Karen insurgent groups, led primarily by the Karen National Union (KNU), have waged war against the Burmese government since early 1949. The original aim of the KNU was to create an independent Karen homeland [...]

Karen legends refer to a "river of running sand" which their ancestors reputedly crossed.

Research indicates that the Karen exhibit signs of genetic isolation, suggesting a distinct genetic lineage separate from neighboring populations.

Some Karen have left the refugee camps in Thailand to resettle elsewhere, including in North America, Australia, New Zealand, and Scandinavia. In 2011, the Karen diaspora population was estimated to be approximately 67,000.

Karen Buddhists are the most numerous of the Karens and account for around 65 percent of the total Karen population.

The Karen New Year is one of the major holidays that the Karen people celebrate. The date of the Karen New Year on the Gregorian calendar varies as the Karen people use the lunar calendar. The Karen New Year usually falls on a date in December or January on the Gregorian calendar.

Probably the funniest Wikipedia page to take out of context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_people .

At any rate, I keep getting annoyed when I have to look up a country code on Wikipedia, one of the simplest datasets and conspicuously missing from the awk/grep/sed/whatever-friendly files I keep around in ~/data and also missing from /lib on Plan 9, which still ships with a list of all US area codes, positions of the stars, Unicode tables, all kinds of useful references.

Did you know that ISO wants 300 Swiss francs for their file full of "India is abbreviated 'IN' or 'IND', Ukraine is UKR or UA"? ISO-3166: https://www.iso.org/publication/PUB500001.html . So then you go get it from La Cia at https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/references/country-data-codes/ and it's an Excel-style CSV and you have to strip the \r and the stupid BOM because the CIA fuckin' loves Windows.

So, here's a public service, here's this file, it is tab-separated, no header, columns are two-letter ISO-3166 abbreviation, three-letter ISO, ISO country code, ccTLD, Stanag, GENC (US gov), official name, and CIA-supplied comment.
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@p Their archnemeses, the Wa People, of Wario and Waluigi fame
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wa_people

@mrsaturday

> Cicadas caught by Wa people in order to crush them with chilies in a mixture similar to the Thai Nam phrik

@p "Go home and eat a big bowl of phrik" - Insults from an 11 Year Old with Braces, Vol. 3

@mrsaturday It is racist to not eat bugs.
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@p @mrsaturday this looks very much like AI generated chinese man

@p "Billions of people across the planet eat insects"
That's nice, still not gonna do it

@FrailLeaf @mrsaturday Can AI do "hand holding a pair of chopsticks" correctly yet?

@mrsaturday I mean, you look at a bell curve of global IQ distribution, right, someone's gotta be on the left-hand side of it and there are eight billion people, with means that billions of people are either retarded or close enough.

@p @mrsaturday sea bugs better count haha I'll eat the shit out of some Balmain/Moreton bay bugs any day of the week.

@thebitchisback @mrsaturday Sorry, you're racist (again).

@thebitchisback @p I don't want to live in a world where eating crawdads is considered taboo

@Doll @mrsaturday "I had to talk to a white woman today, this is literal slavery."

@mrsaturday @p I can still remember the first time I tried Cajun crawfish Mmmmmmmmm so good.

Rock lobsters are a total turn on mmmmmmm

@Doll @p To be fair, they wrote that article after lurking Nicecrew for 30 seconds

@mrsaturday @Doll I don't feel obligated to compensate a society for "the emotional labor of dealing with me". That'd be pretty high on the list of reasons to opt out of society. Or the CIA or the commies or some shittier foreign country (probably Russia or G*rm*ny) wants to undermine the US so that most people feel like opting out of society.

Anyway, if my belief system didn't already indicate that you can just ignore the things you hear you're supposed to do and do the things that seem like the correct course of action, that opinion going mainstream would probably tip me towards "Fuck your rules, I'm gonna shit in the milk."

On the other hand, you do have a point about Nice Crew Dot Dijiddle.

@p Redditors that slurp up impossible "meat" are normally around 105, which I agree with Sam Hyde, is the most dangerous and worst IQ to be. At least a retard would go "bug eww gross" and run away when you try to feed him one.

