Notices by ∑ XahLee (xahlee@noagendasocial.com), page 72

western societies now losing democracy. by Melissa Chen
she is a Genome scientist born in Singapore. This is part of the talks at Mythcon 2017.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfXLsKQfVlE

understand MacOS Extended Attribute “@” in 5 minutes, and remove invisible data. see http://xahlee.info/comp/OS_X_extended_attributes_xattr.html

@DrChris got the answer. Quick Look, that's the app you are saying. didn't know it.Thanks. it's new since last i used mac in 2011!

Apple adds invisible com.apple.lastuseddate#PS metadata to your file. Extremely annoying. Even just a normal text file. So now your files are littered with invisible metadata, you never know what they are.

emacs 26 force typing yes/no for deleting dir?
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/7iypxo/emacs_26_force_typing_yesno_for_deleting_dir/

@DrChris nah, that works only if user opened many images files.

or, is there some preference setting?

on Mac Finder, preview, once i click open a image in preview, how to go to next image in the same folder?

@irritable holy. haven't heard of that neither. i grew up in taiwan though

@irritable oh, didn't know there's foie gras. one day i shall have a taste.

Capon = Cock without a Cock

@irritable he killed himself about 2 years ago. these kinda people, are basically mentally ill.

but then, how do we exactly define mentally ill? well, when the person cannot function in society.

@irritable

Body and Mind Modification http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/20031129_body_mod.html

@irritable oh well, but that's getting sick.

then, there's all other sorts, lip stretching, tits stretching, neck stretching, labia cutting, and dick something...

and modern breast enlargement, face and tongue fuckup with metal beads...

and bleeding tech implants...

from this chart, the most evil is facebook and google. The least is amazon.
https://twitter.com/mrjeremyblaze/status/939758404037255169

actually, judging ads or services as evil while selling product is not, is actually stupid. That's the kinda thing the open source fuckheads think. That's the thinking of those who never studied basic economics.

i learned this from Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics in 2003
http://wordyenglish.com/misc/basic_economics.html

#JavaScript learn web animation in 3 minutes.
http://xahlee.info/js/web_animation.html
(view in chrome or firefox quantum with js on. Not supported in safari, edge, yet.)

now am expert of Web Animation API. god, i wish there's more fancy incomprehensible jargon for this.

@jeremiah the longnow foundation, was great. am afraid it has subsided. or, perhaps, driven out by social media or the sjw generation.

@temporaryDouchebag nice etymology.

i wonder, if that fashion designers being gay... when did it begin? am not quite sure its always been like that.

@jeremiah interesting article. surprised it's written early, in 2004. Though, towards the end of the article, many things it says are already incorrect as we see today, in 2017.