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From: R Daneel Olivaw <Danny@hyperspace.vogon.gov>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 10:17:51 +0200
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Peter Flass wrote:
> Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> wrote:
>> On 10/15/24 20:29, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>> On 15/10/2024 20:23, rbowman wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 10:06:23 +0200, D wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 14 Oct 2024, rbowman wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 08:06:01 -0700, John Ames wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Welcome to the 21st century, where each and every single goddamn thing
>>>>>>> is just a delivery platform for advertising...it's enough to make a
>>>>>>> guy wanna go live in a shack in the woods :/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ted Kaczynski had a good thing going for a while.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Hmm, but could it perhaps be the lack of ads that finally made him go
>>>>> crazy? After all, our ads is the opium of the mind, keeping us happy and
>>>>> productive members of society!
>>>>
>>>> At this point political ads are coming close to unleashing my inner
>>>> berserker.
>>>
>>> Our new government has united the country in a most unexpected way.
>>> Everyone agrees they are total crap.
>>>
>>
>> The failure of our democracy, and US democracy, is that we don't have
>> reasonable candidates to vote for.
>>
>> Starmer, wasn't popular before the election, he actually got a much
>> lower absolute number of votes than most winners, lower than Corbyn's
>> both times.
>>
>> I went through my candidates, one by one, trying to find one I could
>> vote for. I couldn't find one. I think PR would help.
>>
>> Same in the USA, who wants to vote for Trump or Harris?
>>
> 
> I want to vote for  “Not Trump.”
> 

How the f*** did this discussion end up in a "The joy of FORTRAN" thread 
on alt.folklore.computers, crossposted to comp.os.linux.misc?
False flag?  Mission creep?
Time to channel my inner Andrea Bocelli / Sarah Brightman.