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People write about earlier times by studying contemporary written sources and records and looking at archeology from the period. They also use later writers who had used and quoted contemporary sources. They also make inferences based on th
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony
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I understand the intent of the question, but in this case a UK-based alternative would be preferable, not just a European alternative. The UK is more likely to find itself at odds with France than the U.S. That thought reminds me of a conve
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That’s a pithy axiom, but it ignores the reality that people are often willing to pay because of misunderstandings, inadequate information, fraud, lies, and cons.
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So is a lot of the stuff marketed as machine learning or AI.
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> It literally hasn't been a century since the Europeans went full Nazi. The "Europeans" didn't go full Nazi. Germany went full Nazi. Italy went full fascist. Their allies conformed to various degrees. But it was also
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> The rare police intervention that happens because someone got offended is usually resolved without any criminal charges. But they are often recorded as a "non-crime hate incident," an innovation instigated by the police and n
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> the writing is coming from someone who wants to be a writer as opposed to just being one Mod has made a living writing, creating books, and taking photographs for many years. I'd say that makes him a writer, not a wannabe writer.
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One can virtue signal while being virtuous. It is not synonymous with hypocrisy. Virtue signalling refers to the act of expressing opinions or actions with the primary intent of demonstrating that you are a moral and righteous individual.
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I'm puzzled about why nuclear is deemed less satisfactory than dependence on Putin's Russia for the energy requirements of the world's 4th biggest economy.
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The dark ages were supposed dark in contrast to the earlier classical period, not the post-renaissance period. The enlightenment happened several centuries after the term was first used, and has nothing to do with medieval humanists.
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We have a different understanding of the phrase “very easy”.
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Nor is "developer" if we go by the traditional definition of the professions.
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The upvote system is just hundreds of self-appointed referees.
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That often occurs. SJW and woke originated on the left before being co-opted by their opponents as insults. Naturally, many on the left now dislike those terms.
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> I've yet to see evidence of concern from the other British nations btw Have you looked? Here is just one example of many. https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/royal-mail-scrap-traditio...
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It's an article in a British newspaper about a story of interest to British people. Why would it be anything but British-centric (not anglocentric, which refers to the English).
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Please learn how to use commas correctly. They aren't for joining independent clauses without a conjunction.
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People share what they feel comfortable sharing. He has no responsibility to write a detailed analysis of his psychological state and ideological positions to satisfy you. His post was about alienation and he used himself as an example; it’
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Parliament could remove the Supreme Court just as it created it. The “supreme” in Supreme Court is inaccurate. In theory at least, Parliament is supreme. Although getting rid of the Supreme Court might be politically awkward.
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That is the opposite of the the truth. In fact, you have every right but those Parliament and the common law take away from you. This has been a long-standing principle of English jurisprudence.
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> doesn't UK have public defenders Not in the same way as the U.S. In the UK, barristers are usually self-employed. We have a system called Legal Aid which pays barrister's fees if a defendant cannot. But barristers are on stri
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It’s easier to estimate word counts in printed documents when the font is consistent. You can’t assume all parties have access to a digital copy.
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It makes sentence boundaries more distinct, but a period and a single space already makes them sufficiently distinct, provided you aren’t using a monospaced font. The argument against double-spacing is not that fails to achieve its goal,
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The Russians have an obvious motivation to hide how many soldiers are dying. That doesn't make it true but "it sounds a bit like something else that was nonsense" isn't a very strong refutation.
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It is consistent but useless if you have no suggestion as to what would replace the current system in a way that preserves the benefits to both parties. 1. Creators get a sustainable reward for their work. They wouldn't do it otherwise
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I'd love something similar to automatically crawl and index every site I visit. I'm forever losing stuff. I know I saw it but I can't remember where.
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As a writer, the benefits are quite obvious to me.
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Juul is 35% owned by Altria (formerly known as Philip Morris, Inc.). Vuse, another large ecig company, is wholly owned by Reynolds American, the second-largest tobacco company in the US and a subsidiary of British American Tobacco, the lar
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Who cares what the chuckleheads are saying? Better to ignore them and focus on substantive criticism. Attempting to divine the motives of morons is a waste of time and it distracts from issues that really do matter (of course, for some, tha

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