Most Johnly of Henries

@johnhenry
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I'm a nerd, researching decentralized / federated alternatives to Twitter, Facebook, et al.

If you know of cool projects, please let me know!

Which is your favorite poll?
North pole
100%
South pole
0%
Poll ended at .
Indianapolis has the most anal airport security in the world lol.
becoming productive is like putting on those “they live” glasses and realizing everything sucks
CFR podcast just referred to him as “Paul Manafart” and I can’t stop giggling
What’s the best Mastodon iPhone app?
Every restaurant should be legally required to serve non-iceberg side salads. This is common sense, people.
A very interesting (and pretty long) account of the forces behind China's delay in achieving modernity.

It is in need of editing, and in need of more editing the further you get, but the analysis is convincing and pretty clear, and has many curious asides, such as the adventures of young Herbert Hoover in Qing China.

I had a pretty clear idea already why Japan had a Meiji restoration and China didn't have an equivalent, but this text draws the lines further back and makes a better documented case than just "the central administration was too strong and too weak at the same time".

I now have a better understanding of the forces behind the Taiping Rebellion and a better idea of why the CCP praises it. And while I still think the Chinese Revolution in 1911 was a huge mistake, I'm less sure that is was avoidable, or that Japan would have wrecked China any less without it.

Almost every section of the article makes me think a whole bunch of what-ifs.

http://www.bradford-delong.com/2018/07/why-was-the-20th-century-not-a-chinese-century-an-outtake-from-slouching-towards-utopia-an-economic-history-of-the-long.html

https://identi.ca/glynmoody/note/zn2a3KTVQg-F-uRjbq_Xdw
photography and parkour are basically the same discipine

Absolutely love Google Domains.

I used Namecheap for many years until they let one of my domains expire with zero email notifications.

Seems like a bug on their end, but too big a bug to let happen twice.

Quitting Twitter wholesale is equivalent to medical technology during the civil war; extremely brutal amputation as a last-ditch effort to stop a spreading infection.

Looking for something closer to 1960s+ technology, something more akin to modern surgery.