Re: The joy of FORTRAN

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:
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On Mon, 14 Oct 2024, rbowman wrote:
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On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 08:06:01 -0700, John Ames wrote:
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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 :/

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Ted Kaczynski had a good thing going for a while.
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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!

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At this point political ads are coming close to unleashing my inner
berserker.

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Our new government has united the country in a most unexpected way.
Everyone agrees they are total crap.
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The failure of our democracy, and US democracy, is that we don't have
reasonable candidates to vote for.
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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.
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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.
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Same in the USA, who wants to vote for Trump or Harris?
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 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.