23 years after the UK "handed over" its colony without ever asking the people who lived there, the "one country two systems" status of Hong Kong has effectively ended under the cover of the pandemic. Its (already strained) civil liberties are now subject to Beijing's control. https://t.co/YFAWItLOEw

— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) June 30, 2020

I opposed the Hong Kong handover at the time, when anyone who did so was a “Western colonizer.” But it was always obvious this would happen and now it’s happening.

People are fucking stupid.

AITA for shredding my fiancé’s prom picture?

People are saying this is fake, but there are people like this out there. I know because I dated at least one! I’m not much of a sentimentalist, but I had some army mementoes that I liked. My girlfriend at the time threw them all away — even knowing I wanted them — because she said they were “holding me back” and “it’s just old junk.”

The “old junk” was a 105mm Howitzer casing I’d fired myself, my maroon beret that I wore through thick and thin, and some medals. I didn’t really care about the medals but the other stuff I was pissed about.

In hindsight, I should’ve broken up with her then and there.

What computer users see in security warning boxes #enigma2016 Very, very true. pic.twitter.com/8V4SlGwKAV

— Iain Thomson (@iainthomson) January 26, 2016

Yep. These are pointless because only 0.01% of computers users understand these — even most IT people do not.