Pay08

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   by Pay08 6mo ago

   I don't think protests in general are "behaving outside your best". Now what those protests contain is an entirely different matter. I read an article about the arrest of a foreign student recently who attended numerous &quot
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   by Pay08 6mo ago

   Is it just me or is this article very weirdly written? I can barely parse it.
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   by Pay08 6mo ago

   I would like to agree with this comment, but I certainly didn't find it rewarding. It was pure pain.
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   by Pay08 6mo ago

   Frankly, this belies a complete lack of understanding of how the world works.
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   by Pay08 6mo ago

   As you can clearly see, I did not say language was the only thing that defines culture. Do you think Peruvian culture is closer to Spanish or Swedish culture?
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   by Pay08 6mo ago

   That would be incredibly complicated and crash-prone to do.
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   by Pay08 6mo ago

   Language is the biggest thing that defines culture. Do you want the Netherlands to perform some sort of countrywide assimilation into British or American culture?
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   by Pay08 6mo ago

   That would be an absolute disaster and basically destroy European democracy.
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   by Pay08 6mo ago

   The question is about the authority to pass laws that only some countries need to obey. To my knowledge, the EU does not have the authority to do that.
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    by Pay08 6mo ago

    And the Rust practice of everything needing at least 300 libraries. It's slowly getting to JS levels of insanity.
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    by Pay08 6mo ago

    Do you treat every iOS bug this way?
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    by Pay08 6mo ago

    My fucking public transport app does that, it's incredibly irritating. And all the notifications I get are lotto ads.
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    by Pay08 6mo ago

    Because a lot of the time, it isn't.
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    by Pay08 6mo ago

    Not really. George Orwell has noted this phenomenon in his 1946 book "Politics and the English Language". He attributes it to a knock-on effect of wartime propaganda.
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    by Pay08 6mo ago

    > The people who are vocal about having left seem more extreme and less tolerant to me. That's because they are. Not all of them, of course, and not companies, but the general populace absolutely is.
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    by Pay08 6mo ago

    > Also, we haven’t defined measure yet here have we? Kilograms, obviously.
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    by Pay08 6mo ago

    You mean the lobby that was outspent by Hungary last year?
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    by Pay08 6mo ago

    They gave up the pretense much easier than I thought they would.
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    by Pay08 6mo ago

    Captured by whom?
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    by Pay08 6mo ago

    None of them are cities, but yes, many cities in those countries are rubble.
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    by Pay08 6mo ago

    So what, do they just block a range of IP addresses and are then done with it?
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    by Pay08 6mo ago

    I was talking about the USA...
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    by Pay08 6mo ago

    Ok? You could make the same argument about Chinese tech, German tech, or American tech.
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    by Pay08 6mo ago

    I have heard both used before.
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    by Pay08 6mo ago

    Those people are all criminals, though.
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    by Pay08 6mo ago

    Do you have a link to that investigation?
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    by Pay08 6mo ago

    So what? We should give him eternal carte blanche because he did good reporting one time?
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    by Pay08 6mo ago

    That's the same feeling I had about the first half of Children of Time.
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    by Pay08 6mo ago

    Fair call on CNN and DW, but the NYT has always been at least somewhat aligned with Al Jazeera, and the BBC switches around with whatever the current government is.
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    by Pay08 6mo ago

    It's the same company, English operations can't be separate. https://factually.co/fact-checks/media/should-i-trust-al-jaz... https://apnews.com/article/b39b94d6847f4ee6acafd6ad2da7e9