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  • Sure.

    So, in the US, you’re innocent until proven guilty. You cannot be guilty of a crime until you’re proven guilty of it. Speeding tickets require a judge to determine guilt.

    A lot of US states are making it illegal to be homeless. They’re rounding people up and sending them to asylums or work programs. Which means. . . they’re being imprisoned without a trial. And. . . If they’re given a trial by judge (like with tickets), the crime they’re committing is something they couldn’t have avoided in the first place.







  • That’s because I don’t want that.

    I remember, as a kid, wandering the local library. Looking at all the books. Seeing the call numbers and author names. Exploring the shelves, as they transitioned from topic to topic to topic.

    My idea is to treat the Internet as a giant library, with domains being books on a shelf, and allowing my users to start at a random location, and then peruse the different listings as they transition from slight variations of the main topic.

    With all due respect, you don’t have the vision, man. To start looking at cultural anthropology, then have a link to a biological anthropology blog 3 lines down? That’s the goal. It’s not about a narrowed search. It’s about cataloging something, so people can go looking for it. To enjoy the hunt.









  • I’ll admit, it does play with the word broad quite a bit.

    A network broadcast is meant to be received by all the computers on a LAN, but the message is still limited in scope. There were Gregg books, magazines, and cartoons at one time. Then it all just vanished.

    I know this niche script that’s over 100 years old. Several other people know it too, but we don’t talk to each other in it. We don’t pass correspondence. We don’t check on each other, or tell each other about our lives. We’re completely cut off, in a world more connected than ever.




  • I was sequestered indoors my entire life. My parents lived in the middle of nowhere, and wouldn’t help me get away from home – tried to get my license several times. I wasn’t allowed to go to other people’s houses. People weren’t allowed to come over – they could be bad influences. My first snowman was at 28 years old. I tried to go to college and they disconnected the Internet mid-semester, because it was Satanic.

    School was a battleground of guys terrified to be anywhere near me.

    Every time I try and find male friends, it always ends in me not being manly enough. And it’s rattled me to my core. I literally can’t be around men anymore, despite doing numerous home and auto repairs growing up. Wiring shit together, etc. It always ends the same. I’ve always wanted guy friends. I just can’t try anymore.

    Which is the reason for the question. Why are grown-ass men afraid of people not being manly enough?









  • I absolutely detest SQL. I will probably go to my deathbed having never typed a line of SQL in my life. I don’t know why I hate it as much as I do, but I refuse to learn it – my brain won’t let me.

    I’ve programmed in C, C++, Python, BASIC, JavaScript, Assembly, etc. I wrote CGIs for Apache in all these languages, so I didn’t have to touch PHP. Every time I get near SQL or PHP, I start wanting to pull my hair out.