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by mathieuh 3y ago
My landlord is an accidental landlord and the setup is the best I could hope for. As I understand it he met his wife later in life when they both had their own houses. I've been here over four years and I've met him twice. I'
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by mathieuh 3y ago
I do notice that the GMBN and GCN videos that are just advertorials do have "AD" in the top corner when you look at the video thumbnail. I'm assuming this is an EU or UK thing, because there are a lot of other channels that d
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by mathieuh 3y ago
In England the water companies routinely dump raw sewage into waterways, to the point where it isn’t safe to swim or even go near the water in many places and there are massively deleterious effects on ecosystems. It’s a huge scandal at the
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by mathieuh 3y ago
I don't think it's as much jealousy in this instance as it is a dislike of unfairness. My tech lead earns more money than me. This is absolutely acceptable to me because I am aware they are better at programming and they have more
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by mathieuh 3y ago
At some rapidly-approaching point I'll have no time to do anything else in the day other than complete word puzzles before the next day's appears
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by mathieuh 3y ago
I wouldn’t swim in any bodies of water in the UK at the moment, there’s a massive scandal with the privatised sewage companies paying massive dividends to shareholders while neglecting the infrastructure and repeatedly dumping raw sewage st
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by mathieuh 3y ago
It keeps recommending me far-right political videos for some reason. I think it's because I like watching Forgotten Weapons and InRangeTV, even though Forgotten Weapons has essentially zero politics in it and InRangeTV is run by a left
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by mathieuh 3y ago
Everyone's a "brand" these days. I get the same kind of feeling when I see a bio written in the third person but which was clearly written by the person themselves.
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Nevertheless that's how it used to be https://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/22/tech/gaming-gadgets/apple...
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by mathieuh 3y ago
What languages have n and l as allophones? Genuinely interested
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by mathieuh 3y ago
They were trying to present a certain image, I would imagine they put the German terrorists in front of the German TV cameras, the French in front of the French cameras etc.
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by mathieuh 3y ago
But what’s the difference grammatically if there’s a space or not? Let’s take “streetcar stop”, although there is a space there, what function is “streetcar” performing other than being a noun? It’s not an adjective, you can’t say “that sto
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by mathieuh 3y ago
There were hundreds of these cases, and the affect post-masters were calling the IT helpline repeatedly saying sums of money were going missing. Personally I think that if you have hundreds of people of good reputation and standing swearing
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by mathieuh 3y ago
I live in Northern Ireland, I get 5G pretty much everywhere I've cared to look. I do a lot of cycling and I stream Spotify at max settings and it's never cut out even in the middle of nowhere so I assume I'm getting at least
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by mathieuh 3y ago
It’s ideology. I take a marxist view on this: the method and mode of production in a capitalist politico-economic system encourages people to take their job into their identity and to think of themselves and others in terms of the labour va
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by mathieuh 3y ago
It’s the idea of implanting a foreign object in my body. I’m imagining seeing it in a mirror or something and it completely freaking me out. I remember when I was young a friend broke their leg badly and needed one of those devices with the
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by mathieuh 3y ago
I've never seen it mentioned but the idea of having something implanted into me is completely horrifying. Am I alone in that and everyone else is looking forward to getting some kind of chip implanted in their brain? It triggers the sa
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by mathieuh 3y ago
It's not just reducing the amount of the product, a lot of products also reformulate to make things cheaper to produce while keeping the price to the consumer the same. https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/o
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by mathieuh 3y ago
Sometimes it's nice knowing how to do something simply for its own sake. I know lots of random little facts and calculation tricks which don't really help me in any major way but I enjoy and take pride in knowing them.
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by mathieuh 3y ago
It seems to be younger people where I am. What's funny is they don't hold the phone to their ear like I would, they hold the phone with the screen facing them right in front of their faces. I assume that's because their gener
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by mathieuh 3y ago
That's with every dialect of English. English has phonemic stress, i.e. the way you stress a word can change its meaning or make it unrecognisable unless you're speaking to an English-speaker familiar with people who speak English
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by mathieuh 3y ago
I think it's the revelation that a shared culture and experience whose existence you took for granted really never existed. You feel untethered. I live in Northern Ireland and I get this feeling when I come upon a street festooned in U
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by mathieuh 3y ago
I walked past a guy using a pneumatic drill the other day. It was so loud I crossed the road to get away from it and my ears were ringing for a while after I'd passed him. He wasn't wearing any form of ear protection at all. He ca
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by mathieuh 3y ago
I'm not Italian or an expert in neo-fascism, I'm just going by what I've seen other people say. Even Wikipedia calls them neo-fascist, and it has a few academic sources backing that up: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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I mean, he's also going to be speaking at a youth festival for the reigning neo-fascist party in Italy. What's that aphorism, "when someone tells you who they are you should listen"? I think he really does just have far-
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by mathieuh 3y ago
In the UK I haven't had a pay increase anywhere near inflation since 2019. I've had to move company twice since then in order to maintain or increase my standard of living. I'm now making 65% above what I was making in 2019,
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by mathieuh 3y ago
If anything there needs to be more regulation in the UK, I don't understand why every year I have to go through the song and dance of calling up my ISP at the time, saying "it's too expensive I'm going to leave", an
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by mathieuh 3y ago
Poe's Law applies here.
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In the past I've been given little key fobs with my debit card that give you a 2FA code when you press a button
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I think part of the reason is that audio streaming is relatively cheap and easy. I was never on oink but I was on what.cd, and I remember I started using it less and less as services like Spotify got better and better in terms of quality an

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