Detrytus

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by Detrytus 3y ago
Clears shit from both your body and your mind, at the same time :)
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by Detrytus 3y ago
> Ask your mom how much money she made raising you. You got that backwards: ask your mom how much money she SPENT on raising you, especially in comparison to her total income.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
> Bear in mind that China has pretty much no oil and these 055 destroyer boats are diesel&gas turbine powered. Well, then they are lucky that Russia, now sanctioned by the West, has no choice but to sell all their oil to China, at di
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Well, my take here is that English language should be renamed to "American", and Brits should be forbidden to speak it, because they make it sound ridiculous. Honestly, speaking as a foreigner, who has been learning English one wa
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by Detrytus 3y ago
I guess it was a simple "search/replace", no intelligence involved, human or artificial.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Well, I think abortion should be allowed until the child is 18. Basically, if parents think their child is a disappointment they should be allowed to cut their losses and start over. /s
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by Detrytus 3y ago
> In a time where most of your children die of disease, you aren't going to just kill your healthy children for the comedy value. On the other hand, in a time when there is no contraception available you kind of expect to have up to
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Well, to be honest, both World Wars were Germany's fault, so it kind of made sense keeping them in check and making sure they won't try for the third time. Of course Soviet Union then quickly overshadowed them as a threat. Right n
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by Detrytus 3y ago
I thought US bases are there to keep Germans in check, not to defend them...
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by Detrytus 3y ago
But on the other hand German investors can choose where to put their money based on what they think.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
yes, it is a common theme among the "woke": Black people score lower on school math tests, therefore math is racist.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Well, if you want to compare US to countries like Ethiopia or Sudan then you are lowering the bar significantly. OECD is an organization of relatively rich, developed countries, which seems like a proper crowd the US should compare itself t
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by Detrytus 3y ago
> Having your kids "socially connected" typically involve getting them into clubs and the like. That's the American approach. In Europe it's more like saying to your kid: "I'm busy, go play outside".
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by Detrytus 3y ago
0.2% is not "among the lowest in the world", or at least among OECD countries. Many countries have the rates way below 0.1% And not just rich countries, Brazil for example has 0.05% https://www.oecd.org/els/fa
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by Detrytus 3y ago
As an example Polish borrows the concept of "teenager" from English, but because we count differently, then for us 11 and 12 years olds are also "teenagers".
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Offtopic, but isn't it funny that the system that calls itself FreeBSD has a concept of "jails"? Couldn't they come up with better name? :)
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by Detrytus 3y ago
> Besides having the biggest economy, they can print more of the world's reserve currency. Both those things will soon become false - US economy will be eclipsed by China, and the process of de-dollarisation of world's reserves
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by Detrytus 3y ago
If you are engaged in money laundering then the very fact that your funds were frozen is enough of the tip-off. If you’re not then they might as well tell you about their suspicions. If you were mixed up in some money laundering scheme invo
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Well, I have a problem here, because other than work there's not much going on in my life. No wife or kids, no fancy hobbies... I guess I really need to get more social :)
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Being prepared to seize on an opportunity and execute well is necessary, but not sufficient. There's still a whole lot of luck involved.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Well, in my company it worked different way. Being female, even average looking one was an instant advantage (with the exception for overweight/obese ones). Seven times of ten female would be hired over equally qualified male (which do
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by Detrytus 3y ago
LOL. First bake the sticks in the oven, then deep fry them? In what universe is this a plausible recipe? Chat GPT is basically a random text generator, it has zero understanding of the cooking process.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
If the message is really private (i.e. end-to-end encrypted) then Facebook can't see it , and if it can't see it, or process it in any way then the GDPR does not apply. And if Facebook does access the message and stores it on thei