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Phones in class? Lock ‘em up(npr.org)
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by psergeant 8y ago
Propanalol, which is dramatically less illegal, is meant to help with this too, and there are studies showing it too; my understanding (from using it for anxiety) is it basically blocks you from being able to feel stress. This allows you to
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by psergeant 8y ago
> Why is it that way? If the other methods could target you technically, they would
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by psergeant 8y ago
> That applies to absolutely anything a government could decide to want to do though Mmm, that’s not true. Courts recognise EU supremacy over the British parliament, although it would be possible to ant-fuck this point if you were feelin
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by psergeant 8y ago
> pretty much every sentence remains comprehensible with every vowel syllable spoken as "ə" Making learning a language where the vowel sounds are the important one a freakin’ nightmare for Anglophones.
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by psergeant 8y ago
This is largely true of European languages: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/language.gif That Norman invasion was a big deal.
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by psergeant 8y ago
Thai largely is, although memorising the tone rules makes this rather more challenging.
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by psergeant 8y ago
> The UK government isn’t allowed to This is reasonably misleading, as nothing at all stops a new government with a parliamentary majority from simply scrapping that law.
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by psergeant 8y ago
I’m struggling to find more info about this anywhere, do you have a link?
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by psergeant 8y ago
I’m not sure I can envisage any situation where I wouldn’t be chipping away at point totals like a particularly needy Product Manager
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by psergeant 8y ago
I’m close to some aid workers in this part of the world. There appear to be a bunch of wide-eyed technologists desperate to foist blockchain on the whole crisis, from recording health records to this. That the “Rohingya are turning to it” r
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by psergeant 8y ago
Beta blockers have been a great SSRI top-up for me after I lost a year to a benzo problem
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by psergeant 8y ago
I have an enduring memory of being a child in Bangkok eating “Super Hawaiian” pizza, which was a Hawaiian with Thousand Island dressing
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by psergeant 8y ago
I think that’s in Florence
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by psergeant 8y ago
> The rules aren’t meant to be bent British law is full of opportunities for rules to be bent in the pursuit of justice and common sense. > if Lucas made a mistake in filing the wrong paperwork, it absolutely makes sense for the conse
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by psergeant 8y ago
It shouldn’t be any surprise that the successor to the mighty TURBOSLAV empire was progressive.
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by psergeant 8y ago
It was a Mac on a Mac, which I believe is also officially supported
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by psergeant 8y ago
I had a client give me a meaty Mac laptop, and had no desire to carry two laptops. I imaged their install, and then formatted the machine, and ran their image in a VM, and treated the underlying machine as my own. Worked well for a little w
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by psergeant 8y ago
> Our understanding of gravity is pretty much the same as Newton's in how we can utilize it I suspect anyone from Newton’s day would be surprised to see an A380.
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by psergeant 8y ago
This is also why quite a few pubs do Thai food.
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by psergeant 8y ago
> Batteries are limited by the physics of our universe Right, but our ingenuity and understanding of the physics may well not be perfect. Didn’t Moore’s law continue on well past it’s sell-by-date?
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by psergeant 8y ago
I feel there is a huge difference between being in a position where the state actively opposes your bondage, because you’re a human in the eyes of the law, and the state seeing you simply as someone else’s property.
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by psergeant 8y ago
Slavery as a state-sponsored endeavour pretty much is, though.
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by psergeant 8y ago
I feel like slavery was orders of magnitude worse than Apartheid. Neither is in the least excusable, but still, apartheid was theoretically about separation and discrimination, rather than classing people as property.
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by psergeant 8y ago
Ah, this seems like comparatively a huge reach to me, and I think it does a massive disservice to compare the enslavement of Black Americans to penal servitude, even given the outsized representation of African Americans in the US penal sys
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by psergeant 8y ago
> [the former slave] died there in 1921, at the age of 67. From a linked article. Especially as a Britisher, where 100-odd years seems pretty recent, it’s incredible to me that there were slaves so recently in the US. Somehow that makes
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by psergeant 8y ago
Excessively shitty grey weather?
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by psergeant 8y ago
I think as well this misses the point that an election target can be life or death. If the US elects a Putin-unfriendly government in the near future, one would expect some serious fire-and-brimstones reprisals from the Americans (and Europ
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by psergeant 8y ago
It’s been a bizarrely good talking point with dates who make it back to my place, too.
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by psergeant 8y ago
#engineering

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