Veen

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by Veen 4y ago
It's self-deprecating humor. He knows it sounds narcissistic and expects it to be interpreted as ironic i.e. making the statement demonstrates that it isn't true. He's aware that he isn't charismatic and is letting you k
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by Veen 4y ago
If you click through to the original article, it says the stone actually says "SECVNDINVS CACOR", which is an abbreviated form of secundinus cacator . Words are often abbreviated on stone inscriptions. https://www.vind
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by Veen 4y ago
Perhaps the motive is that we want to see better science reporting and are dismayed when the media fails to do its job of producing accurate and informative journalism.
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by Veen 4y ago
It's always had a left-wing angle, but it has become more strident in recent years as the comment section began to dominate. Their straight news reporting is generally pretty good. I read it even though I'm not at all aligned with
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by Veen 4y ago
It's a little easier now. They have a chat interface. When I cancelled recently I included "I'm not interested in offers for reduced price subscriptions" in my first message. They didn't push it and my subscription
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by Veen 4y ago
Also, in the advanced tab of the app's preferences it says: > We DO collect: performance metrics, error codes, frequency of feature usage; OS version, screen resolution and internationalization preferences. We DON'T collect: an
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by Veen 4y ago
The musicians are keenly aware of fiscal reality, namely their ability to pay rent and bills if they had accepted the offer.
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by Veen 4y ago
It’s deliberate. The choices are 1) say something true that will make you look bad, 2) say something untrue that might bite you in the ass later, and 3) write ambiguous waffle that explains nothing and commits you to nothing. PR and legal w
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by Veen 4y ago
Genetic studies have shown that most people in England who aren't descended from recent immigrant populations have a large component of Anglo-Saxon ancestry because there's been so much mixing and internal migration over the centu
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by Veen 4y ago
That's hardly helpful for someone who develops Mac apps.
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by Veen 4y ago
It seems to me a different experience to what I've seen in American movies or observed with American friends. There's less formality and expectation. There's no progression from first date to second date and so on. You start
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by Veen 4y ago
Same here. I'm early 40s and the idea of dating in the American sense seems odd to me. I've met all my romantic partners at parties or through gatherings at friend's houses. Relationships start off as acquaintances and develo
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by Veen 4y ago
Practicality. They'd be fine for leisure, but not for travel to work if you live outside of Exeter and maybe some other big cities. The population is much more spread out than in larger urban areas. Most people live in smallish towns a
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by Veen 4y ago
That's a very London-centric view. An e-bike wouldn't be particularly useful in Devon.
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by Veen 4y ago
> financial instruments that cannot be controlled by corrupt intermediaries Yeah, because there are no corrupt middlemen and grifters in the crypto industry, are there? It's all honest and upstanding citizens doing their best to mak
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by Veen 4y ago
There's a good episode of In Our Time about Doggerland: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006707
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by Veen 4y ago
So the goal is to force smokers to increase the number of cigarettes they smoke to achieve the same effect. A 20-a-day smoker may now have to smoke 80-a-day to satisfy their craving, massively increasing their exposure to carcinogens and
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by Veen 4y ago
You're making a big assumption that billionaires are or will remain "progressive," whatever that word means to you.
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by Veen 4y ago
That's total bollocks.
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by Veen 4y ago
You can see timestamps if you do a two-finger swipe to the right on a trackpad. Not sure how you'd do it with a non-Apple mouse.
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by Veen 4y ago
When I see comments like this, I wish I could set a timer to see how long it is before the commenter loses their shirt on crypto investments too.
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by Veen 4y ago
Or, less politely, Rump UK.
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by Veen 4y ago
The teenager is a terrorist sympathiser who left the UK to join Isis. And she isn’t a teenager any more.
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by Veen 4y ago
> While since 2017, England has increasingly drifted towards the far right. I suppose it depends on your definition of “far,” but from an English perspective this seems like nonsense.
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by Veen 4y ago
That’s only true in conversational contexts where the speaker wants to obfuscate the difference between the EU and Europe. That’s a political development, not a linguistic one.
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by Veen 4y ago
If that happens, it will be interesting to see which of the UK’s constituent nations thrives on its own. My money is on England. The Scots will quickly find they can’t fund their current level of public expenditure without English taxpayer’
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by Veen 4y ago
The racial politics of the US have nothing to do with Brexit.
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by Veen 4y ago
Yes, the behaviour of the #FBPE types and of the EU after the referendum transformed me from a Remainer to a Brexit supporter. I voted to remain, but the contemptuous anti-democratic lunacy of my own side turned me against them.
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by Veen 4y ago
Are Norwegians and the Swiss European?
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by Veen 4y ago
> 2) Do you also insist on calling Venezuelans "American"? Because that's also technically accurate, in a way most people consider hair-splitting. I find the distinction worth making because I refuse to let pro-EU people c

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