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by pmg102 5y ago
Every single tree lining that road in 1902 gone and not replaced by 2015.
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by pmg102 5y ago
Flu is short for influenza so perhaps the apostrophes are intended to indicate the existence of missing characters?
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by pmg102 5y ago
"Singapore has recorded some fully vaccinated locals getting Covid-19, but none of them have had serious symptoms." Fully vaccinated people are hospitalised in the UK every day. Some of them die. I think this sentence misleads. Va
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by pmg102 5y ago
I don't understand the point or popularity of the pickup. It's like a van except no roof so your luggage gets wet if it rains. I suppose it just rains less in America.
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by pmg102 5y ago
Absolutely the same. Some people just naturally improve when iterating on something (for me, coding is this way) while other just stay at "incompetent" forever - for me, most other activities such as DIY, playing guitar, cooking,
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by pmg102 5y ago
Right but this suggests those things might be for your benefit when it looks to me like they're for team cohesion ie for the employers benefit. There's nothing wrong with that unless they're trying to portray those things as
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by pmg102 6y ago
Do you mean underlies instead of belies? I'm having trouble parsing the meaning of your first sentence.
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by pmg102 6y ago
But getting bothered, angry and proving someone wrong on the internet ARE my own projects. What would I do without them? :/
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by pmg102 6y ago
Ex-primary teacher here. At any one time a certain percentage of kids in the class would be off sick, it was a given. So the curriculum doesn't proceed linearly but more like a helix: it circles around and around the same topics year b
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by pmg102 6y ago
Rather than keeping all your other expenditures the same and reducing your savings outgoings by 100% each month, what about reducing all your expenditures by 20%? Unless your income and outgoings have been fixed at their exact current level
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by pmg102 6y ago
There's the 'school closures' lever still to pull. Then there's things like only being allowed out of your house once a day for exercise. And maybe if your work can't be done from home you're paid to stay home
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by pmg102 6y ago
Is this for a vaccine that confers sterilizing immunity (ie, prevents infection and therefore onward transmission, as well as preventing severe disease)? I don't believe we yet have evidence that any covid vaccine provides this. I&#x27
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by pmg102 6y ago
I've tried a number of these activities. What I've found is that most if not all the ones I've tried require and imply screen time. I go down rabbit holes of scrolling phone for the perfect sofa, the perfect cycling jersey, t
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by pmg102 6y ago
It behaves exactly the same, but faster (is the current working assumption based on limited research so far). So the "problems" it is causing is just that EITHER more stringent restrictions of the same kind are required to contain
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by pmg102 6y ago
He means as it is more transmissible (but yes, apparently by the same routes and mechanisms) we need to tighten restrictions. A rhetorician would call these different "methods" of attack but you're right that in fact they&#x2
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by pmg102 6y ago
"Lost your job during COVID? You could be eligible for a complientary copy" Do I get a complientary copy for proofreading your copy? Like a sort of bug bounty if you like :D
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by pmg102 6y ago
"The coronavirus is the cause of about 20% of colds." and "0.2% of cold viruses are coronaviruses" aren't necessarily mutually exclusive statements