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by detritus 5y ago
Nope. It's a few bucks a year silly image hosting account. I mean, I'm a grumpy, cheap fucker, but even I would struggle to find fault. - ed in fact, to clarify - I have twice written to Stavros, and both times he's been upmo
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by detritus 5y ago
This is like $12 a year. I also have a dropbox account, which I hate. I also have various web storage accounts. For sharing silly daft images that have little connection to me, I use my imgz.org account all the time.
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by detritus 5y ago
I'm on my second year subscription, even if the owner's a total cunt who actually responds to justifiable emails.
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by detritus 5y ago
Yeah, Italy is surprisingly good in this regard - even their recycling seems well-organised, although I'm still unsure how/why they mix soft plastics in with bottles, etc. I was under the impression that sort of mixing screwed up
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by detritus 5y ago
Good! I'm not sure when it happened exactly, but Spain went crazy for over-packaging supermarket fresh fruits and vegetables in plastic. When I lived there as a kid, it was basically just thin polyethylene bags. When I went back about
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by detritus 5y ago
> The Kobo is an excellent reading device, but it is a very poor internet browsing device. Sounds like a feature to me - perfect!
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by detritus 5y ago
As interesting for me are the myths of great floods across multiple cultures that can trace their history to sea level rises - particularly affecting the Persian Gulf, shifting populations ever northward to ancient Mesopotamia. I find oral
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by detritus 5y ago
Curiously, there's a link currently on the front page to a very interesting-looking tool that to my mind sits in the vacuum left by Flash's demise. I've long-wondered why there wasn't a flurry of tool creation to fill th
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by detritus 5y ago
This seems to imply a subtler point in the distinction: "Canberra was reportedly particularly keen on the French bid because of the ability to switch the Barracudas from diesel to nuclear power — technology that was deemed political po
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by detritus 5y ago
Partly because the cost had inflated drastically, to the point that comparisons with France's own purchase of brand new nuclear subs - for a much lower cost - made the deal look increasingly duff. Apparently this has been a background
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by detritus 5y ago
What's a waste of time, exactly? No one is obliged to use the old units.
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by detritus 5y ago
Some people like buying milk in pints, food in ounces, lengths of materials in inches and feet; Some people like selling the same. Now they can do so and it's not illegal for them to do so. That's it. I don't care either - it
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by detritus 5y ago
This is an article in The Independent, my once beloved paper which is now simply a vehicle to twist any given news item to fit its relentless and tiresome Brexit = Bad narrative. We get it, Indy, but you're not achieving anything. This
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by detritus 5y ago
I did the same with my very first PC. For shame! I'd been used to simpler 16bit and 8bit machines, including a spectrum...
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by detritus 5y ago
Ah ha, so this is where the following concern comes from: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/age-verification-in-the... And there was me thinking this was going to be another example of toothless go-nowhere governme
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by detritus 5y ago
My father's one piece of advice, having spent a lot of time flying out to take photos of the landscape and penguin colonies and such was - "Whatever you do, never go downwind of a penguin colony". Cute little buggers stink! I
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by detritus 5y ago
It's been interesting watching the votes go up and down on this one, haha. I figured it wouldn't be popular. Out of grim interest, I just checked how long it takes for Mealworm to mature. Chickens take less time to grow..
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by detritus 5y ago
If there was a risk of a nuclear war, I'd not be surprised if the UK sent some level of force down there as a 'back up'. Besides that idle thought- there's quite a lot of materiel down there already, so unless the UK wit
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by detritus 5y ago
I've been fascinated with the place since my father worked there after the war, and as a Northern Brit I'm comfortable in and like rugged, remote landscapes. More to the point, most of the bad shit to happen after a significant nu
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by detritus 5y ago
I'm a Firefox die-hard, but these last couple of updates have really irritated me. I couldn't give a damn about nonsense UI changes and tweaks that serve only to add unwanted confusion and consternation cycles to my schedule. It p
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by detritus 5y ago
Mine's always been 'move to the Falklands'. Not the sort of thing one can do at the drop of a hat, mind.
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by detritus 5y ago
Chicken is an amazing source of protein, given what range of inputs they can feed on, and how quickly they can be slaughtered after hatching (6-8 weeks, typically). Whilst I've seen plenty of emotive videos over the years showing chick
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by detritus 5y ago
My apologies! Yes - from the UK, and LDN is short for London. I've somehow gotten myself into the habit of using that shortcode over the past few years. I should really stop - the energy saved from not using three characters isn't
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by detritus 5y ago
Yep, which brings us full circle here, as Pringles tubes prominently display that bloody Green Dot logo. My partner likes the occasional Pringle, and she keeps putting the used packaging in the recycling. Drives me nuts!
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by detritus 5y ago
The QR code would just facilitate all the fancy branding shite beloved of marketing departments. Obviously you'd still have all the essential details marked on the product directly.
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by detritus 5y ago
If you wash up manually in a bowl, you can use the remnant liquid to do your recyclable washing before pouring it down the sink, but .. well, as you suggest "I ain't got no time for that". As for your pizza box idea, I'm
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by detritus 5y ago
I strongly feel that governments should intervene and mandate a limited subset of plastics - including colouration - that can be used for food and beverage packaging, etc. My bottle of sparkling water doesn't really need a green top.
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by detritus 5y ago
I can't respond to your response to my response (!). but clearly I misread parent's post. d'oh. As you were!
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by detritus 5y ago
I'm not sure that's the same problem. I think Parent means that beef from elsewhere arrives in Ireland, is processed there and becomes 'Irish beef', which is clearly a bit of a stretch of the truth. It's the same in
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by detritus 5y ago
Yeah, exactly. The recycling trucks here in LDN have a campaign on the side of them that has words to the effect of "if you're unsure - leave it out!" because as you say, even partial contamination screws entire bales of recl

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