Lastodon

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by Lastodon 2y ago
(Sentenced to death if she cannot repay just over half the money)
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by Lastodon 2y ago
This isn't reddit. "Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by Lastodon 3y ago
Title is false. The plane has moving control surfaces.
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by Lastodon 3y ago
The voting map for this bill was hilarious; all of the districts that voted "yes" were in cities, all of the rural areas voted "no". The city folk are voting to literally release wolves into the rural communities that vo
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by Lastodon 3y ago
Google discworld reading order, pick a storyline that is similar to genres you like (the guard books are copper fiction, the Lipwig books are inverted heist novels, the Rincewind books are classic fantasy by way of Oxford University culture
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by Lastodon 3y ago
Heinlein's law: Arguing that a given scifi author's view of future society makes sense will always essentially reduce to arguing that the author's politics are correct.
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by Lastodon 3y ago
It's the name, IMO/IME. Mutton as a name is unappetising. "Mutt" brings dogs to mind, and the "un" sound at the end makes it sound lumpy and gross. A lot of people don't even know that mutton is sheep, th
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by Lastodon 3y ago
Reminds me somewhat of roman concrete; archeologists were under the impression that roman concrete was poorly mixed due to various hydroreactive additives, that were thought to have been accidentally added during the mixing process. It turn
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by Lastodon 3y ago
Is there anyone with view history turned off that doesn't have their youtube shortcut go directly to the flow=2 subscription videos page?
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by Lastodon 3y ago
Glass houses etc. The site hosting the article is awful.
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by Lastodon 3y ago
It is an unearned windfall, but people deserve to keep their homes. It bears noting that the issue is caused by property investors, not homeowners. How about we go for the individuals that own more than 3 properties and let grandma keep wh
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by Lastodon 3y ago
Tldr: Churchill was a good wartime leader, but during his second term he screwed up the housing regulations so bad it broke up one of the longest conservative runs of all time with Attlee coming in to try and fix the mess.
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by Lastodon 3y ago
"Why is our population declining? Why aren't millennials reproducing?" Truly a mystery!
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by Lastodon 3y ago
Japan is still a first world nation. The world hasn't ended for them. Can we stop pretending that having a population that isn't exponentially growing is a bad thing.
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by Lastodon 3y ago
Not exactly a collapse, and a fall was always going to be the case; Brussels was always going to absolutely murder the first country to leave, as an example to the other states.
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by Lastodon 3y ago
This isn't reddit.
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by Lastodon 3y ago
In my opinion good maths education is important for everyone, regardless of predilections. It's often a child's first introduction to objective logic.
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by Lastodon 3y ago
From my memory what mainly lost his backing from the general public was the horrendous antics of Dianne Abbot and her place at the front bench of the labour government. Everything that woman said and did leeched coherence and unity from the
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by Lastodon 3y ago
Only a year? I thought they were going to deathgrip power until 2025
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by Lastodon 4y ago
The only functional turing test will be either espousing hate speech or describing how to make a pipe bomb.
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by Lastodon 4y ago
"human knowledge and perspectives not represented in this set could be systematically wiped from public discourse." That's a feature, not a bug. With this technology "Dangerous misinformation" can be cleanly and eas
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by Lastodon 4y ago
The basic prerogative of reproduction is predicated on the basic need for safe and secure territory. The wealthiest oligarchs of the boomer generation have done everything they can to ensure the consequent generations are unable to attain t
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by Lastodon 4y ago
My first thought as well. What's in it for them? Planning a pivot toward space based defence assets perhaps? How forward thinking.
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by Lastodon 4y ago
When you hire an expert on a subject, listen to them about the subject.
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by Lastodon 4y ago
To translate it to a more common sentiment: "we'd like to have kids, but don't feel stable enough" or "we would have kids, but can't afford a house"
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by Lastodon 4y ago
A good article that reiterates the importance of building positive habits to improve one's own life experience, over thinking that dramatic escape will change your life. You can't be tempted by chocolate if you don't have cho
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by Lastodon 4y ago
Headlines on HN are getting steadily more cyberpunk and I'm here for it.
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by Lastodon 4y ago
Good. Feel the "hand of the free market" at last throttling the antiquated obese market that is business property. As automation and communication improves, so should corporate policy restructure and reform into the most efficient
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by Lastodon 4y ago
"Are we millennials so busy coming up with pronouns that we can't find a weekend to make copies of ourselves?" Oh sod off with this. The primal prerogative of reproduction is predicated on the primal need for safe and secure