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That woman on the bull is Europa (Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη, Eurṓpē), daughter of the Phoenician king Agenor, lived about 2000 BCE. The bull is the shapeshifted Zeus that is kidnapping Europa. They had sex and sired Minos, king of Crete. Minos is the one who feed the Minotaur by sending children into its labyrinth.

Yeah Greek mythology is weird.

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Libgen.is is back online

An alternative is plain old school irc. I'm not kidding.
Connect to irc.irchighway.net then /j #ebooks then !search <author and/or title>
Receive search results via xdcc which gives you the commands to download that stuff.
Or query one of the bots (e. g. @bsk) and get a list of hundreds of thousands of books that are available and search that for what you want.

I prefer that over ad infested one click hosters with countdowns, link shortener cascades and captchas. I find and get the stuff much faster by using irc.

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Anon sets up a prank at school

In university we were taught C programming. We started with simple things like loops and stuff. After a while the topic processes, threads & stuff came up and of course we were instructed to use that.

In the computer lab there where only thin clients so everything actually ran on the server.

A good friend of mine - not know what was about to happen - entered:

while (true) {
    fork();
}

Astoundingly it took a whole minute until the server froze. 🤣
That was the same server most of the school stuff ran on. So nearly everything went down. 😂
He got scolded by the sysadmin the next day but nothing serious happened.

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Hahahahahaha. Doesn't he realize that the original Nazis would have refused to call him a human? They'd call him ape just because he's black.

Anyways don't travel to Europe with that shirt. You'll get beaten or jailed the moment you step out of the plane.

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FCC chair says US will defend Big Tech against European watchdogs

he FCC chairman said Europe's regulations against US firms are "excessive" and "incompatible" with American values.

What values? Greed?
There are some extremely greedy Europeans no doubt. But the most of us pursue a happy life instead of a rich life.

He believes that these laws (...) are suppressing free speech in the EU.

These laws are there because companies feast on them illegally. Is this dude fit being the chairman of the FCC if he can't get that right?

It remains to be seen how the US administration will choose to defend Big Tech against the numerous lawsuits in the EU.

They can do exactly one thing: Nothing. The judicial branch of the EU is completely independent from the other branches, unlike the SCOTUS. Our judges don't care about what nonsense Trump is spouting.