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by rsynnott 5mo ago
… Wait, what? In what sense are my ikea sheets improper?
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
Oh, they had those too back in the day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sea_Company
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
This has to be an absolute treasure trove for scammers. A list of the most gullible people around.
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
> The president has a "Doomsday Plane" to escape when the country is nuked. But does the plane have a ballroom? No? Well, then. > It is only another diversion, as is every action taken since his second term began, from the E
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
I mean, they're not exactly obscure. And if you're curious you can just read the wikipedia pages (or ask a magic robot, I suppose, if you _must_). What universal example that everyone would know were you thinking of?
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
> Because if you need to fit 560 minutes of cardio and then also fit weight lifting 3 times a week that's a lot of time working out ... I mean that seems kinda orthogonal. No-one's requiring you to do weight training three time
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
Not _necessarily_. I had big problems with pollen when I was a kid, but very rarely, these days (there seems to be _something_ that causes me difficulty for a few weeks a year, but that's more or less it now).
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
In this case they're trying to leave broadleaf trees alone, so probably not.
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
For values of 'forever' amounting to, at most, about two and a half years, but more likely about six months, one assumes.
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
The bigliest table! They're saying they've never seen such a beautiful table.
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
> Elon Musk unveiled the product in 2016 with the promise of beautiful solar tiles that would replace your entire roof — and he set a target of 1,000 new Solar Roofs per week by the end of 2019. Nearly a decade later, Tesla has installed
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
A bad idea ruined by poor business practices. Like, it's very hard to see how it could ever compete economically with normal solar panels.
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
No, at least not if you're talking about tractors broadly. The first practical traction engines (~1860) were pretty much instantly revolutionary. I suppose you could make the claim that the first things commonly called tractors (which
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
Ah, yes, nothing cuts costs like, er, inserting a middleman? I've no idea how anyone ever thought this could work.
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
Catholic Church's records on early popes are often surprisingly bad, particularly in antipope-heavy eras. There are a _number_ of popes where the detail is pretty vague. Use of damnatio memoriae also confuses the issue, eg: https:&#x2
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
While this is for practical purposes true _now_, there actually were a small number of married popes ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sexually_active_popes#... ), and there have been a few popes who were not pries
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
... Maybe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Joan (She probably didn't actually exist, but it's interesting that until quite recently she was generally believed to have existed.)
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
Fairly strong "never thought the leopard would eat MY face" energy there. "Argh, the surveillance company I work for is surveilling me!"
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
> On HN, the smart opinion is that it definitely has already made most of us developers obsolete. Reading the comments of any LLM-related posts, it's all talking about how LLMs have already replaced all but the most complex of techn
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
That's primarily the second industrial revolution (~1870-1914). The _first_ (~1750-1840) was... not so great, and note the gap. If your analogy is the industrial revolution, then "well, it's a bit shit now, but it'll all
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
Number of industrial revolutions: generously, two (though the distinction between the first and second Industrial Revolution is more or less only of interest to historians). Number of things called the next industrial revolution: roughly fi
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
What, both of them? I hadn't realised this was even road legal in any RWD country.
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
Kind of sad, really. They could probably save quite a lot of money in the long run by spending a few quid on a psychologist (assuming the horses could spare it).
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
(It is fascinating to me, though, how these "I'm broke due to [completely bonkers lifestyle expense]" things span almost all income levels. From "decent salary but has four cars for no obviously explicable reason" t
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
Yes. It's all the rage these days: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/6/trump-says-us-could-...
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
Well, presumably you didn't have a debilitating horse addiction.
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
Which legislators? No legislators are involved anywhere here. This is an advisory body quoting a foreign advisory body.
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
They also didn't say it was a loophole that needs closing; they just pointed out that the Children's Commissioner for England said that... Reporting on the EU tends to be quite bad, because people often don't really understan
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
Terrible headline. The EPRS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliamentary_Researc... ) said a thing, not the EU. Also, the EPRS did not argue that they are a loophole that needs closing. From the actual paper: &
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
I mean, the Economist has been... pretty sceptical of the UK's behaviour for a long time. It was extremely critical of Brexit, for instance. In 2017 and 2019 it endorsed the _Liberal Democrats_, for goodness sake.

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