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Quote from: altered on January 31, 2023, 03:45:38 amI can kill it again.But I won't, because I'm lazy and we deserve the hell we've made ourselves.Anyone can kill PD, a slight breeze could kill PD. Its amazing the server is still online, we can only assume the truck in kazakstan it is sitting on still has it powered on while they examine the hard drive for any bitcoin Trix might have once stored there.
I can kill it again.But I won't, because I'm lazy and we deserve the hell we've made ourselves.
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on January 31, 2023, 12:14:55 amQuote from: Faust on January 30, 2023, 11:07:47 pmThey were wiped out, they just weren't fully extinguishedAfter you first said they were wiped out, you were surprised when when I told you the real population numbers. But now you're doubling down, and pretending that "wiped out" means something other than "destroyed completely". Or does "wiped out" have a different connotation in your dialect of English? Maybe next time say "the population was devastated" instead.QuoteI was unaware of any previous reparations Speaking of matters of which you are unaware would seem to be a problem.QuoteI didnt think that the process could have dragged on that long so you have me thereWell, at least you admit to being in error in two out of three cases.QuoteThe bottom line is the Canadian government made a wholly inadequate token gesture and then had to be forced via legal means to meet its obligation, which I saw as a recent development based on the news story from last week.That is arguably true. Perhaps you understand why this is a sensitive issue domestically, and why misinformation might provoke a reaction?You are right, I was wrong, this requires the record be set straight, an apology and some reparationsYesterday we (a sleep deprived 40 year old who read a relevant news article recently) reported some information in error and wish to correct the record, we are happy to do so.We stated that the colonizers of Canada wiped out all of the indigenous peoples. We would like to amend this statement to say they eliminated merely most of them.It was also stated that the Government of Canada had failed to address their role and history in these atrocities and had offered no restitution to the survivors of their atrocities.This was false. The Canadanian Government has in fact offered an inexpensive apology and an insultingly low restitution of 27 Million in 2007 to be divided up amongst the 5% of their population who suffered under the systematic cultural and literal elimination of their peoples, before immediately embarking on a prolonged legal battle to avoid having to make any kind of realistic restitution which they grudgingly settled, some 16 years later.We apologize for any misleading information above and offer 23c to be divided up amongst all those negatively impacted by these statements provided you can get it out of us in court.
Quote from: Faust on January 30, 2023, 11:07:47 pmThey were wiped out, they just weren't fully extinguishedAfter you first said they were wiped out, you were surprised when when I told you the real population numbers. But now you're doubling down, and pretending that "wiped out" means something other than "destroyed completely". Or does "wiped out" have a different connotation in your dialect of English? Maybe next time say "the population was devastated" instead.QuoteI was unaware of any previous reparations Speaking of matters of which you are unaware would seem to be a problem.QuoteI didnt think that the process could have dragged on that long so you have me thereWell, at least you admit to being in error in two out of three cases.QuoteThe bottom line is the Canadian government made a wholly inadequate token gesture and then had to be forced via legal means to meet its obligation, which I saw as a recent development based on the news story from last week.That is arguably true. Perhaps you understand why this is a sensitive issue domestically, and why misinformation might provoke a reaction?
They were wiped out, they just weren't fully extinguished
I was unaware of any previous reparations
I didnt think that the process could have dragged on that long so you have me there
The bottom line is the Canadian government made a wholly inadequate token gesture and then had to be forced via legal means to meet its obligation, which I saw as a recent development based on the news story from last week.
A couple hours of work was put into this data visualization shit, trying to hand-build a map again. The idea was, if I just find a set of equations to plug numbers into, I can shut up and calculate everything. I knew one of the hazards of this would be a lot of blank space, but NOTHING prepared me for this bullshit.Behold: ONE subsystem. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1002305555207041065/1063126320491528293/FmR9ZJNXwAEzNGw.pngHow many do we have? Why, 7! 8 if you count the exoselves and 9 if you count the Pathways. Kill me. I crave release.Of those very tiny circles in the group of seven, one reads "Dulug-3". Another reads "Adrusu". Can you tell which goes where? This is, admittedly, heavily zoomed out, but the zoom was needed to have any fucking hope of showing the whole thing. Why? 10000 pixels wide. It's impossible to make this usable as a reference to this fucking system.So I'm down to trying to figure out how to make something interactive, because if it ain't interactive it ain't fucking happening. Good fucking god.
Suu,Byzantine history is not something that was heavily covered by my schooling, in any sense. I say this so you can understand where I am coming from.I have discovered Procopius’s Anecdota. And I have questions. Many, many questions.
