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by user982 3y ago
The machine was rather difficult to operate. For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive - you merely had to
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by user982 3y ago
The Living Wake (2007) is an interesting but little-known movie with this plot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hTuqBKvVbw
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by user982 3y ago
RSS feeds are resolving for me again, and the embedded YouTube crash I mentioned in this thread seems to have simultaneously stopped. Hopefully whatever this was has been reverted.
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by user982 3y ago
YouTube embeds suddenly started crashing one of my browsers with OOM errors today. The timing may be related to broader changes.
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by user982 3y ago
> I'm not sure I have seen a single post ono any of those platforms which more than 50 comments which did not have at least one "ceasefirenow", palestinian flag and watermelon emoji, or in the case of facebook, a crude pa
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by user982 3y ago
Are you sure it wasn't The Caves of Steel ?
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by user982 3y ago
If you check the timestamp on this post, it was submitted before the other one you linked. A mod manually gave this one a second-chance bump to the front page.
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by user982 3y ago
Have you noticed any patterns or organization in the flagging and voting of this subject, or does it all look organic?
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by user982 3y ago
Your example in fish: for i in (seq 10); echo $i; end directly translated to bash: for i in $(seq 10); do echo $i; done
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by user982 3y ago
David Cross: "I don't think Osama bin Laden sent those planes to attack us because he hated our freedom, I think he did it because of our support for Israel and our ties with the Saudi family and all our military bases in Saudi Ar
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by user982 3y ago
I don't understand how your second sentence logically follows from the first.
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by user982 3y ago
The State Department ( https://www.state.gov/briefings/department-press-briefing-ma... ): QUESTION: Do Palestinians have a right to self-defense? MR PRICE: I’m – in – broadly speaking, Said, we believe in the conce
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by user982 3y ago
"The exact financial and structural connections between Falun Gong, Shen Yun and The Epoch Times remains unclear...Financial documents paint a complicated picture of more than a dozen technically separate organizations that appear to s
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by user982 3y ago
While I agree that Roosevelt's direct culpability for the atrocities in the Philippines isn't large, his involvement with them predated his presidency: as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he agitated forcefully for war with Spain
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by user982 3y ago
Roosevelt led a hunting safari through Africa immediately after his presidency that bagged more than 11,000 animals, including extremely endangered rhinos.
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by user982 3y ago
Israel then bombed south Gaza after herding the Palestinians there: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/why-is-israel-atta...
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by user982 3y ago
> Not true. Jews purchased many of the lands during British and Ottoman rule. When Israel was formed the Palestinians were given the majority of the territories. "The Jewish State allocated to the Jews, who constituted a third of
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by user982 3y ago
> So capable that they are perhaps the first people ever to police themselves in moderation of this behaviour, often explicitly and deliberately acting in the interests of alien people to their own detriment. That is unique. Posting th
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by user982 3y ago
I'm sure that may be true among ignorant Kiwis, but your racist uncle didn't write the OP's article or the history sources, which don't make that claim. So them posting the Spinoff article in response doesn't addres
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by user982 3y ago
I've come across this article before, and like all the other ones I've found that talk about a "Moriori myth" they seem to be creating and attacking a strawman: principally, the idea that the Moriori were the first inhab
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by user982 3y ago
> Perhaps that is a surer way to restore them to dignity than any other: to see them not as falling prey to our ancestors but as our ancestors. I did notice that the popular transition to recast Neanderthals from primitive troglodytes
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by user982 3y ago
Oh, I think you know which ones: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37130143
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by user982 3y ago
Right. So the US defying the UN matters in terms of real-world effect, but the UN defying the US doesn't. In the analogy here, wouldn't the W3C be the UN defiantly making toothless proclamations that Chrome (the US) can simply
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by user982 3y ago
> This matters about as much as the US defying the UN. Are those accidentally reversed?
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by user982 3y ago
Evens will pair up with evens to quadruple their unit income (why attach yourself to a deadweight odd?), with odds becoming a shunned caste largely doomed to death.
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by user982 3y ago
They see the deaths of others as an opportunity to become kings over the survivors. As Reddit CEO Steve Huffman put it: "I also have this somewhat egotistical view that I’m a pretty good leader. I will probably be in charge, or at lea
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by user982 3y ago
Don't consider it an age then, think of it as "the count of calendar years within which a person has existed." A newborn has only seen 1 year, 2023. An infant born any time in 2022 has lived across 2 years. This simplifies
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by user982 3y ago
A clarion call for humanity to wage open war on nature.
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by user982 3y ago
Yes, US law in 35 states does have something to say: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws#Anti-BDS_laws_in... Namely, if you do not support the human rights abuses of one particular country, action will be taken
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by user982 3y ago
I do wonder how Pew got such drastically different results from every other poll.

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