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by amiga386 9mo ago
They are being exploited. They live in a lower cost-of-living country than where their services are rendered, and so neither demand nor receive the same wages as someone in the USA. The contracting company profits - quite intentionally! -
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by amiga386 9mo ago
Like this sketch where Chris Morris tries to get a (former) police officer to say what is and what isn't an indecent photograph? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC7gH91Aaoo&t=1014s
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by amiga386 9mo ago
It is a dark and stormy night. You are driving on a road with only a single lane in each direction, and there is no verge or hard shoulder. All you can see is the short area in front of you that your headlights illuminate, and they are dipp
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by amiga386 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation_bias aka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_says_no
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by amiga386 9mo ago
Truth or not, newspapers fund themselves by flattering their readers' opinions. Paper 1, which prints only truthful and legally fact-checked stories about how X is fucking over Y and X is clearly evil, gets a lot of paid subscriptions
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by amiga386 9mo ago
> "You clearly care way too much about this topic.": "Oh dang! My bad. How much caring is just right?" An amount equal to the interlocutor's.
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by amiga386 9mo ago
It's a fumbled metaphor, mixing absolute and relative numbers, and I think it's supposed to say "pull out nine blue fish". The point the article is making is that the "reporter" turned up and alledged to have
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by amiga386 9mo ago
My take-away from the article is a bunch of fraud-identifying and fraud-thwarting tips. Ideally, state programs should: 1. not pay out until a beneficiary's bona-fides are first verified. Paying out first, with no verification, and o
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by amiga386 9mo ago
> How did one part decide to become the tip of your nose, and the other the tips of your toes? Homeobox genes, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphogenesis Yes, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by amiga386 9mo ago
See also: China bans hidden car door handles over safety concerns https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp37g5nxe3lo > It comes as EVs are facing scrutiny from safety watchdogs around the world after a number of
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by amiga386 9mo ago
Would you believe me if I said the police aren't worried about it because even if they put in the effort and catch thieves, they won't be prosecuted very hard. Since 2014, "low-value shoplifting" (under £200) in England
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by amiga386 9mo ago
It's hardly unrealistic - most free software has been packaged, by each distro. Very handy for the developer: just email the distro maintainers (or post on your mailing list) that the new version is out, they'll get round to pac
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by amiga386 9mo ago
If you have a distro-supplied binary that doesn't link with the distro-supplied glibc, something is very very wrong. If you're supplying your own binaries and not compiling/linking them against the distro-supplied glibc, that
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by amiga386 9mo ago
Nonetheless, I hope you recognise that incompetent idiots beget more incompetent idiots, if they think they'll get away with it. You don't want e.g. a spate of bank robberies, by idiots who've heard that rubbing lemon juice
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by amiga386 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Failed_airliner_bombi... -> 2001: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_63_(2... 2006: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by amiga386 9mo ago
Governments successfully managed this before. It was called Local Loop Unbundling. They recognised where the monopoly was: the incumbent telcos with millions of customers that had to go through them to get anywhere else. So the government
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by amiga386 9mo ago
You can grow some amount of produce, if you have a garden, but a lot of people don't have their own garden, and if they do it's quite small. To be entirely self-sufficient, you need quite a large area of land just to grow enough f
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by amiga386 9mo ago
Fun fact: the background image is the "BallsMany" pattern included with MagicWB for the Amiga (To confirm: download the LhA archive from https://aminet.net/package/util/wb/MagicWB21p then open the a
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by amiga386 9mo ago
The Scottish court system uses Royal Mail Signed For to send citations, I believe it makes two attempts to deliver, and won't consider the citation delivered unless the named addressee signs for it. ...on the other hand, if you don&#x2
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by amiga386 9mo ago
> you can look at ONS numbers yourself ONS numbers say >20,000 fewer frontline officers from 2010-2018, which is pretty much in line with what the union said. See the graph here: https://www.gov.uk/government/stat
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by amiga386 9mo ago
They can still be professional, but Tory cuts made there be a lot fewer police (23,500 police cut from 2010-2019: https://www.gmb.org.uk/news/shock-figures-reveal-23500-polic... ) so they don't have the manpower to
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by amiga386 9mo ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20241205-how-charles-m... > Back in 1977, Schulz insisted that the cartoonist's role was mostly to point out problems rather than trying to solve them, but there was o
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... provided you own land that the government allows for agricultural use. And most people can't afford to own enough land to be self-sufficient. So you're not free to grow your own vegetables either; just like fishing, farming is
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by amiga386 9mo ago
They're both fine shows, but I'd say Spitting Image is satire, spoofing current affairs of the time, rather than surreal. Although, that said, Monty Python also threw in a number of current affairs references, e.g. references to R
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by amiga386 9mo ago
If you'd like some comedy in your police procedural, watch A Touch of Cloth It's a parody of all British police procedurals simultaneously. It's the Airplane! of police shows... I won't say it's the Police Sq
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by amiga386 9mo ago
Project admins setting up automation: https://youtu.be/B4M-54cEduo?t=102 The automation: https://youtu.be/GFiWEjCedzY?t=51
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by amiga386 9mo ago
"One bar's plenty!" "Victor, it's gratis, get the three bloody bars on." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUMCO8cFrPU
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by amiga386 9mo ago
As in surreal British sketch comedy? You'd like - The Goon Show (it's this 1950s radio serial that inspired the Pythons... it's surprising how many tropes the Pythons borrowed from it) - The Goodies - The Kenny Everett Televi
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by amiga386 9mo ago
That is sad, sorry to hear it. But at the same time, sometimes you have to really persevere to get a bug fixed. Consider the perspective of the maintainer of a popular project: to them, you're one person in a big queue of people all
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by amiga386 9mo ago
Links to all those crap reports: https://gist.github.com/bagder/07f7581f6e3d78ef37dfbfc81fd1d... (from https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-s... )

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