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by gib444 2mo ago
I wonder about the psychology. Is it like chain restaurants - the brand name and decades of experience guarantees a floor on quality, with people estimating their DIY as having a much lower floor. Plus the laziness of starting from scratch
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by gib444 2mo ago
Running Firefox with Temporary Containers Plus makes challenges 10x more annoying :D (Each new tab is isolated, unless opening a link in a new tab. Same as Safari in private mode)
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by gib444 2mo ago
> I think that the Brexit vote landed at a time when there was increasing general alienation within society, a general feeling of growing wealth inequality, of social injustice etc Hmm GDP was growing well, inflation was down, real house
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by gib444 2mo ago
Exactly! It's not like we have decades of evidence that the demographic which has consistent high turnout is consistently and significantly politically pandered to in many, many regards. No sir
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by gib444 2mo ago
For whom have you voted? We have almost no referenda sure, but sometimes there are strong hints in the manifestos, or things to learn from past behaviour of each party
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by gib444 2mo ago
How so?
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by gib444 2mo ago
Right! No thread on antidepressants is complete without a downplaying of PSSD
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by gib444 2mo ago
Thanks Daniel. Nice to see you back again tirelessly educating the community about GrapheneOS, almost no comment not replied to!
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by gib444 2mo ago
Ew that's a nasty workaround. But interesting to know!
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by gib444 2mo ago
With or without Google Play Services running?
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by gib444 2mo ago
This! They sell the company and vision to potential investors
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by gib444 2mo ago
Is your comment based on the body of the article, or the title? The article explains right near the top that it was ruling on it being classed as an occupational disease: > Sophie Lainault...sought to have her cancer recognised as an oc
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by gib444 2mo ago
Everything was cheap in 2018 And Scotland isn't Portland lol
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by gib444 2mo ago
Pocket change
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by gib444 2mo ago
Oh we used to dream of only walking 20 miles a day. We used to get up at 3am half an hour before we went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison then walk FOURTY miles uphill to school then when we got home our Dad would slice us in two with a
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by gib444 2mo ago
> In France, toilets on highways are often disgusting For real. I once saw one totally covered in blood, like a horrible murder scene. It was one of the more rural ones, at a rest stop / park. And I just kind of rolled my eyes as I
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by gib444 2mo ago
That's probably up to 300% of an increase from 'previous' press releases
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by gib444 2mo ago
Don't apply* !
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by gib444 2mo ago
Just got to wait for the wealth to trickle down to make it cheap again /s
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by gib444 2mo ago
UK is really really good at propaganda so I don't blame you
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by gib444 2mo ago
> Europeans absolutely want to do it by the book and will be shocked if you suggest otherwise. My experience working for small European companies is the opposite. Mostly companies run by kids of old money who truly believe rules apply to
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by gib444 2mo ago
> So 0.1%-0.2% of property value annually. You're highlighting how amazingly low that is right? In the UK (edit: England) unoccupied council tax charges can be in the region of £3000-8000/year (200% of the normal council tax bi
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by gib444 2mo ago
They're successful for a reason haha
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by gib444 2mo ago
In the UK, it's a big pub chain called Wetherspoons. City centres often have multiple of them too. I don't think any of the toilets need an access code, unlike a lot of other places. You can get a £2 pint of cider or ~£1.80 half-d
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by gib444 2mo ago
5GHz? Surely you mean 5000000kHz ;P
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by gib444 2mo ago
The widely-accepted convention is to use bits when discussing line speeds (as the article does).
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by gib444 2mo ago
The 787 in economy (as configured by most airlines) is hell in every other way so boy what a quandary
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by gib444 2mo ago
Is that the 100 mile wide border?
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by gib444 2mo ago
In England, private prosecutions are used regularly by the railway. The threat of prosecution lets them do a shakedown to extract sums from people It was less bizarre when they were all private companies, but now many are owned by the gover
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by gib444 2mo ago
Alternative frontends https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib-instances/blob/main/ins...

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