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by okeuro49 3y ago
Rather than this law, I would start at banning social media accounts for under 16s. Social media has arguably had an appalling effect on the mental being of teenage girls. https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/metaverse-
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by okeuro49 3y ago
> And I mean James Bond was even in on it. What's the reference?
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by okeuro49 3y ago
I've visited a flat in the Barbican. It was like prison cells in a panopticon. > aspirational development for "middle and upper middle class professionals" [1] and remains highly sought after to this day. In spite of its b
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by okeuro49 3y ago
> I actually like that - nature easily integrates it back into itself. That can't happen with glass towers. Moss and vines look great on Britain's Georgian and Gothic architecture. On Brutalist flat surfaces, it just looks dirt
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by okeuro49 3y ago
The design to me looks simple, yet aesthetic. Brutalism looks simple, but horrible and anti-human, especially in Britain's climate, where it tends to get stained by damp and moss.
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by okeuro49 3y ago
> This is likely on the same level as horse dewormer for COVID. That something sounds strange doesn't particularly lead me to question the likelihood of efficacy. The evidence on something's efficacy leads me to question someth
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by okeuro49 3y ago
> The UK does have a supposedly mandatory deposit protection scheme, but a lot of dodgy landlords aren't compliant with it, and the dispute process is a fucking nightmare. You can claim up to three times the deposit if it isn't
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by okeuro49 3y ago
There's zero need for each child to have a Chromebook. The drive for technology in the classroom is for the benefit of manufacturers, not children. However the "Zoom classrooms" during Coronavirus have probably now made it di
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by okeuro49 3y ago
Personally I found German texts on the Kindle invaluable, with the auto dictionary lookup. Erich Kaestner and Hans Fallada were my favourites as they used an easy/journalistic style.
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by okeuro49 3y ago
Regular Javascript is pretty good now; could probably drop jQuery. And add Ansible. Super low learning curve to get a server up and running.
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by okeuro49 4y ago
> go to therapy Unless you have psychological issues you want to resolve, "make friends" makes this part redundant. The idea that everyone needs to pay a professional to talk to unnecessarily medicalises the human condition.
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by okeuro49 4y ago
> there's always the fear that Google will just kill the account, possibly shuttering the business. I get that feeling sometimes about my Gmail account. If I do get deleted by the algorithm, then I feel the only way I will get suppo
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by okeuro49 4y ago
Spring docs are fantastic, take for example https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/3.0.x/reference/html...
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by okeuro49 4y ago
Which is all the more reason to separate the payments system and money supply from investments and loans.
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by okeuro49 4y ago
> Cults don’t usually have that level of industry involvement I think there's a level of money laundering involved.
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by okeuro49 4y ago
Covid money creation is part of it. But in Europe inflation is also being driven by high energy prices due to the war in Ukraine.
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by okeuro49 4y ago
> Unfortunately in the UK apartments are associated with the dirty poors No they're not. If anything they're associated with dodgy leasehold, dodgy management fees and dogdy cladding. None of which are usually issues in a house
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by okeuro49 4y ago
It was the end of capitalism. But perhaps not in a way you were expecting. The bailouts were state socialism. We need to separate our payments system and money supply from banking investments and loans so that banks are no longer "too
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by okeuro49 4y ago
I wouldn't usually be so cynical, but I noticed recently how the BBC was responding to the inflation crisis, by somehow making it out to be some external thing that nobody could control, and nobody could have predicted. When in fact th
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by okeuro49 4y ago
A cynic would say that the BBC is preparing the public for the Online Safety Bill, where many small online ventures will become unviable.
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by okeuro49 4y ago
Alright Cathy Newman. No, probably what many women are finding is that selling your soul to a company isn't all it is made out to be. Plenty of men report the same on their deathbeds, wishing they hadn't worked so much and had spe
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by okeuro49 4y ago
> Cars are not some revelations-esque phenomenon and parking lots do not "eat" anything. This website provides a good counter argument: https://www.strongtowns.org/ > In America, driving is far and away the
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by okeuro49 4y ago
> suburb ("only" 10 miles away) This is odd to me. This is not a long distance. Is there zero transport infrastructure where you live?
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by okeuro49 4y ago
It seems to me that Musk is moving away from advertisements, to trying to build the first social network that doesn't rely on the user being the product, but rather paying for the product. That's supposedly what tech people root f
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by okeuro49 4y ago
You're not familiar with the issues around this topic.
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by okeuro49 4y ago
> He isn't BBC staff. That's not a fait accompli, and is why this situation arose: > Do the policies apply to Lineker? The answer is yes. The policies apply to everyone who works for the BBC. https://www.russells.
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by okeuro49 4y ago
Read further > There are also others who are not journalists or involved in factual programming who nevertheless have an additional responsibility to the BBC because of their profile on the BBC. We expect these individuals to avoid takin
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by okeuro49 4y ago
> It's funded by a subscription paid by owners of TV reception equipment. Netflix is funded by a subscription paid by owners of TV reception equipment. The BBC is funded by a mandatory licence, i.e. a tax. > Lineker didn't e
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by okeuro49 4y ago
> Except he didn't, he used his own personal twitter account. The BBC's impartiality rules cover this. > Personal Activity > Expressions of Opinion on Social Media > Where individuals identify themselves as being linke
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by okeuro49 4y ago
The issue is that policies are being implemented into supposedly neutral institutions, bypassing the democratic process.

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