Orwell:

In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines. Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. Officially the change of partners had never happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

I stay awake all day to punish myself for not sleeping at night.

From the article:

A message appeared at the top of multiple NIH websites last week that says: “This repository is under review for potential modification in compliance with Administration directives.”

Orwell:

Winston’s job was to rectify the original figures by making them agree with the later ones. […] The original figures were as arbitrary as the rectified ones, and in any case, the Party had control of all records, and they themselves created reality. The past, he reflected, had not merely been altered, it had been actually destroyed.

I regret that you you are right. Nothing’s been the same since Harambe.

Idiocracy is a documentary!

That’s two levels deep, and an amazing take.

The subtext there might be that Dr Strange felt so hopeless about the situation that he didn’t conceive to look into the possibility, out of an infinite number of them.

I spent a couple of winters in Fairbanks Alaska, and was quite surprised with just how hot it gets up there in the summer, even as far north as the Arctic Circle.

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That’s quite a nice typeface. I find myself torn between serif vs sans; when reading a book it’s so ingrained to expect serif (I switched from Bookerly) that my eyes stuttered a bit when I started Atkinson’s.

As long as I can get the OTF or TTF files, I’ll try em all. You have any more?

Thank you for that suggest. I had taken a peek at it a while ago and it’s too “wobbly” for me.

They’re letting the terrorism button cool off a bit, considering its basically not been let up since September 2001.

I just added this to my eReader. I’ve been reading a lot lately and while I haven’t had any difficulty, I’m eager to see if it enhances comprehension.

Good post OP.

This is the plot of The Village by M Night Shyamalan. Good movie.

I had set up this configuration around 2016 and found it a little clunky. I called it a SkyHole. It was great, and now we have the ability to install DNS profiles on most phones, or configure DNS profiles for PCs such that I use a (“free”) commercial provider and get ad blocking which takes care of 99% of the noise, and don’t have to fuss about with maintaining a dedicated device.

Put them back.

Sounds very much like a hold my beer solution.

Drunk: bet you couldn’t fix blindness with mah tooth!

Drunk eye surgeon: hold my beer

Everything old is new again.

You should give them their erasers back mate

I am.

He hasn’t.

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