The ‘p’ word is a shortening of the word ‘Pakistani’ to the first four letters and is very much used abusively. When people came to the UK from Asia - India, Bangladesh and Pakistan mostly - starting in the 1950/60’s, the usual assortment of racist/fascist scum, being both hateful cunts and also deeply stupid, assumed anyone who looked Asian was Pakistani and so the p-word became a term of racial abuse for literally anyone who might appear to be from that part of Asia or have that heritage.

I’m not sure Jack Nicholson can only play themselves but he does seem to get cast as the unhinged character quite a lot.

Fork it, carry on with being FOSS for now, develop a few killer features that everyone will love that would take a small FOSS team years to develop. When it becomes the industry standard, make it closed source. A year later start charging for it.

Because they’re parasites?

I’m not sure the argument that they bring in money via tourism is accurate. No tourist comes to see them, they come to see the Palace etc. Tourists still visit the Palace of Versailles even though there’s no monarchy in France.

you would read it

I couldn’t make it through book 3 of that series. Oh hey, a new character - I wonder if they’ll rape/be raped by a close family member or die hideously? Maybe both?

Martin endlessly confuses unrelenting misery for an interesting plot.

1980’s Stephen King has entered the chat.

I switched from Bitwarden to keepassxc (pc) and keepassdx (android) and installed syncthing (pc) and syncthing-fork (android) to sync the db file a couple of weeks ago - all works fine, no dramas.

One of the most disturbing things about Blue Velvet is that Dennis Hopper got the part by telling David Lynch he had to play Frank Booth because he was Frank Booth.

Threads - UK based movie from 1984 which is a speculative fictional account of what would happen in the event of a nuclear war.

Thanks.

Mirlo, which is similar to subvert, but a worker owned thing rather than a cooperative are dipping their toe into federation with more planned I think:

“…If you want your artist profile to be follow-able from other websites, you can now “Enable The Social Web” and people can subscribe to your feed from other places. With support from our NLNet funding we’ve finally enabled the ActivityPub standard integration on our site, so that people across the internet will be able to follow your artist account…”

Great to see so many open source ethical alternatives popping up.

It’s not auto-syncable but PlainApp works great for me. Only needs a phone app installed, works in the browser on a lappy/PC

You can take it as confirmation of the depressing truth that most people will ignore and even try to justify horrific behaviours if the perpetrator is in a position to enact things that they agree with.

There a lot to choose from! I haven’t read this translation myself but I know people who have and say its very good - the Richard Howard edition: https://www.tfobooks.com/book/9781567928273

LMDE - no idea if its the ‘best’ but its the best for me right now in that it does what I want, looks how I want and stays out of my way.

Self hosted Standard Notes?

I’m both cis and hetero. There is not one iota of evidence I’ve seen that there is any sort of movement that wishes death on cis and hetero people, or that organises vigilante groups to hunt down cis or hetero people to beat them up, or that invents bizarre rumours about ‘what they do’ or conflates cis and hetero people with paedophilia or that tries to organise campaigns to get cis or hetero-centric book removed from libraries.

There is no formal or informal system of oppression towards cis and hetero people. It just doesn’t exist.

There’s a fine line between celebrating the history of your ancestors and performative cultural appropriation. Being interested in ones ancestors is one thing - swearing that you’re ‘fiery’ because of your Irish ancestry when you’re 3 or 4 generations removed from that ancestry is a bit weird at best.

I think the US does have a culture all its own - some of the world’s best authors, musicians, artists etc are from the US. It does puzzle me that some US folks are so desperate to claim deep cultural ties elsewhere when they have a pretty good culture already, formed in part from those ancestors.

• Twin Peaks
• The X-Files
• Dark
• Chernobyl
• Happy Valley
• Line of Duty
• Luther
• Spaced
• Wolf Hall
• True Detective S1, S4

Yes the US army historically has performed superbly against countries they deemed small easily beaten opponents.