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RE: https://wandering.shop/@cstross/116126128460258409
Please tell me this is a THEY HAVE PLAYED US FOR ABSOLUTE FOOLS meme?
Because if not, I DEMAND a refund for this goddamn century (it is brain-damaged, probably from hitting itself in the face with a hammer)
@digitalraven @drmaddkap You were insanely lucky! The survival rate for CPR/defib is not great: around 7-8% of patients on whom rescus is attempted survive to see hospital discharge.
It's still worth doing, but most media portrayals are very misleading.
@valhalla @Steveg58 I once got home 8 hours late on a 3 hour ride because the intercity service I was in the front carriage of hit a suicide at full speed (around 110-125mph). Two hours for police/ambulance crew, two hours to be towed into the next major station and decanted onto another train (already full), then *that* ran into a downed overhead line 50km from the destination at 3am. Small town, no taxis: I got home by bus around dawn.
@Steveg58 Yeah, but Europe covers a lot of different nations—Swiss railways or French are not the same as Croatian or Romanian ones, for example, to put it mildly.
@valhalla @Steveg58 We get this happening in the UK. It's usually (a) graffiti taggers/teens trespassing near stations, or (b) suicides. The latter are No Fun for anybody (especially if you're on a train that gets delayed 3 hours then cancelled after police and ambulance crews pick lumps of human flesh out of the undercarriage and determine the brakes have been damaged).
@Steveg58 You're Australian so I assume you're not used to all railways being grade-separated? "Drive onto the tracks" isn't a thing you can allow to happen when trains routinely hit 300km/h or faster.
RE: https://wandering.shop/@feorag/116116162100440009
The horror, the horror!
@26aafa19 @ravenbait @nathanael @ploum To some extent that's an inevitable side-effect of a social hierarchy constructed on a foundation of chattel slavery. Slaves are property, they can't own anything, so to be poor is to be closer to that state of immiseration.
Slavery: the original sin of the colonizers of the Americas. (That, with a side-order of genocide-by-plague, but slavery left the biggest mark on the present day.)
And as Pratchet said: evil is treating people as things.
@nathanael @ploum Unless you personally know any billionaires, you don't know any rich people.
@nathanael @ploum You misunderstand. It's not about economics, it's about primate pack dominance and hierarchy. The motivations of the hyper-rich are very much *not* rational, otherwise they'd have stopped collecting money long ao.
You're naive. Poverty is relative: the very wealthy WANT the vast majority to be poor because it justifies their assumption of personal superiority. If they only wanted "poor" to mean "have one euro less in their wallet", that'd be tolerable: but it seems to be necessary for their egos to see starvation, misery, and death on all sides.
@jguillaumes The sex industry entrepreneur who is first to market with a RealFlesh™ Fleshlight is going to make a killing …
Mosquitoes' Bloodsucking Tubes Could Enable High-Definition 3D Printing
Proboscis of Female Mosquitoes Can Print in Finer Detail Than Expensive and Fragile Commercial Tips
https://drexel.edu/news/archive/2026/January/mosquito-proboscis-3D-printing
@nickynah If you piss on them first they might not burn? Whereas if you piss on them afterwards they've still got the injuries (and the piss).
@quinn An autonomous agentic AI you're supposed to install on your computer that will have access to all your accounts and randomly spam famous people with bullshit requests, like an over-enthusiastic teenage fan only far more irritating because under the facade they're a p-zombie.
NOTICE TO ALL #OPENCLAW USERS:
If your openclaw instance emails me from your account for ANY reason, I *will* report you to Gmail for phishing and then block the fuck out of you. You are dead to me. If I knew where you lived I would visit, set your house on fire, then piss on you when you ran out screaming. Your shitty agentic AI is not welcome in my inbox. Fuck right off, and when you get there, keep on fucking off some more.
(I do not need this shit before my morning caffeine.)
@b0rk Assuming the man page docset is properly curated, it should be a comprehensive an authoritative answer to how the tool works.
Caveat: I spent years in a techpubs department writing and maintaining UNIX man pages. I have strong opinions!
STOP PRESS:
NEW MANUSCRIPT DELIVERED TO AGENT
ENGAGE "Mr Earbrass" MODE
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DIVIDE BY CHEESE ERROR
#WordWeavers 20 Feb—What tropes are in your current project?
Space opera, master criminals, crapsack empire, repeated reincarnations, heist caper, vault robbery, long cons, revolution from the top down, lost true loves, mafia romance …