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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
People who oppose taking down the statue for other reasons who were in a procession shouting "you! will not! replace us!" and "jews! will not! replace us!" which are obvious "great replacement theory" tropes as
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
The strong presumption with the use of parliamentary privilege is that one's career is curtailed in one way or another if it is invoked to tell an untruth. You are right that this suggestion is in opposition to that, in some ways, but
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
"Bipartisan penchant for lies" is an absurd oversimplification of two very different debate performances, and any sane person knows it.
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> No, it has to be interpreted in terms of what he said. He was explicit about what he said: “I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally.” Nobody operating in good faith could
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
I don't think anyone should trust anyone claiming to be a single source of truth. But that isn't what this legislation is about. It does, unfortunately, go along with other problems we must solve, such as encouraging people to reb
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
How about that they were in a procession with flaming torches (nice-smelling though they might have been) behind people shouting nationalist, anti-semitic slogans? One way not to associate with that would be to walk away from it, rather tha
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
That is not a lie -- it is a substantial truth. The idea that there were fine people "on both sides" has to be interpreted in terms of who the two sides were. One side was made up entirely of white supremacists and white nationali
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
Exactly right. Depressing to see the default assumption here, as usual.
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Strategic truth is the status quo in UK politics: it is easy to interrogate, it is expected to answer questions, and the media is used to both spotting it and interogating it. Bad faith flat out liars do not respond to interrogation, becaus
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
Ahh, here they are: the default HN assumptions that foreign democracies are constructed from people who are either naïve, censorious or abusive, and incapable of nuance or restraint. Lying in politics, in certain contexts, is already punish
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
I know we're supposed to ascribe the most benevolent motive to a comment. So the above is both rather absurd and also rather patronising.
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Hamilton. Da da da da-da, da-da-da-da daayyy-ya-da, da-da da da da-dayyy-ya da
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
Most "bioplastics" like PLA want 60C or so; this is achievable in industrial composting (it's actually achievable in normal composting if you find an expert) but the process of getting and keeping the bioreactor to that tempe
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
Salaried !== full-time. Millions of people in the UK are legally salaried workers on "zero-hours" contracts, where they aren't even guaranteed a minimum number of hours. Paid through PAYE (payroll), have workers rights, just
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
> My point is this: if I tell you to close your eyes and form the image of a teacup in your mind, images certainly have colour and shape, so either your image does too, or you don't have an image. It's really just down to a dif
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
One of the most challenging things I find in life is explaining to a non-programmer how I visualise code. Because I don't really know how I do it; it is simultaneously grammatical and architectural, and a lot of the processes that guid
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
> If someone gets a major haircut or changes their hair color, they might as well be a different person to my brain, initially. That is true aphantasia. I don't have this aspect of the problem -- indeed, I often have the weird supe
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
It might be that what I am describing falls short of aphantasia (though my difficulties recalling motionless faces do suggest it). I sometimes wonder if what it actually is, is a kind of fundamentally unexplored thought or experience. The
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
> But not a specific teacup Right, isn't that weird though! :-)
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
> If you ask someone to actually imagine seeing a teacup but what they're imagining doesn't have a colour or size, _what are they imagining_? The pure, abstract essence of teacup, to them. I suppose I assume it does have size a
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
The weird thing obviously is that next to nobody with a mind's eye is actually seeing the cow. A tiny tiny fraction of people talk about their mind's eye being part of their visual field, to the point that they can sort of funct
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
There is a Chinese fork of OCC -- I'm away from the computer where it is bookmarked but I think it's called OpenGeometry? No idea if they are really making headway.
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
> I find that communicating about the topic is rather challenging as the right vocabulary doesn't seem to exist (or I'm ignorant of it). Right. This is enormously challenging in itself. And I think because nobody talks about it
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
OK so -- on this score. I have, I believe, a kind of partial aphantasia. Though maybe it's normal and people just don't really see the distinction? I used to think -- until maybe ten years ago -- that I could not imagine the faces
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
The question about visualising three dimensional objects is fascinating to me. Because my answer has changed radically in the last five or so years, and I'm not a young person! I used to consider myself 3D-impaired -- unable to maint
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
I don't know a thing about LangChain so this is a real digression, but I often wonder if people who are critiquing GraphQL do so from the position of only having written GraphQL resolvers by hand. If so, it would make sense. Because th
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> Buddy, when two people are having sex in a movie, it's a "sex scene", however you choose to explain the nuance. I'm not your buddy and I'm trying to draw what I think is a pretty important creative, cultural, a
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
> Also known as a "sex scene." And at a full five minutes, it's a rather long scene :-) It has almost nothing creatively in common with sex scenes in almost any other movie ever made, which are usually (lazily, and often m
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
> Be warned that there's a pretty extended sex scene, but otherwise just go in without expectations. I want to push back slightly against the idea that's an "extended sex scene", or even that it's a "sex sce
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
It will always be somewhat broken; bRep has its limits, and OCC certainly does. But it’s enormously capable and open source, and all we have. The crashes, by and large, are freecad/qt rather than OCC. FreeCAD 0.20.2 almost never crashe

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