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by rgblambda 8mo ago
The keyword is "often". As in, it's repeated throughout the year. The homily is supposed to be, but isn't always, an explanation of the Gospel story that was told just before it. So there really shouldn't be homily
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by rgblambda 8mo ago
Again, not defending the use of AI. My comment was more as a general response to people who maybe don't have a real life experience of listening to Catholic homilies and have unrealistic ideas of how much effort priests would normally
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by rgblambda 8mo ago
Not defending the use of AI, but plenty of people who grew up going to Mass on Sunday know that priests often recycle old homilies, deliver lazily written homilies or homilies that were clearly pulled from the internet, or just skip them if
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by rgblambda 8mo ago
>If there is a direct call to action then they should be held responsible >They directed people to kill and as such they were guilty. I'm glad we finally reached an agreement that people can and should be held criminally responsi
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by rgblambda 8mo ago
"No officer. I didn't smash the window. It was the bat I was swinging. You should arrest the bat". People were sentenced to death at Nuremberg for giving orders, written and spoken. It's well established in every legal j
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by rgblambda 8mo ago
In the 1950s, the Reverend Ian Paisley would organise rallies in the streets of Belfast and when speaking at those rallies, read out the addresses of Catholic homes and businesses on those streets. The crowd would then attack those homes an
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by rgblambda 8mo ago
Well they're not an alternative, so I suppose not. No one is being chained to a desk and made to author reports on how their department is aligning with the new business growth strategy. And the robot slaves aren't being designed
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by rgblambda 8mo ago
chasd00 did mention that this was for consulting projects, where presumably there's a handover to another team after a period of time. Maintainability was never a high priority for consultants. But in general I agree with your point.
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by rgblambda 8mo ago
I can't locate the article unfortunately. Ad based revenue comes with its own problems. But I doubt there's that many readers who so ferociously disagree with an article that they then refuse to consume any more free content from
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by rgblambda 8mo ago
The Economist (ironically a subscription based publication) reported that subscriptions for news media results in greater political polarisation. When the news outlets says something subscribers don't like, they run the risk of losing
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by rgblambda 8mo ago
That, unfortunately has pushed advertisers into guerrilla marketing tactics like posts and comments disguised as genuine user behaviour. It means we now need to parse whether what we're looking at is an ad or not. Maybe they would have
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by rgblambda 9mo ago
Hope you understand this is the equivalent of an ice cream parlour handing out free ice cream because the freezer broke. It has nothing to do with government agricultural policies or subsidies. Otherwise your friends would be getting their
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by rgblambda 9mo ago
>Here in the EU, farmers are giving away subsidized potatoes in Berlin currently. I looked into this story because it doesn't sound correct. It seems the potatoes were indeed sold but due to an unusually high yield this year, the tr
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by rgblambda 9mo ago
>bible story at the end Unless they've revamped the format since I've last been, the bible stories (plural) are at the start and middle of mass.
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by rgblambda 9mo ago
I would imagine individual states would manage their own health services, with the federal government acting as more of a coordinating and standard setting body. At least that's how it works in UK, Spain etc.
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by rgblambda 10mo ago
The thrill of weaving through traffic vs the tedium of being the traffic might be the real incentive, whether the driver is consciously aware of that or not.
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by rgblambda 10mo ago
>Hebrew was literally synthesised a century ago. I had heard somewhere that much of the vocabulary of Modern Hebrew consists of loanwords from Arabic. Is this correct and if so, would it mean that the "cleanliness" of the langu
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by rgblambda 10mo ago
>I don’t believe we had that button at the founding Every government everywhere has and has always had state secrets e.g. names of spies. >make being involved with witness harm at any layer of indirection a capital offense. People sti
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by rgblambda 10mo ago
I thought you were making this up, as it sounds too ridiculous to be true. But no, it's a real thing. The key to his success seems, at a glance, to be raising his media profile by taking controversial positions (which I suspect he may
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by rgblambda 10mo ago
Wouldn't they just trade through their relatives? Or does the insider trading immunity not stretch that far?
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by rgblambda 11mo ago
My point is that they clearly haven't sat down with a lawyer, so don't know what the appropriate response is. I suspect they'd get told to calm down while the lawyer sends a letter to the authorities explaining what they&#x27
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by rgblambda 11mo ago
A European Arrest Warrant would make the entire EU off limits. Which makes me think they haven't thought this through and are just overreacting, as many on this thread suspect. If the GrapheneOS maintainers were being advised by a lawy
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by rgblambda 11mo ago
Not to mention there'd be at least a few students too timid to challenge the teacher, even if they knew they got it right.
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by rgblambda 11mo ago
If there has been a rise in the amount of harassment due to the pandemic, then why have actual convictions dropped compared to before the pandemic. I refer to the graph of convictions per year in the HoL report linked above. >But you jus
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by rgblambda 11mo ago
>And it's not 30 arrests per day for saying things the government don't like or that are politically incorrect, is it? We don't know, as offence type isn't provided by police services. The key takeaway is that arrests
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by rgblambda 11mo ago
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/police-make-30-arr... The findings in the Times article were subsequently debated in the House of Lords. The figures weren't disputed: https://lordsli
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by rgblambda 11mo ago
>ISPs must implement implement parental blocks by default This is already the case in the UK. We discovered another sad fact. Parents will suddenly develop the technical literacy to turn parental controls off because it's inconvenie
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by rgblambda 11mo ago
It'll take legal responsibility being placed on the parent, and one parent being prosecuted and convicted for child neglect, in order for that attitude to change.
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by rgblambda 11mo ago
I think Spark was the best tool out there when data engineering started taking off, and it just works (provided you don't have to deal with jar dependency hell) so there's not a huge incentive to move away from it.
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by rgblambda 11mo ago
Here's every vote on the Online Safety Bill: https://votes.parliament.uk/Votes/Commons?SearchText=Online+... Labour & Lib Dems may have voted against the exact text presented to the house on a number of occasi

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