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by rsynnott 3mo ago
I mean, honestly, the state of VCs these days, this might work to his advantage.
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Was there more content here at some point, or something? I can’t follow this at all.
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
It’s representative democracy, like most democracies. It is, granted, a particularly complex and confusing one. In practice, the average European has more agency in shaping EU law than the average American does in shaping US law; the US’s e
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
There’s been a large uptick in immigration from the US to Ireland; almost ten thousand last year. In general, people would do this via employment; software engineers and similar would generally qualify for a critical skills permit. For crit
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
As far as I can see, the Gatwick express is mostly an excuse to rip people off. Last time I was there, there was a normal train to Victoria for about a third the price, which took literally two minutes longer. Is there a tourney for which t
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
I mean, it probably depends on the train line? Only airport train I’ve ever had issues with was Manchester, and more due to an absolutely ridiculous ticketing situation than anything else.
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
… I mean, I think that’s completely nonsensical. “The other side says that if I change the rules, they might take advantage of that change” is not really a gotcha.
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
Per the article, they can’t, yet.
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
It is extremely funny that Epstein is clearly all “oh, fuck, not this guy, gotta make an excuse”, here.
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
I mean, see also Cromwell. There’s a natural tendency to try to sort historical conflicts into good and bad. The reformation and counter-reformation were very much bad v. bad. But they did ultimately produce change which was probably, on ba
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
I mean, if ol’ minihands is permitted to run for a third term, then the US really is teetering on the edge of not being a democracy anymore, and it would be entirely appropriate for the other side to attempt to use the new rules (presumably
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
The secret is to change the definition of the word ‘work’. It is not, of course, full self driving, but there is a (misnamed) product which does kinda work. I’m still kinda shocked that Tesla buyers fell for this.
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
These are EU government buildings; unlike the bridges in the current notes, they’re real structures, not an archetype. The EU likes a giant office block, generally.
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
> to eat crickets … Wait, is this what they think vegans do, or something?
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
The American far right is so bloody weird. Like, even weirder than other peoples’ far right. DEI bike lanes! What the hell.
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
Some hybrid buses are also serial hybrids.
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
I don’t understand why people use this for _illustrated menus_, of all things. The uncanny valley is particularly offputting in the context of _food_, and ai-generated food images often look very wrong.
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
Explaining the ECJ, the venue of the court case, would also likely have been, ah, a challenge.
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
Yeah, that's fair. The first paragraph really did read to me, though, like there was some new, presumably worse-than-Zizians, thing.
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
> You resoundingly do care about Musk; you're obsessed with him. "Care for" doesn't mean the same thing about "care about"; "I don't care for" means "I dislike", perhaps with a certa
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
... Huh. Hadn't realised there was a modern version, but it looks like it was re-released. I remember playing this _over a quarter of a century ago_.
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
> I have absolutely had well-meaning people quite confidently inform me that Roman military strength was a consequence of their cultural and ethnic cohesiveness. ... Wait, how? I mean, I think popular culture _does_ generally gloss over
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
The fascinating thing to me about rationalism is that it has its routes in scepticism, and particularly atheistic scepticism, and yet it seems to have evolved into, essentially, the 21st century's first notable religion. (Though in a w
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
> In other words, they had been dissatisfied with the whole rationalist way of arguing for a while; and this was the point where they finally felt like "This is actually just a game of words; and it's a dumb one I don't wa
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
Huh, yeah. After: > I resisted the urge after the arrest of the rationalist-aligned financier, Sam Bankman-Fried. And I bit my tongue real hard in the wake of the early 2025 scandal involving the Zizians, an alleged sex / murder cul
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
I mean, there’s a _reason_ that the Church was historically not keen on the general public reading it for themselves.
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
... Huh. This actually explains something I'd been confused about before; people on this site claiming that a 1000sqft apartment was small. Which, I suppose, if you include the entire footprint of the apartment including balconies, sur
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
The EU cookie directive, at least, does _not_ require notification if the cookies are functionally necessary.
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There will be a tipping point where production and wide distribution of petrol and diesel becomes unsustainably expensive; it really relies on massive volume to work at all.
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
Sure, but you wouldn't generally call someone who runs a mature small business a "great business leader". He's basically just a blogger; no particular reason to pay attention.

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