Ah, Good The Sea

"Our common language is resistance"

Ageless Linux intends to force the issue before the California state supreme court, then ultimately (probably) the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). It's a stupid, dangerous law, voted into place by legislators who either don't understand the core issue OR knowingly voted for it because they're assholes.

California is an influential state in the US. Many laws & regulations passed there eventually trickle out to most states. That's why it's worrisome to see this kind of thing rammed through, and why it's important to fight it.

Justin McElroy actually just made a tutorial (part of his "Technically Competent" series of him fucking around with technology) on how to put Linux on a computer using a USB

Trung Le Nguyen's epic Pride & Prejudice thread was so magnificent I had to gif it.

I was once asked about what's my deal with pinecones. I didn't understand. The asker pointed out how frequently they've been featured and randomly brought up in my comics and posts at the time, and that I seemed to really like them for no apparent reason. It hadn't occurred to me at all that of course they're not common random debris in places that aren't covered in coniferous forests.

In Finland, pinecones and spruce cones, and conifer needles, are in the top 5 most extremely normal type of Random Shit You Find On The Ground. Having old yellowed pine needles scattered on your floors is a sign that you haven't swept the floors for a while, they will come into your house via your clothes, and you get them on your clothes from simply stepping outdoors. There is no situation where you find a random pine needle somewhere that people pass through and would have to stop and ask yourself "how did this get in here?"

Pine cones don't get stuck on your clothes like that, but they're on the ground, everywhere. I could go outside right now with a 5 litre bucket and gather it full of pinecones in less than 10 minutes. They're as common as rocks on the ground.

It's just the changing density of the air refracting light weirdly, so it looks like there's a reflection of the sky on the ground, which our brains often interpret as a pool of water. It can also happen upwards instead of downwards, especially at sea, when the air is much colder near the surface and a warm front appears above it:

Here's Fata Morgana

There’s other instances of people randomly punching slaves that they didn’t even know because they got in their way or something. This was just normal behavior.

And slaves didn’t rebel en masse because if even one slave committed an act of violent rebellion it was common practice to kill every slave and former slave in the household.

People only took notice for posterity when these mass executions got into the hundreds of people. One of the few recorded for the history books is of over 400 people being killed because one guy stabbed his enslaver.

In a individual sense: it heavily depends on their level of complicity in the state apparatus committing the atrocities, their ability to impact the composition of their government and the intensity of oppression they would face if they actively resisted the atrocities.