GJim

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by GJim 5mo ago
> People outside the US understand that Trump is a temporary phenomenon Oh god no. How wrong can you be. The world is now well aware what the American people have voted for (twice!) and may well vote for again. We don't want that ri
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by GJim 5mo ago
Their use of the word "probably" rather suggests they did miss it. By a country mile.
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by GJim 5mo ago
Your comment can be summed up by appearing to know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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by GJim 5mo ago
Here you go. https://www.niradata.com/global-country-perceptions-2026 (From the above, following the link to free sample for USA data is very revealing. )
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by GJim 5mo ago
> America did spend resources on defense of gulf states. No offence mate, but did you miss the bit about the USA starting the war?
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by GJim 5mo ago
Here is some hard data to back that up; the Country Perceptions Index. https://www.niradata.com/country-perceptions
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by GJim 5mo ago
> Trump's DOJ has a track record of prosecuting Trump's vocal critics. And many Americans claim they have freedom of speech! (Of course the little guys speech is "free", they aren't important. But the moment the
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by GJim 5mo ago
> Nobody would suspect anything without prior knowledge. The weights being nearly twice as heavy for their expected size would be a bit of a giveaway to anyone who has ever been in a gym.
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by GJim 5mo ago
> They were in some cases more accurate than the British OS maps of the era which did not print some features around military bases, Not so much more accurate ('classified' features aside), as more detailed: The soviet maps inc
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by GJim 5mo ago
> I was asked if I had a family and when I replied that I didn't, I was asked why. In Blighty, that would surely have garnered a response along the lines of 'they were all lost in an industrial accident involving a steamroller
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by GJim 5mo ago
Personally, I don't say 'please' to vending machines and 'thankyou' to automatic doors :-P
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by GJim 5mo ago
Ummmmm Interviews are a two-way thing. Don't forget that. Frankly, far from being your worst interview, this was one of your most successful ones.
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by GJim 5mo ago
To be fair, there are a number of different manuals, and they don't tend to agree with each other.
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by GJim 5mo ago
Frankly, I'm not in the least surprised.
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by GJim 5mo ago
> Same project, same goals Many on here beg to differ.
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by GJim 5mo ago
Aside from the fact you would have to be nuts to buy kids toys (or anything that must meet a safety standard) from Amazon. ... yet some people still do.
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by GJim 5mo ago
> If anybody gets to decide what we will call Freenet, it’s him. Perhaps. Though reusing the name for an entirely different project with a different codebase is disingenuous to say the least. That won't do his reputation any good, e
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by GJim 5mo ago
> Apparently the operator didn't have a way of knowing the number you were asking to make a call to was a phone booth, They did. In the UK, when a payphone _answered_ a call, the payphone played a "cuckoo" tone (beep-boop)
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by GJim 5mo ago
With that money going to Russia. Just sayin'. EDIT: The above is a perfectly factual statement about the Flipper. The downvotes are presumably coming from the pro-Russia bots and shills.
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by GJim 5mo ago
> But still be bothered to leave a generic complain on HN Is 'whataboutism' your counter argument? Really?
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by GJim 5mo ago
If 'WhatAboutism' is your best defence, then you are in a desperate place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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by GJim 5mo ago
> Just remove anything from your phone or computer if you think it might be an issue, Read this line back to yourself a few times. Now tell me where your democracy went.
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by GJim 5mo ago
Unfortunately, flagging is heavily abused here on HN. Criticism of adtech and attempts to defend privacy laws will bring out flagging in droves; almost as if some HN'ers salaries are dependent on opposing such laws! Some sort of meta-m
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by GJim 5mo ago
> As just one example of the failures of “america-style free speech” Here are some more. Frankly, the USA isn't doing very well on free speech lately. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Press_Freedom_Index ht
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by GJim 5mo ago
> Imagine if Trump could outright ban criticism of him or his policies Ummmmmm. He is. That is to say, anybody _in power_ or any in any position of authority is significantly curtailing their criticism of Trump. If you haven't noti
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by GJim 5mo ago
> select all fire hydrants" (which are extremely obvious) Speak for yourself! https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=fire+hydrant+uk&tbs=imgo:1...
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by GJim 5mo ago
> Does that even matter? Yes. 800 Patriot missiles were used within the first 3 days in the Iran war. This is greater than the total number of Patriot missiles received by Ukraine during the entire war with Russia. The USA is rapidly d
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Harsh. But fair.
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by GJim 5mo ago
> What if they are not friendly? And the purpose of them choosing to attack another civilisation across interstellar space would be.....?
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by GJim 5mo ago
Jesus wept! So you think this is an excuse to let the adtech industry treat you like shit, invading your privacy and selling your private data unrestrained? Seriously? The shear lack of ethics and opposition to data protection law on here i

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