mathieuh

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   by mathieuh 3y ago

   If for some reason I were mentioned in a written communication from a surname-first country I would absolutely expect to have my surname first and I wouldn't care. I would also expect my name to be transliterated into other writing sys
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   by mathieuh 3y ago

   Healthcare should be as close to free as possible at point of use. If you can get away with not paying I say congratulations.
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   by mathieuh 3y ago

   I had a module on this in uni 10 years ago. Sad to see digital poverty still gets no thought.
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   by mathieuh 3y ago

   Wait did it land while they were showing us Modi's face? Why didn't they show the camera feed?
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   by mathieuh 3y ago

   For me as an anarcho-communist, the problem with religion isn't believing in something supernatural per se, it's the fact that organised religion is just another hierarchical apparatus (like the state) which gives some people powe
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   by mathieuh 3y ago

   I grew more and more perplexed until I got to the bottom and read the disclaimer.
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   by mathieuh 3y ago

   What do you mean singular? I span, you span, he/she/it span, we span, you span, they span. These all sound grammatical to me. I can’t think of many English verbs that inflect differently for the same person but different number. I
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   by mathieuh 3y ago

   Also yogh https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogh There’s a politician in the UK called Menzies Campbell, his name is pronounced “mingis” because that “z” actually used to be a yogh
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   by mathieuh 3y ago

   Thanks. Although I have to be honest, at almost four years out I have essentially zero cravings so I'm not finding it too difficult. And after numerous cycles of getting clean and relapsing, I recognise what do cravings I get immediate
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    by mathieuh 3y ago

    I never even got offered substitutes, I was habitually taking several substances and the addiction help offered where I live basically said they wouldn't give me anything unless I could quit everything except heroin. Ended up doing it
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    by mathieuh 3y ago

    Is anyone suggesting hard drugs be available at 7-11? I believe all drugs should be legal, but that there should of course be checks and regulations on who has access to the harder drugs that research has shown can ruin people's lives.
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    by mathieuh 3y ago

    You can make poppy seed tea with unwashed poppy seeds. From experience, you even used to be able to buy unwashed poppy seeds from Amazon in the UK. It's incredibly addicting and even harder to quit than heroin, because there are many a
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    by mathieuh 3y ago

    Seems like a fairly straightforward misappropriation of party funds at this point, I don't think there's any suggestion she was playing around with taxpayer money
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    by mathieuh 3y ago

    This sounds ridiculous even to me, but it’s a strange feeling to see the death of Reddit. It’s the only quasi-social network I’ve used for a decade, and there are many communities that I feel at home in. It’s almost like grief, or feeling u
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    by mathieuh 3y ago

    Thanks, I lived in Australia for a bit when I was a child and I still have a lot of fondness for it, so I'm interested to read about this episode of their history that I was unaware of
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    by mathieuh 3y ago

    Do you have a good link to read about this right-wing attempted coup?
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    by mathieuh 3y ago

    I don't use Discord but does it even offer similar features? Last time I used it it just seemed like a nicer Skype, does it now offer posts in the same way reddit does or is it something tacked on?
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    by mathieuh 3y ago

    I do a lot of cycling and it's amazing how much more aware you are when any minor bump is going to cause you injury. I've avoided accidents multiple seconds in advance because something about the way someone was driving made me ne
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    by mathieuh 3y ago

    Thanks for the link, going to toss mine too What did you switch to? I have one of those waterpiks but I don't feel like it does a very good job
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    by mathieuh 3y ago

    I think any government doing this is very unlikely. Governments aim to make things easier for capital, not labour. Where I am it's actually technically illegal for you to even discuss your salary with your fellow workers.
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    by mathieuh 3y ago

    Yeah I file opposition to singular they in the same place as ending sentences with prepositions or splitting infinitives. Something for pedants to get worked up over without really understanding the issue.
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    by mathieuh 3y ago

    What would prevent this from becoming another round of colonialism?
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    by mathieuh 3y ago

    I ride a pushbike a lot and I only hear those stupid motorbikes right as they go past me. Even the headwind from cycling at a moderate speed like 30 km/h is enough to completely drown the motorbikes out. Usually all they do is scare th
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    by mathieuh 3y ago

    It's astounding to me that someone could take having a car into their identity so deeply that they see suggestions that we should reduce car use as attacking them personally
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    by mathieuh 3y ago

    I haven't followed this closely but frankly I feel similarly. I think only people who are violent and dangerous to other people should be locked up, and even then only until they are no longer dangerous. If things can be organised so s
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    by mathieuh 3y ago

    I think it's more likely that–being an indo-european language–there are frequent cognates between Ancient Greek and other indo-european languages like German. Here's[0] a massive list of them, and you can see cognates between lang
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    by mathieuh 3y ago

    I've always thought it was very ironic that the main prerequisite for being a "thought leader" is not having any thoughts yourself
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    by mathieuh 3y ago

    Not everyone has to have some grand purpose. I work to earn enough money to do what I like, I'm not planning or hoping to make a heap of money. I would be perfectly happy living a comfortable yet completely unnoticed life. In fact I th
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    by mathieuh 3y ago

    Thorn and eth of course still exist in Icelandic, and eth still exists in Faroese. Interestingly, the IPA symbol for the "th" in "the" is eth, but the symbol for the "th" in "think" is θ (Greek theta)
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    by mathieuh 4y ago

    This is why user research is so important. I started my career working in UK government applications (GDS), and I'll admit at first I was dismissive of user research as being some kind of hand-wavy nonsense, but I quickly came to belie