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M.A.R.

16:08

@Mitch Inorite, assholes.

@Cerberus Big as in how big? I guess it wasn't big enough to warrant anything other than the typical treatment.

Except they wanted to be sure I guess and shut down the internet for a week.

Normal treatment: SWAT, then internet shuts down due to technical difficulties, and then this music from the old Iranian movie Train plays, and they invite folk to anti-protest in the city's largest avenues.

I guess that one the news outlets there never cover. But meh, pretentiousness all around.

Rouhani is more popular than ever! What a nice guy.

As for my part, Tabriz is generally a sleepy city, I heard people threw some stones elsewhere but I never saw a single sign of protests, even in the first two days, where I commuted.

People got killed, no one can deny that. The number of the killed and the intention of the shooters are vague-ish as usual, accusations handed out like candy, and we can suspect what we want to. Except I find much more excitement where I've reached in Lehninger's biochemistry, so I'll stick to that.

I forgot if people got killed here, but the other cities are definitely maybe much worse.

Agree with @Gigili, the protests were, AFAIK, only last Saturday and Sunday.

Thank God they manned up and turned it on again. The internet was entirely off on Sunday, then local sites came back on, and the whole internet was shut down again on Thursday, and now I feel great relief that I can use Google again.

It was not a matter of VPNs or anything that could be used by laymen, they just shut off traffic that went to foreign sites entirely. Google was unreachable. A lot of local sites that depended on Google API or some foreign CDN or something stopped working too.

Cerberus

16:29

@gigi @M.A.R. OK I'm glad you / your families are probably not in danger, then.

And that they have turned the Internet back on again.

M.A.R.

Only when the internet is off you forget how much bullshit is there.

— Tao

"Bullshit" is of Chinese origin.

Cerberus

16:56

Is it really?

M.A.R.

@Cerberus I think the last few days actually proved it's Persian . . .

Cerberus

Hmm.

If you say so.

Do many have satellite Internet?

That cannot be blocked, can it?

But it must be very expensive.

M.A.R.

@Cerberus I guess not

@Cerberus If not utterly unreachable

Cerberus

Unreachable?

M.A.R.

I guess you need to have foreign connections to get a hold of that stuff

Cerberus

17:01

Really?

M.A.R.

It's not something out there to buy, I mean

I'm completely uneducated about this stuff anyway.

Cerberus

I wouldn't know where to buy it either, but I know people buy it who go to places where there is no Internet, like in the wilderness, in war zones, on the ocean.

M.A.R.

Although, get this. Dormitories have had internet for a few days already

Maybe some govt-approved VMware or proxy

Cerberus

Hmm.

M.A.R.

The news are fuzzy but AFAIK no protest happened after Sunday, after the government called the normal folk to gather and protest the protests.

"The protesters were a few vandals and not among normal folk" and "we condemn this" yadda yadda yadda

Unless the outlets on the other side have something to say?

My part of the town didn't hear and wouldn't have benefited from protests anyway, so I never witnessed anything

The usual, I guess. A few poor devils here and there car their car burnt (and their houses, in other cities) but same old crap except the grip gets tighter a bit after every one of these incidents

Mitch

17:22

@M.A.R. flips through the Tao

OMG

the flipping Tao

It's all BS

@Robusto The closest to correct would be 'cracker'.

skullpetrol

Uncle cracker?

Uncle sam

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Kracker?wprov=sfti1

Cracker (term)

Cracker, sometimes white cracker or cracka, is a racial epithet for white people, used especially for poor rural whites in the Southern United States. It is sometimes used in a neutral context in reference to a native of Florida or Georgia (see Florida cracker and Georgia cracker). == Etymology == A 1783 pejorative use of "crackers" specifies men who "are descended from convicts that were transported from Great Britain to Virginia at different times, and inherit so much profligacy from their ancestors, that they are the most abandoned set of men on earth". Benjamin Franklin, in his memoirs (1790...

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Gallifreyan

18:46

Q: Adverb that expresses life but in a disgusting/abhorred way

In Frankenstein, after Victor finishes the creature, it convulses, showing him that it was alive, but the convulsions were disgusting and horrid and made victor retire to his bedchamber, how can I describe the convulsions in one word that will convey that feeling of horror?