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by ljf 2y ago
I remember my brothers friend in rural Portugal having one way satellite Internet back in the 90s to very early 00s - you used a standard dial up for the upstream, but with a satellite dish got much much faster downloads. Blew my mind that
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by ljf 2y ago
Very true - you are right, I far far prefer the real world pub.
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by ljf 2y ago
I think I commented something similar when this was last posted. Blogging is better in so many ways, and if you have built up a community of people who visit your blog and engage with it, it can be very fulfilling and fun. Even without an a
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by ljf 2y ago
Hackers got to hack? While my technical exploits are no where near this - I love reading about people doing odd and difficult things for fun. (As a young teen who was obsessed with Road Rash on the Sega Game Gear, I wrote down every single
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by ljf 2y ago
I remember my biology teacher telling me of the dangers of being a car crash with a full bladder - yet another reason to go.
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This is truly amazing to see - blows my mind what people achieve.
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Man whose eye 'melted' in acid attack thanks placenta donor who helped him heal(theguardian.com)
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Spacewalk training 'nothing like diving', says NI's first astronaut(bbc.co.uk)
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Operation Gladio: clandestine "stay-behind" operations(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ljf 2y ago
Sounds perfect, I'm so pleased you and your family were able to have this. I'm sorry for your loss, but hope this pleasant passing brought you comfort. My father (83yo) died a year ago - just before Xmas. Most of the family got to
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Hottest January on record mystifies climate scientists(theguardian.com)
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I grew up on a (very) small farm - I still go to throw apple cores out of the window, as when I was younger the was always /something/ that would be happy for the treat. All dinner scraps were saved (or rather taken straight out),
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by ljf 2y ago
There is no law, but is it assumed there is a secret agreement with the government https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots#:~:tex...
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by ljf 2y ago
We regularly have the same here in the UK - "let's go after £1.7b in benefits fraud" but never "lets go after the £120b in taxes that are evaded". We lost more to COVID fraud than we did to benefits fraud, but seem
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by ljf 2y ago
Collins dictionary disagrees: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-thesaur... and https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-thesaur... They are each their others 2nd top
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by ljf 2y ago
Interesting (and worrying) to watch the figures: https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/index.html There was a site with some good graphs and tables on, that I can't spot now.
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by ljf 2y ago
If you just want the key message without clicking the link: "The researchers estimated an extra 8,000 people would die each year as a result of “suboptimal temperatures” even under the most optimistic scenario for cutting planet-heatin
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Dangerous temperatures could kill 50% more Europeans by 2100, study finds(theguardian.com)
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The Guardian article the AI article seems to pull from is better, but aside from the links to Desperately Seeking Susan, I agree proof is limited. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/11/nature-or
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by ljf 2y ago
Good luck finding work - you are clearly talented if you can make a site like this. Re the titling/clickbait comment - I was referring to the policy here that posts should follow the page title of the site you are linking to: https:&#
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by ljf 2y ago
Indeed, the title given here doesn't seem to appear on the page at all, which makes this seem like clickbait. The title should be changed to 'Private jobs board' or similar. But then no one would click on it or upvote it. I a
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by ljf 2y ago
Agreed - Where I live now, 8 thousand years ago I could have walked all the way from the UK to Holland. Even just 1000 years ago the coastline here went four miles out to sea compared to today. In the last 20 year we've seen the erosio
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by ljf 2y ago
The incline makes it so much easier for sure! I got my kids going on a slight hill that was covered in grass so they weren't so fearful to fall off.
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Snap - my son loved his balance bike and would even ride it around the house. We got him a 'good' bicycle (about £140) and he learnt to ride it in about 10 minutes, and same as your child - he rode home and from that moment on he
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'It didn't come as a surprise': UK workers on being forced back into the office(theguardian.com)
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the US town where it's the law to own a gun(bbc.co.uk)
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Scientists unveil 50k-year-old baby mammoth remains(bbc.co.uk)
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The fair dreamed up by art legends – unsealed after 44 years(bbc.co.uk)
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Amazon to settle dispute with delivery drivers over claims worth potential £140M(theguardian.com)
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I so heartily agree - when my brother was dying I was at a loss to know what to say - we didn't share a lot of history as he 'joined' the family later in life - but just chatting rubbish helped him hugely. Later a friend was

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