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No comments, please, out of respect for the dead. I miss MDC, and frojack, and all the other Soylentils no longer with us. Just let the entire BuckFeta experiment submerge beneath the waves of alt-right internet auto-asphyxiation. We mourn what might have been, and hope still for a future where incels can learn to meet women, where programmers can actually get living wage jobs, and where it is OK to be white, because that is the way it has always been, you firkening racist asshole.

aristarchus is dying. Khallow wanted him to flame out, but that is not the way it is going down. He has overstepped, become shrill, annoying, and the alt-right has taken advantage of that, by making it rain before Trump's most recent rally. Nothing angrier than a wet Trump supporter but a wet hen, and they have comparable intelligence.

STEM is a SCAM, a Socially Corrupt Attempt to Manipulate. We need people here who understand how tech is used, paraded before Vulture capitalists, and works against humanity. We need to take a stand on political matters, a technically informed stance, lest we be Damored by ignorant techies.

And, finally, this journal entry makes no sense. I could regale you with the saga of hundred more rejected submissions, unfair and unjust down-modding, and erroneous accusations of sock-puppetry, but I will not. Perhaps you should look for what Friedrich Nietzsche called "the philosophers of the Future", the ones who will come, not with a hammer or a gallon of gasoline, but with a tuning fork, to test the idols of the present, and to see which ring hollow. (hrumpgh, Peterson, Milo, Gavin, jmorris) And then the revaluation of values can begin.

***************Quote Nietzsche:
Eine neue Gattung von Philosophen kommt herauf: ich wage es, sie auf einen nicht ungefährlichen Namen zu taufen. So wie ich sie errathe, so wie sie sich errathen lassen - denn es gehört zu ihrer Art, irgend worin Räthsel bleiben zu wollen -, möchten diese Philosophen der Zukunft ein Recht, vielleicht auch ein Unrecht darauf haben, als Versucher bezeichnet zu werden. Dieser Name selbst ist zuletzt nur ein Versuch, und, wenn man will, eine Versuchung.

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aristarchus is nearer to dead. A third spam mod, to one of the original members of the Buckfeta movement! Oh, the huge Manatee! And in an aristarchus submission, where I was just providing context and explanation! Oh, my vision is getting dark. My karma is the lowest my dogma has ever allowed it to be. I haven't felt like this since the early days, when someone modded me to oblivion for saying things they did not like, and Runaway1956 came to my aid. . . wait a minute! He was there? Already! Oh, dear.

Anyway, I have slung threats and hurled insults and made ultimatums, so now I await the judgement of Soylentils. Is this site worth saving? Or do we need to kick khallow out?

On Tue 18 Jun 2019, FaceBook will launch a cryptographic currency which is presumably called SuckerCoin, erm, ZuckerCoin. I don't have any cryptographic currency due to the concerns about energy consumption and the lack of security but I would like to draw your attention to the most famous quote from a totally fictional character in the film: The Social Network, erm, a statement from Facebook's majority shareholder, Mark Zuckerberg:-

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb fucks

How long will it take for this anti-social asshat to be imprisoned? We know that Mark Zuckerberg is an untrustworthy shit. However, I would like to know to what extent Mark Zuckerberg is an untrustworthy shit. Mark Zuckerberg's business associates portray him as collecting money for services not rendered (ConnectU) while simultaneously outsourcing work on a competing platform and not paying for the work (TheFacebook). Given the strategic national importance of Facebook, I remain broadly surprised that US courts decided against Mark Zuckerberg. However, just to the underscore the extent to which Mark Zuckerberg is an untrustworthy shit, between the settlement and the payout of a fixed number of shares to the Winklevoss Twins, Facebook (majority shareholder: Mark Zuckerberg) instigated a 4:1 share split. However, this is only the fifth most pressing concern.

When soliciting one billion messages per day, it is not acceptable to state that 99.9% of the messages are acceptable because that leaves one million messages per day that aren't. (Although, it is mildly comical that Facebook remains indeterminate about breasts after more than a decade of setting such rules.) However, the 99.9% ratio is beyond credibility. Hate speech on Twitter is measured at 2.5% of all messages and on Gab it is 4.5%. Yet we are expected to believe that messages across all categories are significantly more saintly on Facebook. However, this is only the fourth most pressing concern.

Among the problematic content is terrorist propaganda. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act allows this to be freely published or not in a manner which maximizes shareholder value but this only applies within the US. Given that Kim Dotcom was arrested in New Zealand breaking US law then, surely, Mark Zuckerberg should be arrested in the US for daily, ongoing breaches of New Zealand law to present? Or perhaps this is supporting evidence for UID6957's assertion that we have "might is right" rather than "rule of law". However, this is only the third most pressing concern.

