Notices by clacke (clacke@libranet.de), page 2

@gemlog Around 400 HKD per cake, including one person, and then like 60 HKD for each additional person present. (Divide by 8 for USD figures)

Just getting a cake from the shop is far cheaper than making it yourself, you're paying for the adventure. 😊

Not that I would ever entertain some sealion asking me a bunch of questions of what socialism would actually look like...

But if I did, then it would be simply that there would be a library, for everything.

@gemlog Modern problems require modern solutions. 😊

It feels extremely HK, but the business group HQ and first branch location are in Taiwan, and as of last year and this year they also have one branch location each in Singapore and the US.

"The PALM (Program All Logic in Microcode) is a 16-bit central processing unit (CPU) developed by IBM."

"""The PALM processor was a circuit board containing 13 bipolar gate arrays packaged in square metal cans, 3 conventional transistor–transistor logic (TTL) ICs in dual in-line packages, and 1 round metal can part.

The PALM was used to implement an emulator, which in turn could run machine instructions originally written for other machines; this is how IBM System/360 APL ran on the 5100.
"""

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PALM…

"Despacito" but it's "Arturito" and it's about Skywalker's little droid.

Please make it.

I didn't know that en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_… , the astronaut who took the "Earthrise" photo, was born in Hong Kong.

#WilliamAnders #space #EarthRise #HongKong
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1933–2024)

@cjd You know the modern industrial welfare state was introduced by conservatives? By Otto frickin Bismarck? It's not a good signal to point to and say look, socialism.

The connection between public healthcare and concentration camps is such a mindboggling take I don't even know where to begin. There is nowhere to place the slippery slope, helping people live and killing people are opposite things.

What evolved into holocaust was Hitler's wish for a holocaust. It wasn't like "hey let's treat people's tuberculosis" led to "while we're at it let's also destroy the 'unworthy' races". It's perfectly possible to do one without ever doing the other.

@cjd They coopted the "Socialist" name and the "Workers' Party" name for branding reasons, not because of any ideological alignment, not because of any care for the workers. It was corporatism and rule by hierarchy, and they got away with it by scapegoating the Others, not by their actions but by their identity, just like Trumpism is doing today.

The core of the socialist idea is not the totalitarianism the Bolsheviks decided was was necessary to implement it, it is to remove the class hierarchy that fascism and nazism reinforce. The class hierarchy that Trumpism reinforces.

Horseshoe theory is so tiresome.

My mom and dad are almost twice my age. I hesitate to call them "very old", they're pretty spry, and as I have been here for the journey, they seem to me pretty much the same people I was living with near the end of last century.

The two guys who were the main Presidential candidates in the US election before the summer are younger than my dad. I hesitate less to call them "very old".