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by macartain 1y ago
Where's the Underground Resistance when you need it!?
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by macartain 1y ago
great rabbit-hole - https://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/glubb.pdf - for those unencumbered by search engine skills. 250 years indeed...
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by macartain 1y ago
äI! äI! Cthulhu fhtagn! Ph'nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! - ??
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by macartain 1y ago
Where else might we find narcissistic, man-children elevated to dangerous levels of authority?!? (most likely that was your point) I saw a fascinating documentary addressing the fact that the 3 primary leaders of the belligerents in WWI wer
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by macartain 1y ago
I agree with most of this analysis - but a problem with your last paragraph is that many of the public are not/do not care to be sufficiently informed and therefore do not believe it. They think net zero/solar/anti-fracking i
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by macartain 1y ago
And how much will you bet?
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by macartain 1y ago
fair!
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by macartain 1y ago
or those same customers may elect the next, even-more-extreme, ill-informed idiotic wingnut that comes along with a pat theory about bringing industry back on-shore in 4 years by tossing out foreigners/applying ludicrous tariffs/w
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by macartain 1y ago
Another allulose fan here. I use it as part of a half-baked, sort-of-keto approach to help me avoid carbs and sugar. Unlike Stevia, I find it has pretty much no distinctive aftertaste - it seems too good to be true. I'm in the UK and b
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by macartain 1y ago
I had always assumed this was co-option of the Winter Equinox - otherwise it seems a heck of a coincidence.. Is there no evidence of this? EDIT - sorry, I see this is discussed below...
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by macartain 2y ago
Surely you jest?!? Its about 10 days since the Orange One rug-pulled NATO - you think MI6 has had time to plan and auth a false-flag op on a US-flagged ship - never mind decide it would be a profitable course of action? Not a chance. A Russ
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by macartain 2y ago
What I keep not understanding - from this side of the Atlantic where the debate over COVID restrictions appears to have been a lot less charged - is why 'the right' in the US seem to lose sight of the fact that these restrictions
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by macartain 2y ago
Not sure what this is tweaking (I'll check) but this does not seem to affect the described behaviour.. PgUp/Down does nothing - with and without shift - and mousewheel still just scrolls thru shell comand history and I need to use
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by macartain 2y ago
Plus he also had the smarts to use plausible mechanisms to remove advanced computers (the Butlerian Jihad) and nuclear weapons (some sort of extreme taboo based on a historical event IIRC? it's been a while..) from the technologies ava
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by macartain 2y ago
username checks out. (sorry, couldn't resist)
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by macartain 2y ago
You and er, Madison, right? This article is riddled with generalisations, oversimplifications and many comments that are vague to the point of being almost misleading - or certainly of limited value given the lack of context. This is the le
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by macartain 2y ago
bah.. this explains the lovely low price I got the 1st edition for from Amazon last week...
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by macartain 2y ago
Really badly - I was a huge fan of piacasa, basic though it was, until those grifters at google canned it so that I had to send all my photos to their DC. Now I have a horribly fractured collection across phone uploads, a NAS backend and so
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by macartain 3y ago
Tell me about it! At least I got to see Orbital...
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by macartain 3y ago
Can anyone explain what we are seeing in that video from Parker - dust particles I assume? But what kind of frame rate, which camera direction etc?
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by macartain 3y ago
ooh! phil wadler lectured me at glasgow.. he was always listenable but he's got funnier...