Unfortunately, Facebook's ongoing publication of material statements of relevance to the SEC is extremely spotty. It is extremely unfortunate that four years of Mark Zuckerberg's messages we accidentally lost prior to Mark Zuckerberg's testimony to US Congress. However, when the messages of the founder and majority shareholder cannot be recovered, it demonstates that there is no favor at Facebook. It is particularly unfortunate that a promise from Mark Zuckerberg to always keep Facebook (majority shareholder: Mark Zuckerberg) and Instagram (majority shareholder: Mark Zuckerberg) separate was among the lost messages. However, this is only the second most pressing concern.

My most pressing concern is Mark Zuckerberg's sporting prowess. Mark Zuckerberg is extremely keen fencer and was captain of his school's team. Indeed, we've all seen the videos of his numerous decisive wins in fencing competitions. He also discusses his loves of martial arts frequently. Talk of escape chutes and armed guards pretending (badly) to be programmers or any other matter which makes one think "chickenshit" are the calculated works of detractors and sore losers. Perhaps it is a misguided attempt by lackeys at Facebook to make Mark Zuckerberg seem like a common man of the people rather than a decisive leader with ambition to be President of the United States. As part of this campaign, repeated attempts have been made to suppress Mark Zuckerberg's application to Harvard University which includes:-

Every Tuesday evening, the bell over the Academy Building rings out and invites students on campus to convene at the Love Gymnasium. Each Tuesday, I answer that invitation and go to fence with my peers. Amidst a hectic week of work, fencing has always proven to be the perfect medium; for it is both social and sport, mental and athletic, and controlled yet sometimes undisciplined. Whether I am competing against a rival in a USFA tournament or just clashing foils, or sometimes sabres, with a friend, I rarely find myself doing anything more enjoyable than fencing a good bout.

Of course, only detractors would note that in the college admissions scandal, in which numerous parties have pled guilty to lying about extra-curricular achievements (most prominently in sport) that prosecutions are led by Harvard graduate lawyers and that there is a distinct disinterest towards prosecuting Harvard alumni. This underscores the unparalleled integrity found at Harvard University. Mark Zuckerberg's friendly rival and Harvard law drop-out, Bill Gates, will readily attest to such impeccable character.

Anyhow, I hope that Mark Zuckerberg is imprisoned for a very long time and that any attempt to run a criminal enterprise from jail is treated accordingly.

When I was young, it was uphill both ways, and in plain ASCII, no GUI.

You had to memorize a stack of manuals -- that couldn't be removed from the computer room because they were bolted (literally) to the table. Young people learned to type properly, otherwise you would have to DUP the card you were punching up to the column where you made the mistake. There was no backspace -- the hole is punched into the card and can't be un-punched. And stand up straight. Pay attention. Don't drop your deck of cards on the floor -- that's a real mess to sort out.

Notre Dame Cathedral holds first mass since devastating fire, with attendees in hardhats

We're gonna need a harder hat.

The Dark Implications of Facial Swap Filter Technology

Last month, Serena Lee was just another bubble tea-addicted New Jersey college student who loved to watch The Office while searching for her future beau on Tinder.

Except, actually, she wasn't. Lee was actually a male Princeton student named Sean who "got bored while cramming for finals and decided to catfish people with the new Snapchat filter."

Yep, that one. The one that makes men look like beautiful women and women look like men you'd cross the street to avoid. The one that's so popular that a lot of people who left Snapchat are re-downloading it just to see what the hype is all about. Snapchat's "gender-swapping" filter, which came out in early May of this year, quickly became a social media hit. And Lee wasn't the only one who immediately used it to pose on Tinder — there's a whole trend of catfishing-for-jokes, which consists almost entirely of men pretending to be women.

While on a surface level the filter may seem like harmless fun, its implications, both conceptual and practical, are deeply troubling. Besides spawning this real-life catfishing phenomenon, which tells us nothing new about men online, Snapchat's employment of face alteration technology along the axis of gender enforces stereotypical ideas of male and female appearances, and raises questions about how we should employ such identity-altering (or concealing) technology in the first place.

Student uses gender-bending Snapchat filter to catch cop allegedly seeking underage sex

A college student wanted to take down potential predators on Tinder. So, he posed as a teen girl using Snapchat's new gender filter — and ended up catching a cop allegedly looking to hook up with a minor.

Ethan, a 20-year-old from the San Francisco Bay Area, used the Snapchat filter to pose as a 16-year-old girl named Esther. He created a Tinder account as a 19-year-old girl, but said he was communicating with San Mateo Officer Robert Davies as a 16-year-old, police say.

Alabama becomes seventh state to approve castration for some sex offenses

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Monday signed into law a measure requiring anyone convicted of sex crimes with children younger than 13 to be chemically castrated as a condition of parole.

