Download your copies of wikipedia as much and as often as you can in the next few years .... it's all either going to get diluted, debased, dumbed down or sections of it deleted as time goes on. The private sector and private enterprises have been wanting to get rid of it for years. The only way we can really protect it is if we all get our own current copy that has currently not been too affected too much.
I got sick and tired of this idiot over a year ago ... I don't blame him for all his stupidity. I can only point out the stupidity of an idiot for so long before I start thinking and wondering why I keep having to listen to their stupidity. I now get sick and tired of hearing these headlines because it's the American public, American political system and American culture in general that keeps normalizing all this stupidity. They allow him to represent their country. And if they want to be represented by a deranged orange orangutan, that's their problem.
Star Wars .... hyper-stereotypes every racial group on the earth to live in slums or ghettos ... makes white people live in marvellous futuristic cities, lush gardens or beautiful architecture and lead entire galaxies
Star Trek has a show with an Irishman .... any show has an Irishman ... any book has an Irishman ... any short story has an Irishman ... an Irishman tells a story of an Irishman ... an Irishman tells a story about himself
You are sure to hear about the terrible, unfortunate things that happened to the Irishman
I agree, the outcome is true if those in opposition or wanting to fight fascism attempt any kind of violence .... but when the money dries up, which it eventually will, it's the age old story of the snake eating its own tail .. when money, power and wealth start evaporating, violence will come from anywhere and everywhere as everyone tries to hang on to whatever is left.
Back then the world was set and ready to blow ourselves up with nuclear war at any given moment and we were all deathly afraid of it (I was a kid and everyone talked about it regularly) ... and at the time we all looked forward to hopeful films about peace loving space trekkers
Now we are completely complacent and unaware of the constant war that is happening or the near danger we are all still in for global nuclear war (still, after thinking we walked away from it decades ago) ... and now we think that war, death and violence is more entertaining.
If you ever read about it ... the average timeline is about 30 minutes to 1 hour from the time one nuclear weapon launch is detected .... anywhere ... by anyone ... to full scale nuclear war. The best part is that the actual detonations will kill millions of people instantly but the fallout will lead to about 30 years of nuclear winter which will kill billions from starvation.
The reality is that this is all still possible today, we just choose to keep it out of mind.
The good news is that that kind of system of buying people off works great for the short term ... but eventually the imaginary money that everyone pretended was there eventually disappears and everyone gets angry because they can't be bought off any more, so they enact violent change in order to get their money back.
I've done that about three or four times over the past 20 years. Sitting down to perform a big major archival move of thousands of emails and sorting through them and trying to preserve them in some kind of way.
Now I manage it by only keeping an active archive of about two years worth of email at time on my account. Once the New Year rolls around, I go into my email account and remove a year's worth of email from the system. For instance this January, I went into my archive and kept in 2026 (current year), 2025 (last year), 2024 (year before that) and then removed 2023. The removed year is just archived in .eml format and kept mostly as text files so they will be easy to search later.
I haven't had a real need to use those archives in all that time. But once in a while, especially if I am searching for an event, a person or a time when something happened, I'll dive into the archives to search for clues that I could follow and they have been helpful a few times. Otherwise, it's just nice to keep it all because once in a while, I just look through them like reading a journal of past events.
This happened to us one winter. We had installed the cheapest security camera system we could buy about ten years ago and it gave out an image that was just one step better than standard definition ... but the great thing was that we were able to access it remotely online with an app on our phones. We thought we had entered into the future world and we were technologically more advanced than anyone we knew. The image was terrible, the connection was spotty and it frequently dropped connection if we logged on too long and scrolled through the video notices.
Then one night while we were hours away from home, we went to review the security cam again .... an alien creature was sprawled out on our lawn with dozens of legs and appendages that moved in various directions. We thought it was just dust, or sticks or grass and monitored it for several minutes until it started moving like some intelligent creature.
My wife stepped back and walked away, disgusted at what she saw .... then from far away, she started laughing and said, 'put it down' and I stepped back ... from ten feet away, we could clearly see that a spider had made a web over the camera
It is and it isn't ... the whole system can be explained away as just runaway greed and organized chaos ... but there is a large portion of it that exists just out of the sheer will and faith of a majority of people. Much of the wealth that exists doesn't truly exist, it's just promises stacked on promises stacked on promises backed by the faith of everyone that those promises are legitimate, even though they all know that none of if can ever possibly be repaid. It's a faith based system.
Fat Bottomed Borg
Mamaaaa assimilation had just begun
... and now we've gone and throw it all away!!!!!
