laputan_machine

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by laputan_machine 3y ago
Google doing more spying, unsurprising. At least it's opt-in (for now)
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
Towcester (Toaster) , Gloucester (Gloh-ster), Worcester (Wuh-ster)... cester -> ster (or 'stɜː' round my end)
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
English doesn't sex nouns, so it will probably vary from language to language
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
I think you're spot on. Where I live there is a huge arcade in what's effectively an old millhouse in a suburb, over 3 floors, and has been selling beer for a while. It's so popular it's spawned a bunch of smaller arca
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
It's surprisingly refreshing to see a project say what it actually does
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
https://www.onedayyoullfindyourself.com/swearing.html Fuck off.
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
Yeah, the UX could do with some improvement but IME once UX people have their claws in they change the design every 6 months to give themselves something to do. Anyone who works in the industry surely shares this pain.
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
The UK has "freedom of expression": https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/human-rights-act/arti...
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
A lack of physical exertion is a large cause of obesity and depression. Human innovation tends towards us making our lives easier (so: less physical exercise). Quite the dilemma!
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
I think there's a fairly big caveat: when one team beats another team, they don't take over the opposing team's stadium.
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
This is a good idea but I already disagree with the output. Of the top stories, the majority of them are "could" and "probably" -- that isn't news. News is something that either has happened or is going to happe
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
Cadbury's has never been treated as anything other than a "chocolate for the masses". It was however, a pretty decent middle-of-the-road chocolate. Until it got bought out. Now it's shite.
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by laputan_machine 4y ago
You (the child) do not get to pick the outcome. Hence it is a lottery.
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by laputan_machine 4y ago
The more that we can voice these views calmy and rationally, the more that people will reflect upon it. It takes courage to do so.
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by laputan_machine 4y ago
What an authoritarian statement. That isn't your decision to make.
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by laputan_machine 4y ago
> The Overton window in the US stems from center-right (Democrats) to extreme-right (Republicans) so if you're in the middle of that you're firmly a conservative. This is something Europeans have been saying online since at lea
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by laputan_machine 4y ago
My country has a defacto two party system. It's pretty poo but stateside these guys take it to another level. We're all human, we probably agree on far more than we disagree on. Let's all be a little kinder to each other
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by laputan_machine 4y ago
Thanks, this is the kind of information I'm after. So, the Senate is not a trustworthy source of information? I'm not clued up on US politics so I really have no idea how the system works, upper/lower houses, senate is lower?
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by laputan_machine 4y ago
- The CCP have been routinely supressing any hypothesis on COVID-19 being a lab-borne virus. - The CCP have been stoic on their approach to zero-COVID - IF the virus was lab-borne, and IF the CCP know it was, is it not (very, very remotely)
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by laputan_machine 4y ago
I'd imagine you should be able to place a thin sheet of perspex - or something similar - to protect the glass
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by laputan_machine 4y ago
> Unfortunately, European-derived cultures are so downstream of professional milling that the ultimate role of parching grain in the agrarian revolution has been lost in the popular mind. In my part of the UK parched peas are a common au
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by laputan_machine 4y ago
Very cool
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by laputan_machine 4y ago
Even then, $2.15 in Jackson, MS will get you further than $2.15 in NYC.
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by laputan_machine 4y ago
It's a very cool project, and I really like the aesthetic of beige-ish background and reduced-bit, dithered images, almost feels like an old school magazine
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by laputan_machine 4y ago
I love the idea, but I think this isn't going to be "the one". It's VC funded, the VCs are going to want to get a RoI. And we all know where that leads...
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by laputan_machine 4y ago
Definitely check your stool often and for things like mucus and blood. It could be a warning sign of something more sinister, and if you do find anything questionable contact your GP and get it checked out. On a lighter note, this paper is
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by laputan_machine 4y ago
Telling me my design choices are wrong? That's just, like, your opinion, man.
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by laputan_machine 4y ago
Ok, then what I mean is "what do you consider to be pornographic"? In some countries it's not NSFW to see a naked breast, I am going to assume this software does not take that into account. Am I right? A bigger point one coul
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by laputan_machine 4y ago
Maybe I am being stupid, but I cannot see anywhere where you describe what you consider to be "NSFW"
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by laputan_machine 4y ago
China is under the rule of the CCP, an authortarian party to which you cannot challenge. For all democracy's failings, for the mess the US is in, and rise of populist parties in Europe, it is still freedom.

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