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by brnt 3y ago
What the Kremlin says and what is actually means and does are so fundamentally divorced that it would be endearing that you think you can take them at their word if it wasn't so painful because even the slightest bit of study on the su
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by brnt 3y ago
MMA isn't at all about hurting anyone.
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by brnt 3y ago
It doesn't require much study of that part of Europe's history to understand and fully agree that joining NATO is a precondition for any kind of long term national security for these countries. When things get existential, you wil
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by brnt 3y ago
The rules for NATO membership didn't change, they were what they always were. 'Expansion' implies that is a goal. It simply isn't. The goal of the book club isn't to become large either, it is simply to share an int
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by brnt 3y ago
Come the apocalypse, nobody is going to seek shelter under the iron fists of Zuckerberg. He lacks raw power (where is his army?) and if he had it, the stomach to ruthlessly apply it. Ruthlessly exploit teens mental wellbeing through a websi
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by brnt 3y ago
Anyone with kids knows the gut instincts that suddenly pop up, but unless you can insulate them for a billions worth, your best bet is still to make sure things are evenly spread enough so there's nobody who thinks they need to topple
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by brnt 3y ago
NATO doesn't expand eastwards any more than my bookclub. Stop attributing agency where there is none. Free and independent countries, formerly under Soviet occupation, freely and voluntarily are signing up for NATO.
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by brnt 3y ago
It's still bang for buck: Russian loss rates are increasing. But at any rate, it takes time to reduce stocks to zero.
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by brnt 3y ago
What ads?
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by brnt 3y ago
It's a cruel joke, but sometimes the only option. Or, the only option that actually works. Many times have I had Whatsapp or chatbot sessions solve an issue with 15-30 mins, while emails were never answered or phone calls simply cut or
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by brnt 3y ago
There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad preparation.
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by brnt 3y ago
You need to import it and register it in order to drive it, and then you'll be paying that tax same as when bought from a Dutch shop. The tax does decay for second hand cars, so there's a big market for foreign newtimers.
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by brnt 3y ago
It means that they are wasting their freedom of the press; an example of where newspaper-like productions have become divorced from journalism. People on reading gossip, publishers on shameless pandering and moneymaking.
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by brnt 3y ago
> A lot of people overseas Maybe it depends on which sea you mean, but in my primary school, decades ago, British 'press' was held up as an example of what happens when a nation doesn't take newspapers seriously.
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by brnt 3y ago
Generating/collecting 200TB of data is however entirely normal in some professions. Something Google should be and almost certainly is aware of. In your analogy it would be Amazon setting up an S3 front on their corporate unlimited Goo
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by brnt 3y ago
What's next, people pointing to Google and Apple when talking of Big Tech?
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by brnt 3y ago
Don't know mate, seems to me Europe controls a, maybe the, major component of tech through ASML. If they decide you can't buy their machines anymore, then good luck with your home grown chips on 10+ year old lithography.
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by brnt 3y ago
Every study done on the matter shows piracy correlates with sales. If we are to stop pretending, we should start with ending the myth that piracy hurts sales. There is no evidence whatsoever of that.
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by brnt 3y ago
If France is anything like the Netherlands, the benefits system isn't used by a few poor's, it's used by the majority of the country, instead of adapting tax codes. Simplifying it is going to (unintentionally and intentionall
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by brnt 3y ago
It's not that common sense. The railway is responsible for its customers, and a lot more bad stuff can happen with people walking on the tracks than in stuck in cars. Getting cold and hungry is not the same as injury or worse. The trac
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by brnt 3y ago
Try counting the number of businesses involved in making a vehicle.
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by brnt 3y ago
We know that picoplastics cant exist, as that would make then smaller than their constituent atoms.
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by brnt 3y ago
When some muas announced Autocrypt support a few years ago I got excited again, but unfortunately nothing came of it. I havent been able to auto-update my key on my partner's mua, it seemed 'support' meant different things to
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by brnt 3y ago
A cynical view on the Dutch culture of consensus building is that it is precisely that: an exercise in appearing take things into account. I've also heard it said that the Dutch think they don't have corruption because they do it
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by brnt 3y ago
Nazi Germany did happen, didnt it? You are making it into a value judgement. That can only cloud observation of our species. A better question would be: how are individuals reinforced in overcoming our limitations?
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by brnt 3y ago
But not that much, and not everyone the same amount.
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by brnt 3y ago
That's not how human social interaction works though. Monkey see, monkey do. Some more than others. It is a psychological condition if you truly are immune to peer pressure.
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by brnt 3y ago
You are perhaps only looking at big history, as does the trope prescribe ;) Chances are that your native friends have a lot of small history to tell, and you might find it interesting.
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by brnt 3y ago
> English alphabet is based on Latin There is no such thing as an English alphabet. English uses the modern Latin alphabet, as do most European languages, full stop. Some languages make use of diacritics or have one or two (extra) modifi
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by brnt 3y ago
That's precisely what Ubuntu (and Debian) offer with the nvidia driver from their repos, isn't it?

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