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q: how big is sweden?
a: the swedish mile is more than six times as long as the english one and i'm not making that up

do you think it would be an improvement if the EU and so on dropped most of the process for getting a visitor's visa for people from poorer countries and instead made it a bit like posting bail. only requirement is a sufficiently large deposit (that you'll lose if you overstay)

if it isn't flawed, is it possible for it to be loved?

accidentally ended up reading about “enhanced interrogation” again and wish i didn't. i did not want to stare into the darkness in the hearts of the american security services

i'm not a retrocomputing person, i'm a modern computing person with respect for the past and an affection for certain old things, but mostly a belief that certain principles must not die

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ihYn2uS760g is a wonderful video where the creator tries to track down the background music (a MIDI file) for an old Game Maker example game. it's great, please watch it!!

hi everyone! as some of you may know, i've had an old and relatively obscure MIDI module called the "Roland SC-7" for almost a year now, and i absolutely love it. so i was kinda sad that most of the sound demos of it on YouTube were so uninspiring…

so here's 40 minutes of songs that i think make it shine, so more people can understand why i'm obsessed with it. hope you enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9Pw1zv28YY

twitter will drive you insane if you can't control your outrage reflex, but for the rest of us it's great practice in controlling it

yoooo i finally found an Android camera app with no UI, which happens to be what i need to use my phone as a camera for live-streaming with scrcpy (my phone doesn't have a new enough Android version to use the direct camera mode) https://www.reddit.com/r/androidapps/comments/k5vkhz/comment/geicenh/

shoutout to spiders… they're very cool and they manage other insects i don't like as much