spacedcowboy

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by spacedcowboy 4mo ago
It bothers me, that FIFA and the US government are so openly corrupt. But it bothers me more that it works for them. The only response to Trump phoning the head of FIFA to tell him to remove a red-card is "fuck off".
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by spacedcowboy 4mo ago
> There is no point in this conversation, it is pure emotional certainty coupled with a very vacuous understanding of the world you live in. You've been emotionally hijacked by your media consumption. right back at you, son.
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by spacedcowboy 4mo ago
For Ukraine, America has treated them far worse than China, humiliating its leader, buying Russian oil, publicly agreeing with Putin, telling Ukraine to just give up its land and people, charging Ukraine for its support, trying to bend Ukra
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by spacedcowboy 4mo ago
Its not for me :(
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by spacedcowboy 4mo ago
For me, I have to get planning permission (which I'm not likely to get) to install a normal outside-fan/inside-unit air-conditioner. That's the downside of living in a conservation-area. The house is viewable on 3 sides from
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by spacedcowboy 4mo ago
It's worse than that, its "Some people I disagree with" on the part of OP.
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by spacedcowboy 4mo ago
Taken as read is the context "in Europe" here - it's a comment about European reaction to China vs America, and none of the above applies to Europe.
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by spacedcowboy 4mo ago
I fucking wish the UK government would do the same.
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by spacedcowboy 4mo ago
I mean, this is not necessarily a problem for the EU. Some might say it's a goal. The USA is far more dangerous a "friend" than China is an acquaintance. China has not been threatening military annexation, China does not rand
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by spacedcowboy 4mo ago
They asked Claude how to hide the Epstein files data that it found, so that even Claude and Mythos couldn't straight-up verify that Trump is a paedophile. It took a lot of doing, but they finally managed it, so the plebs get to play wi
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by spacedcowboy 4mo ago
The level of abstraction when I started was that you had to solder the components (resistors, capacitors, chips - well IC holders, chips were expensive) to the PCB board - that was "building your computer", none of this nancy-boy
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by spacedcowboy 4mo ago
Don’t think my opinion has changed much since the last time this was posted on HN… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624402
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by spacedcowboy 4mo ago
Nothing printable
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by spacedcowboy 4mo ago
"Just fly around over there somewhere"
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by spacedcowboy 4mo ago
Hah, looking out my window, I can see about 300 trees, and it’d be more if it weren’t for all the trees in the way. The house is next to a park that’s designed for walking in, with lots of twisty pathways between trees and bushes to give yo
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by spacedcowboy 4mo ago
For crying out loud Being the only company not letting you alter your photos isn't some holy crusade. Federighi was just giving a semi-decent excuse for why Apple couldn't offer what was being offered by others at the time. Appl
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by spacedcowboy 4mo ago
Skynet has indeed begun. There was a post recently about the very first time completely independent non-humans chose to kill humans (Russians) in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
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by spacedcowboy 4mo ago
China is approximately 40x the size of the UK, and has 20x the people. Using "the last 250 years" is not in any way a comparable term. The UK was emitting (in 2000) roughly what China is emitting today, 9.36 tonnes/capita the
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by spacedcowboy 4mo ago
Technically, no-one is denied critical and emergency care due to inability to pay. Chronic diseases are ... a lot less likely to be looked after. Unlike the NHS.
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by spacedcowboy 4mo ago
We have lots of things closing down, we need to sort that out, but burning the fucking world so we can live a life of plenty right now while screwing up every child and their own children even worse is not the way to do it. And I don'
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by spacedcowboy 4mo ago
As opposed to the USA, where having the wrong skin colour gets murdered by police, or shipped off to another country's jail even if you're a citizen. I'm a dual citizen. I choose to live in the UK.
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by spacedcowboy 4mo ago
Ed Milliband for PM! He's about the only one of the lot of them that actually understands that the point of being in power is to change things for the better. He's done an absolutely smashing job with energy, and I'd love him
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by spacedcowboy 4mo ago
I know about 6-700 people over here in the UK, I live in a poor-ish Northern town and I don't know a single person who's done "DIY dental care". Not one. Now 600 people is a lot smaller than 60 million, I don't dou
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by spacedcowboy 4mo ago
Fair. I've just never come across someone who knows what assembly-language is, and who doesn't understand how a computer works. The journey of discovery is usually from the top-down, not the bottom-up.
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by spacedcowboy 4mo ago
We are talking about presentations, though, right ? I thought that was taken as read. Even outside presentations, "awesome", "super-awesome", etc. were far more prevalent than one might expect within the reality I live
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by spacedcowboy 4mo ago
F365 covering it as well [1]. They're a lttle more blunt - basically "American immigration is racist as fuck". 1: https://www.football365.com/news/nobody-surprised-as-us-deny...
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by spacedcowboy 4mo ago
As a Brit, at Apple, I once got dinged on a performance review because I apparently wasn't a team player - I was apparently always putting down people's projects in the group meetings. "But, I've never done that. I'
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by spacedcowboy 4mo ago
It is, however, how a lot of Silicon Valley speak. Source: lived there for a couple of decades. And to an outside ear, it does just come across as completely fake. Jobs' "reality distortion field" was just the conviction in h
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by spacedcowboy 5mo ago
I'm genuinely puzzled by how you know enough about a system to even understand there is a basic assembly language, but still consider how "switching on" is 'pure magic'. Doesn't the one explain the other ? It
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by spacedcowboy 5mo ago
nope, just when i eat food. This morning i ate breakfast at 11:00, pretty much flat until then, mild slope upwards from 8am to 9am, but it only went from 6.2 to 6.7 then stabilised

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