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by defrost 4mo ago
Don't call Australia uncivilised, kicking against the pricks is a national identity.
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by defrost 4mo ago
Kind of moot given Japan surrendered. Had they not, the carpet bombings would have continued - not just the fire bombing of Tokyo, another 71 cities had also been bombed flat. With H&N that made a total of 74 cities down and a list of t
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by defrost 4mo ago
Just cancer might be the equivalence. Smoking itself cause damage and disease that isn't limited to just cancer though.
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by defrost 4mo ago
Thanks for the response, it's been awhile since I used an ambulance. I've got to say, I was willing to believe, what with free Qld buses and all that jazz, but alas like WA it's "qualified": There's no cost
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by defrost 4mo ago
> Just yesterday I saw an article on Instagram that they are putting smoked meats and sausages and similar products in the came cancerogenic category as smoking. But not the same lung capacity impact category .. the emphysema rates from
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by defrost 4mo ago
> the Gregorian date with year 1 as the (wrongly dated?) birthyear of Jesus Christ is the standard for most domains in international communication. Save for those that care about missing days and months. As long as cross country events p
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by defrost 4mo ago
Yeah, nah - that "we" doesn't cover all the other calendars also in use. The Julian period is a chronological interval of 7980 years, derived from three multi-year cycles: the indiction, solar, and lunar cycles. The last
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by defrost 4mo ago
Had they said in Europe or in Asia would you be doing this dance of just seeking to correct something perceived to be wrong on the internet? This: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48855732 is a much better comment of yo
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by defrost 4mo ago
Well, yeah, that to - although TBH it's never been an issue in my line of work which started with (LORAN actually, and then moved to..) off book reverse engineering of the OG NavStar format. To this day it's still "raw"
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by defrost 4mo ago
> Australia is also going bankrupt just slightly faster than the United States. Dunno about that, there be weeds. Not to mention the US clown car demolition derby is still in office. Still, the coronavirus pandemic and associated policy
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by defrost 4mo ago
W.Australia has a land area three time that of Texas with the bulk of the 2.9 million in population clustered about the capital city Perth. In the rest of the state there are volunteer Ambulance services subsidised by state and federal gove
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by defrost 4mo ago
St. John's Ambulance service in Australia is a hybrid of core paid positions and volunteers (varying by region and demand). In rural Australia most of the fire, ambulance, and emergency response service are volunteer manned and (locall
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by defrost 4mo ago
It's a hassle for anybody doing or recording "physics" as they cannot log against UTC (which may or may not have an added second or removed second in some interval if it happens to overlap the adjustment zone). Those things t
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by defrost 4mo ago
Either way, it's a contest already bringing out the sporting punters and popcorn eaters of Australia: Joke Candidate To Face Count Binface in UK By-Election - https://theshovel.com.au/2026/07/09/joke-ca
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by defrost 4mo ago
The back story of the writing of Total Eclipse ain't bad either: https://youtu.be/LGqYnj_Y3CI?t=70
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by defrost 4mo ago
Or "Join Mailing List" (which I'll give the benefit of the doubt to and assume they have these lectures, just gate keeping them). But yes, it's a sparse site for long form philosophy, particularly given the existence of
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by defrost 4mo ago
We have different front pages? I'm seeing Katalin Balog, Marya Schechtman, Amie Lynn Thomasson. Weirdly, few of the "front page" videos appear in the "all videos" listing: https://ergo.org/videos an
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by defrost 4mo ago
> Who is opposing renewable energy? The current US admin: Trump’s Multi-Pronged Attack on Renewable Energy https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?par... but they are slowly being beaten back: Tr
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by defrost 4mo ago
Opinions seem varied, that's for sure. Wikipedia describes the camps more as rebranded than "over now" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps and those annoying Australians are claimin
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by defrost 4mo ago
That'd be a you problem. As for the papers, there are two. The first argues the case for the recorded smallpox in early settler years to have arrived with the boatloads of people from the UK who are known to have had smallpox, rather t
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by defrost 4mo ago
No drama, thanks for the reply. I've less interest in the map part, more curious about where you're going with companies and railway stations (and other UK GIS data sets). The back end analytics and cross products of various sets
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by defrost 4mo ago
In context, and I'm not just thinking of Uyghur culture in China here, the presence of {X}-like restaurants can mean a lot of things. Majority culture "celebrating" / "allowing" minority culture restaurants, cl
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by defrost 4mo ago
> Brother, I eat at a Uyghur restaurant in Wuhan pretty regularly. Honest question here; is it a traditional Uyghur owned and managed restaurant freely frequented by local Uyghurs as a living expression of past and ongoing Uyghur culture
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by defrost 4mo ago
> I've heard all of those in testimonies from survivors. You've read the testimonies of those that survived Dresden and Tokyo then? Again, dead is dead, injured by temperatures that melt flesh is the same regardless of heat sou
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by defrost 4mo ago
Is it actually the case that deaths and injuries in H & N are distinctly worse than the deaths and injuries in the other 72 cities levelled by bombing in the few months prior to the H & N bombings? Before the dropping of the ato
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by defrost 4mo ago
What's a company? Is a registered address for a registered company? If so, how many companies have the same address & what's the greatest number of companies with the same address?
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by defrost 4mo ago
Cobalt-chrome is the most commonly used metal for hip implants. Titanium is also used but is a softer metal with similar properties to bone. ~ https://practiceplusgroup.com/knowledge-hub/what-hip-replace... wit
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by defrost 4mo ago
Best result for the game, couldn't ask for better. The US clearly "cheats" via political pressure on field decisions and Belgium kicked their sorry arses regardless.
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by defrost 4mo ago
Wouldn't touch it with a forty foot pole. I've literally "risked my life outdoors" for more than six decades in most climates at many altitudes and depths and this isn't something I'd pack.
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by defrost 4mo ago
Ni bheidh ar leitheidi aris ann. A line much abused in Myles na gCopaleen's (aka Brian O'Nolan's, aka Flann O'Brien's) An Béal Bocht (trans: The Poor Mouth )(1947) It translates as "Our likes will

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