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by smcl 3y ago
I think the question of which ally would supply what to Ukraine was generally pretty flexible - there were various statements about not supplying hardware like Bradley, Leopard, Challenger and F-16, I guess due to Russian threats about how
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by smcl 3y ago
Ah yeah I only just looked at its wiki page now, there's about 150-ish in total and under 30 in Central Europe (14 in ČR, 14 in Hungary - suspect the latter wouldn't be too keen to help out Ukraine). Edit: wow apparently as-of 201
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by smcl 3y ago
To an non-expert like me the Gripen just seems so well-suited for Ukraine's Air Force in this conflict - relatively inexpensive, can land/operate in tougher conditions, can be serviced nearby (Czechia), outfitted to handle Western
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by smcl 3y ago
They're promising good bonuses for signing up. There's a lot of complaints about people not actually getting what they've been promised.
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by smcl 3y ago
Ha I touched that site of grace just before I stopped playing. I'll snoop around first and will check out that merchant if (lol, when ) I run into issues
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by smcl 3y ago
Damn FromSoftware don't mess around. I'm still yet to finish Elden Ring (just defeated Fire Giant this weekend and I'm now pottering around in the Consecrated Snowfield) and I intend to play through either DS3, Sekiro or Bloo
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by smcl 3y ago
Hasn't this caused an arms race of sorts where these trucks get bigger and bigger to the point where now some models have worse visibility than enormous M1 Abrams tanks: https://carbuzz.com/news/the-abrams-m1-tank-
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by smcl 3y ago
Ah right but nothing can inflict deathblight on you in the Cave of Knowledge - there's only a few weaker enemies and, of course, Soldier of Godrick :D
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by smcl 3y ago
My point was that if you read these tweets and don't just "get it" then you're not going to be get much out of having any of them explained or by closely examining them. I know that's the case for most humour, but I
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by smcl 3y ago
If you’re looking for meaning in @dril tweets you’re going to be frustrated or disappointed.
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by smcl 3y ago
Don’t get cursed? It’s been a while since I started afresh and did that tutorial so I can’t think what this refers to
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by smcl 3y ago
This series was a real missed opportunity for me. The Chapo guys’ strengths are in their off-the-cuff banter and the little in jokes that pop up again and again. Large parts of this series involved Matt reading flatly from a script, and som
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by smcl 3y ago
Giving birth can take quite a while so perhaps it started on Sunday evening and finished on Monday morning?
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by smcl 3y ago
It's really bizarre how the dominant discussion here is based on some people seeing a huge increase in incidents and trying to debate that "skyrocketing" is the wrong word.
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by smcl 3y ago
It has entered common usage in the late 2010s as a disparaging term for British people. It's definitely not on the level of the n-word, but it's roughly on par with calling Germans "krauts", Scots "jocks", Ital
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by smcl 3y ago
Let's maybe dial it back with the slurs
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by smcl 3y ago
I didn't quite suffer from anything quite this severe, but Windows PCs definitely needed a restart once a day for sure. The weird one for me was installing new software requiring a restart. Some applications would insist on it, present
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by smcl 3y ago
Yeah it's quite impressive how widespread this mythology is and how deeply people buy into it. Many have this anachronistic view of rough-and-ready, good old boy Americans rebelling against tea-sipping foppish British fancy lads solely
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by smcl 3y ago
I honestly don’t know what people are getting out of seeing the same movies getting remade again and again. Wonka isn’t even the worst, how many Spider/Batmen have there been this century alone?
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by smcl 3y ago
Eh I dunno, plenty of reasons someone would make a mistake/typo/whatever - I'm a bit puzzled why a few of you are hung up on that over the rather optimistic deployment of AI, but it doesn't matter I suppose
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by smcl 3y ago
I don't think Fortran gets beaten up that much, it's just sort of ... ignored
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by smcl 3y ago
They’re talking about the very beginnings of Postgres, so it could be that they knew it was differently capitalised in the early days and couldn’t remember what it was (“POSTGRES”). But if you’re looking for red flags, they let some employe
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by smcl 3y ago
Wait before you were certain I was some sneaky trickster doing wordplay and that you had a slam dunk of a response, now “there’s lots of factors at play here”? What changed?
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by smcl 3y ago
You could just try it out and document your experience somewhere
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by smcl 3y ago
You're going to have to do a bit more than hand-waving about a bathing water directive being repealed back in 2014 and dumping a couple of links. If you want to make a point, make it.
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by smcl 3y ago
I don't think you understand what these companies do if you believe Thames Water is in competition with Evian or Brita. Remember they're not just providing drinking water but handling the treatment, recirculation and safe disposal
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by smcl 3y ago
Well parts of Scotland are. As arethuza said, in the North East of Scotland saw some local benefit. A few people became very wealthy, and many people hopped up one or two social classes through the jobs that were created (and bought nice
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by smcl 3y ago
I don't think you want to point at English football clubs if we're talking about sensible compensation, not least since one of the issues highlighted in the article are the debt load of these English and Welsh water companies.
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by smcl 3y ago
Well it kind of demonstrates the problem here. They've taken on an enormous amount of debt, slashed essential maintenance and paid out a ridiculous amount of dividends. To be able to do this prices have skyrocketed across the board. Wh
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by smcl 3y ago
> Since then the sector has accumulated £53bn in debt while distributing £72bn to shareholders, the majority of whom are international investors someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

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