR with its empty stores and downtrodden, starving citizens fits right in with what's going on in NK, so perhaps Kim had better watch his back lest he become the former dictator of a new SSR.

palordrolap , to World News in Three French Youths Arrested in Alleged Antisemitic Gang Rape of Jewish Girl, 12

They used a current world event as an excuse for an atrocity that they might well have found a different excuse for otherwise.

They could have chosen any Jewish person and any "punishment" but they chose her, and that "punishment". That's because they wanted to mete out that "punishment" in particular. They're disgusting.

And yes, that's true of neo-Nazi violence too. The violent ones are usually nutters spoiling for a fight, or worse. The prejudices they hold are merely their excuse for it.

palordrolap , to World News in Three French Youths Arrested in Alleged Antisemitic Gang Rape of Jewish Girl, 12

There are plenty of stupid and/or devious people who will see what's going on in some part of the world and believe a narrative or use that narrative as an excuse for their own ends.

If it wasn't her, it would have been someone else. The whole human race has a problem with human garbage who can't control their actions. Some of them end up running countries and turning a blind eye to war atrocities, if not asking for them outright.

This doesn't lessen what happened to this 12-year-old victim, and it doesn't lessen what's happening elsewhere in the world, nor the ramifications. My point is that the link, while there, is tenuous.

The perpetrators are human garbage who found a reason to stop pretending not to be, and now should be treated as such.

palordrolap , to World News in In Need of Munitions, Putin to Visit North Korea

Kim inherited his mess. Putin made his own.

That's not to say that Kim isn't allowing things to continue mostly as they were, but it could be beyond his ability to change things even if he wanted to.

Putin, on the other hand, only needs to call off the "special military exercise" and most of his immediate problems will go away.

palordrolap , to World News in China's Xi accused the US of trying to trick him into invading Taiwan, but said he won't take the bait, report says

My gut says there's grudging admiration between the two blue-suited balding megalomaniacs, but of the two, only Putin talks to Xi often, and even then, only because he has to.

palordrolap , to News in Photographer Wins AI Image Contest with Real Picture, Then Gets Disqualified

Forgive the tangent, but who in their right mind names a competition with a year-like four-digit number?

Or am I being whooshed and this whole article is an AI hallucination.

palordrolap , to xkcd in xkcd #2946: 1.2 Kilofives

Maybe I should have left in the aside I had about artistic license.

palordrolap , to xkcd in xkcd #2946: 1.2 Kilofives

The second one is arguably not vigesimal but instead just an echo of the Germanic way of saying numbers that English has all but lost. You'd be surprised how long things will lurk around the fringes of a language despite not being the most popular way of saying things.

The fact it still makes sense probably helps too.

palordrolap , to News in The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled.

Larger version: https://imgur.com/a/GHYTEy5

@JetpackJackson
@Crackhappy

palordrolap , to Linux in Will Corps ditch Windows over Recall for Linux?

Chances are that many large entities are in too deep. It's what Microsoft were counting on before the backlash, and now they're probably going to do it by stealth instead.

If I have to use Windows, I want the configuration of Windows that will run on the computers at a country's top intelligence agencies.

Because sure as hell those places will have it locked down and not sending one solitary thing back to Microsoft, whether they have to configure it themselves or put the fear of the unholy into Microsoft to get that to happen.

And if not that, the configuration that Bill Gates or Mark "I put tape over my webcam and deactivate my mic for no particular reason" Zuckerberg will use.

palordrolap , to World News in Microplastics found in every human semen sample tested in study

Somewhat relevant: I recently stopped using a plastic-bodied electric kettle to boil water for drinks because it was often making drinks taste "of plastic". I have to imagine that some of that would have been redistributed, well, in places implied by this article.

This makes me wonder what regular, close-to-source plastics the tested men were using around the time.

Of course, there's also that a lot of the water supply goes through plastic pipes these days. It would be interesting to know how much of that, specifically, ends up coming out in people's homes.

palordrolap , to A Boring Dystopia in Saw a nazi today

Born in 1988? Lots of folks born that year decided to have those two digits in their first Internet usernames as well. A few of those will still be in use, no doubt, so you're not alone. (Me? No, I'm older.)

In your shoes, I'd maybe think about changing things around, especially the easy ones, but you're not me, nor I you.

palordrolap , to Programmer Humor in this is what peak web traffic looks like

Better than a 200 JSON reply containing the 4xx. "Aay it worked!" "oh."

palordrolap , to United Kingdom in Boss of South West Water’s owner gains £300,000 pay rise

I'd say "first one, then the other" but then we'd argue about the order. Apparently heads are still conscious for a while, you see.

palordrolap , to Fediverse in Earth Temperature Timeline

By that logic, this could be a place for literally anything, when clearly it isn't. It's for Fediverse-specific posts and commentary.

Climate change is important, yes, but it's not Fediverse-specific, is it?

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