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by mcv 7mo ago
That sells it for me. It's on my reading list now.
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by mcv 7mo ago
Thomas Alexandre Dumas is a fascinating character, not only because he rose from slavery to a general of Napoleon, but he was also a spectacular, real swashbuckler known for daring action. I have no idea why there's still no big movie
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by mcv 7mo ago
Nice! Two days after I installed 5.3.0-beta because I needed a feature that 5.2 didn't have. Now I can undo all the custom install again to get it from the AUR. (I have not yet succeeded in using that feature effectively.)
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by mcv 7mo ago
So after two decades, the FCC finally does something about insecure routers by banning security updates unless you jump through a bunch of extra hoops. That's definitely going to improve the situation.
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by mcv 7mo ago
Not true. There's no need to shower after a short trip. Or even a 10km trip, if you don't exert yourself too much. But fortunately many offices do have showers. Also, bike locks exist. There are millions of people who find cycling
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by mcv 7mo ago
Accessibility is always important, regardless of what other options exist. I loved carrying my kids as babies, and rode them everywhere on my bike, but there will always be people for whom bikes, walking or cars aren't an option, which
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by mcv 7mo ago
No elevators to the metro? That's a problem independent from the cyclist's paradise. A city like Paris should have an accessible metro. Amsterdam has elevators at I think every single metro station (though our metro system is far
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by mcv 7mo ago
Get a rain coat, a warm coat, take it off, and make sure you've got a big crate on your bike. Wind does suck. I can't help you there.
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by mcv 7mo ago
My impression is that it's propaganda to stop Americans from expecting the same from life.
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by mcv 7mo ago
It's not like they will suddenly stop working completely, but some do depend on US data, which could be cut off. No idea if they have a fall back solution for that, but I'm sure they're working on that.
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by mcv 7mo ago
What was hundreds of years ago? Several western countries still allowed slavery well into the second half of the 19th century.
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by mcv 7mo ago
It's not the FSF's job to provide Anthropic with a business model. If it turns out that their business model depends entirely on copyright violation, they might not have a business model. That's true regardless of whether you
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by mcv 7mo ago
Eastern European countries warned us, but western Europe, Germany in particular, but other western European countries too, assumed Russia was now a normal country we could just trade with. Under Yeltsin we might have been heading in that di
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by mcv 7mo ago
Absolutely. The EU is now finally but rapidly adapting to these geopolitical changes. Defense budgets are now far higher than the 2% that used to be the goal that nobody met. In the 1990s everybody was eager to believe that war was finally
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by mcv 7mo ago
Not surprising at all. It's a form of dazzle camouflage that has previously been shown to confuse facial recognition[0]. It's probably possible to design it to be more effective yet less intrusive than juggalo makeup. I would have
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by mcv 7mo ago
Much of their support has also come from the EU, and the EU has a lot more than that. The EU has more fighters and ships, more tanks, more soldiers. It is true that the EU didn't and still doesn't have deep ammo reserves, though.
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by mcv 7mo ago
Denmark cannot win militarily, but can the US? What war has the US won recently? They're great at destroying things, but not at winning. There's nothing for them to win in Greenland. It's an indefensible chunk of ice. They ca
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by mcv 7mo ago
Plenty of soldiers and veterans hate what he does. The current leadership doesn't because Trump purged them and promoted loyalists. But ultimately, it's the people of the US who have to do this. You're absolutely right that n
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by mcv 7mo ago
That ban on slavery is not being enforced on the rest of the world. The west had no problem playing football in Qatar in stadiums built by slave labour.
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by mcv 7mo ago
Europe's weakness is mostly in their heads. The US is the most powerful military in the world, but the second most powerful military is NATO without the US. If the rest of NATO pulls together and reorganises into an effective military
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by mcv 7mo ago
The precedent was already set by Nixon's pardon. The signal was clear: presidents suffer no consequences for their crimes.
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by mcv 7mo ago
There should be a law against it. It's blatant corruption. The fact that lawmakers and supreme judges have the power to make their own corruption legal, doesn't make it any less corrupt. The Nazis made their crimes legal, and they
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by mcv 7mo ago
I don't know why this is voted down, because it's absolutely true. The only way for the US to regain the lost trust is to finally clean house, hold its corrupt leadership accountable. Throw them in prison, seize their illegitimate
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by mcv 7mo ago
Exactly. It's the US that turned against its allies. Those allies are still loyal to each other; they didn't turn on anyone. Look at how many countries immediately sent troops to Greenland. There's no doubt who is the traitor
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by mcv 7mo ago
The way you pay off that debt is not to the original liberator now turned oppressor, but by extending similar help to countries that are now in a similar bind as we were then. Like Ukraine. I really think we are morally obligated to liberat
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by mcv 7mo ago
The Dutch companies I've worked for tend strongly towards a single office day per week, which is an acceptable balance to me.
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by mcv 7mo ago
Exactly my experience. Sometimes it's brilliant, sometimes it produces crap, often it produces something that's a step in the right direction but requires extra work, and often it switches between these different results, producin
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by mcv 7mo ago
Grandparent was talking about the DC metro area and Silicon Valley. We're not exactly talking about Montana here.
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by mcv 7mo ago
I've heard that before, that the US apparently loves above ground power lines. In NL it's only the long distance ones that are above ground. Even in most rural areas, I think everything is below ground.
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by mcv 7mo ago
The taxpayer paid for it when tariffs increased prices, and they'll pay for it again when the government pays back the tariffs. This scheme amounts to yet another free handout for corporations. They should be required to use this money

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