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oh hey look the icc also thinks starving out a civilian population is bad

https://twitter.com/intlcrimcourt/status/1792511246769570084

"The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is ‘escapism’ an accusation of?" - Ursula K. LeGuin

we need to apply the chaosmonkey approach to national infrastructure. regularly close a randomly chosen major road with no notice for a week. that'll improve preparedness

OH: "oh no, we both know how to use bash arrays, we are very dangerous"

I saw this voltmeter at the electronics flea market. Look at that massive probe! It looks like you need to check your back blast before using it.
Apparently it's for REALLY high voltages? Like, 3kV?

dear twitter should i make my own linux distro

“you mean gnu/linux?”

no, win32/linux

i have a very specific vision for the kind of os i want but idk if it's a good use of my time

We've adopted saying "for morale" rather than "as a treat".

e.g.,

• Having a nap for morale.
• Eating ice cream for morale.
• Spending time relaxing with my wife for morale.

Turns out we do a lot of things for morale.

#AsATreat #ForMorale #MentalHealth

here are some photos I took while out walking today to show the different combinations of walking path, biking path and road in the Netherlands

1) a primary road through South Amsterdam; there is a gray, outermost sidewalk, then a red bike path, and then an innermost road for motor vehicles. The walking and biking paths have a safety gap from the road and there is also a grass island separating the car lanes. You can tell that this road is from the last several decades and they had a chance to plan it to be as wide as necessary to accomodate these safety features.

2) a secondary street. There is a broad sidewalk, and then the street is red on the edges and gray in the middle to show that bikes should stick to the edges so cars can pass them. Separate bike lanes generally don't have floor markings with the bicycle icon, but bike lanes merged with a road generally do.

3) a tertiary low-traffic street. the travel lane is an admittedly very sun-faded red to show that cars and bikes have equal priority. the parking spaces on the edge are gray. (I expect it will receive maintenance to renew the surface and make it more obviously red sometime soon. The Dutch are much more on top of road maintenance than the Americans.)

When I lived in the medieval center of Leiden, the street was red despite being high-traffic because they couldn't exactly shove all the 500 year old buildings back a few meters to make more room for a separate bike lane. There was also an antique bridge where a separate bike lane and walking lane had to be merged for a few meters on one side.

Hard to argue with any of this. I love working in games, but the points about share-price-chasing and refusal to make small profitable games because they won’t make “enough” profit are things I’ve been banging on about for years.

https://jacobin.com/2024/05/video-games-union-zenimax-exploitation

OH: I will hug you into a .tar.xz