@IfindRetards@libsoftiktok Imagine investing all that money into something and ending up with such a pile of slop. It's like those $5m David Hogg college organization leftist memes they said were going to destroy 4chan.
@ZacksJerryRig Awww shucks if only the dozens of engineers that have been testing this design in their trillion dollar lab had seen this tweet before IPO it would have all worked out
A Canticle For Leibowitz is a classic early (1959) post-apocalypse novel where an order of monks preserved the last remnants of learning (the memorabilia) after a nuclear exchange turned the remains of society into book and scientist burners.
I first read it in the 80s as a mass market paperback that I somehow lost along the way. Other paperbacks from that time are yellow with age and getting brittle, but still readable.
I read it again in the late 2000s on a first edition Kindle. I eventually migrated to iPads for Kindle reading, but every couple years I would come across an old Kindle in a drawer, charge it up, and check out what I had been reading on it. They eventually stopped working entirely.
I’m just finishing reading a new Folio Society edition, printed on heavy, acid-free archival quality paper. If it doesn’t get soaked or burned, it could still be in good shape for centuries.
The ephemeral nature of digital storage does give me some pause. We can still read Sumerian tablets full of administrative trivia from four thousand years ago, but there are no known copies of some important software products from just fifty years ago.
I am a proud supporter of the Internet Archive!
This is 100% true. I was there when it happened. Yassir Arafat was offered 97% of the land and he turned it down.
Hamas, the PLO, and Iran didn’t want peace then, and they don’t want it now.
Joe Kent: “There is zero evidence that Iran was trying to build a nuclear weapon, Netanyahu is warmongering.”
The Deputy Speaker of the Iranian Parliament: “We tried to develop nuclear weapons, but couldn't keep it secret.”
Bill Clinton: “Palestinians were offered a state on the entire West Bank and east Jerusalem as its capital. Israel accepted, but Palestinians refused. They did not care about a homeland for the Palestinians. All they wanted was to kill Israelis"
This must be shared every day.