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u.s. independence day 

I'm also celebrating by *not* blowing up a piece of it, and by trying to find out how to best help the Navajo Nation, whose people are among the group of U.S. citizens hardest hit and most devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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food 

Hi, folks! I'm celebrating the unnamed American country holiday by partaking in a uniquely North American dish: a Navajo taco made by local Navajo folks.

news, pol, covid-19 face masks 

NBC News, the Today Show: "New Research Identifies Which Masks Are Most Effective Against Coronavirus": youtube.com/watch?v=9Kpoz2-vsj (2:59)

New research shows SUCK IT UP AND WEAR YOUR DAMN MASK!

Sorry heteros, but pride month isn’t ending. We’re heading into pride month 2 baby

modern web rant 

Yes, I just experienced a completely blank page while my browser was:

> Waiting for cloud.typography.com...

to time out.

And of course, once it did finally time out, the excuse of a page instantly appeared as a misaligned, completely unreadable mess overlaid on other misaligned & completely unreadable messes.

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modern web rant 

Hey, fancy Web CMS creators!

Did you know that you can ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEE your shortest, smallest, & simplest pages take OVER 180 SECONDS to load?

All you have to do is rely on 3rd-party cloud services to REINVENT EVERYTHING under the mistaken belief that they have better than 2-nines uptime or that they will outlive your CMS & won't sunset tomorrow!

IT'S THAT EASY TO SCREW EVERYONE TODAY!

(This message brought to you by the foundation to yeet techbros.)

So far, this is the longest video I've found spending the most time showing off GEOS 2.x for the Apple II-series computers.

"A GEOS for Apple II bemutatása": youtube.com/watch?v=McB7NF6UC9 (11:42)

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz even better (by which i mean not better), the regular renewal price actually did go up by $6 this year. (the new-registration sale price went up $1, too.)

Holy shit racism, Donald Trump 

Perfectly normal America :)))))))))

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz it almost is. it looks like they hooked you with a super cheap first-year sale price.

"What’s The Deal With Snap Packages?": hackaday.com/2020/06/24/whats-

Ubuntu's new package manager seems like a nice potential with insurmountable design flaws.

Obviously the soviet Union was gonna fail I mean how did no one notice all those huge red flags

don't you just love it when your favorite app stops being developed because of the goog™ web.archive.org/web/2020030717

@monorail I think we found new evidence that reinforces that conclusion recently, like in the last year or two, but I also remember that it's just the latest bit of data we've found since the first time anyone said it could've been a space rock.

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