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Ahh, Liquid Television. Thank you. The other block of odd programmes that ended up on BBC2. It’s been a long, long time, so I’m not surprised I mixed them up!

Aeon Flux (the anime TV series, not the movie)

I want to say it was aired as part of the Def II, teenage audience program slot on BBC2 in the '90s, the original UK home of Ren and Stimpy and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, but the Wikipedia article for Def II doesn’t mention it at all.

Edit: Nope, it was Liquid Television (see reply). Some but not all of MTV’s weird programmes ended up on BBC2, sometimes even under the original parent name, like Liquid Television.

The first Linux kernels were written for the 386 and 486 and single or double digit megabytes of RAM. Early 1990s technology. Before Windows 95 and Pentiums even.

Now, if you want a GUI that runs nicely, at least for some hardware, you probably going to need to hit mid-to-late '90s hardware, and it’ll still be pretty basic.

Did you mean this one: https://imgur.com/iHcSTI5

20th century? The Yalta Conference was a pretty big one in WWII. Churchill, FDR and Stalin all met to determine what was to be done about a certain Austrian and his fan club.

You jest, but on some older computers, all ones was the official truth value. Other values may also have been true in certain contexts, but that was the guaranteed one.

I suspect they’re referencing a story told on Twitter back in the day:

https://www.boredpanda.com/bar-bartender-nazi-punk-iamragesparkle/

TL;DR: If you let the “nice” ones in, eventually their less nice associates will come along and before you know it, your bar is a Nazi bar. Or, in this case, your restaurant/town is now a haven for obnoxious tourists.

It’s not quite the same because you can’t equate a “nice” Nazi with a respectful tourist, but similar logic applies otherwise.

Not literally those words. From what I’ve seen online, various establishments, if not entire towns, have thrown up “Japanese only” or “Japanese language only” to discourage foreigners. They generally only do this after there’s been a trend of tourists making asses of themselves, but since the first places to do it kind of went viral, it’s not too surprising if the habit has sprung up elsewhere.

Sure, it’s only a handful of disrespectful tourists when all the rest are fine, but if you allow any non-Japanese (person or language, pick your preference) eventually you’ll get those tourists.

Like it or not, it’s a simple way to say no to that.

Samsung aren’t exactly good guys either. At this point I’m not sure there is a company who isn’t out to put profit over everything else.

Conjecture: There is a procedure for finding a place-value representation of any positive real number such that the choice of base, and perhaps a secondary representation, yields an infinite number of fours.

Get a 15 puzzle. Or try a digital version.

That was about my level of figuring out. One less dimension to worry about. Never could do the cube.

One such implementation is here: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/fifteen.html

Don’t be so sure. What number is on the side to the right of the 5? Where did the border come from?

Mario’s sorcery knows no bounds.

Reminds me of that slightly meta Eddie Izzard bit where he talks about doing a joke in French to a French-speaking audience where he impersonated Sean Connery. Imagine Connery speaking French in his own acshent and idioshyncratic shtyle; kind of funny even without whatever it was he was saying. Unfortunately, none of the French audience had appreciated it much, and so after the gig he asked someone about it.

It was then he learned that Francophone audiences were more familiar with Connery’s designated French-speaking dub actor, who sounded nothing like Connery.

The audience might have understood what was going on, but it kind of killed the joke.

“We can’t possibly be Nazis because we disagree with them about who the Untermensch are.”

At this point, I reckon they’re about where the pre-Thatcher Conservatives were. The actual Conservatives are now further right than they used to be too but don’t seem to realise it, and every time they try to design policies they end up confused that what they’ve come up with looks like fascism (to everyone else if not also to them).

If I had the wherewithal, I’d start up a Socialist party, because it’s clear now that parties only ever shift right and there’s a gap at the left end of the spectrum.

Depends if you go with the original idea, or the battery idea designed by Hollywood execs who didn’t think the audiences would understand.

… thus proving that Hollywood execs and the people they make their changes for are only good for batteries*, but I digress.

* For legal reasons, this is a joke. I have to say this because some Hollywood execs have more lawyers than braincells**.

** For all the same reasons, this is also a joke.

Oh, I guarantee that pi is 100% normal. Just not necessarily in the base you want it to be normal in.

TL;DR: I suspect they’re not dying or leaving. They just don’t attend synagogue any more.

I don’t have any evidence one way or the other, but it’s definitely the case that Christians are increasingly secular and not attending churches up and down the UK, causing the closure and deconsecration of many, and so I have to believe that it’s the same thing that is happening with those of the Jewish faith.

Likewise, many people of religious upbringings are moving away from religion altogether, adopting agnosticism or atheism.

That said, it’s worth noting that this decline in religion is less true of the Muslim communities than it is of the other Abrahamic faiths (which is not to say that it doesn’t happen), so it kind of makes sense that it ended up being a Muslim documenting all of this.

Owning a domain name is still a reasonably good idea, but it was never a path to fame, even back then. A stepping stone, maybe, but even then, not strictly necessary.

Yahoo mail still exists - you can even set up a new one - but they got rid of the forwarding feature for free accounts a few years ago, so you actually have to make an effort to log in to the site and check. There’s no way to access free mail accounts other than doing that. Of course, if you’re willing to pay something, you can get forwarding back and maybe something like POP or even IMAP.

Of course, if you do pay, you’ll be supporting some of the more questionable decisions made by Yahoo management.

Yeah, but it’s those politicians who’ll send their compatriots to war.

If instead they’d started walking the propaganda back rather than lighting fires under everyone and getting everyone mad, it might have averted this. (Past tense because it might already be too late by the look of it). And one way to convince blood-thirsty ivory tower dwellers that war is a bad idea is that room I mentioned.

I mean, I saw a video the other day of children at a kindergarten or primary school where a little boy declared that he wanted to see the destruction of the other country. I forget now which country the boy was from, but it doesn’t matter. The politicians on each side have been fomenting hate for decades when they could have been doing the opposite, and that, unlike money, actually does trickle down.