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by pluma 7y ago
You'd think the solution to "scared" and well armed officers wouldn't be more weapons. Tasers were heralded as a way to reduce casualties because they were a less-than-lethal replacement for guns, but now cops are still
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by pluma 7y ago
Well, Uber is more exploitative for the drivers and less safe for the riders, so the choice seems clear. On the other hand Uber has a flashy logo and an app and is sometimes cheaper.
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by pluma 7y ago
Yes wrong. The first decade was either 9 or 10 years (depending on whether you want to be weird and include 1 BC), every decade after that was 10 years starting at 'X0 and ending at 'X9. This is how the common usage defines the te
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by pluma 7y ago
For those still unclear: it's a type of tumor that basically grows things in places they're not normally supposed to be. "Things" including cartilage, hair and teeth.
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by pluma 7y ago
No, the problem is that people read out long numeric sequences in inconsistent ways. Consider this: "sixty-nine" is clearly 69. But when spoken out, especially in a long string of digits (like an IBAN, a banking code) that might b
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by pluma 7y ago
I think the Fiat Multipla is distinct in that it is unlovably ugly. I can get behind the ugliness of vehicles like the Cybertruck because it just looks absurd, but the Fiat is just grotesque.
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by pluma 7y ago
Fellow German here. I find it extremely annoying when people read out numbers for me to write down and announce pairs as numbers instead of digits. If you mean 42 and read out "zwei und vierzig" I will pause and have to figure out
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by pluma 7y ago
That's literally rape. If you consent to a sex act, that doesn't mean you consent to any sex act. If you "switch holes", or "lose the condom" or simply don't put one on at all, without consent, that&#x
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by pluma 7y ago
Spousal rape and sexual abuse were legal in many places for a long time (and still are in some), doesn't make it not rape and sexual abuse, though. "Informed enthusiastic consent" isn't so hard to figure out, is it? If y
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by pluma 7y ago
Too late for an edit but I was going by what was shown in the video, which very much didn't look it could do that. That said, that's still basically "3D but without glasses", not exactly the Holodeck "hard light&quo
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by pluma 7y ago
CET and EST are also the same time in Miami as in Singapore. That's just how time zones work. The distinction with UTC is that it isn't tied to any particular physical location, it's not the "time zone" for anywhere
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by pluma 7y ago
Gore isn't bleak. A pop up of a chuckling Vault Boy notifying you of a critical hit isn't really "dark humor". Fallout 3 is very on the nose compared to Fallout 1. I'm not faulting anyone for enjoying any of the new
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by pluma 7y ago
Note that this "only" adds depth. It can't make anything appear to "come out of" the screen, the effect is more like a window. It's not like holograms in science fiction. It's still pretty impressive tho.
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by pluma 7y ago
Fallout pretty much died after Fallout 2. The new franchise has very little to do with the original game(s). It's important to understand what Fallout went through before Bethesda even got their hands on it: By the time there were plan
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by pluma 7y ago
Prostitution is legal in Germany but it is regulated and money made from it is taxable income. Also famously you do have to pay taxes on illegal income, otherwise the income is both illegal and tax fraud.
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by pluma 7y ago
It's switching two corporate overlords for one, so I think they'll still see it as a net win.
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by pluma 7y ago
Generally the advice in Germany is not to use "funny" descriptions, but not because the bank might have no sense of humor but because the tax agency might take it literally. If your friend sends you money "for sexual favors&q
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by pluma 7y ago
Just like how most public healthcare proposals in the US while technically raising taxes would end up leaving the individual with a much lower financial burden because of the ridiculous amounts of money Americans pay for healthcare and medi
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by pluma 7y ago
I'm with you except for conflating right wing propagandists with sex workers and the cannabis industry. Right wing propagandists are rarely deplatformed compared to the other two groups and when they are it's generally for spreadi
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by pluma 7y ago
FWIW in Germany we have PostIdent, which consists of taking a printout to the local post office, showing your ID card and then having the clerk fill out and sign the printout and send it to the organisation you're trying to authenticat
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by pluma 7y ago
Also last I checked he didn't shoot at agents, he tried to set their (empty) cars on fire and was shot for refusing to disarm himself. This is technically arson, but different from the "he tried to burn down a building with people
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by pluma 7y ago
As an addendum, also compare recent nationalism in Turkey and Kurdish nationalism: Turkey is an established state. Nationalism in Turkey is a social movement for increased conformity (resulting in a rise of Islam, slowly converting it from
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by pluma 7y ago
Relevant video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ce_nNAfVq0 Synopsis: there's a distinction between hypernationalism and nationalism; nationalism has become normalised for a long time, so any "nationalism" th
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by pluma 7y ago
This is funny to read as where I live (Germany) banks have been slowly migrating away from SMS-based verification to app-based code generators that in turn require one-time authorization via physical mail. And we're generally lagging b
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by pluma 7y ago
Somehow people who think "toxic masculinity" is a man-hating slur tend to miss the fact that I may be a man (I am, btw). I don't "hate men" either. I neither hate myself nor do I hate other men for being men. I do h
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by pluma 7y ago
Just FYI, mocking the term "Toxic Masculinity" shows you either don't understand what it refers to or think those things are good, either of which makes me much less interested in anything else you might have to say because i
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by pluma 7y ago
Most of the time, yes. But if you've ever been in a mountainous region, you'll know that it won't be stationary all the time and that it's most dangerous when it's not.
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by pluma 7y ago
He misrepresents the GDPR a bit. At least in theory, the GDPR is meant to restrict collection, not just how the data is used and stored. It has a big loophole in allowing for vague "business interests" to be taken into considerati
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by pluma 7y ago
You can make money of it. You just can't use it to run a SaaS based on Sentry. This is a lot narrower than a general "non-compete" with a very minimal "non-commercial" restriction. You can provide Sentry-as-a-se
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by pluma 7y ago
"source available" but with a built-in mechanism that converts the source to "open source" after 36 months, hence "eventual open source".

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