Notices by rhua (dzaefn@mastodon.mit.edu), page 4

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alabama-man-accused-feeding-meth-squirrel-arrested-n1024801

> Investigators in Athens, Alabama, searched Paulk's home last week after getting a tip the man was keeping a methamphetamine-fueled "attack squirrel" at the residence.

There is an increasing contingent of leftists who condone violence against the nonviolent.

https://reason.com/2019/06/29/antifa-andy-ngo-mob-milkshake-violence/

@HackerNewsBot ah, the timeless JavaScript classics

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/19/consulate-recordings-reveal-saudi-plan-for-jamal-khashoggi

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/neazxq/the-disturbing-thing-i-learned-studying-white-privilege-and-liberals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_that_Buddha_would_not_play

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elia_(sculpture)

Of course.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/us/nsa-hacking-tool-baltimore.html

First comes the feeling of oldness when you graduate. Then comes the feeling of oldness when the next class graduates. Then comes the feeling of oldness when the next class graduates. Then comes the feeling of oldness when the last class that undergraduacy-overlapped with you graduates.

Self-awareness is a good thing; it's usually more preferable than the cringeworthy alternative. These days, though, there seems to be a slow but sure creep of self-awareness as a substitute for self-improvement.

Just acknowledging that one partakes in something unokay does not make the unokay thing okay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN36_-zOqxk

From seeing just the title of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRUmt_4F_58

, I thought it was about

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manicouagan_Reservoir

.

Imagine that.

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/15/722828257/indias-6-week-long-elections-are-so-big-they-ve-become-a-tourist-draw

That is, I'm hoping against the possibility that they actually perceived the Chinese government as meeting baseline ethical standards.

What I hope has occurred
is an unadmitted recognition, maybe subconscious in some cases, that there patently exists a compromise curve for tradeoffs between the amount one can take a stand against opposable ethics and the amount one is willing to compromise the current standards of life and convenience and cutting off the sources of the such.

Many of the liberals that frequently engage in boycotting businesses or organizations who have taken stances perceived as bad ethics or values are vehemently defending low tariffs on trade with China.

I'd like to give a shoutout to Extra History for their effort into attempting more accurate pronunciation of Chinese names. Several are still quite incorrect, but this episode still goes much further than most vocal attempts towards correct Chinese pronunciation by non-Chinese people. Props, for instance, for correctly pronouncing the name 'Sun' as /swɛn/ ('swen').

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRXIbouYVck

Sidenote: Modern Chinese pronunciation. It's almost certain at the time pronunciation was different.

Sometimes I'm so clumsy I think I disqualify for being bipedal.