vablings

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by vablings 9mo ago
Pretty much, the whole small farmer trying to make a buck is a huge propaganda push, several companies own millions of acreage. I feel bad for the smaller farmers for sure but they are vastly overrepresented in the proportional losses becau
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by vablings 9mo ago
Stuff like this video is a huge source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez8F0nW6S Check the closed PR's on express https://github.com/expressjs/express Yikes!
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by vablings 9mo ago
Metal hardness having a bunch of different units is quite annoying but also interesting. There are quite a few ways to measure the hardness the most interesting being Vickers. You plunge a diamond of a known force into a surface and measure
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by vablings 9mo ago
Fuel is in litres but cars are in miles per gallon, I guess nobody wanted to do miles per litre or some unhinged calculation
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by vablings 9mo ago
The UK uses miles and miles per (UK) gallon. We talk in feet, inchs lbs and stone for weight. But when it comes to engineering works it is ALL now in metric aside from the older builder, all of my schoolwork was in metric, and we never deal
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by vablings 9mo ago
There are worse examples closer to home. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/white-house-briefing-fuels-in...
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by vablings 9mo ago
We live in a society, the government provides (or provides permission for) roads, utilities, housing and a boatload of other rules & regulation to protect people. Virtually any discussion around anything will always lead back to politic
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by vablings 9mo ago
I don't think that's exactly fair; there are plenty of other places that do not suit these criteria that get along fine with the dollar. it is on an exclusion basis not an inclusion basis
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by vablings 9mo ago
When you say non-western what do you mean in this context? From what you describe it just sounds like China, Russia and North Korea
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by vablings 9mo ago
> Via passage of laws, Congress over the years has chosen to delegate a lot of responsibility to the executive branch Part of the reason for this is that 2-year presidents are more common, they make promises within the first two years an
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by vablings 9mo ago
You make stuff like this too easy >Real quackery is allowing people to go to the supermarket all the time but disallowing them to exercise in the park. Or telling people not to talk to their neighbors over the fence but allowing internat
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by vablings 9mo ago
Proof, evidence or anything other than you just moving the goalpost on conspiracy quackery?
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by vablings 9mo ago
At least this way round its perfectly legal in some states
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by vablings 9mo ago
Sure, you can. Two kids up front and your wife in the bed. Jokes aside I could purchase a new hatchback and a small old Kei truck for a fraction of the cost of something like an f150
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by vablings 9mo ago
Yeah, I cannot speak for rural US as much, I live in a large metropolitan area, and I would estimate around 1/5th cars here are pickups. You can rent a truck from Home Depot for as low as $100 a day.
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by vablings 9mo ago
I heard the same hogwash over covid and vaccine passports, it didn't happen.
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by vablings 9mo ago
Digital ID is a very wishy-washy concept that has been co-opted by various groups to make strong statements about government overreach. If you want to make criticism you should make narrower statements, for example. A centralized ID system
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by vablings 9mo ago
> No one, including the FBI has ever made a statement that it was stolen and then charged O’Keefe for that This is blatantly false two people were charged in connection with interstate transport of stolen goods, and the raid was part of
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by vablings 9mo ago
I would be willing to say that a small Japanese kei truck is more than the average American would ever need for hauling furnishings, appliances and lumber. If you really need something bigger renting a trailer or truck is dirt cheap
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by vablings 9mo ago
The whole headache around good legal immigration is exactly why I left the UK after getting married. The costs, timeline and paperwork associated is insane! The US system is fairly bad too, but the rules and categories are clear cut with re
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by vablings 9mo ago
Things for sure are better, once you are kinda on the digital ladder with various things its ok. Drivers License, NI Number, Passport and Proof of address documents are all fairly trivial to get Payslips are fully automated and there is a n
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by vablings 9mo ago
There are absolutely ways to implement a digital ID system that is not soaking wet with red flags. See the following: https://www.eid.admin.ch/en/swiyu-coming-soon-e
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by vablings 9mo ago
Not sure what invoking children here does for the sake of argumentation. Digital ID is not bad; the issue is the implementation of digital ID that will cause huge issues such as giving billions of pounds to friends of MPs
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by vablings 9mo ago
Just curious where you are seeing this? Illegal immigration figures are down under the current government
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by vablings 9mo ago
Legally obtained is dubious in this context. He likely knew it was stolen
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by vablings 9mo ago
40 RA, my mum used to drive a Vauxhall Carlton > Additionally Britain generally has a problem with politicians believing that the only solution to a problem is banning/regulating things, regardless what the root cause might be. Bann
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by vablings 9mo ago
I think this is a bit tone-deaf the reason why the teensy is so desirable is because of its raw power in such a neat package. The RP2350 is great but if I wanted that I would just purchase it rather than the Freensy
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by vablings 9mo ago
You are imaginary levels of mad at a hypothetical situation.... Go outside
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by vablings 9mo ago
This doesn't work. The current POTUS is clearly trying to politicize the chair of the federal reserve who is independent and for his sociopathic fanbase it is working a treat, they do not even understand that Powell is not the sole dec
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by vablings 9mo ago
It feels pretty awful to have such a one-sided bias in the media of the UK getting clowned on for civil liberties, I have noticed so much more astroturfing on reddit about these issues with made-up ragebait lies. There are absolutely issues

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