UncleSlacky

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by UncleSlacky 1y ago
Could be the reason that the B-29 was never used over Germany.
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by UncleSlacky 1y ago
Also, Japan had been hoping that the Soviets would act as a go-between for surrender negotiations with the US, but the Soviet declaration of war on Japan put an end to that possibility.
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by UncleSlacky 1y ago
The "Philip Cross" controversy is relevant here, I think: https://wikipedia.fivefilters.org/banning/
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by UncleSlacky 1y ago
https://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/ exists.
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by UncleSlacky 1y ago
It hasn't worked for me (in terms of accessing my Spotify account) for several months now, I wonder if Spotify have changed their API?
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by UncleSlacky 1y ago
You can as long as it "works out" (i.e. you find a job) within 3 months.
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by UncleSlacky 1y ago
As Rosa Luxemburg put it: > Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
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by UncleSlacky 1y ago
Relevant: https://justfuckingusehtml.com/
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by UncleSlacky 1y ago
Not to mention the domestic prison-industrial complex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison%E2%80%93industrial_comp...
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by UncleSlacky 1y ago
They had papyrus, though.
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by UncleSlacky 1y ago
It's on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH5L-iTIbP8 (4K) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBxV6-zamM (720p)
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by UncleSlacky 1y ago
Currency exchange rates in the early 80s meant that most US machines were much more expensive than their European equivalents.
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by UncleSlacky 1y ago
Diesel did use peanut oil, though only after someone else showed that it was possible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Diesel#Use_of_vegetable...
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by UncleSlacky 1y ago
You say that like it's a bad thing.
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by UncleSlacky 1y ago
antiX will be creating a Trixie-based 32-bit ISO. There's also Void, Alpine and Slackware (at least).
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by UncleSlacky 1y ago
Yes, MX Linux will be doing this (as a separate ISO, until now they're been able to provide a single ISO that lets you choose between systemd and sysvinit at every boot): https://mxlinux.org/blog/changes-coming-wit
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by UncleSlacky 1y ago
There was a "clean" version too, with the woman wearing a T-shirt with the words "Moral Majority" on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VeioVSvl1w
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by UncleSlacky 1y ago
Yes, because I'm not a psychopath.
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by UncleSlacky 1y ago
"(The/an) alternate" is probably the ahem _alternative_ term you're looking for...
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by UncleSlacky 1y ago
> everyone can speak as long as it doesn't break the law I have one word for you: "cisgender". https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/x-cisgender-slur-cis-elon...
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by UncleSlacky 1y ago
You see this in Shakespeare's plays, "-ed" endings are the equivalent of "-èd", whereas "-'d" is pronounced "-ed" as is common today.
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by UncleSlacky 1y ago
That's also why you can't be forced to say the Pledge of Allegiance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_State_Board_of_E... "In the 1930s, the president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Societ
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by UncleSlacky 1y ago
Not sure why they think the Titanic's boats were overcrowded - many of them werre only about half-full, as the crew thought that they couldn't be winched down when full (it was a recent innovation). Also the list of the ship made
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by UncleSlacky 1y ago
If you look around on the net, you'll probably find cracks for your laptop BIOSes - I did for an old Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook, for example.
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by UncleSlacky 1y ago
Relevant paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0143-0807/8/2/006... Abstract: "According to the weak form of the equivalence principle all objects fall at the same rate in a gravita
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by UncleSlacky 1y ago
The VAX cluster at my university used Saturn (the most powerful member of the cluster) and its moons as hostnames.
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by UncleSlacky 1y ago
> The hovercraft was not radio-controlled as I had imagined. It had a flashlight-like handle that held 2x "D" cells and a motor that rotated a thin cable. The cable stretched several feet to a "hovercraft" with a ligh
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by UncleSlacky 1y ago
And was also used in the Sinclair QL.
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by UncleSlacky 1y ago
Woohoo! All right! Came here to mention Maelstrom. It's also in most of the main Linux distro repositories, too.
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by UncleSlacky 1y ago
The problem is that BBC Four now only shows archive material (with occasional exceptions as "overflow capacity" from sports events etc.) whereas they used to commission their own documentaries.

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