@Doll @mrsaturday @p THEY ARE PERFECTLY WELCOME TO NEVER DEAL WITH ME
UNLIKE THE GOVERNMENT, I DO NOT FORCE THEM WITH THREAT OF VIOLENCE TO ENTER INTO CONTRACT WITH ME
HMM, MAYBE THIS COULD BE A GOOD ANGLE TO PURSUE

To be fair, I'm kinda a pain to deal with irl, the anxiety makes me talk non stop with nothing to say so shit get awkward real fast

I can leave a tip maybe

@Folklore @Doll @mrsaturday I just swim in the awkwardness. If it's not awkward enough then I don't know what to do with myself.

@p @mrsaturday I've had my run at exotic food, I'm Aussie, it's forced multiculturalism at it's finest.

Tonight I've got Scandinavian with a neighbour.
Pickled herring and smoked/cured salmon with an exorbitant amount of dill makes me heave rainbow curtains.

@thebitchisback @mrsaturday

> I'm Aussie, it's forced multiculturalism at it's finest.

The Aussie government has produced some true horrors.
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@Doll @mrsaturday The fuck?

@p @mrsaturday I think so, yeah. It got very good. There's a video of AI people trying to write on a whiteboard and failing horribly but their hands are as normal as can be

@RedTechEngineer @Doll @mrsaturday Then you better hope I'm dehydrated.

@Doll @mrsaturday You should scroll up, this is a funny thread.

@p @Doll I have to deal with their shit so they get to deal with mine. That's the art of the deal. If dealing with me is so bad, then imagine how I feel having to deal with them.

Also if you get my money, it means I have to have a certain amount of respect for you, which clowns that write stuff like that automatically do not. If there was a way to ask for their Cashapp and send them a negative amount and not get arrested I'd be on it.

@mrsaturday @Doll Maybe there's an ATM glitch.

@p Sometimes I wish laws/standards/… would work like IETF/IANA stuff.

@lanodan That would be ideal, but the IETF is hackers and ISO is a wing of the UN.

@p @mrsaturday I'm happy to take a fine and pay it, rather than be forced to vote. I has vagina, I shouldn't vote. No women should be voting in a man's world.

@thebitchisback @mrsaturday The forced voting never made sense to me except as a means to ensure that whoever is best at delivering propaganda to idiots wins.

@Doll @mrsaturday What site is that? It looks familiar.

@Doll @mrsaturday Anyway, fucking with statues is a time-honored, cross-cultural tradition in all countries that have statues.
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@p @Doll Me watching someone walk up to an ATM with a camera on their face, insert their card tied to their bank account, and try to trick the bank into thinking he withdrew $20 when he's pulling $1000 out of the ATM

@mrsaturday @Doll Oh, the "ATM glitch" was worse. It was just "Write a check to yourself for $10k and then deposit it and most banks will let you withdraw the cash immediately".

@p @thebitchisback I heard a lot of them draw dicks on the ballot

@mrsaturday @thebitchisback I'd wager that it was the geniuses doing that.

@p @Doll

@mrsaturday @Doll As an American, I demand respect for this statue. It is a symbol of our culture, revered as holy by many of our people.
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@Doll @mrsaturday See, this is why you gotta collect links. Also this one is great: https://afru.com/dmt-entities-beings-racist/

@vriska @Doll @mrsaturday Surely it's past the statute of limitations at this point.
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@Doll @p @mrsaturday Lol, classic afru

@ForbiddenDreamer @Doll @mrsaturday I'm not convinced that this site is real rather than a really cynical satire.

@vriska @p @Doll

@p Heh somehow I always think of ISO as a fucking corporation like academic publishers are.
After all ISO just locks the standards behind horribly expensive prices.

@lanodan It's technically an NGO, but they operate like the IEEE.

Technically, in the US, a verbatim copy may be subject to copyright enforcement, but a list of facts is not, so most of what ISO publishes can be republished. (Dictionary authors used to include fake entries to catch people that would produce their dictionaries by rephrasing existing dictionaries, but I don't think ISO does anything like that.)

@ForbiddenDreamer @Doll @mrsaturday This site has to be satire.

@ForbiddenDreamer @Doll @mrsaturday There's nothing about who owns the site on the "About" page, but it does contain this jumble of words:

> Fully believing in power of transformative conversations to move awareness forward.

https://afru.com/about/

@p @Doll I mean, they did commune with the CEO of Racism

@mrsaturday @Doll
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As someone who was fired from a McDonalds marketing company for not working 70+ hours a week on their shitty Australian Monopoly game, I'm more offended these people are giving Maccas a feel and not pouring petrol on him and setting him on fire.

