nephihaha

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by nephihaha 1mo ago
I was in Birnam wood earlier this year. There is very little of the old forest left.
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
Government control, more. Continually restricting things that go against their viewpoint. Pushing digital ID online despite obvious security risks.
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
The most obvious thing would be that we and other creatures would have sight as a secondary sense. If light went that slowly we would have to develop other ways of navigating the world, such as echolocation, smell or touch.
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
Run of the moors, run of the hills And like that to school at summer's end Us being children of five years of age Without a word of English in our heads That's my literal translation anyway. I was talking to an American yesterday
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
Brìde is a funny one. It is just about possible that there was a real Brìde who was an abbess, or several in fact, but she was so heavily blended with the pagan deity that she is virtually indistinguishable in some respects. We have a lot o
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
The main issues I have are with the administration. I have noticed: * Admin enshittifying content that they have no knowledge or interest in. For example, I have witnessed admin trying to get articles about certain rugby union teams deleted
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
If you look closely they tend not to be "Tom Clancy" but "Tom Clancy's". No Clancy book with the apostrophe is worth reading.
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
St. George is likely based on Michael, but I imagine the logic would be that the dragon was some kind of convoluted version of the King of the Nagas.
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
St. Jehosophat is one of them. Neither of them are currently recognised.
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
Many cities are heat sinks and make the problem worse locally due to lack of tree cover and an overabundance of concreta and tar.
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
You criticise the previous poster for seeing Communism everywhere and then recommend them a book by Adorno, a dyed in the wool red. That will confuse 'em. https://iep.utm.edu/adorno/
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
"I know it's the US" It could be Australia or Canada. They have similar.
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
Google has been removing blogs from its searches for years now. You have to search for them specifically. All part of the de-democratisation of the web.
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
It depends on which part. It is certainly heading down the same route as Wikipedia with all the problems that entails. You're usually better off on a smaller Fandom wiki as it won't have beeb taken over yet. The James Bond wiki is
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
They say it could not attack livestock, but was instead for snapping at smaller prey. I think such a creature probably could attack new born lambs and chickens. Sheep's biological programming would also mean that they would run away fr
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
There was definitely some knowledge of how Jews were being treated by Germany very early on, and some people were very vocal in condemning it, although they cleaned up their act during the Berlin Olympics. The Holocaust really seems to have
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
There are many films that combine the two. Inglourious Basterds is one of them. German attacks on the Jews were heavily criticised in the west but not the prime motivator Many people in the British Empire were told to fight for the mother c
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
Doctor Who is the opposite of Star Trek. It makes little attempt at internal consistency. It helps that time travel plays a large part in it. That said, it's been unwatchable for quite a while.
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
I've got the opposite problem with "Infinite Jest". I have had a hundred pages left for several years. I just need to sit down and soldier through those to say that I have read the bloody thing. It did not grip me.
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
I disagree. Many novels have great openings. "The Horse's Mouth" by Joyce Cary had me from the opening paragraph. I could say the same about "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier or "the Crow Road" by Iain Banks.
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
Despite what Hollywood says, WW2 was more to do with German militarism and expansionism than the Jewish question. The Allies were certainly willing to use pro-Jewish sentiments and some Jewish troops, but it was never presented as the main
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
"Switzerland was “neutral” not neutral. The Swiss certainly crossed into the complicit side quite often, profiting from the Nazi regime, laundering their looted gold and closing their borders to fleeing Jews." That still counts as
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
Many of them are not in good physical shape which makes washing hard for some of them. Poverty is also a major factor for many elderly people.
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
No, I'm thinking of Plesetsk because it is in Europe. It is much nearer to Moscow than Baikonur is. Since the USSR broke up, this is even more the case.
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
For what it's worth, Metropolitan France used to claim Algeria wasn't a colony either.
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
And Russia launches some rockets from Plesetsk, in Europe.
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
It isn't. Plesetsk is in European Russia and was built to prevent overreliance on Baikonur
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
The KGB was famous for compromising people sexually and recruiting then that way. The FSB supposedly still does, although homosexuality and extramarital affairs are not the scandals they once were. It would be useful for these countries to
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OpenAI agents hijacked German website before Hugging Face hack, report claims(bbc.co.uk)
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
Yes... But ironically what we see nowadays online is poor people working for free or giving their work away for free. Even before AI generated "literature" takes away much of the market, we've got human writers giving their s

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