Under the new law, offenders required to undergo the reversible procedure must begin the treatment at least a month before their release dates and continue treatments until a judge finds that it's no longer necessary.

Ivey, a Republican, made no public statement about the measure. She had given little indication whether she supported the measure until Monday, the last day she could sign the bill.

The bill was introduced by Rep. Steve Hurst, a Republican representing Calhoun County, who said that if he had his way, offenders would be permanently castrated through surgery.

Chemical castration in the United States

Chemical castration is generally considered reversible when treatment is discontinued, although permanent effects in body chemistry can sometimes be seen, as in the case of bone density loss increasing with length of use of DMPA.

[...] When used on men, these drugs can reduce sex drive, compulsive sexual fantasies, and capacity for sexual arousal. Life-threatening side effects are rare, but some users show increases in body fat and reduced bone density, which increase long-term risk of cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis. They may also experience gynecomastia (development of larger-than-normal mammary glands in males).

When used on women, the effects are similar, though there is little research about chemically lowering women's sex drive or female-specific anaphrodisiacs, since most research focuses on the opposite, but anti-androgenic hormone regimens would lower testosterone in women which can impact sex drive or sexual response. These drugs also deflate the breast glands and expand the size of the nipple. Also seen is a sudden shrinking in bone mass and discoloration of the lips, reduced body hair, and muscle mass.

[...] Despite its long history and established use, the drug has never been approved by the FDA for use as a treatment for sexual offenders.

[...] The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida opposes the administration of any drug that is dangerous or has significant irreversible effect as an alternative to incarceration; however, they do not oppose the use of antiandrogen drugs for sex offenders under carefully controlled circumstances as an alternative to incarceration. Law professor John Stinneford has argued that chemical castration is a cruel and unusual punishment because it exerts control over the mind of sex offenders to render them incapable of sexual desire and subjects them to the physical changes caused by the female hormones used.

Some people have argued that, based on the 14th Amendment, the procedure fails to guarantee equal protection: although the laws mandating the treatment do so without respect to gender, the actual effect of the procedure disproportionately falls upon men. In the case of voluntary statutes, the ability to give informed consent is also an issue; in 1984, the U.S. state of Michigan's court of appeals held that mandating chemical castration as a condition of probation was unlawful on the grounds that the drug medroxyprogesterone acetate had not yet gained acceptance as being safe and reliable and also due to the difficulty of obtaining informed consent under these circumstances.

Sounds like it negatively impacts the health of the individual, and they are coerced into doing it (would you rather be stabbed to death in prison?). #StateTransgender

Are palindromes for people who like to end at the beginning?

Or for people who like to begin at the end?

Or for people who like to start in the middle?

Or for people who do only half the work and say they are done?

Florida charter boat captain accused of drinking, doing drugs, firing gun, threatening passengers

A Florida charter boat captain is accused of drinking heavily, doing drugs and threatening to shoot his passengers and throw them overboard before firing his gun several times from the top deck of the boat.

[...] All of the passengers and Kissell reported that Bailey drank several beers in the beginning of the trip, according to an arrest report. When Lopeparo asked his nephew, Rialmo Jr., to grab him a beer from the top deck where Bailey was, the captain told him he couldn't have it, but the teen thought he was kidding and grabbed the beer anyway.

At that point, "the captain bumped shoulders with the young man and grabbed him around the neck and clasped on to the young man’s chain and ripped it off," Giuffre told police. An argument ensued, but the captain retreated back to the upper deck to keep drinking. At this point, he was drinking Captain Morgan rum, smoking a joint and using cocaine, the passengers reported.

Later, the inebriated captain told Giuffre Jr., "It would be nothing to pop a bullet in each one of us and dump our bodies overboard," Giuffre Jr. wrote in his statement to police. "He also stated he has his buddies at the dock for us when we get back. He then proceeded to say he wanted to help to kill n------," Giuffre Jr. wrote. The police report said Giuffre Jr. and his fellow passengers were white.

All of the passengers reported that shortly after threatening them, Bailey fired between four and eight gunshots from the upper deck. At that point, the elder Giuffre said, Bailey was "drinking rum from the bottle" and "scaring the crap out of all of us."

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 4.7 GHz CPU Leaked, World’s First 16 Core Gaming Chip

It has the full 72 MB of cache.

I'll guess $700 for the price.

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT ‘7nm Navi’ Graphics Card Final Specifications Leak Out – Features 2560 Cores, 8 GB GDDR6 VRAM and Up To 1905 MHz Clock Speeds

Apparently people want more than 8 GB of VRAM for 4K gaming.

Skip as many gens as you can!

Spotted at Computex: Triple Monitor Mobile Systems are Back

More innovation than a MacBook.