giuseppe_petri

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by giuseppe_petri 1y ago
> legalized fraud and looting That's just government in a nutshell, regardless of country, party, political leanings, etc. How does it go? "What's the difference between government and organised crime? One of them is organ
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by giuseppe_petri 1y ago
€1200 per month is around £1000, there are 43.1m working age people in the UK, that's £517.2 BILLION per year. The NHS costs £181.7b per year and climbing & we struggle to afford that. HMRC collected £828.9 billion in taxes in 2023
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by giuseppe_petri 2y ago
I've been calling this concept "enragement". I'm sure I'm not the only one.
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by giuseppe_petri 2y ago
>these halfwits You're doing them a favour calling them halfwits, if most of the current crop of British politicians were light bulbs they wouldn't be bright enough the light the cupboard under my stairs.
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by giuseppe_petri 2y ago
Pre Microsoft hotmail is one of the things I miss about the 'old' internet, logging in with Navigator 3.something in the library at uni.
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by giuseppe_petri 2y ago
>Sounds like tiktok And 24 hour news TV, and newspapers... magazines... Steve in accounts... Any person that is easily lead, will be influenced regardless of the source.
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by giuseppe_petri 2y ago
Or... you know... /words/...
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by giuseppe_petri 2y ago
Not... double secret quotas!
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by giuseppe_petri 2y ago
I'm 8 years post nervous breakdown, it took me 5 years before I could even consider going back in to work, any kind of work. You'll get there.
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by giuseppe_petri 2y ago
If it was put together with tin solder it's not lasting 200 years.
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by giuseppe_petri 2y ago
What if they're finding happiness in the chase, rather than what's at the end of it?
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by giuseppe_petri 2y ago
I couple of days ago I clicked a video on youtube, it was 48 minutes long, the "ad" preceding the video was 58 minutes long... at least I could skip it.
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by giuseppe_petri 2y ago
> You can't just undo that brush stroke onto the cel and try something else. That's why you animate with pencil on paper first.
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by giuseppe_petri 2y ago
I've not seen Pantheon, but from the trailer it seems very close to Neal Stephenson's "Fall, or Dodge in Hell".
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by giuseppe_petri 2y ago
> So there’s no kind of existential danger to Quest here, but it remains to be seen if the hardware licensees can bring anything relevant to the table either. How does Meta make its money? Advertising. Licensees bring actual eyeballs to
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by giuseppe_petri 2y ago
Or provide a better alternative. Less stick, more carrot.
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by giuseppe_petri 3y ago
"An old poacher makes the best gamekeeper."
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by giuseppe_petri 3y ago
> buy petrol in litres And use miles per gallon for fuel economy...
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by giuseppe_petri 3y ago
A wise man does not build his house on another man's land.
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by giuseppe_petri 5y ago
>And in contrast, he invokes the worst thing he can think of: hurting someone's livelihood. >Livelehood: a means of supporting one's existence, especially financially or vocationally Just a small thing.