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by Veen 4y ago
It is a poorly organized rant that should have been about 1000 words shorter, but the point is one worth making. Truffle oil and most truffle-flavored foods have no truffles in them. They have an artificial truffle flavor called 2,4-dithiap
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by Veen 4y ago
The Welsh language isn't part of the cultural identity of most English-speakers in Wales. That's why they find it annoying when their children are forced to learn it. It's like forcing every child in Brittany to learn Breton
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by Veen 4y ago
I'm all for using the Welsh names, but I don't think it makes sense to remove the English equivalents. Although about 60% of people in Gwynedd speak Welsh, most Welsh people can't and approximately no one who isn't Welsh
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by Veen 4y ago
Relations between states and heads of states aren’t governed by laws determined by western liberalism, much as some would like that to be the case.
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I always read 'eternal return' as a sort of decision making procedure. Is the thing you are about to do such that you wouldn't mind doing it forever as time repeats?
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by Veen 4y ago
That’s true, but few people know the origins of hysterical, let alone histrionic. You could just as well argue that the average speaker doesn’t know that hysterical was once a gendered, misogynist term and that therefore it’s no longer prob
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by Veen 4y ago
'Histrionic' originates in the Latin 'histrionica,' which refers to actors and acting, supposedly because actors first came from the Greek colony of Histria on the Black Sea. I'm not sure why any of that is insultin
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You'd be correct if you hadn't put the word 'only' in your explanation. Money is a motivation, but it's not the only one.
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by Veen 4y ago
Because AI generates attention and therefore new users/subscribers. Stuff existing subscribers want is a lower priority. Also, the developers probably think AI is cool to work on and offline support isn't.
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The person you have made an agreement with/paid to deliver food to you does, in fact, owe you food delivery.
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There is a little value to the current link. I didn't know about No Tech Magazine , but now I do. It lead me to read several other interesting articles, which would not have been the case if I'd landed on the fridge article'
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by Veen 4y ago
It's a pleasant consequence for the person who spent years becoming an expert and then writing the book. It's also a pleasant consequence for the people who buy the book, which might not have existed without a copyright system to
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by Veen 4y ago
Golding didn't join the Tories. He tried to join and was rejected. The Tories have not been taken over or absorbed by Britain First.To say so is an absurd lie. Any fool with £20 can join a political party but that doesn't mean the
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by Veen 4y ago
That is fiction.
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by Veen 4y ago
The worst "gift" I have received is crypto in some shitcoin the CEO was trying to hype. I just left it where it was. It was worthless at the time and it's worthless now.
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by Veen 4y ago
> will they be returning the cloak to the Maori people? No, because it's not owned by the British Museum, but by the Perth Museum and Art Gallery.
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by Veen 4y ago
I learned of her death when The Telegraph published her obituary last Tuesday, but it’s paywalled. I haven’t seen her death mentioned elsewhere either. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/10/25/ka
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by Veen 4y ago
Ochlocracy isn’t democracy.
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I believe that's true in Norway. Not sure about Sweden.
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I suspect a lot of members voted against Sunak because they believe he shafted Boris Johnson, who remains popular with members. Plus, Truss did the whole Thatcher 2.0 thing, which appeals to many Tories. I don't think race played a sig
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by Veen 4y ago
> NATO should just not expand into Ukraine It did not. Nor did it plan to do so.
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by Veen 4y ago
No one educated at Winchester, a public school that costs £45,000 per year, comes from 'the most modest background possible'.
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by Veen 4y ago
Well, I'm a right-winger: a one-nation Tory to be precise. When I say globalism I mean: "structuring society and the economy around the free movement of capital, people, and goods across borders. Generally with the belief that the
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by Veen 4y ago
And who is now going to raise taxes for everyone else.
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Not in this case it isn't. Globalism has a widely accepted definition in political science.
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by Veen 4y ago
Liz Truss was elected Tory leader by the party's membership. MPs were, by and large, not very happy about it. Sunak was expected to win. Truss did what she did, her MPs turned on her, and she was forced to resign. Then there was anothe
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Hardly surprising. The NYT's UK coverage is consistently atrocious.
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Yes, limiting the available options is part of the political elite’s job. But there are practical constraints on what’s possible. Skewing the political options too far from what the voting public wants leads to the rise of populist demagogu
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Free speech is the right for everyone to express themselves, including right-wing and left wing extremists. It interesting to see how many of the "privately-owned platforms can do as they please" people suddenly change their mind

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