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black_yarnon Senate Unanimously Approves a Bill to Make Juneteenth a Public Holiday

Maybe your friends and family aren't the ones being targeted?

black_yarnon Senate Unanimously Approves a Bill to Make Juneteenth a Public Holiday

I love this idea, but patriotism in the United States is mostly an act. Asking people to back their 'love of country' with an actual deed (especially one that shortens their time at the barbecue) would spoil the illusion.

black_yarnon Twitter confirms Twitter Blue

So no one knows anything, no one can teach, and no one can learn? That's just nihilism.

black_yarnon How much longer will we trust Google’s search results?

Wish I could up this a thousand times. I've had a personal site for some twenty years; nothing fancy, but I put a lot of effort into my content, and I used to get hundreds of unique visitors a day.

Over the last ten years, my non-bot traffic has dropped to a tenth of that, and at the same time, my ability to find similar websites has disappeared. Now I see nothing but resume-padding blogs with generic WordPress templates, and pages of empty corporate bullshit.