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by GJim 1y ago
> I wouldn’t enjoy working in a workplace where this was acceptable. I understand Americans are prudish to depictions of nudity, however objecting to ASCII art is simply beyond my comprehension. Anyone objecting to such a thing here woul
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by GJim 1y ago
> Your reaction to heat is highly dependent on acclimation. And the other way around. I once went to a conference, held in early spring, at a Greek hotel. It was 15 C and the hotel staff had closed the pool as it was "too cold"
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by GJim 1y ago
> usually the countries that had to fight off colonizers Good Lord! France and Blighty (to pick two examples) did their fair share of empire building, however I can assure you, they do not worship at the alter of capitalism in quite the
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by GJim 1y ago
No. It certainly wasn't a voting system. Rather, it was a decent enough system used to help gauge demand in a given area. (Unsurprisingly, there was a lot of demand for ADSL in university towns, and much less in retirement-town-by-the
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by GJim 1y ago
It's baffling anybody would think otherwise. Reddit auto-censorship (and such auto censorship elsewhere) has a lot to answer for.
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by GJim 1y ago
edmin is a newly created account with one comment. Their comment is typical of a Russian troll starting a new account. ('Poor Russian victims' etc.). You can waste time ridiculing them, though I just ignore.
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by GJim 1y ago
So Americans/Irish/English/Scots/Welsh/Australians are all being "colonialist" when they refer to Wien as 'Vienna', Čechy as 'Bohemia', Abertawe as 'Swansea' and La Manche as
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by GJim 1y ago
> soccer team I don't think anybody plays "soccer" in Ireland! (Not in NI or the Republic!)
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by GJim 1y ago
> Brits do this because of Northern Ireland (mostly for bad reasons, but still). This isn't specific to the British! ROI and NI refer to different countries on the island of Ireland. I'm curious why you state "mostly for b
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by GJim 1y ago
> It's a specifically politically charged term used by people who either don't know better or have a bone to pick. And you , quite clearly, appear to be the one who has a bone to pick! Everybody else is (thankfully!) now movin
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by GJim 1y ago
Regardless. She is far more widely known as Marie Curie in the English speaking world. Using any other name would be confusing for most readers.
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by GJim 1y ago
[citation needed] The phasing out of gas cooking is discussed in terms of reducing CO2 emissions, not safety.
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by GJim 1y ago
> dispersing the population was seen as a civil defense priority for an atomic war Do you have a citation for this? (I'm not necessarily doubting, it's just a claim I have not heard before).
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by GJim 1y ago
> We'd need a hard crackdown on location privacy ....... Good luck with mobilizing enough "political will" Genuine LOL Here we have the GDPR. It works. (Contrary to much tech-bro propaganda spouted on here).
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by GJim 1y ago
> Bluetooth doesn’t have the signal strength beyond 20ft Oh dear. I think you will find a directional antenna can rather increase this by several orders of magnitude.
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by GJim 1y ago
Nice bit of victim blaming there.
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by GJim 1y ago
The Silicon Valley "tech-bros" were all supportive of Trump to benefit their own pockets. When Trump is finally gone, there will be some very awkward questions asked of all those, tech-bros and others, who blindly supported his l
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by GJim 1y ago
I despair at such naivety.
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by GJim 1y ago
Clearly you have never driven on an autobahn. They suffer from as much congestion as any other major road; you aren't easily going to achieve, let alone maintain, that speed during 'ordinary' day-to-day traffic.
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by GJim 1y ago
> it's not impossible that they will eventually. Please stop believing the ridiculous Russian propaganda. Using even a single tactical nuclear weapon would be game-over for Putin's Russia.
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by GJim 1y ago
There is no need to provide evidence anymore. Each side simply makes up their own 'facts'.
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by GJim 1y ago
That is rather dystopian. I'm surprised the locals let it fly (no pun intended).
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by GJim 1y ago
> they also have a Pub in the basement of the embassy. Frankly, I'd be genuinely amazed if any British embassy didn't have a pub on premises.
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by GJim 1y ago
More water.
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by GJim 1y ago
> there are two diametrically opposed dumbed down narratives As every British schoolboy knows, there is only one narrative.... Royalists: Wrong but Wromantic Parliament: Right but Repulsive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by GJim 1y ago
> consuming tons of taxpayer funds for healthcare Ah, so that's what this is about. Your objection to universal healthcare and a desire to regulate other peoples personal lives based on your own morals.
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by GJim 1y ago
Life is full of choices. And the choice to enjoy oneself and not live on a diet of rabbit food is one such.
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by GJim 1y ago
Giving your lat and long solves this, without recourse to proprietary systems, similar sounding words or requiring a proficiency in the English language. What 3 words is pants.
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by GJim 1y ago
Somehow, Americans adding sugar to yogurt doesn't surprise me.
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by GJim 1y ago
> Two beers per head are still authorized after 45 days underway Good God! In the Royal Navy its 3 beers per man per day, every day. (Coke tin sized or 2 beers if the tins are larger, depends what the NAAFI ordered in). There are usually

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