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Child abuse: Apple urged to roll out image-scanning tool swiftly(theguardian.com)
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by colinb 5y ago
nah Dude. Just you.
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by colinb 5y ago
pre-WWII British literature is knee^h^h^h^helbow deep in casual antisemitism. Graham Greene, Stella Gibbons, John Buchan... they all got in on the act. Of course, there were plenty of writers who didn't fall into this trap, but I grew
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by colinb 5y ago
Hey. Thanks for your response. Greek letters first. I’m not particularly knowledgeable of American military nomenclature. Where there Alpha, Beta, and Gamma forces first? “Delta” suggests small but vitally important difference to me; think
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by colinb 5y ago
There's something more than a little gross in reading that Delta Force (gotta love self-aggrandizing names. I suppose Hep-Cat-with-Guns was rejected out of hand.) was inspired by the British campaign in the Malaya Emergency[0], which s
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by colinb 5y ago
Hmm. Second meaning in my dictionary is "2 Ecology of or denoting a plant which is taller than the surrounding vegetation, especially a tall tree in a forest. • of or denoting a water plant with leaves and flowers that appear above the
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by colinb 5y ago
relevant song for context https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb63PdPweDc
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by colinb 5y ago
So we're holding Ursula von Der Leyen responsible for her father's actions now? Or is it that his immorality is genetically transmissible and she too is definitely a bad person?
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by colinb 5y ago
Hey. So at the end of the 19th century both Germany and Japan where backward agrarian societies. I have read (sorry, no reference) that bigoted westerners considered Japanese people to be lazy and feckless. I repeat, things change.
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by colinb 5y ago
which 'always'? The rotten kleptocracy it appears to be right now (from my cosy European point of view)? The warring tribal zealot-ridden hellhole it was after the Soviet invasion? Or the (apparently) fast-advancing more-or-less
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by colinb 5y ago
> That's a legitimate strategy by activist organizations. Maybe. But you’d better be sure you would still feel that way if the ‘activist organisation’ is espousing views you find abhorrent.
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by colinb 5y ago
Patrick O'Brian is evidence for me that fiction set in the past can illuminate my present. He wrote believable and complex (fictional male) characters , interacting in interesting ways, through lightly fictionalized real events with hu
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by colinb 5y ago
Can a place be recognized as a country by the UN if a Security Council member vetos?
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by colinb 5y ago
Why did this get downvoted? It looks like a simple statement of fact. Is it inaccurate? Voting is not a substitute for debate.
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by colinb 5y ago
hah. The only sharp memories of my teenage years - three decades ago - are the ones that make me stop in the street and cringe while swearing under my breath. How could I have been such an asshole? OMG, am I still that much of an asshole? T
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by colinb 5y ago
When WFH I would like to have a good external display for my laptop. Ditto mouse and keyboard. I would like to be comfortably warm in winter. Being cool enough in the summer is just a matter of opening windows where I live. I would like a d
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by colinb 5y ago
Maybe Trump has a really big tent ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_tent ) but it has lots of little compartments. Whether that's a good or bad thing is up to you.
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by colinb 5y ago
something like this was a plot point in one of the Neal Stephenson wrist-breakers [0]. <elided plot spoilers> [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle
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by colinb 5y ago
Well, we could obviously just ask the North Korean emigres who work in our countries. Surely they will tell us the truth? Or the many North Korean tourists who visit Europe and North America? Or indeed the vast numbers of North Korean folks
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by colinb 5y ago
Hah. I have memories of being a grad hire working on this project - mostly to fetch tea and follow the directions of my betters - but still, it was an impressive thing to see. I sat next to a guy who worked on something called Jacket &
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by colinb 5y ago
I don't know where you're sitting right now. I'm sitting in Europe, and credit card transactions are quite common where I live. Europe is a big place. Even within the EU there is plenty of room for difference. A generalisatio
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by colinb 5y ago
Perhaps, but isn't it received truth that "Yes Minister" means no, except if the minister is feeling "brave", or perhaps "courageous"?
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by colinb 5y ago
and here was I thinking it was the Poughkeepsie branch. Thanks for the tip.
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by colinb 5y ago
My spidey-senses are tingling. You're clearly a plant (!) sent by big tofu to double bluff us.
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by colinb 5y ago
so I know hi-fi preferences are the Vietnam of tech discussions (in the quagmire of war sense, rather than the vibrant modern economy sense) but what speakers did you pick, and why?
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“He finally staggers up to the last resting place of the late Slats Slavin and falls there with the blood pumping from the hole that Johnny Brannigan drills in his chest and as I notice his lips moving I hasten to his side figuring that he
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by colinb 6y ago
That is just modern art. But... if in the previous week you paid someone those same 7 figures, or you paid N people 7 figures/N for their creative dance with walnuts, then the tax people might be justified in their curiosity.
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by colinb 6y ago
Now I want to know if there's an ETF that tracks transactions by senators.
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by colinb 6y ago
You ask questions rather than state a position, so I'm not actually sure what your position is. Do you reject all violence? Under all circumstances? Some think that to be admirable. I think it's nonsense.
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by colinb 6y ago
Interesting idea. Will everyone spend the next twenty years complaining about how much they hated Mrs Jones the programming teacher and how Stroustrup ruined programming for them? Put it another way. The reason we interview people the way t

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