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by Nursie 7mo ago
> the existence of the process Yes, I know you think it’s bad that it exists. I don’t. So long as it is carried out with proper oversight and people have time to prepare their cases, it actually appears preferable to endless delay which
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by Nursie 7mo ago
Those riots in 2011 were not protest in any meaningful way. I was in London at the time, it was a bunch of people stealing shit and setting fires because they thought they could. What was shocking was how hands-off the police were when they
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by Nursie 7mo ago
Honestly, so long as there is adequate time for everyone to prepare and adequate oversight, fast tracking like seems to me far preferable to waiting for 2-3 years! And given the Southport riots were, well riots , it’s unsurprising they wer
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by Nursie 7mo ago
> UK showed how to deal with civil disobedience (fast tracked judicial process) What is it you mean by this? I see so many offhand comments about the dystopian UK here but AFAICT there’s a lot of noise and very little meat. The only thin
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> helped reduce my teen "I'm immortal! I'm unstoppable!" phase. I mean, is that good? Isn’t another way of looking at that to say that it poisoned an innocent time and left you aware and afraid of death when you might
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> It's too late and never about children, And this is why these arguments never translate well to mainstream politics. By declaring a-priori that it is not about the children, and leaping straight to a deeper, more sinister motive t
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That's only the delivery method, the warheads are UK-designed and built. So yes, if the US withdrew support then the existing nuclear program would be pretty fucked for a while, but the US couldn't unilaterally de-nuclearise the U
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by Nursie 7mo ago
> arrested in the UK for holding blank signs within vicinity of Palestine marches. Got a source on this one? Supporting Palestine in the UK has never been illegal. Supporting the specific group "Palestine Action" has been as th
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I mean yes and no. Looking through that article, one of the examples is "The wife of a conservative politician was sentenced to 31 months in prison for what police said was an unacceptable post." But if you dig into what happened
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A lot of people won't even understand the question, because they can install their apps from the app store, because that's where the apps come from, the app store has what phones crave. Some of them will even be frightened by the
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"We could make devices safe for everyone but this upsets freedom purists, so I've decided some people need to stay in the dark ages instead"
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This is because Australia has high internet prices. Partly because it's huge , but partly because the NBN got stuffed-up by the Liberals because they didn't believe the country should be investing in what they called at the time
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Never done much Spring, so I don't have a lot to compare to. But ... I'm not a massive fan of using annotations in concept, because they obfuscate what's taking place. Unlike in (say) Python, where annotations are effectively
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by Nursie 7mo ago
Having used micronaut for a few years now, I hate it. Maybe it's innate to trying to use a a fully fledged server-style framework in a serverless context, but I don't think it's suitable. In fact I think the whole idea (&quot
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by Nursie 7mo ago
> fully controlled by Sony. And Toshiba and IBM, it was a three-way collab. There was even a second-generation Cell (PowerXCell 8i) released in IBM Q Series blade-servers.
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by Nursie 7mo ago
Ethical vegans and vegetarians may like the taste of meat but be sworn off it because of their ethics. I see this so much in these discussions - if they don't like meat then why are they going for a subsitute? They love vegetables so s
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by Nursie 7mo ago
Yeah I've done that, I used my linux box for years with a 24" 1920x1200 screen and a 32" 4k screen next to each other. Doing some basic mathematics and xrandr command-line wizardry to apply scaling factors to each display, I
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by Nursie 8mo ago
It's fashionable. Some famous people have been seen with visible wires, therefore everyone needs wires. All these arguments here about technological superiority are quaint but miss the point. People in the wider world don't have t
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by Nursie 8mo ago
Yeah, I plugged mine into my tv a few weeks ago, using a USB-C dock, so I could play the new Katamari game on the 65" screen. With a ps5 controller hooked up via bluetooth, it was just like having a console.
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They really aren't. Don't get me wrong, I'd rather some real democratic reform of the Lords, but there's no chance of that any time soon. In the mean time getting rid of as many people as possible who have no democratic
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They're there because someone a long time ago was wealthy and probably had ties to one or more monarchs. This is not a basis for holding power in any country that calls itself democratic. This idea that they are somehow above everyday
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It's white here right now :shrug: So I guess that means you're American?
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And if an American told me it was blue, I'd have no need to check, I could have confidence it is not, and that their evaluation would change to another false answer in five minutes.
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Oh piss off. It's removing the nobs from the system, people who are there by right of birth alone. There is no reason a modern democracy shoud cow-tow to such people or allow them any power over the rest of us.
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> The hereditary peers were elected By a larger pool of hereditary peers. Previously several hundred members of the aristocracy were all entitled to a seat in there by virtue of their birth and title alone. After reforms in 1999 this gro
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> They are likely even more out of touch with the electorate. Not compared to the hereditary peers. In theory these people have proved themselves useful in some way and bring expertise to the upper chamber, rather than just being born i
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And in some places they are incentivised to do so, as they may need to prove a certain number of applications per-week, or they'll lose unemployment benefits, so they end up applying to all sorts of unsuitable stuff.
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> They know the car was yours so, by extension, you should be aware of its whereabouts at any given moment. People's spouses and kids drive their cars. I've lent cars to friends before. Unless you've got some kind of log b
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That’s a matter of clothing and determination IMHO :) But sure, I get it. Personally I can’t keep up gym habits because the boredom is just overwhelming. I find other forms of exercise easier to stick at. Each to their own.
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> Not everyone can afford to bike every day. Hence why I recommend gym first. Err.... Are we talking about affording in time? Because from where I'm sitting once you have a bike it's free, where gyms need an ongoing subscriptio

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