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by b800h 2y ago
> paradox of tolerance requires that we love the oppressed more than the oppressor You can't retrofit this onto biblical commands to love everyone equally. The Paradox demands nothing, and certainly doesn't have primacy over c
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by b800h 2y ago
Draw out the partisan poison from this policy and what we have is a move to inject more humanity into the way that companies are run - I find that very appealing.
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by b800h 2y ago
What I like most about this is the implication that we might be able to inadvertently create bacteria which are resistant to our natural immunity. That would be a delightful turn of events. :-S
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Scientists discover new part of the immune system - potential for antibiotics(bbc.co.uk)
9 points by b800h 2y ago|1 comments
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by b800h 2y ago
We had laser printers in 2005. Anything before that is out of patent.
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by b800h 2y ago
I was immediately struck by this remark too. Were eggs particularly unfashionable in the early 1990s in the USA? Apparently so.
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by b800h 2y ago
The party most likely to cut this stuff out is Reform, although they'd probably be closer to ambivalent about it.
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by b800h 2y ago
What happens if you're an international traveller?
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by b800h 2y ago
I assume it was the American one who was raided by the Feds for cybercrime as a result of releasing a cyberpunk roleplaying game supplement.
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by b800h 2y ago
This is because pectin in the fleshier fruits will be metabolised into methanol, which isn't very good for you. Grapes are less of an issue.
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by b800h 2y ago
I think the fact that this is possible in the US is proof positive that your state needs exactly the sort of radical downsizing that Musk and Trump are trying to achieve.
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by b800h 2y ago
Do you not have wheelie-bins in the US?
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by b800h 2y ago
Little is left of what (real) Conservatives were trying to conserve. Now they have to become radicals to shift things back.
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by b800h 2y ago
Wouldn't just asking the model to respond with "@" in place of "a" work?
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"The Retro Adventurers – 8/16 Bit Text Adventure Podcast(retroadventurers.podbean.com)
1 points by b800h 2y ago|0 comments
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by b800h 2y ago
For those interested in retro text adventures, there's a podcast which has been going for about a year - they cover a couple of games each fortnight now. Worth a listen: https://retroadventurers.podbean.com/
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by b800h 2y ago
Think in terms of the family in Mary Poppins. That's Middle Class.
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by b800h 2y ago
The vast bulk of councils in the UK abolished the 11+ system. It does still exist in some places. Unfortunately, the system was ditched by the Labour government of 1976. Our current Labour lot are trying to do the same thing to our private
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by b800h 2y ago
I get the impression that there's some sort of controversy that brewed over in the US / Canada recently. I'm based in the UK and my opinion of Sikhs has always been positive, as a general group.
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by b800h 2y ago
The whole "pale, male and stale" narrative is antiwhite racism. I don't think people should perpetuate it.
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by b800h 2y ago
Well, the tide is going out now. That's unlikely to happen until the virus mutates and reappears in thirty years' time.
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by b800h 2y ago
This is the same in British English. I found the main/master switch absurd. I went to school, and was taught by masters: an English master, History master and so on. In my cultural context, the switch was just cultural colonialism from
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by b800h 2y ago
The stupid thing about this one is that the article specifically raises examples of the cargo-cultism that Feynman used for his talk. "They erected mock radio antennas". All the responses pushing back against this idiocy in this t
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by b800h 2y ago
I'm going to test out the assertion that children as young as 10 can use the guide, by asking my 11-year-old to use it. I don't believe it; it assumes way too much knowledge of computer terminology. We'll see. BCPL also looks
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by b800h 2y ago
Immediately remove yourself from the list with: "I'm a European citizen. Please erase me from your list as per the GDPR"
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by b800h 2y ago
Sure, you don't understand, and that's a sign that the culture doesn't exist in the same way. Here, this isn't an environment to chat someone up in: https://youtu.be/T14r2dBJzvc?si=5rkQIJx_zuAtsr-B
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by b800h 2y ago
I used that word with a young lady who said she was going to a rave and she couldn't stop laughing. It was like I'd suggested a tea-dance.
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by b800h 2y ago
Not if you're going to a rave-style event. That would be creepy and unwanted. At least back in my day (mid-90s).
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by b800h 2y ago
For as long as this is a thing, raves won't have widespread appeal. If a rave is somewhere that your parents go, then it's naff. It's also extremely expensive if it's legal. Everyone is brassic.
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by b800h 2y ago
I don't think that's true though. The right doesn't vilify in quite the same way as the left has historically done. They're certainly starting to learn to.

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