clydethefrog

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by clydethefrog 9mo ago
I agree with Socrates and too many people have the wrong memory of him, making his prediction come true. There was a great philosophical book last year, Open Socrates [1], that explains his methods and ideas are the opposite direction of ho
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by clydethefrog 9mo ago
Nonsense since the 2024 European Parliament that has a big far-right wing. The EPP has already broken down a lot of progressive green policies with help of the far right [1], the "cordon sanitaire" is now broken. https:/&#x2
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by clydethefrog 9mo ago
Just as with most parts of the EU (imo both it's strength and it's weakness) there is some complexity and bureaucracy involved with founding out the political spectrum of MEPs. You can research the EU political groups and the poli
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by clydethefrog 9mo ago
See also the protests in Serbia [1] led by university students, that have been also mostly ignored by both the EU and the USA. The EU commented "they will not accept or support a violent change of power in Serbia", and the USA cla
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by clydethefrog 9mo ago
I liked the Canada food guide. https://food-guide.canada.ca/en/ Discussion in 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18985017
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by clydethefrog 9mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46515191
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by clydethefrog 10mo ago
"in formal experiments the only people who behaved exactly according to the mathematical models created by game theory are economists themselves, and psychopaths" [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trap_
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by clydethefrog 10mo ago
As an outside observer, hasn't Thiel's Zero to One has been treated like a gospel basically since it's publication in 2012? Aiming for monopolies and total control has been part of the strategy for a decade now.
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by clydethefrog 10mo ago
Apple bought the rights years ago, PBS cannot show them anymore, they are now behind a paywall.
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by clydethefrog 11mo ago
Frequently is false. Netanyahu only visited one European country after the ICC arrest order - it was Hungary because Orban explicitly managed he wouldn't be arrested. Also, if look at the exact plane movements of his visits, they spec
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by clydethefrog 11mo ago
Owners of a iPhone 12 and higher don't even have to pay- they can use the built in transcription in Voice Memos app for the most popular languages. https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/view-a-transcription-.
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by clydethefrog 11mo ago
It doesn't make sense why EU suddenly want regime change. The EU (and all the other powers that have influence in Serbia) have been mostly silent on the student protests. See this analysis. > in an age of rising geopolitical tension
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by clydethefrog 11mo ago
A counterpoint: Vienna.
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by clydethefrog 11mo ago
>Abundance Economic historian Trevor Jackson engaged with Abundance (together with eco-radical book Overshoot) in the September issue of the American left-ish publication NYRB, if you're curious about an earnest essay [0]. Since it&
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by clydethefrog 11mo ago
Belgrade has free transport since 2025. Others have already quoted the milk bars all across Poland. The Netherlands has childcare benefit for the poor that covers 96 % of the costs. Many European countries have some forms of rent freeze or
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by clydethefrog 11mo ago
I hope someone once does a deep dive when archive.org was taken down for a few weeks by hackers from a "pro-Palestinian" group. It felt like a black propaganda attack, especially with the very tame videos they shared on social med
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by clydethefrog 11mo ago
For Kagi users - it's also possible to redirect it in Kagi with redirect rules in search settings: ^https://x.com|https://xcancel.com ^https://instagram.com|https://imginn.com
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by clydethefrog 11mo ago
Good to know, I was afraid old.reddit.com was next on the chopping block after the simple interface of i.reddit.com was killed.
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by clydethefrog 11mo ago
Re: the alternative of the Up/Down system, the only big one I have seen succeed is the Steam reviews community. There is a Helpful vote and a Funny vote, this system seems mostly to work to be able to quickly filter out all the low eff
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by clydethefrog 1y ago
I had the same experience this summer, but then I realised I was just going to the popular holiday spots all Polish families with young kids were also enjoying - we both were making use of our summer holidays.
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by clydethefrog 1y ago
The government-funded news was surprisingly open about it two months ago: Many residents would rather see the American ships leave than arrive. Curaçao traditionally maintains close ties with Venezuela, and residents fear the island will be
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by clydethefrog 1y ago
Could you explain why? I have been following the evidence that was shared in the trial the last years. The summary is clear [0] - there is plenty of evidence Bolsanaro and several higher military members tried to stage a coup. [0] https:&#
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by clydethefrog 1y ago
>Completely wiped out by the internet It's not at all, although we can discuss the nature of the medium. >Last year, the Teletekst app was used daily by an average of 690,000 people. They opened the app an average of 2.4 million
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by clydethefrog 1y ago
Netherlands too. They are also banned during breaks. Schools where the ban had been implemented reported more concentration of students in class and more social interaction between students. Various studies show that contacts between studen
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by clydethefrog 2y ago
Just be aware that if you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no
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by clydethefrog 2y ago
Quite a coincidence, I was reading this LRB essay [1] this morning by British political philosopher and historian Perry Anderson, analysing the last decade of political and economic (lack of) change in the West. He ended with this paragraph
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Giant mine machine swallowing up Senegal's fertile coast(france24.com)
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by clydethefrog 2y ago
Before that, there was already a pattern of Hungary regularly rebelling at the reformist movement in the Austria-Hungary empire.
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by clydethefrog 2y ago
It's a bit blunt summary. I will write a loose explanation based on a Dutch history TV programme's blog post, this event is called the "Lieftinck Tenner". [1] A few weeks after the new post-war government was installed,
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by clydethefrog 2y ago
If you work at a 'real' paper pusher office they have a three month calendars with week numbers hanging at every office wall, gifted from the wholesale and office center! (You can activate week numbers in Office Outlook as well. O

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