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It’s not censorship. First of all, as others have pointed out, media companies are doing it themselves. Second of all, the correct term for refraining to say offensive or hurtful things is politeness. You don’t call someone a n****r f*****t to their face and this is not because your right to free speech is impeded but because it’s rude to do so. VS Naipaul once illustrated it like this: he liked to go to a bar which, he knew, was frequented by a group of white people who liked to sing racist songs after a few beers. However, as soon as he, a dark man, entered the bar, they would stop. This, he said, was politeness.

So like a third world slum with better housing? I’ve been to a few of those when I was young and stupid. Maybe on account of that I never felt things would’ve been better if they’d had heavily armed policemen there. Just let the people do their criminal shit and leave them alone. One or two gang altercations doesn’t sound all that spectacular, to be honest. We get those in the city center and in “normal” neighborhoods as well. And, again, I don’t think having heavily armed policemen running around would make that any better.

So I wanted to solder together a simple distortion module (nothing fancy, a CD 4049 circuit from "Hand Made Electronic Music" which I happen to think sounds really, really good), discovered I did not have 1M linear pots, wanted to order some at Conrad, decided to fill up the order to offset the ridiculous shipping costs and discovered they hardly have any stock left of commonly used components. None of the ceramic caps or ICs were available in through hole format. All they had was SMT and components with odd specs. Anyone else encounter this? I thought China had started up again, but apparently not

Yeah, @Joyrex : could you tell us what is going on? Just so, you know, we can sympathize with you and stuff?

No, not a truly bad one. Never got further than Bedford-Stuyvesant - in 2018, and the first signs of gentrification were already apparent (for one, we had an AirBnB there ). Only bad thing about it was that people looked really, really poor and there were fuck-all places to eat. I also found it very surprising that each and every corner store was owned by people of South Asian descent. Not a single black-owned business in sight, though everyone on the streets was black.. Lots and lots of police sirens at night, though. Though I suspect that's just because American cops like to show off. But since you have been to a truly bad American neighborhood: what's that like? Gunfights on every street corner? Throngs of homeless people under every overpass? Or is that just in movies?

TIL there still is an active cargo cult in Vanuatu. Also, they worship Prince Philip https://www.pacificvoyages.net/tanna-island

Have you?

Elementary school children singing Minor Threat:

Right, but this does not invalidate the racism accusation. It's just another indication that black people in the US are at the very bottom of the pecking order, so low, in fact, that if black people can rise up even a little by oppressing other black people, they will do it. I hear it's the same in Brazil.

Sacrilege.

Ah, I see. Yes, I agree with you. Intensive livestock farming is horrible. It’s just that I stick to buying organic meat for now, not yet ready to start reading seriously heavy political philosophy about it.

Some good may come off this after all. Personally I’m rooting for a BLM rally in the Dutch city of Hoorn, where they have a statue of this unbelievable shithead: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Pieterszoon_Coen

You turning into some sort of animal rights activist or something?

I used to agree with you, about the erasing history thing. Then I did a little Godwin. Some statues should be toppled. This one doesn't score a lot of Hitler points (but it does score *some*) but it has no business being anywhere but in a historical museum either. The thing is: having a statue of someone in a public place celebrates that person. In 2020 we should probably no longer celebrate racists, slave traders and genocidal maniacs. I can see why someone like Churchill (led the UK in the fight against Nazi Germany, callously let millions of Bengalis starve to death) might be problematic. This guy: not so much. Just move him to a museum.

^ this. Even in the best of circumstances (Nordic countries, say) policemen are bullies. This is probably an inevitable effect of putting people in uniform and giving them power - you see it in airport security people, uniformed parking attendants and, heck, lifeguards, as well. Completely doing away with people in positions of authority who wear uniforms is probably not such a good idea. So we have to do the next best thing, which is to mitigate the extent of the damage they can do.

Holy crap I'm old. EP7 isn't even one my "teenager" albums ... it's "something I listened to when I was turning into an adult with sophisticated tastes". It's very good, though, even if it doesn't sound as weird to me now as it did in 1999.

I don't get the dust comments for baseboard heating either. Then again I never heard of baseboard heating until today. Could someone explain how this causes dust issues?

Dude ... what are you even talking about? The health care system keeping its addicts hooked? WTF? Maybe watch a few of those videos that go around. Or, you know, ask a black person. Sheesh ...

Latest posts are about iTunes, though, not books. The other link, if you click through a bit you end up here: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/remove-drm-every-ebook-own/ If you scroll down a bit you end up with this encouraging message: Click through to that site and you get: Latest Mac OS version is 10.15 ? If you want to spend € 30 to try it, I'd love to hear how you get along because Apple Books (it hasn't been called iBooks for a while now, making the information above even more suspect) can be very cheap sometimes. Personally, I don't want to risk it, however, so I'll stick to other Ebook sources for now.

Check the date on that article ? It used to be possible but not anymore.

You will have DRM issues. No one has bothered to crack the latest version of Apple Books DRM. I know this because I wanted to strip off Apple Books DRM off a book I accidentally bought from Apple and that I wanted to safeguard for posterity. You’ll need to get the book from somewhere else, I’m afraid,

On this car especially. Hard to clean, too

Curiouser and curiouser ? ?

It’s taken me 44 years to realize I’m not actually all that smart. Still get things done, though.

Interesting set of modules. What are you going to be using as a sound source?