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"not renewed" or "cancelled" is the same thing
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If you aren't self-sufficient in energy, food, and to a lesser extent raw materials, a weak currency means everything is expensive.
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The original looked like a one-off The article shows thousands of adverts, millions if you look more widely. It massively changes the scale.
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When apple puts an advert for an apple show in front of for all mankind, that's an advert. Maybe I put up with it and it just adds to my subconscious seething, or maybe I get the episode elsewhere because if I watch on jellyfin I don&#
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Absolutely, and I'd far rather take a 6 hour train ride once a quarter than a 30 minute commute every day
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> the distances they cover are quite short by American standards Typical distances are about the same as SanFrancisco-LA, LA-Phoenix, Phoenix-LasVegas, Dallas-Houston, Houston-New Orleans, Portland-Vancouver. The longest service is 650
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I was massively impressed by the food when I took it, certainly as good as any restaurant my expenses policy even attempts to allow me to eat in, and I'd say better than most first class on BA which I've flown a few times, other t
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I did NY to Miami 18 months ago having spent a week in Washington/NY and was due for 3 days in Miami before flying home. Saturday morning in NY looking at a few sights I hadn't seen (Trinity Church), then a relaxing train down to
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And for those scoffing https://xkcd.com/1053/ And for those who are feeling smug, that last one (which I still consider fairly recent) was 14 years ago
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DNS challenge doesn't broadcast internal IPs. Certificate transparency does show up hostnames or wildcards though.
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Nobody enjoys working in a call centre
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This experiment feels related https://theinquisitivejournal.com/2023/04/07/the-power-of-pe... Presumably the blog writer has never worked in a corporate hierarchy, let alone at the lowest of the low of being
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> geopolitical lock-in and balkanization of the internet. US won't have this problem I guess This reminds me of the apocryphal headline from the dying days of the British Empire: > Fog in Channel; Continent Cut Off
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Is it fair that California has more congresspeople than North Dakota? Parliament is the unit which represent the people Council (which is 1 country 1 vote) is what represents the countries.
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There are two elements to the EU The Council, which is headed by the government of each member state in equal measure - similar to the Senate in the US And Parliament, which are directly elected by the people, with each member state having
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isn't the "fill her" the point of porn?
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Billionaires try very hard to increase their own wealth. Politicians try very hard to increase their own power.
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I can see the reasons even if I don't think they're legitimate. I can see the reasons why someone steals from someone else, or rapes or kills. Those reasons aren't good enough, but most people have reasons to do something. Wh
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It's America that's waging this war, having attacked Iran for no reason the world can see It's somewhat similar to Russia waging a war in Ukraine, although I can see some reasons for Russia to attack Ukraine (mainly territory
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Yes, if it was acting rationally the US Would not have spent billions trying to blow up an 80 year old man while massively increasing the price of oil and fertiliser globally leading to economic instability But the US has not acted rational
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You're holding it wrong? How many cheap-ass drones could you buy for the cost of one F35. 100k? A million?
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It's not the billionaires that depress me, it's the "temporarily embarrased billionaires", the wannabes who don't believe in the American Dream but idolise instead a winner takes all Ferengi style system.
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We used to have anti trust regulators. We don't now.
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Your assertion this was an American pressure group which didn't form for over a decade after the rest of the western world introduced explicit restrictions is just the brainwashing of American exceptionalism.
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UK should confiscate his golf courses and build on shore wind on them as reparations for this Iran war he sarted
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Even Burns wasn't this deranged
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"Being able to live car free is pretty much limited to (expensive) major cities and some (expensive) mid-sized college towns" I live in the UK (hardly a bastion of public transport) in a town of under 10k, and have a car. The main
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I'm trying to think of a city of 50,000 people in western europe with no public transport, do you have one in mind?
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MADD was formed in 1980 0.08 level was set in law in the UK in 1967, in France and West Germany in 1970 Most countries have since lowered it to 0.05.
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Its illegal to drive under the influence now. "Just making something illegal" doesn't work

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