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Re:The last days of William Blake on Friday May 06, 2022 @01:59PM (#31288071)
Similarly, the ghost of Blake can be summoned to answer the mage during Mercury conjunctions, evocations to Tiriel having been called.

Should he bring Bayes with him, banish the spirit immediately.

Re:Parents separated from baby as Hong Kong clings to zero-Covid on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @10:01PM (#30449734)
China, Hong Kong SAR

Coronavirus Cases: 75,248 Deaths: 385 Recovered: 13,232

Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @02:45PM (#30445422)
The same reason we all use(d) The Pirate Bay. Information deserves to be free, remember? We can distribute videos for free, you remember that, right? We can also pay content creators, who get ripped off by YouTube anyway. Ask them about that.

Are you suggesting that HackerNews readers should also remove their adblockers? That we are bound by a Kantian moral obligation to be subjected to enticement and manipulation for Google’s balance sheet? Will we get kicked out of Capitalism if we don’t acquiesce and watch the ads?

I guess I’m an amoral Bad Boy. Antinomian. A rebel, with strange views on religion, morality, information, and economics - heretical, unspeakable views, that I shall not utter here.

PS: I’m concerned about exposing my mind to advertisements. The risk to the computer, which is but a tool of the mind, is entirely secondary.

Re:Pentagon Says ‘Nintendo Generation’ Has Weak Skeletons on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @02:31PM (#30445236)
Unfortunately the children who we deliberately addicted to technology for ad money aren’t physically fit enough to fight wars for us. Darn.
Re:How the Ukraine crisis is already hitting Americans' wallets on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @02:26PM (#30445177)
Thankfully I have an electric bicycle, a source of fresh water, and neighbors who grow food.

The privileges of poverty, I suppose. I do feel bad for the people gassing up their trucks and sport utility vehicles, however!

Lab leaks being “common” is bad news for people living in Virginia.

You know - on account of Fort Detrick. Perhaps some sort of probe should be done into what happened there in the summer of 2019.

Re:Intelligence as a Planetary Scale Process on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @01:59PM (#30444854)
Today, Gaia.

Tommorow, the stars themselves are demons. The Millisecond Pulsar is often mistaken for being Lucifer, but that’s actually Sirius - according to astrophysics, of course.

Neo-Astrology returns from the stargate, waving a dog-eared copy of Zetetic Scholar, and smirks at us.

Re:22/02/2022 is palindrome day (for most of the world) on Monday February 21, 2022 @07:45PM (#30422771)
It’s also the Pluto return.

Pluto, planet of Hades, death, and revolution will return to 27deg Capricorn, the exact zodiac position it held on July 4th, 1776.

Welcome to the real Age of Aquarius.