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True, but Nitter is a bit hit and miss, and wasn't working for a while. No guarantee that it'll always remain available.
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You're not able to view profiles when logged out.
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No, it'll just mean we get less astronomy done, because the cost of doing any sort of astronomy will be far more expensive and the opportunities much more limited. The SKA is already an enormously expensive project that took decades to
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This is not "just to keep astronomers happy", because the science gleaned from astronomy benefits all of us, and relying solely on space-based telescopes is far from feasible. For things like the Square Kilometre Array it's s
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The good alternative is China not wanting to take over a sovereign country, and for the world to gradually normalise Taiwan as a legitimate country. China has no urgent or pressing self defence need to attack Taiwan. It also does not have a
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They may well be right that the people of Taiwan, a country with a democratically elected government, should just lie down and accept a complete and undemocratic Chinese takeover of their country? All because China is saying: "Either y
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They're quite unique to the US. I've never heard of anything like this in European or other developed country police forces.
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It is exactly that cut and dried: We have primary source accounts from the architects and implementers of Apartheid where they outlined their rationale and their beliefs that black South Africans were inherently morally, intellectually, and
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by _djo_ 2y ago
Do you really think that only the US has been doing international electronic espionage? Russia (and before them the Soviets), the Chinese, the French, the Brits, and many others have been doing it for decades. This isn’t a response from Chi
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When talking about crimes committed by or on behalf of organisations the answer is by far the apartheid regime and its security forces. They brutalised & terrorised the majority of the population for decades in order to uphold a racist
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These are annual registration taxes, not usage taxes. Ideally you'd want a sort of usage tax also based on this, but implementation has been difficult to achieve. [0] [0] https://www.lafabriquedelacite.com/en/solut
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That may be true, but heavy goods vehicles are already taxed in the UK according to a sliding scale of their mass and number of axles in order to account for their damage to roads. [0] [0] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
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While my initial reaction was negative, after thinking through it a little it does seem reasonable to look into a replacement for the fuel levy as a road usage tax now that the number of ICE cars keeps falling. EVs don't have any less
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Of course they don't. Apartheid nostalgia is easy enough to spot.
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If it was one-sided, it was in favour of the Apartheid regime. It was an inevitably imperfect system that went far too easy on the old Apartheid regime guard and let nearly all of them get away with what they had done. Not a single senior A
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by _djo_ 2y ago
Meta added end-to-end encryption to Messenger some time ago. [0] [0] https://www.facebook.com/help/messenger-app/1084673321594605
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The START II treaty limited Russia and the US's ICBMs to a single warhead each, and the Peacekeepers were optimised as a platform to host multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRVs) and when the US agreed to revert to a
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I think they're confusing Lockheed Martin with McDonnell Douglas.
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What did the government have to do with this? Sounds like he ran out of appeals through the court system, which is independent of the government of the day.
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Air-independent fuel cell and battery powered submarines are not at all a replacement for nuclear submarines, nor even really competing with them. No matter how good the tech becomes, diesel-electric subs running fuel cell AIPs will always
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by _djo_ 2y ago
That's incorrect, the restaurant is at Disney Springs which is a mall outside Disney's parks and doesn't require tickets. [0][1] [0] https://touringplans.com/blog/disney-in-a-minute-what-is-dis... [1] htt
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Every company I've worked for in recent years has blocked people using their personal computers for work, for compliance reasons. Unless you could prove that the personal devices are under the same compliance regime you'd fail any
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These two articles are much better at explaining why any smartphone or computer manufacturer could never hope to source most of their components from the US. It's not just about semiconductors, but the entire supply chain. https:&#x2F
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That says more about you than about those making those decisions. Have you ever spent the time to figure out why those tech companies might prefer to issue Macs? To look at their total cost of ownership numbers, at the availability of confi
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It doesn't include all research reactors, for instance for South Africa it only shows the Koeberg nuclear power station but not the SAFARI-1 research and isotype-production reactor.[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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Smart approach partnering with an established light aircraft manufacturer with a good safety rating (South Africa’s Sling Aircraft) rather than trying to reinvent the wheel on the base platform. That gives me more faith in the rest of the e
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It's currently happening in the Eastern DRC too, affecting not only scheduled commercial traffic but humanitarian flights as well.
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That’s an oddly hostile response. Just because you call yourself a journalist it doesn’t mean you’re free to do whatever you want and still claim journalism protections. It doesn’t matter where you are, journalism does not include hacking i
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> (Similarly, I didn't care much for the claim that Iraq had chemical weapons that could reach Iran, what with them sharing a border and thus a water rocket filled with chlorine gas would have filled this description). The evidence
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It's not that simple. It's not the ICC's role to investigate and prosecute every single instance of a possible war crime, as that would be impractical and beyond the means of even a massive staff. Instead, what they're l

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