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by bluebarbet 1mo ago
If you spend a year in prison then the time will pass incredibly slowly, but in retrospect (this is what prisoners usually say) the ordeal will seem quite short. Conversely, if you spend the year furiously partying or traveling or trying ne
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
Came to the same conclusion. With primary email I do not need multiple points of failure. The optimal solution is a contractual - paid - relationship with a single reputable email provider. There are a bunch of them.
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
Indeed, and Bit.ly has nothing to do with Libya, nor Lemmy.ml with Mali (both failed states). I posit that domain hacking is an ugly, shortsighted, unserious habit that we should drop.
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
What does this project have to do with Serbia? Are the developers in Belgrade?
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
>:) Slightly off-topic, but I call this the Inadvertent Snark Smiley
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
Presumably there are other stories of linguistic mishap that resulted in 2 happy people and a friendship or marriage. You got unlucky.
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
The last sentence: parse error
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
The state-held stakes are mainly French, German and (less) Spanish. The UK taxpayer currently owns 0% of Airbus, though the UK gets the business of building wings and landing gear.
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
Agreed. All the more reason to do what we can to make things better than they otherwise would be. Outcomes are never black and white.
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
With this attitude you can expect uBlock Ultra-Lite and then uBlock Nothing in future. Mozilla is the only remaining obstacle to stop big tech from deciding everything about how the web is rendered. If we don't support Firefox we will
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
For info, there's a FOSS bird-call app, available on F-Droid, that's pretty decent: WhoBird
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
People will bend over backwards to rationalize it but the actual explanation is quite simple: 16th-century typesetters saw it as beautiful, and a norm was born. IIRC, the somewhat random allocation of trailing silent "e"s in Engli
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
Capitalization would make your arguments easier to parse.
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
Perhaps a misunderstanding. In this case "majority" (or "majoritarianism") really means plurality . British (and US) democracy fetishizes winners , i.e. whoever comes first, whether or not they represent a majority of
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
Hard to imagine any "region or culture" where iMessage is the norm outside a section of the US middle class.
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
Empty cynicism adds no value.
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
This is conspiracism-adjacent, IMO. Plenty of consequential decisions have been put to referendums, if only because the political class may not want to take responsibility for them. And the outcome of a referendum is never certain. The more
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
The conundrum, as I see it. To master our environment and achieve comfort, we needed the "congealed intellect of our multi billion population". But we also had to trash ecosystems, on which we remain stubbornly dependent (if not
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
A default plus Greece unilaterally continuing to use the euro was the scenario hardly ever evoked.
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
So a Greek default would have created an EU political crisis. Greece would have been in the doghouse. Perhaps the other members would have suspended its structural funds, or even voting rights. Seems impossible it would have been thrown out
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
During the 2010 debt crisis there was much talk of profligate Greece being "thrown out" of the euro zone. In this dark scenario Greek civil servants would get their pay rises in worthless drachma, but Greek homeowners would be lef
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
One problem is that plastic generally contains all manner of additives which create a health hazard when burned. Incinerators supposedly filter out the dangerous pollutants, but it seems likely that quite a lot gets into the air. For some o
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
Indeed. I have a theory that software complexity tends to bring with it a subjective perception of slowness that might not show up if measured empirically. At one point Osmand certainly had an issue rendering lots of POIs, but it was addres
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
That warning was unjustified. In my experience it's never more than a few tens of seconds, and usually much quicker.
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
That bar is low. Less than 8% of the world population lives in a full democracy (Economist Democracy Index).
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
A potted history of mobile OSM-based mapping. First there was Osmand. AKA OSMAnd or officially OsmAnd. It was was powerful but complicated. Normies had never heard of it and preferred Maps.me, a user-friendly alternative with an opaque busi
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
Presumably not very, because the large majority of Europeans do not use credit cards.
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
He accepted it because he saw you as an American cash cow. Obviously you will do as you please, but I wish tourists would try to get with the culture. As a European, one of many reasons I don't tip is that I don't want to encourag
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
One (more) area where Britain stands apart from the mainland.
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
Two clichés to be contrasted with another two: the smiling first-name-terms coffee-shop barista in Hamburg, and the coldly brusque waiter in some Roman caffè storico . All these generalizations are as slippery as a bar of soap.

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