I really think that the Q Continuum just sent her to the Delta Quadrant just to make it interesting
Download your copies of wikipedia as much and as often as you can in the next few years .... it's all either going to get diluted, debased, dumbed down or sections of it deleted as time goes on. The private sector and private enterprises have been wanting to get rid of it for years. The only way we can really protect it is if we all get our own current copy that has currently not been too affected too much.
I got sick and tired of this idiot over a year ago ... I don't blame him for all his stupidity. I can only point out the stupidity of an idiot for so long before I start thinking and wondering why I keep having to listen to their stupidity. I now get sick and tired of hearing these headlines because it's the American public, American political system and American culture in general that keeps normalizing all this stupidity. They allow him to represent their country. And if they want to be represented by a deranged orange orangutan, that's their problem.
Star Wars .... hyper-stereotypes every racial group on the earth to live in slums or ghettos ... makes white people live in marvellous futuristic cities, lush gardens or beautiful architecture and lead entire galaxies
One of many posts guarding the gates of Sto'Vo'Kor
Who's ASSimilating who?
Star Trek has a show with an Irishman .... any show has an Irishman ... any book has an Irishman ... any short story has an Irishman ... an Irishman tells a story of an Irishman ... an Irishman tells a story about himself
You are sure to hear about the terrible, unfortunate things that happened to the Irishman
I agree, the outcome is true if those in opposition or wanting to fight fascism attempt any kind of violence .... but when the money dries up, which it eventually will, it's the age old story of the snake eating its own tail .. when money, power and wealth start evaporating, violence will come from anywhere and everywhere as everyone tries to hang on to whatever is left.
Back then the world was set and ready to blow ourselves up with nuclear war at any given moment and we were all deathly afraid of it (I was a kid and everyone talked about it regularly) ... and at the time we all looked forward to hopeful films about peace loving space trekkers
Now we are completely complacent and unaware of the constant war that is happening or the near danger we are all still in for global nuclear war (still, after thinking we walked away from it decades ago) ... and now we think that war, death and violence is more entertaining.
If you ever read about it ... the average timeline is about 30 minutes to 1 hour from the time one nuclear weapon launch is detected .... anywhere ... by anyone ... to full scale nuclear war. The best part is that the actual detonations will kill millions of people instantly but the fallout will lead to about 30 years of nuclear winter which will kill billions from starvation.
The reality is that this is all still possible today, we just choose to keep it out of mind.
Don't worry there's an easy way to get rid of it .... cancer
The good news is that that kind of system of buying people off works great for the short term ... but eventually the imaginary money that everyone pretended was there eventually disappears and everyone gets angry because they can't be bought off any more, so they enact violent change in order to get their money back.
Why the long face?
I've done that about three or four times over the past 20 years. Sitting down to perform a big major archival move of thousands of emails and sorting through them and trying to preserve them in some kind of way.
Now I manage it by only keeping an active archive of about two years worth of email at time on my account. Once the New Year rolls around, I go into my email account and remove a year's worth of email from the system. For instance this January, I went into my archive and kept in 2026 (current year), 2025 (last year), 2024 (year before that) and then removed 2023. The removed year is just archived in .eml format and kept mostly as text files so they will be easy to search later.
I haven't had a real need to use those archives in all that time. But once in a while, especially if I am searching for an event, a person or a time when something happened, I'll dive into the archives to search for clues that I could follow and they have been helpful a few times. Otherwise, it's just nice to keep it all because once in a while, I just look through them like reading a journal of past events.
This happened to us one winter. We had installed the cheapest security camera system we could buy about ten years ago and it gave out an image that was just one step better than standard definition ... but the great thing was that we were able to access it remotely online with an app on our phones. We thought we had entered into the future world and we were technologically more advanced than anyone we knew. The image was terrible, the connection was spotty and it frequently dropped connection if we logged on too long and scrolled through the video notices.
Then one night while we were hours away from home, we went to review the security cam again .... an alien creature was sprawled out on our lawn with dozens of legs and appendages that moved in various directions. We thought it was just dust, or sticks or grass and monitored it for several minutes until it started moving like some intelligent creature.
My wife stepped back and walked away, disgusted at what she saw .... then from far away, she started laughing and said, 'put it down' and I stepped back ... from ten feet away, we could clearly see that a spider had made a web over the camera
It is and it isn't ... the whole system can be explained away as just runaway greed and organized chaos ... but there is a large portion of it that exists just out of the sheer will and faith of a majority of people. Much of the wealth that exists doesn't truly exist, it's just promises stacked on promises stacked on promises backed by the faith of everyone that those promises are legitimate, even though they all know that none of if can ever possibly be repaid. It's a faith based system.