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by TMWNN 2y ago
> Why is that shocking? It would be the case no matter how they do as a country From the review that I cited and you didn't bother to read: >A little over a decade later and that same South African Air Force was no longer able to
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by TMWNN 2y ago
>How about South Africa not doing so well currently? I recently read a book review that discussed South Africa today. One of the many points it made about the dire state of things is that the air force planes that flew overhead during Ma
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Thinking About Money in the Sherlock Holmes Stories(ihearofsherlock.com)
2 points by TMWNN 2y ago|0 comments
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by TMWNN 2y ago
>Bram's passing and the split into basically two code bases (Vim, Neovim) and three customization languages pushed me over to Emacs. The resulting increase in height, strength, intelligence, and sexual appeal is no doubt a nice bonu
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by TMWNN 2y ago
The word "currying" is never used at all in that context. There is no coverage at all, typically, because it's accepted as a good and virtuous thing. Do you remember seeing standalone articles about [ insert company here ]
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H-1B: Visa row under Trump fuels anxiety for Indian dreamers(bbc.com)
6 points by TMWNN 2y ago|0 comments
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by TMWNN 2y ago
Works in Edge's PDF viewer, after exiting the initial mode via the <- in the upper left corner. (If you know how to avoid this being the default, let me know.)
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by TMWNN 2y ago
>Somewhere in a fiction novel I read about a music industry executive who would listen to new material on a crappy little record player, not on super fancy studio monitor equipment. Because that's what it had to sound good on. Maris
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by TMWNN 2y ago
> This is obviously more about politics than it is about building misinformation-free social networks. Why is this "obvious"? It is obvious to me that "fact checking" by media was and is nothing of the sort.
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by TMWNN 2y ago
Is this a defensive move, against AI taking over the stock image market?
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by TMWNN 2y ago
It's not just a meme. Well, the side-by-side comparison photos of Justin and Fidel are a meme in the widely spread sense. But it is a fact that in April 1971 the Trudeaus were a) in the Caribbean for two weeks and b) did not publish th
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Raygun musical cancelled after viral Olympian's legal threat(bbc.com)
7 points by TMWNN 2y ago|1 comments
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by TMWNN 2y ago
Title edited by me for length from original "Olympians are turning to OnlyFans to fund dreams as they face a 'broken' finance system".
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Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken' finance system (2024)(cbc.ca)
202 points by TMWNN 2y ago|382 comments
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by TMWNN 2y ago
https://i.imgur.com/lgcBQ3z.png
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by TMWNN 2y ago
For those who don't believe you: Biden, Harris, and Pelosi all saying they won't trust any Trump vaccine < https://www.newsweek.com/anti-vaccine-covid-trust-skepticism... >
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by TMWNN 2y ago
> And not being in the country on an H1B… > This is not a rant against H1B Visa holders. It’s a condemnation of the system that makes their ability to stay in the country contingent on their job. They are always free to go back to the
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by TMWNN 2y ago
>Being financially secure and not caring about a promotion is the biggest superpower you can have at a tech company. Highly relevant: TIL what "FYIFV" means at Microsoft. "Fuck You, I'm Fully Vested" means that a
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by TMWNN 2y ago
> Film teaches you to value and think about what you are shooting with it. It also has a certain aesthetic that to younger generations has a retro look. If you want the best of both worlds, Amazon has about a zillion "toy" came
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by TMWNN 2y ago
Thanks for the corroboration. While replying to you, let me clarify my previous comment: >those non-Canadians who cannot (and often will never get) a US visa
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by TMWNN 2y ago
Greenland is part of North America. (So is half of Iceland.)
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by TMWNN 2y ago
Sorry to shatter your illusions, but all Loyalist land claims were settled in post-Revolutionary War treaties between the US and UK.
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by TMWNN 2y ago
My understanding is that Canadian FAANG offices are staffed mostly with those who cannot (and often will never get) a US visa, plus the odd local who doesn't want to move to the US for personal or family reasons.
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by TMWNN 2y ago
> It's a political decision how to classify crimes these days. The classic example is Nidal Hassan, whom Obama never described as a terrorist. The Department of Defense formally classified the Fort Hood massacre as "workplace v
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by TMWNN 2y ago
>Speak for yourself. I find Bond through the Roger Moore era to be gross and masculine in a completely unrealistic way. Where are you in this collage? < https://imgur.com/0gL4oxd >
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by TMWNN 2y ago
>From what? Trying to think very hard what geographical region Iceland is in that has those initials but I'm coming up blank Sorry to shatter your illusions, but geographically speaking Iceland is as much a part of North America as
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From Squid Game to Blackpink, how South Korea became a culture powerhouse(bbc.com)
7 points by TMWNN 2y ago|0 comments
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by TMWNN 2y ago
Not really. Denmark does not have the resources to develop (or defend) Greenland the way the US can. Denmark's entire annual subsidy to the Greenlandic government (which the latter very much needs to keep afloat) as of 2020 was $670 mi
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by TMWNN 2y ago
>fastmail on the other hands, puts lots of legit emails into spam folder. manually marking "not spam" doesn't help Fastmail explicitly says that moving mail to/from a spam folder via a mail client does not automatical
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The great American brain drain: is Canada ready? Times(hilltimes.com)
6 points by TMWNN 2y ago|1 comments

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