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by b800h 4y ago
I had some lovely tomatoes last night. I expect it's just that Ukranian newspapers have better things to discuss than cucumber shortages, so there's no panic buying.
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by b800h 4y ago
Yeah, and locally for us in the UK it's just cucumbers, oh and in one supermarket there were no eggs once? Our experience is the same, basically, the whole thing is just a sort of mad nexus of anti-Brexit / supermarket profiteerin
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by b800h 4y ago
And then your child has a Mojang account, and then you can't use Minecraft because the throwaway account is associated with your phone number, and it's tied into the Active Directory of ..... This sort of scenario. Or a million ot
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by b800h 4y ago
The switch over the Microsoft login for Minecraft was so bad that I just gave up and got the kids using MineTest instead. And MS login for work is a complete shambles. I have to do a tactical login to Outlook with a different work account t
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by b800h 4y ago
Yes, that was sarcasm.
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by b800h 4y ago
"Shortages reported in broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, aubergines and courgettes" Those are the same ones as the UK. Except the turnips (allegedly).
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by b800h 4y ago
Weds 22nd Feb: "Irish Examiner: Shortage of fruit and vegetables 'a wake-up call' on impact of climate change" https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41076908.html Tue 21st Feb "Irish Times: S
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by b800h 4y ago
We have pinch points at the English Channel, which probably doesn't help. I expect that means that the delivery system is more "release train" and less "agile". Also, it's worth noting that it's not uniq
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by b800h 4y ago
Because Ukraine is in the EU? I don't know, you tell me.
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by b800h 4y ago
As with Covid, I think one major contributor is the inflexibility of the supermarket supply chains. Even when local supermarkets have been missing cucumbers or something, they have been readily available, at slightly higher prices, at small
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by b800h 4y ago
Oh, don't let that get in the way of a good anti-Brexit story! Come on, man!
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by b800h 4y ago
I suspect this entire story is probably down to one shop running out of turnips and someone tweeting a photo of it.
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by b800h 4y ago
Is this not defamation, at least in some jurisdictions?
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You used to be able to meet great people and have a good chat in the smoking carriage. Alas it is no more.
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Who is the sucker?
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I'm willing to bet that it contributes to the total in a way which isn't negligible.
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by b800h 4y ago
I think we're talking about ambiguous relationships, not open ones.
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by b800h 4y ago
They didn't mention the fact that successful younger males are dating multiple women at once. That's another factor.
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Entirely possible that older men are going into second long-term relationships with younger women after already having had a child or two.
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Both the article and the comment you're replying to suggest that isn't the case.
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by b800h 4y ago
The point isn't just about business language - it's about participating in a culture. From a soft power perspective, having a large proportion of your population able to interact with another culture makes a lot of sense. India wi
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by b800h 4y ago
Yes - lots of people teaching their children Mandarin, but Hindi will be much more useful. Funny thing is that in the UK we have far more people to learn it from, but we don't seem to use the resource. Would be good and fun for social
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by b800h 4y ago
The author seems to curiously soft-pedal the situation in China. Even if we treat the state statistics at face value, they rocket up the chart over the next ten years, and it'll have major implications for world politics.
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by b800h 4y ago
I came here to say the same thing, and you said it much more charitably than I was going to. This is what you get when you try to turn complex religious practice into multi-level marketing, with certifications, and people being paid to inst
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by b800h 4y ago
This is an interesting article, and it's obviously inspirational, but I think to complete the job you'd have to reverse the process, and ask what the outcomes were like for ALL children raised with the techniques he's identif
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by b800h 4y ago
You might be waiting a long time. Things like Tarski's Undefinability Theorem (moreso than Gödel) make it rather unlikely that this will turn out to be possible. But I agree with your assertion.
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by b800h 4y ago
It's also part of a decent proof for the existence of God, specifically an extension of the Kalām Cosmological Argument.
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by b800h 4y ago
Wow. Just listed to the audio on this. At the end the tower radios over to the Fedex crew: "You have our apologies, we appreciate your professionalism".
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by b800h 4y ago
Providing a read-only API still costs Twitter money though. He's trying to make it profitable. Seems obvious that stuff like this would be cut.
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by b800h 4y ago
This is why Western individualism is stupid. We're constituent parts of families, and operate most effectively in that way, yet all modern taxation, government policy and a lot of culture attempts to break that bond, in favour of an al

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