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Journal Journal: 30 years on the net

Well, that escalated quickly. Or not so quickly. Looking at my post from 20 years ago, if you had told me just how much shittier the Internet would become, I wouldn't have believed you. There's a proverb that the web mainly consists of five websites, each full of screenshots and reposts of the other four, and it's not far from the truth. Social media brought us a social web usable by anyone, just as we imagined it in the 90's, but it didn't bring the democratization of knowledge, the social s

Comment Re: Incormation coding (Score 1) 284

No, they are not. The fork is female and the spoon male in German.

When I learned French, one of the hardest things was remembering gender of French words because they often differ from the German ones. Car (female in French, neutral in German) or the sun (male in French, female in German) come to mind.

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Journal Journal: Deeveeaar gets the resumes and ID cards of over 500 scammers. 6

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D_UGzLZbL7zM

And yet, the Jaipur Police and Indian Media are strangely uninterested in this story. So, Indians, where you guys at? Is your country so corrupt that it's beyond repair? Where are the good men and women of India who should be outraged that their country is starting to only be known for it's scam call centers?

Comment Statins are shit (Score -1) 65

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthennt.com%2Fnnt%2Fstatins...

Statins are shit. The probability is higher to get diabetes from them than them helping with anything. Their mortality redaction overall is insignificant and you need to add high-risk patients to measure any effect at all. Refuse to take statins. Eat healthily instead.

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