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12:25 AM

@Cerberus What, five years ago was your youth?

Cerberus

sighs

And a wasted youth it was.

BTW, I still play 2048 when I'm talking on the phone and looking for something to occupy my fingers and part of my brain.

Cerberus

Hmm somehow I always preferred Threes.

Nah. Too trinary.

Cerberus

HOW DARE YOU

12:40 AM

Easy. I just speak without thinking.

Mitch

@Cerberus I remember, long ago, some much younger acquaintances were talking about hey wow their 30eth was coming up and how life transforming that was going to be, and omigod what are they gonna do with themselves and how they were going to deal with it.

And all I could think was what? 30 is a thing?

I just didn't get it.

It was a long time ago.

"Never trust anyone over 30." —Jack Weinberg

Jack Weinberg

Jack Weinberg (born April 4, 1940) is an environmental activist and former New Left activist who is best known for his role in the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley in 1964. == Youth == Weinberg was born in Buffalo, New York on April 4, 1940, and grew up there. His father owned a small jewelry business in Buffalo.He began college at the University of Buffalo. At the age of 21 he transferred to the University of California, Berkeley, majoring in mathematics. He graduated in January 1963 "with great distinction".In the spring semester 1963, Weinberg continued at Berkeley...

Wait, he's 79? I totally don't trust him.

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SmokeDetector

6:35 AM

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8:17 AM

@Mitch The correct phrase, I believe, is "Google it"

@CaptainBohemian Don't dictionary them, Google them

It's teh era of txtspk, dood

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I guess not. It sometimes doesn't work for me either. But this is the best Chrome extension I've used so far.

Even Tor breaks down sometimes (due to the advanced censorship mechanisms or something else, I dunno). But it's even better than UltraSurf. But its mobile app doesn't work on mine!

از هر کرانه تیر دعا کرده ام روان / باشد که ز آن میانه یکی کارگر شود

Q: Did global warming exacerbate the Syrian conflict?

@Færd Before the censorpocalypse, I used Browsec. Pretty solid, until one day it stopped working

I guess it's one of those single digit rankings Iran can add to its portfolio.

Random question of the day

Newspapers have recently reported that research shows that Global Warming can now be assigned as a major contributor to the ongoing conflict in Syria. For example, The Independent: Climate change was a key driver of the Syrian uprising, according to research which warns that global warming is...

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I guess different VPN providers use different back-alley channels, so it's handy to have a bunch of them at hand.

Cause, heh. So many butterflies in that assumption. It's like saying we created nukes because an apple fell on Newton's head.

@Færd 2 out of 16 VPNs on my mobile work at all times.

What are they?

8:30 AM

SuperVPN almost always works

Do you have to subscribe?

ThunderVPN, GeckoVPN, Psiphon etc. intermittently work as well

@Færd Nope. There is the Premium version but the free version works like a charm, with a couple of usually non-intrusive ads

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ The middle one I haven't tried, but the other two have let me down countless times.

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Good to know.

I wonder how Russians are doing with this new internal network project there. The Iranian government are doubtless trying to emulate that. (@CowperKettle)

Reg is Russian too IIRC

But he lives in Germany (most of the time, I think).

8:34 AM

Dunno

@Cerberus Me too. It takes more strategical thinking. And it looks better.

3 hours later…

lazereyes

11:46 AM

hello, everyone

I want a proof-reading of opening sentence of my mail.

Captain Bohemian

12:16 PM

I'm kind of tired, lacking energy to read now.

3 hours later…

3:23 PM

That was an anticlimactic 3 hours.