DanBC

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by DanBC 6y ago
Where are you getting suicide statistics for LA from please?
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by DanBC 6y ago
People are a bit touchy about Jack the Ripper even today. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/sep/29/jack-th... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ja
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by DanBC 6y ago
Also, a lot of British discussion about the Second World War is pretty horrible. There's often a mix jingoism and ignorance of what happened, especially of some of the things Britain did.
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by DanBC 6y ago
No it isn't. It's advocating for removing penalities for ending someone's life in certain specific circumstances. Whether doctors make that choice will be up to them.
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by DanBC 6y ago
So, abortions for anyone who wants one, right? Birth control for anyone who needs it? Trans people allowed to participate in sports? Stop pretending the right has no interest in controlling people's lives.
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by DanBC 6y ago
> In the UK infections are decreasing because we are in a harsh lockdown. The vaccine show little to no effect _yet_ (unlike israel) Yes, we're only just beginning to see the vaccine effect. Vaccine effect is now clear in hospital a
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by DanBC 6y ago
You operate your own servers You use your own encryption
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by DanBC 6y ago
You can host it yourself. INN is a server. slrn is one client, but there are lots. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterNetNews
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by DanBC 6y ago
Why not install INN and then slrn or similar and do it via Usenet? The free.* hierarchicy is available.
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by DanBC 6y ago
Can you link me to any statements she's made where she condemns the genocidal actions of the military?
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by DanBC 6y ago
We get something useful from aluminium production.
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by DanBC 6y ago
The civilian government is also under investigation. https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/anaylsis/2019/11/21/Myanm...
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by DanBC 6y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20210220133950/https://mythaxis....
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by DanBC 6y ago
Article 26 is short and sweet, you may as well quote all of it. > Article 26. > (1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compuls
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by DanBC 6y ago
> What I think is a major issue is that the UN "human rights" document says that schooling is mandatory and must teach about the UN (yep! it is a "human right" to be indoctrinated) Can you post a link to this human ri
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by DanBC 6y ago
It's not homophone equivocation. "Lede" is obsolete, and for some reason people started using lede instead of lead. Lead has been in use for this for longer than lead. > lede > obs. variant of lead n. and v. > lede &
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'London Bridge is down': the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death(theguardian.com)
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by DanBC 6y ago
> massive suicide increases > but the suicide rate spiked by 30% Neither of these have happened.
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by DanBC 6y ago
The tax implication is a big deal, and other countries will be looking at that with interest.
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by DanBC 6y ago
Uber is cheaper because they're avoiding tax. When Uber claims that they do not employ the drivers they're also saying that the drivers (as independent businesses) are responsible for charging VAT and paying that to HMRC. You only
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by DanBC 6y ago
> and lots of people decide to go away from their existing companies and work for the shitty companies, then you have to at least entertain the notion that you were wrong about what makes a job shitty There's a lot of churn in the j
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by DanBC 6y ago
People in places like the UK just need a quick and easy way to evade website blocks. > Access to this website has been blocked under an Order of the Higher Court. > Any TalkTalk customer affected by the Court Order has a right under t
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by DanBC 6y ago
Debbie Hayton spreads misinfo. She does so because she gets validation form other transphobes. It's not "disagreement" -- they regularly publish easily checkable objectively false information.
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by DanBC 6y ago
You can't die from opioid withdrawal. It's unpleasant and many people need help. But it's not like alcohol dependence which can kill people if they stop suddenly. SSRI/SNRIs can be problematic. The difference is that SSR
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by DanBC 6y ago
Any of their coverage of trans issues. I haven't said the Guardian or NYT is better.
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by DanBC 6y ago
This is not "corrupt but useful", it's "corrupt and useless". > I think this sort of thing has to be contextual. The context is that UK government gave £22 BILLION to private companies for Test and Trace, and the
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by DanBC 6y ago
> Do insulin users have a drug problem? How many insulin users lose their jobs, lose their homes, turn to acquisitive crime or prostitution to fund their insulin habit? We can talk about how many people who use heroin this happens to, an
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by DanBC 6y ago
The Spectator routinely publishes misinfo.
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by DanBC 6y ago
A gentle reminder that the UK press, especially the Guardian, are hugely transphobic and routinely print blatant lies.
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by DanBC 6y ago
> Did I miss anything? You missed coatings, which can include minerals or plastics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coated_paper

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