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Trump's war on windmills started in Scotland. Now he's taking it global(theguardian.com)
4 points by ljf 1y ago|2 comments
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by ljf 1y ago
I would have previously agreed (that there is nothing quite like it these days) - but my son is now part of an online games coding club. They start off assembling ready made 'Scratch' instructions, and playing at tweaking them. In
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North Korea's military is being transformed on the battlefields of Ukraine(theguardian.com)
5 points by ljf 1y ago|0 comments
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by ljf 1y ago
He (like me) is in the UK - unless you go for a brand name, many of the tyres people run here are low quality import tyres - while 10k is low, my ICE has occasionally only got 20k from a set, but that is mainly due to the tyres cracking fro
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by ljf 1y ago
Years ago I was reading a book, could have been Hunter S Thompson or similar, and he was talking to someone about not just being 'not racist' but the need to be actively 'anti-racist' - at the time time I (like the autho
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by ljf 1y ago
@codevark - just an FYI that you've been shadow banned since 2017 - you might want to ping Dang if you want get your account back in full.
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by ljf 1y ago
No STEM here - but I'm not an engineer, I'm a tech interested product guy who has worked for online companies all my career (2002 onwards) I did a Media Studies (theory) degree, but all the way through university I was making webs
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From Canada to Finland, a US neo-Nazi fight club is spreading across the globe(theguardian.com)
7 points by ljf 1y ago|1 comments
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'Total infiltration': How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks(theguardian.com)
9 points by ljf 1y ago|0 comments
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by ljf 1y ago
(and it seems very likely the 'person' you are replying to is a bot/AI in this case too)
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by ljf 1y ago
This account is most likely a bot by the way..
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by ljf 1y ago
I'll be honest, I upvoted it at first, and it was only when I saw the 2nd very similar post here and then went into their cookie cutter post histories.
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by ljf 1y ago
As an FYI to others, it appears this account (and others in this thread) might be a bot.
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by ljf 1y ago
I have a strong feeling this account is a bot.
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by ljf 1y ago
Maybe it was the strange mix of capitalism and socialism that existed in America at that time? High taxes, high levels of investment and well paid public servants: https://econreview.studentorg.berkeley.edu/back-when-america
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by ljf 1y ago
Maybe, but when I'm dreaming I don't always see things from my point of view and I'm often an observer without me clearly being in the dream at all.
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by ljf 1y ago
No paywall for me here in the UK. Maybe they consider us an economically behind country too.
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by ljf 1y ago
While that may be true - I can invest in home solar and have zero or near zero electricity costs at reasonable prices with a 5 to 7 year payback period. Near me solar farms run at a profit here in England, and yet I don't believe any n
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by ljf 1y ago
Indeed - but even if you have a license, there is no expectations to carry it when you drive. If the police request they can give you a 'Producer' which historically was where you had to attend a police station with your license a
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US to breed billions of flies to dump from aircraft, to fight flesheating maggot(theguardian.com)
5 points by ljf 1y ago|2 comments
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by ljf 1y ago
And I grew up believing that America was 'land of the free'. I've never had to prove my ID to a police-person here in the UK - once or twice they've asked me who I was, but they didn't check the answer I gave them a
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by ljf 1y ago
I often find myself overcome with sonder and dustsceawung (the infinite complexity of others lives, and that the dust all around me is made from the lives and civilisations before us [and alongside us]) https://www.dictionary.com
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by ljf 1y ago
I've never had to return to AliExpress - if I've had an issue they (AliExpress) have just instantly refunded me without having to go through the seller(admittedly this is maybe 2 items in nearly 10 years). Similar with Temu - my w
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by ljf 1y ago
I used to paraglide and I was very vaguely looking into options for getting wind and other weather data from sites - back in the 00's it was still pretty complex, and I got as far as prototyping a very simple set up which was simply a
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by ljf 1y ago
It is far better than it was, my thinning was definitely crown but also hairline - I went for a walk one day and got really wet and when I looked in the mirror I could see just how thin my hair was. I've applied liquid minoxidil for 5
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by ljf 1y ago
It is mentioned in the article - I'll have to look out for it
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by ljf 1y ago
Just to add, for anyone considering using minoxidil and/or finasteride - I can highly recommend both for the recovery of my hairloss. But - read up in the side effects and potential risks, they can both cause other issues in some peopl
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Oldest boomerang doesn't come back(bbc.co.uk)
6 points by ljf 1y ago|10 comments
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by ljf 1y ago
True - but once you start engaging with any of this stuff on social media, you just get pushed more and more.
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by ljf 1y ago
My only knowledge of them is a cursory Wikipedia search, but yes it appears they are pro-Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahra_Wagenknecht_Alliance

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