@snowdusk_ Oh! I have just been corrected! Apparently my information is out of date, in 2014 The Body Shop withdrew all their products from China and now they genuinely are considered a cruelty free brand. Sorry to have mislead you!

@snowdusk_ Okay, apparently https://www.crueltyfreekitty.com/ is the best resource! They have a page on the China situation: https://www.crueltyfreekitty.com/cruelty-free-101/animal-testing-china/

@snowdusk_ Hahaha, you're welcome. My wife is really into cruelty-free health and beauty products so I know a lot about this kind of thing. All the companies who are really serious about it don't sell in China. If three are particular kinds of product you want recommendations for, let me know and I can ask her!

@snowdusk_ Sorry to disappoint you, snowdusk, but The Body Shop sell their products in China, and any company which sells cosmetics in China is required by Chinese law to test on animals. So while they may support ending animal testing in Canada (and maybe they really do!), when push comes to shove and they have to choose between animal testing or losing out on money from the Chinese market, they choose the money. :(

@mcscx I do, and I also like clocks, so God damn!

But not just orange, as Cat and I have been lamenting lately you used to be able get appliances in all kinds of funky colours: burnt orange, olive green, chocolate brown. I know these colours are super unfashionable now (although I suspect they would sell well to hipsters), but they're a heck of a lot more interesting than black, white and silver.

I am also in favour of bringing back faux wood panelling.

@Cat Hnng!

Seriously, burnt orange electronics mainstream again when?

https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/ExihNE4Gg2LsWNmDI8I

Who knows what the four "device control" characters in ASCII (0x10 - 0x14) were originally used for? All the obvious control actions for mechanical typing devices (line feed, carriage return, etc.) already have dedicated characters of their own...

@clacke Wisdom from volume 11 of Dtack Grounded (http://www.easy68k.com/paulrsm/dg/dg11.htm):

> Anybody who programs in FORTH is by definition intelligent, alert and self-confident. They may also have slightly twisted minds - after all, they do everything backwards - but they are NOT dull. Very few FORTH programmers watch Gilligan's Island reruns.

@lain There was a collection of English translations of sci-fi short stories by Japanese authors published maybe 5 years ago called "The Future is Japanese". One of the stories (I've forgotten the title and author) was about an American feel-good NGO liberating child soldiers in Africa and dosing them with some kind of experimental drug that makes them blind to ethnicity, so they don't realise the other kids in the refugee camp are actually from their former enemy tribes...

“We believe GNU Social would be a logical fit,” he added. “After all, Nietzsche was all about solitude and being totally alone in one’s thoughts a lot of the time in the distant wilderness, so what better match than a social network that almost no one knows exists?”

https://www.sudosatirical.com/articles/study-friedrich-nietzsche-most-likely-to-be-gentoo-user/

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