Also fuck McDonalds.

@djsumdog @Doll @mrsaturday Blasphemer!
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@djsumdog @Doll @p Are the dice as rigged as the pull tabs?

@p @mrsaturday we've got an election for prime minister and leading government coming up before Mid May. I haven't voted since 1998 and my first voting year. Here our right leaning is liberals and current sitting government are left leaning. That's why we got the social media ban for under 16 in this 4 year term end. Once we change to liberals and right leaning policies, it most likely will be reversed, along with other shit like welcome to country crap. We had a failed referendum to recognise indigenous peoples in this left leaning term. Aussies don't actually approve of their individual referendum raised policies or the voice to recognition would've passed. Liberals want nuclear power haha so it's funny to watch unfold. The liberal leader looks like a vampire, like out of the song the world is a vampire, Billy Corgan baby brother haha 🤣
Although he's an ex head of AFP Australian Federal police. So that's the last thing we need. There isn't much alternative with Albasleazy Anthony Albanese extra sleazy.

@mrsaturday @p billions live in filth and squalor. is it racist not to have syphilis?

@p @Doll @mrsaturday

Why are women like this

@histoire @Doll @mrsaturday Ladies love a man that knows how to cook.

@Doll @p He's trying to get you to embrace your true self, heed his wisdom

@p @mrsaturday @Doll the first one reminds me of my ex...😩

@Frondeur @mrsaturday @Doll It would probably be an asshole maneuver to make a joke like "What, you dumped her because she kept blowing clowns?" so I have to try really hard not to say that.

@Frondeur @Doll @mrsaturday oh shit

@Doll @mrsaturday There is no way this site is not satire.

@sir_rob @mrsaturday @Economic_Hitman Silence, bigot!

@p Yeah only copyrightable part of that list could be the CIA comments but I don't think CIA has any copyright claims as it's a US government organisation.

@lanodan Well, the CIA produces it as part of the World Factbook (which is about as CIA-like as you expect, but you can't psyop "list of country codes and abbreviations"), they're distributing but not selling it. ISO might want to limit distribution but I don't think they're going to.

@p @Doll @mrsaturday I am not above spreading misinformation.

@ForbiddenDreamer @Doll @mrsaturday They have removed bylines and the link goes to https://thehill.com/homenews/media/597004-washington-post-removes-bylines-to-protect-reporters-amid-russias-new-media/ . Old copies of the article say it's by "Anonymous X": https://archive.is/j8cRa .
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@ForbiddenDreamer @Doll @mrsaturday I tried to find some other articles but while I was wandering their site, it went down:
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@p @Doll @ForbiddenDreamer @mrsaturday
>Anti-Black spiritual warfare
lmao

@FrailLeaf @p @Doll @ForbiddenDreamer @mrsaturday They can sense if you're repeatedly saying gamer words in you inner monologue.

@p @mrsaturday @ForbiddenDreamer @Doll >Karen control. Absolutely.

@Zergling_man @Doll @ForbiddenDreamer @mrsaturday This thread comes back to the Karen!

@mint @Doll @ForbiddenDreamer @mrsaturday @p /marked/ by the remote viewing blaq community

@ForbiddenDreamer @Doll @mrsaturday 200% chance that this site is satire: https://afru.com/unvaccinated-silence/

@Doll @ForbiddenDreamer @mrsaturday Okay, their shit goes down every time I post a link to their site on fedi. Goddammit.

@p @Doll @mrsaturday too soon...

@Frondeur @Doll @mrsaturday
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@p Would you post some of your other data files? I need more miscellaneous reference material for my ~/lib/data directory

@scathach Here's the federal No-Fly List, CMUDICT, and ipv4 spaces. I was gonna post the all-cause mortality database but it's 1.4GB.

> I need more miscellaneous reference material for my ~/lib/data directory

why you ain't postin' data
NOFLY.csv.gz
cmudict.0.7a.txt
ipv4-address-space.csv
ipv4-recovered-address-space-2.csv

@Cyrillic @mrsaturday @p Peter Dutton is the epitome of understated evil.

@scathach The CDC's summary of everyone that died in the US that year, along with the (ICD-10 coded) cause of death and contributing causes, demographic data, etc. It's this nasty giant fixed-width column thing and they give it to you in a .zip file, but you can cope with it if you're good with awk.