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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I grant you absolution my son.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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comp.os.plan9 still exists. Some plan9 maintainers were recently discussing appointing a moderator for the group to get it active again. People are thinking about the 'missing moderator' problem and how to solve it. The discussion is in this thread:

https://news.novabbs.org/usenet/article-flat.php?id=201&group=news.groups.proposals#201

"The MVI was prompted by one of the directors of the Plan 9 Foundation, who had written to the Board with the intention of reviving the newsgroup, perhaps via a bidirectional gateway to the 9fans mailing list. He suggested converting the group to unmoderated, but as this is a rather experimental solution, we proposed running an MVI, at least as a first step, to see if the group could remain moderated."

Some people want Usenet to die so they keep saying it is dead. Unfortunately a lot of people take them at their word and don't even bother to check it out. The ISC / Big8 Board is active again and taking care of business in the Big8 hierarchies. Some of us refuse to walk away from Usenet because we understand from experience that it has some features superior to all social networks, especially for decentralization and censorship avoidance. NNTP is simple compared to many 'modern' protocols and easily extended for custom applications.

Please Don't Elect Either of Them in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

"Let them eat cake" is a very old journalist meme about government indifference to the horrible suffering it causes to the impoverished people.

"Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", said to have been spoken in the 18th century by "a great princess" upon being told that the peasants had no bread. The phrase "let them eat cake" is conventionally attributed to Marie Antoinette, although there is no evidence that she ever uttered it, and it is now generally regarded as a journalistic cliché. The French phrase mentions brioche, a bread enriched with butter and eggs, considered a luxury food. The quote is taken to reflect either the princess's frivolous disregard for the starving peasants or her poor understanding of their plight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake

Like many other memes and political slogans, it is falsely attributed to someone who actually didn't say it.

So we have gone from, "Let them eat cake" to "Make them eat cake [bugs]" as a political meme used by journalists and agitators to promote an agenda of faux resistance.