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by devilbunny 1mo ago
If Siam realized that there was value in being a buffer, rather than a warzone, and made the changes necessary to become that buffer so that accepting it as such was better for the colonial powers than trying to take it, that’s not taking a
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by devilbunny 2mo ago
Cool technique but… a beagle? Odd choice to me. I can’t get too bothered by the “whataboutthe shelter and rescue?” song and dance. This is experimental, even when it’s not it won’t be cheap, and it’s not like this is a huge market. Shelter
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by devilbunny 2mo ago
Yeah, but social media won’t be the only companies that notice. If Australia’s government will do it to them to prop up their local dying industry, they will do it to you, too. If the EU or US tries that, well, those are huge markets and ma
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by devilbunny 2mo ago
I was really responding to the article’s odd claim of 18 C being the perfect sleeping temp, and your comment was so extreme in the make-it-cold direction that it seemed to be a good spot to reply. If we’re talking about “optimum” sleep tem
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by devilbunny 2mo ago
> 10% of its global revenue Yeah, there’s no chance that the response to such a law would be for them to immediately shut down all Australian operations, block all connections from Australia, immediately lay off every Australian citizen
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by devilbunny 2mo ago
If you are wearing clothing or any covering, clearly it isn’t your optimal temperature. I’m not trying to be glib here; I understand the appeal of being warm in a cool or even chilly room with air that keeps you from overheating. But that
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by devilbunny 2mo ago
That was (is?) how it was in dry counties in TX. Join the club for $1, you can get drinks. Membership valid for a year.
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by devilbunny 2mo ago
… in Massachusetts. New England Republicans are not the bulk of the party, and that’s not all bad - remember, the phrase was “banned in Boston”, not “banned in Bakersfield”. Bill Clinton was a once-a-century skilled politician, but if you t
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by devilbunny 2mo ago
It did fine iff you had a good Kermit implementation at the BBS. Most used the most basic possible version of the protocol, which was godawfully slow, but I did some dialup at the end of the BBS era (93-95) where someone showed me how to
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by devilbunny 2mo ago
One major shift has been the death of newspapers. When that was the primary way to get information about the world around you, it wasn’t just readers who benefited - it created a steady stream of capable, workmanlike writers. They weren’t l
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by devilbunny 3mo ago
Since you worked in radio, at WZZQ no less, you probably would enjoy the story of the earlier WZZQ. https://www.pbs.org/show/wzzq-the-movie/
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by devilbunny 3mo ago
It is vanishingly unlikely, or would have been, but given that the US has started examining people’s social media, it is not unreasonable to think tit-for-tat might happen. Again, I agree it is very, very unlikely. But it’s possible, and in
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by devilbunny 3mo ago
Because they have identifiable owners who might wish to travel to Europe and not risk someone deciding to make an example of them.
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by devilbunny 3mo ago
In high school, I was invited every time even tangential friends wanted to go bowling because I was the only person who knew how to keep score on paper (the nearby lanes didn’t have electronic scoring). And that was over 30 years ago.
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by devilbunny 3mo ago
That one relay is the only connection between the pinsetting machine and the scoring system.
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by devilbunny 3mo ago
I first heard about this internet thing from Cliff Stoll in The Cuckoo’s Egg . I got on a few years later. For all that we complain, it’s still the most amazing thing ever.
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by devilbunny 3mo ago
I, for one, don’t care if thieves are excluded from stores. They can buy and get curbside delivery in the parking lot, and if that is a little more expensive than shopping for yourself, well, you’ve made everyone else’s groceries just that
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by devilbunny 3mo ago
This is how legal reasoning should work.
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by devilbunny 3mo ago
Yeah, before capitalism you just worked until you died, or your children took care of you. That’s still an option, but you must have kids and they must like you.
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by devilbunny 3mo ago
> If a criminal misuses his own resources to commit crimes and then you take that away from them, it only affects him. There is certainly a case to be made here for “if it seems too good to be true…”, but realistically we are not going t
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by devilbunny 3mo ago
The owners of corporations are mostly pension funds and the like.
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by devilbunny 3mo ago
One thing that Slashdot moderation got right is that you can’t be more than +5 or less than -1. Groupthink is much less forceful with those limitations.
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by devilbunny 3mo ago
Cape York is also 10 degrees west of Brisbane. That alone gets sunset 40 minutes later even if you stay at the same latitude.
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by devilbunny 3mo ago
> The average is like past midnight Jesus, for what age group? I'm an outlier because I have to be at work at 6:30 AM daily (so I get up around 5:15), so staying up past 10 PM is a rarity and I see midnight maybe two or three times
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by devilbunny 3mo ago
Kroger can and does run nice stores. Kroger Signature, Harris Teeter are two I've been in relatively recently. You're also only going to find those in the same kinds of places you'd find a Trader Joe's or Costco - only i
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by devilbunny 3mo ago
Yeah, it's one of the products where you are clearly paying an Apple tax for the hardware, but OTOH it's also one of the products where it's clearest that the Apple tax is paying for software that's both good and consu
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by devilbunny 4mo ago
Somehow wires got crossed here. I'm saying that once-a-week cleaning won't be 4 hours each time. It is expensive, just not four times as expensive as a once-a-month job.
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by devilbunny 4mo ago
> capitalism is inherently corrupt People are inherently corrupt. That's just life. The Soviet Union was corrupt as hell. If you want to put down capitalism, feel free, but don't blame it for something that isn't unique
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by devilbunny 4mo ago
If you clean a house once a month, it will take longer than doing the same thing once a week. You will end up spending more hours total, but it won't be four hours per visit, more like one or two. You spread the tasks out. Clean kitche
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by devilbunny 4mo ago
But presumably would not be for four hours a week, since they would do more maintenance-like cleaning. Once a month, yeah, it’s going to take that long.

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