Oh yeah. To suppress the anti (Vietnam) war protests.

Outlawing cannabis products was essentially an exercise in deliberate systemic racism in the US. (Nixon).

Unsure about the rest of the world.

This works in LHS countries too.

Referencing claims is the Lord’s work.

That’s a little disappointing.

Inland port -> Portland seemed nice and tidy

But why was Portland one of the options?

I just realized why it’s called Portland.

In my defense, I’ve never seen a map of it before.

GPU composting

That might be the problem.

Yeah. It was magically resolved by providing ID.

Hmmm.

It makes more sense when they say ‘tech worker’ you read it as ‘magical internet executive’

Gotta buy a new JPU for better Jrafix

They’re the same G.

Bah! I knew it didn’t look right when I wrote it.

I believe that’s the origin of the current trend. Typing on a T9 keypad.

There was a parallel ‘733t sp34k’ trend on bulletin boards around the same time.

I imagine that they merged to some degree.

Some people just want to see the world burn.

post-instrumentality fuckery

It is hard to distinguish that from the pre-instrumentality fuckery.

It’s an affectation of The Register they like reporting real news with a sometimes quirky voice. It’s also British so some of the language and humour doesn’t quite work as well in other parts of the world.

Didn’t notice the community, came here hoping for a RHEL shitpost.

Got confused when there was only RHEL shitposts.

Probably. It does happen.

Fun fact. Triton, Neptune’s largest moon, orbits the wrong way which means it was gravitationally captured by Neptune at some point.

Really weird book that one, even for Banks. Tangents or is it Inversions?