SideburnsOfDoom

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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
> Exactly the same meaning and connotation. No, it does not have the exact same meaning. The first means that her optimism kept her in some functional state, without it, she would collapse. The second means that her optimism continues ov
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
Sadly the current Conservative leadership have fallen quite far, prioritising cheap culture-war nonsense instead https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/kemi-badenoch-says-tory-hopefu...
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
Ed Miliband has been doing really well as Energy Secretary, "overseeing a boom in clean energy investment, driving jobs and growth" (1) But he hasn't been there for very many of the last 16 years. 1) https://observ
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
> this is the penultimate special case. If Binface is the second-last special case, who is the last one?
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
> Ukraine's sovereignty after the 2014 coup This phrasing, referring to the Maidan in 2014 as a "coup" is reliable indicator of pro-Russia crankery. > With Donetsk and Lugansk, Russia did not annex; those areas seceded
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
> Investigating Farage for failing to declare donations and gifts is neither “lawfare” nor a plausible means of removing him as an MP. It’s just the Parliamentary Standards Comittee doing its job. No legal penalty is on the cards. All tr
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
This happened a couple of El Niño cycles ago, in the 2015-2016 one: > The City of Cape Town began experiencing a drought in 2015, the first of three consecutive years of dry winters brought on possibly by the El Niño weather pattern and
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
Kinda, yes, However there is a larger tradition of comedy candidates in the UK than in the USA. See also the Monster Raving Loony Party https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Monster_Raving_Loony_... And this sketch fr
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
> Mitch outlived him. We can't be certain of that.
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
> Maybe on X, in which case I'd recommend getting off of X. Agreed, get off X anyway. > This isn't true at all in general online discourse. Maybe, but is this relevant? Was the grandparent comment "general online discou
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
And let us not forget "Holding Out For a Hero" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWcASV2sey0
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
Binface would have my vote for his policy on Brexit alone. He is unafraid to say that "Brexit is a shitshow", and to call for "bin Brexit".
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
> he claims that he is accountable only to the voters in his constituency To add to this, * Mr Farage's logic seems to be that if If he is accused of a financial crime then he can pick the jury who will try him, finding the most sy
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
> Starship is going to be huge when it's finally operational. Any day now. Yep, real soon, honest!
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
> It could be that this person has something profound to say Some commentators are unknown for good reason, or otherwise not worth the effort to get to know. Cory Doctorow is not one of those.
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
Well yes, I do not hesitate to say that this stuff is senseless and terrible: > Nigeria says 2 nationals were killed during anti-migrant violence in South Africa https://www.independent.co.uk/news/nigeria-ghana-malaw
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
Dave Farley has done some writing on what makes "Software Engineering" "Engineering" e.g. his 2021 book " Modern Software Engineering" > Software engineering is the application of an empirical, scientific a
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
> 429 Too Many Requests This is definably not engineering.
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
Everyone who follows The Pitt knows what a Differential Diagnosis is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_diagnosis i.e. is there a symptom, question or quick, cost-effective and reliable test that can disting
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
> I also don’t know how much electricity they pull. It can't be much, since the Aranet 4 can run for years on 2 AA batteries.
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
> I am going to need more than Sir Connery in a ponytail Check out Zardoz: Connery with a ponytail, a pistol in hand, wearing thigh-high boots and a mankini. And a giant flying stone head that vomits guns. I am not joking.
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by SideburnsOfDoom 4mo ago
Mr Vance's thoughts are more about the current administration that he is a part of, than the Nixon administration. His desire is to not be held to the level of accountability that president Nixon was. Mr Vance's claim that they do
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by SideburnsOfDoom 4mo ago
> known Iran skeptics like Vance What does that mean? Is this an excuse to dismiss his assessment? I don't necessarily value his opinion, but "oh, he's known to be a sceptic of it" is often dismissive rather than ackn
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by SideburnsOfDoom 4mo ago
"Damaging" is not the same thing as "energetic". I can hit the window many times lightly, with zero damage at the end. Or I could roll of of those taps into one big energetic swing and break it. There are thresholds belo
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by SideburnsOfDoom 4mo ago
> They can, to some extent, but drone stockpiles and factories can be targeted and destroyed by conventional means. Every time the US shoots down a Shahed with a Patriot, the US is further from winning. The problem is that the USA is run
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by SideburnsOfDoom 4mo ago
You made the claim that they thought it was a great idea. What's your research for that? it is widely known that Mr Netanyahu has suggested this same plan to every US administration from Bush onwards (1), and was rejected by them all u
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by SideburnsOfDoom 4mo ago
> I think that (the US could keep Hormuz open) was exactly what they thought. I think this was supposed to be a quick and dirty campaign like Venezuela. It depends on who "they" is. The accounts seem to be that Mrs Trump and He
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by SideburnsOfDoom 4mo ago
Ah yes, the defining tragedy of the Trump administration is ... gestures into the middle distance ... look over there! what if those guys abuse it one day?
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by SideburnsOfDoom 4mo ago
It's not either-or
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by SideburnsOfDoom 4mo ago
> why do I care what random social media says The linked article above is literally Wikipedia. You are wasting everyone's time.

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