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by toyg 3mo ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c33y3151vydo - "Pizza, pasta, potatoes, protein - how Italian children became so overweight" Industry fucked us too, dude.
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by toyg 3mo ago
That's how they conquered all of their known world though, out of sheer bloody-mindedness.
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by toyg 3mo ago
> an ancient road in ancient boots Boots? That's luxury! Sandals more likely...
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by toyg 3mo ago
In a neo-oligarchic world, beheading rich aristocrats is a big no-no. Also, glorifying reason has become very unpopular in a cultural context increasingly built around fairy tales (from Lord of the Rings to superheroes). And of course, the
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by toyg 3mo ago
This is not true. However, because of the massive inequality, I often found it easy to use a sentence I saw somewhere: "the US is a South American country that happened to become successful" .
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by toyg 3mo ago
Not everything is interactive, and what the routers do is precisely take away that mental effort on repeated tasks.
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by toyg 3mo ago
> Not sure if the couple had made trips to Tuscany before Dude, they were the royal family of Tuscany. They lived there. Which is why this test is not conclusive: sure, they had malaria, but at the time it was pretty common in the re
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by toyg 3mo ago
A meeting space to discuss business services, and a terminal for people who insist on depositing cash. They are definitely not a customer support terminal.
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by toyg 3mo ago
This is the same in urban Europe, eh. But over here, particularly in Northern countries, basketball playgrounds are mostly used for football. In the end, if you want to play football you just need a ball and goals, which are typically simul
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by toyg 3mo ago
Where do you buy reliable SD cards without overpaying? At the moment it feels like I can waste a little money on AliExpress, waste more money on Amazon, or be taxed to finance the existence of some outdated brick&mortar chain...
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by toyg 3mo ago
It's a bit of a paradox: burial rites are among the earliest and most fundamental elements of any society we know of; but long-term maintenance of burial sites has always been a challenge. That's probably because, after all the fa
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by toyg 3mo ago
FIFA pays federations on a result basis. It's then up to the individual federations to redistribute that money as you see fit. As you can imagine, a lot of that does not end up in the athletes' pockets... I believe clubs get some
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by toyg 3mo ago
World Cups have to alternate with continental competitions (Copa America, Asian Cup, European Cup, Africa Cup of Nations) which are on similar cycles. They could technically be held every two years (and current FIFA leadership is pushing to
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by toyg 3mo ago
They need to be updated anyway, and always have been: somewhere in the world, someone changes time rules basically every year, or even every few months. All current OSes already have support for stating "locale X will not use daylight
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by toyg 3mo ago
I understand your point, but it's slightly exaggerated. At least in Europe, any decently-sized city will have at least one of any of those. Not as many as there used to be, sure, but at least one.
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by toyg 3mo ago
Yeah, the issues of political critique that were key to early cyberpunk have largely been lost. It's partially the fault of the first Blade Runner movie, which exploded the genre while also sanitizing it of the harshest elements.
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by toyg 3mo ago
Even without reaching for fantasy, the real world has plenty of examples of "regulated crime" with various degrees of officialdom. From the Japanese Yakuza of the Showa era, to the mafia of postwar Italy, governments will often pr
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by toyg 3mo ago
Until someone will figure out that, according to some spreadsheet, outsourcing it all would result in Big Savings That Would Help The Share Price, and the carousel will start again. Capitalism will capitalism.
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by toyg 3mo ago
Surrendering to an aggressor will let the aggressor get what they want, hence making war more appealing. So it's coherent for anti-war people to resist and make it as hard as possible for an aggressor. Even Gandhi justified defensive w
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by toyg 3mo ago
I suspect the latter will come way before the former...
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by toyg 3mo ago
Strong for crime, strong for the causes of crime.
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by toyg 3mo ago
Compulsory Apple-defending post is compulsory. Non-replaceable batteries are worse for consumers and worse for the environment. The fact that you "do not miss" a better world, does not mean it is not better.
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by toyg 3mo ago
The layoffs are irrelevant to the discourse. It's typically considered by management to be good, for mature companies, to periodically fire as many employees as they can sustain without visibly impacting operations, and then re-hire ch
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by toyg 3mo ago
That's by design. It's like asking cable companies to only have this or that channel, or netflix to let you pay just for standup comedy specials. The bundle is the bundle, the hits subsidize the misses.
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by toyg 4mo ago
Some are more exposed than others.
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by toyg 4mo ago
It's not even just science. Anyone producing anything digital is now heavily incentivized to keep their wares away from the public internet, in a way we've not seen before. Drop any sample of your unique production online, and t
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by toyg 4mo ago
Qwen 3.6 and 3.5...
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by toyg 4mo ago
I tried using Zed but with local models it constantly breaks on tool calls. I wanted to like it but the smell of vibing is just too much.
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by toyg 4mo ago
> Something like Reddit, but with everyone's real names and contact information attached This is what some Europeans governments are effectively trying to achieve, although hamfistedly (as governments typically do). We definitely
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by toyg 4mo ago
yeah, the worst that could happen was some IRC shenanigans and getting a bunch of unexpected pizza deliveries. SWATing and doxxing were very rare, and nobody would try to get you fired or ostracized for saying the wrong thing.

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