When Jean-Marine Le Pen (founder of French far-right political party) died, French people went out into the public squares dancing, waving French flags, popping champagne, and loudly cheering “the racist is dead!”.

I have already procured a bottle of what here can legally only be called sparkling wine, and I’m ready to pop it any day now.

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I think most people already know that flags at half staff is worthless virtue-signalling

Kirk was a complete scumbag, but flags definitely flew at half-staff for school shootings in the past.

Trump ordered flags at half-staff for Minneapolis

Biden ordered flags at half-staff for Allen, Texas

Also, since this took place at a university, this technically counts as a school shooting. A feverent right-wing agitator dies at a school shooting. Ironic.

Isn’t it just strange that a right-wing agitator meets his end… by being shot in a school shooting??

Unrelated quote:

I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.

—Clarence Darrow, civil rights lawyer

There are already lots of viable strategies for getting rid of brine, they are just more expensive than the naïve approach of having a big pipe on the shore spewing it into the ocean. Diluting it with seawater seems to be the most viable right now.

I wonder if something like a 10 km underwater pipe with small holes in it that only let out a little bit of brine at a time would work. Might be a hassle to lay, at least to start, but I think that once it is in place it could operate without maintenance for decades. And piping is not really that expensive. Perhaps there are already researchers studying it, or it has been proven to not work. It seems like such an obvious idea.

I’m going to make a prediction if they are going to release a list of some sort with names on it:

1. They will redact names by using black highlight using computer software and then destroying the underlying text information by printing it out and scanning it, or something similar. This would prevent the most obvious form of getting around the redaction (which is extracting text information from underneath the highlight).
2. They will make the rookie mistake of using a proportional font like Times New Roman for the names, which is a font wherein each letter has a different length, instead of a monospace font like this one where all characters are the same width.
3. An investigative journalist will notice that one of the redacted names is exactly the same length as “DONALD JOHN TRUMP” typed in the document’s font, and then applied black highlight over it.

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Okay, but who. I want the name of a specific person or organisation and a link to where they said that. Because it’s such a stupid statement that I’m not going to just take someone’s word that someone was dumb enough to say it or thought people would be dumb enough to believe it.

Pasting the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article here:

Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that seeks to abolish all institutions that perpetuate authority, coercion, or hierarchy, primarily targeting the state and capitalism. Anarchism advocates for the replacement of the state with stateless societies and voluntary free associations. A historically left-wing movement, anarchism is usually described as the libertarian wing of the socialist movement (libertarian socialism).

Man, if only there were some organisation that were powerful enough to enforce these rules against people who don’t want to follow them.

Classic Lemmy where someone says “not every is American” in response to an issue that actually does apply to them

lol who said this

I’m not sure why you took them literally. They’re making a tongue-in-cheek statement about how Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is able to manipulate the American president seemingly with ease and impunity.

While it does sound unfair, eBay policy requires you to upload a tracking number by policy. If there is no tracking number eBay will treat it as having never been shipped. This is laid out in their policy pages. You can only satisfy the shipping requirement by using a tracked service and the one indicated by the buyer.

It’s a strict logical operation. eBay sides with the buyer unless all of the following are satisfied:

• A tracking number is uploaded within the specified turnaround time on your listing (I believe it defaults to 2 or 3 working days)
• The tracking number corresponds with the buyer’s indicated shipping service (ex. using USPS Ground Advantage when the buyer indicated Priority Mail will fail this requirement)
• The package was shipped to the exact address given to you by eBay
• The tracking status indicates “delivered” or “available for pickup”
• If the order total exceeds $750, you required a signature for the package

If you fail any of the requirements, you are at the buyer’s mercy. It’s strict but it’s fair.

It is unusual for a US president. Name one other president who did something like this.

Shipping without tracking is pretty dumb though. I can’t speak for Canada Post but in your neighbour to the south, USPS in my experience has lost about 3% of letters with handwritten addresses and about 1% of those with a computer-printed address.

They are trying not to remind China of their continued existence

The thing that nobody wants to admit with Tibet is that China won. They moved a bunch of Han people into the region and it’s now so interconnected with the rest of China that even if a completely free and fair referendum were held on independence, it’d probably be defeated 2 to 1. Call me a bot or a doomer, but if you ever go to Tibet, you’ll realise the old Tibet is pretty much gone. All that’s left is just another Chinese province with Tibet-themed attractions. They did it with Tibet and Inner Mongolia, they are doing it to Hong Kong, and if given the chance, they’d do it to Taiwan too.

While that’s how it started, most Taiwanese people don’t think of themselves as Chinese any more.

The people who consider themselves as solely Taiwanese people outnumber those who consider themselves Chinese by 2 to 1. The Taiwanese government can’t do something like change its name to the “Republic of Taiwan” without starting shit with the People’s Republic of China. So they figure sticking with the old name of the “Republic of China” is less llikely to cause problems.

A lot of geopolitics in general revolves around people trying not to start a conflict over something dumb rather than accepting obvious truths.