Hermes [none/use name]

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Cake day: November 13th, 2024

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  • Used Xeon servers are somewhat ($100-$300) cheap on ebay (at least in the US). Server gear has its drawbacks, mainly the weight, noise, and power consumption, but if you are concerned about computing access then they can be a decent buy. Anything aside from DRAM and modern CPUs/GPUs is unlikely to change in price. Previous generation server gear is either ewaste, or cheaply produced from commodity parts in China. If you don’t need cutting edge performance (and you don’t) then computing access is very unlikely to be cut off by the market.


  • No everything has to be serious at all times and we cannot find any humor in the absurdity of hell world. The last time I smiled was on August 19th, 1991. I wear a dirty ushanka at all times, do not shave, and only take cold sponge baths because hot running water is bourgeoisie decadence. Every day at exactly noon I have the same meal of an expired Maoist MRE I store in a pit covered in old issues of a revolutionary newspaper. I sleep in a bed made of flags from every failed revolution so that they are never forgotten. In the evenings I stare at a picture of vodka by candlelight, but I do not allow myself to drink because there is nothing to celebrate.











  • Accepting the premise, the idea people who are responsible for torturing and murdering thousands to millions of Muslims get to suddenly escape punishment for all the misery they’ve wrought is disgusting. Celebrating that they would escape that is disgusting.

    Isn’t the whole joke that they wouldn’t escape punishment/they would still be liable for their crimes? I’m not a religious scholar or anything, but that’s always the way I read this joke and the “mirrored” Bin Laden accepts Jesus jokes. I think if anything, the problem with these jokes is trivializing peoples religion, which should be a reason not to use them.