TIL Planet Hollywood still existed.

Their logo is even a variation of the RSS logo.

I remember seeing a doc about Wall of Death motorcycle riders. The bikes they used? Century-old 1910 Indians.

Why? Because when lives depend on it, you want a solution with the absolute fewest possible things that can go wrong. Not the latest fancy thing with all the bells and whistles.

I like how Justin Frankel created something to help you get stuff to really whip the llama’s ass with :)

And Audiogalaxy. And WinMX.

EDIT: And DCC bots on IRC.

My user name stands for KaZaA Lite User 9.

I used to teach ESL to some banking IT people, COBOL programmers whose skills were still in demand half a century after COBOL came out. Because the banking systems written half century ago still work, and when it comes to handling other people’s money, breakages, mistakes and downtime are absolutely not an option.

If Musk really wanted to run government like a business, he’d do like the banks and leave a working system damn well alone.

Of course, he wants to run government like one of his businesses, into the ground like Twitter or soon Tesla.

PS The only bank they knew of implementing newer tech for handling the money was a brand new one with no existing systems the new tech might break.

“If it ain’t broke, break it.”

Motto of the Department Of Ultra Cool High Efficiency.

In addition to the points others made, Rome has not always been a bustling city.

Its population declined from more than a million in AD 210 to 500,000 in AD 273 to 35,000 after the Gothic War (535–554) reducing the sprawling city to groups of inhabited buildings interspersed among large areas of ruins, vegetation, vineyards and market gardens.

The city’s population declined to less than 50,000 people in the Early Middle Ages from 700 AD onward. It continued to stagnate or shrink until the Renaissance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome#Middle_Ages

Thanks to multiple sackings, power struggles, plagues etc.

It only surpassed a million again in 1936. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome#Demographics

MAGA:

• Make
• America
• Gamergate
• Always

D’oh!

I wrote it one way (full words), then changed to the abbreviation… but obviously ballsed it up. 😊

You’re welcome. I’m still trying out a few, including Yep and the SearchXNG instance that comes built into Firedragon browser.

• “Westminster” specifically for Parliament.
• “Downing Street” for the prime minister and the cabinet.
• “Whitehall” for central government as a whole, ministries and departments.

A whole bunch of alternatives here, a few federated, quite a few open source:

https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/

(Found via https://marginalia-search.com/ )

I also have the LibRedirect extension set so that when I click on a YouTube link, it opens in FreeTube.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Friday that the department was looking into program to help “mitigate any economic catastrophes that could happen to some of our farmers.” Asked whether that would include direct payments, Rollins said, “We’re working that out right now.”

So they’re looking into a mitigation program, they’re working out a payment system… now? After annihilating government programs, starting a trade war with everyone and wrecking farmers’ prospective income?

Thank goodness the US Govt is now in the hands of such professional, forward-thinking people who care about ordinary Americans and businesses. Such a relief after those radical lunatics who used to run things into the ground!

Aura Carreño Rosas is a Hamilton-based reporter from Venezuela, with a passion for pop culture and unique people with diverse journeys.

What??? A Venezuelan who hasn’t been rounded up, deported and slung into in a third world concentration camp without even the pretense of due process?!?

Come on Canadia, is that really the kind of country you want to live in???

/s

“It’s a fact: jet fuel doesn’t burn hot enough to make steel girders melt! It was the lithium-ion batteries from a Model Y and a Cybertruck fired by railgun into the Twin Towers, with Dick Cheney and Saul of Saul’s 3rd Avenue Deli pulling the triggers. People seen jumping out of windows were actually trans crisis actors wearing batwing suits, who nowadays tour encampments of Venezuelan gang members and Haitian cat rustlers across the Heartland with their drag, Spanish-language version of Hamilton. Buy my supplements!”

Whoa, sorry, don’t know what came over me there.