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monkey_monkey··on Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?
You're right - it's disgusting that their government told them that Nazism is bad and that they should fight to defend their own country. Fucking appalling, really.
monkey_monkey··on Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?
You're joking right?

https://bsky.social/about/blog/08-22-2025-mississippi-hb1126

Mississpi is a pretty Republican state and has enacted even more stringent and privacy-invasive laws.

monkey_monkey··on Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?
Farage is a moral-free scumbag who will be known in history as one of the architects of Britain's period of decline. The fact that he hasn't been held to account is one of the great scandals of our age.
monkey_monkey··on Scientists No Longer Find X Professionally Useful, and Have Switched to Bluesky
Ah, the puritan incel mindset that's taking over the USA.
monkey_monkey··on Trump Orders National Guard to Washington and Takeover of Capital’s Police
His henchmen are implicitly protected because he'll pardon them.
monkey_monkey··on Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Today it's Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

Tomorrow it's you.

monkey_monkey··on VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in
Yes I agree that the UK should spend as much per capita on healthcare as France, Germany and Singapore.
monkey_monkey··on VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in
You've moved from saying the NHS is like a religion that no one can criticise, to "some people cannot tolerate NHS criticism". I'm glad you've toned down the ridiculous complaints to something more reasonable.
monkey_monkey··on VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in
> But you can also pay for extra for private healthcare. Is it the same in the UK?

Yes

monkey_monkey··on VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in
> But this perspective that it's infallible is beyond all reality

Very very very few people think the NHS is infallible. What are you even talking about? We all understand the NHS has many many problems, and those of us that have used the NHS understand this even more.

However, we still think it's a lot better than the private healthcare model.

Not sure what you're getting out of this weird strawman argument you're putting forward.

monkey_monkey··on Vanilla JavaScript support for Tailwind Plus
Yes I agree - it's nice to be able to see exactly what's happening without needing to dive into a rats nest of fragile CSS cascades.
monkey_monkey··on Vanilla JavaScript support for Tailwind Plus
The entire component library is behind a paywall...are you saying they should be giving away the vanilla JS version?
monkey_monkey··on U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites
> You don't seem to understand that the government of Iran isn't going to exist in about 2 weeks.

This hasn't aged well...unsurprisingly

monkey_monkey··on ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral
The self-unware irony...
monkey_monkey··on Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS
This site is very useful for getting Linux on more recent Intel Macs - I was able to get Ubuntu running on a 2018 MBA

https://t2linux.org/

monkey_monkey··on Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students
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monkey_monkey··on xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure
> I have yet to meet any "pro-palestinian" that doesn't devolve into "rape is resistance"

> In contrast, all Zionists I know utterly despise Netanyahu and his far-right government.

Oh dear

As it happens, I know plenty of people who don't think the people in Gaza should be genocided and none of them support rape.

Many of the self-labelled Zionists I know support Bibi and think Gaza should be razed to the ground.

Go figure!

monkey_monkey··on India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir
> I'm inclined to consider India a safer nation for most muslim denominations.

That almost made me laugh.

monkey_monkey··on Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes
I agree - trying to show that other people may have discovered things that we believe we did exclusively is abhorrent and those people deserve all the sanctions that we can impose on them.
monkey_monkey··on Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes
Which people do you think "hate you in particular"? Why do they hate you - what have you done to them?
monkey_monkey··on America Is Backsliding Toward Its Most Polluted Era
The majority of MAGA don't care about the environment (especially wrt climate change), and in fact probably no longer believe that pollution is harmful.

I would not be surprised if smoking also makes a comeback as MAGA types continue down the anti-science crusade and pour scorn on the link between smoking and lung cancer and other types of health outcomes.

monkey_monkey··on Show HN: Badgeify – Add Any App to Your Mac Menu Bar
There are several 3rd party utilities (free and paid) that allow status bar icons to be hidden
monkey_monkey··on The Guardian flourishes without a paywall
2 articles in 20 years definitely proves your point.
monkey_monkey··on In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Defendants
I mean, if the cartel with their automatic weapons come at you, do you really think your stash is going to protect you?

Also, lack of police services is probably commensurate with the low levels of taxation that so many Americans desperately want and vote for.

monkey_monkey··on In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Defendants
> godless people did to it what the Pharisees did to the other system.

Oops, sorry about that.

monkey_monkey··on In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Defendants
Exactly this. I don't remember European, Canadian and Australian governments trying to extort the US after 9/11 when those countries spent billions fighting alongside the US in Iraq and Afghanistan.
monkey_monkey··on Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers
I understand the subscription model, but the cost doesn't sit right for me.

My all products JetBrains subscription is £137 a year, for every single product they create (and perpetual fallback licences). This is £91 a year, which is about 66% of the cost of my JB sub and if I stop paying, I assume PolyPane stops working.

monkey_monkey··on London's Heathrow Airport announces complete shutdown due to power outage
Or they could compare it to an asteroid hitting the UK and wiping all all life within a 200 mile radius.
monkey_monkey··on London's Heathrow Airport announces complete shutdown due to power outage
> Heathrow is a significant part of the UK economy

You'll need to back up that assertion.

I imagine any American who thought about it would have a similarly 'dismissive' attitude.

monkey_monkey··on How I got 100% off my train travel
What's fraudulent about this?
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