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by nephihaha 1mo ago
I'm glad it's not just me. I go to a bar sometimes with a mezzanine and I've often wondered what would happen if someone threw glasses or bottles off that balcony into the bar area below. It would probably end up killing some
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
That map is inaccurate. Unfortunately slavery is still very much a thing in many parts of the world, including forced labour, prostitution and some sweat shop labour. The PRC and North Korea still use slave labour as do some other countries
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
West Germany and Japan did not purge "most of those elements". Both places retained a surprising number of people from the early 1940s, for the simple, cynical reason that many of these people had skills and experience in administ
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
Halliburton got a lot of work from Bush's wars if I remember correctly.
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China, Iran and Russia are probably all capable of it. Russians would love the blackmail potential.
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
Good grief, his diagnoses include Akhenaten, David Bowie, Salazar, Derrida, Rachel Carson, Boole, and that's just page one. Page two features Frankie Howerd, Kissinger, Gaudi, Georgia O' Keefe, Steinbeck, Jeremiah (from the Bible)
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
> Maybe he spent an afternoon browsing HN? I laughed at that, I probably shouldn't have. From what I can tell, autism is so still woefully undiagnosed within Ireland, so that's maybe why he's so keen to expand that figure.
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
I was reading about 19th century Russian writers recently. Very few of them made much money and some like Turgenev and Tolstoy were personally wealthy.
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
Amazed to see it's from TCD. I don't think posthumous psychological diagnoses are particularly helpful. To diagnose someone you need to interact with them, observe them etc.
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Is there anyone not suspected to be autistic these days? Including me. Personally my finger points more in the direction of Emily Dickinson and James Joyce.
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Dyson was good for some products in the 1990s. Their quality has fallen in recent years, and other companies have caught up with them in other regards such as vacuum cleaners.
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by nephihaha 1mo ago
Private hire is technically not a taxi. They can't pick someone up at a rank or on the street.
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Famously "koax koax koax" in classical Greek.
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The real both sides argument is that there are only two teams to pick from.
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by nephihaha 2mo ago
Wendell Berry is practically unknown in the UK, and I tried to introduce his work to a book group a couple of years ago. Unfortunately due to the nature of the book group, we had new members who hadn't read it and another who seemed mo
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by nephihaha 2mo ago
I'm very surprised such a thing doesn't exist already. Maybe a good place to set it from would be Tranquility Base where Aldrin and Armstrong landed.
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by nephihaha 2mo ago
The UN's food price index showed prices going down until global lockdown came along, and ever since then they have been rising. Lockdown seems to be the one factor that the media is reluctant to discuss. In the UK, it is common to attr
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by nephihaha 2mo ago
The Earth-Moon system is certainly anomalous within our Solar System. There is no such equivalent among the three other rocky planets, and while there are large moons around the other planets, the planets themselves are far larger.
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by nephihaha 2mo ago
Herschel put Uranus on the map, so to speak. It is barely visible and never played a large part in ancient astrology/astronomy (I use both terms here as they were not separate at the time.)
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by nephihaha 2mo ago
That was quite funny. I think my point is that terms are not always as precise as people think they are. As others have stated, there appears to be some kind of spectrum. Some of the inner planets have more in common with the moons of Jupit
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by nephihaha 2mo ago
The term "fish" is a case in point. Traditionally, the term means a creature which lives underwater, which would include whales and dolphins, and indeed used to, despite being mammals. It gets worse. Whales and dolphins are more c
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by nephihaha 2mo ago
Uranus and Neptune don't have a long human heritage either. Neither appears to have been known to the Babylonians.
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by nephihaha 2mo ago
I have heard people argue that we are in fact in a kind of binary planetary system. No other planet has such a large satellite relative to its size, until you get to the likes of Pluto etc.
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Taurine
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WEF etc type messaging. They love that term along with resilience.
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Flock would live up to its name.
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by nephihaha 2mo ago
"Stakeholder" is a dogwhistle term.
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We don't have a mechanism here for doing that, and you can't replace a three hundred year old tree.
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by nephihaha 2mo ago
Yes, I do happen to know about jet fuel. There was a scandal at one of the COP summits when it was announced that private jets and private yachts would not have the same tax rates. Private jet flights are extremely frequent, and are used by
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by nephihaha 2mo ago
Yes, there have been a surprising number, and not just in the Andes and Himalayas where you would expect. There have been a few in Africa in modern times. Some of them have disappeared.

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