M2Ys4U

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by M2Ys4U 1mo ago
>and likewise England play international rugby, including against Wales and Scotland. Except when they play as part of the British & Irish Lions!
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by M2Ys4U 1mo ago
Style Assist is mainly for articles written by journalists that are employed by third-party news organisations (who own the UK's local news outlets) but are subsidised by the BBC - these people are "local democracy reporters"
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by M2Ys4U 2mo ago
>There's even some talk of a potential Loony-Bin alliance. Nah, never going to happen. There's history between Binface and the Loonies... and they're a lot more right-wing than people often think they are
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by M2Ys4U 2mo ago
>Ultimately, whether he would be allowed to write "Count Binface" as his name on the registration documents would depend on what the Electoral Commission decides. I had a look last week, but couldn't find their rules. One
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by M2Ys4U 2mo ago
>If he goes into the parliament building without his costume, it would be a bit awkward if, say, they were required to address him by his Count Binface alias. Members of Parliament aren't allowed to address each other by name in the
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by M2Ys4U 2mo ago
It wouldn't be the first time a novelty candidate has won an election. H'Angus the Monkey[0] won the Hartlepool mayoral election in 2002 and the man in the costume served three terms before the mayoralty was abolished in 2013. [0]
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Setting the Standards Free(smpte.org)
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by M2Ys4U 3mo ago
>Only applies to EU citizens' personal data That's not true. The GDPR applies to the personal data of anyone physically in the EU , to the extent that the data are processed[0] while they are in the EU. It also applies to the
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by M2Ys4U 3mo ago
Mid-thirties Brit here. I've never owned a credit card, neither has my partner. All of our card transactions are with a debit card. I've never needed instant-access debt so it's not really an attractive proposition. Perhaps
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by M2Ys4U 4mo ago
>judgment vs. judgement In British English "judgment" without the 'e' is generally only used for talking about judicial rulings, whereas most other uses of the word contain the 'e'.
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by M2Ys4U 4mo ago
>We'll see. It's not like police unions are making life better for citizens. The police aren't allowed to join a union
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by M2Ys4U 4mo ago
The author is a former civil servant. I think it's safe to assume he knows that writing to his MP is an option...
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by M2Ys4U 4mo ago
For people in the UK, Prospect has a Tech Workers branch: https://prospect.org.uk/tech-workers/ Prospect is my union (although I'm a member of a BECTU branch rather than the Tech Workers branch as I work in the br
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by M2Ys4U 4mo ago
BTW this is the financial services company,[0] not the taxi company.[1] I had never even heard of the former until now so I was quite confused until I realised it was an American fintech firm. Now it makes much more sense! [0] https:/
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by M2Ys4U 5mo ago
The regulation does cover everything that uses batteries.
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by M2Ys4U 5mo ago
>You're all angry at the wrong people. No. We're not. Perhaps we should be angry at both , but we definitely should be angry at you. Spam is bad. If your business can't survive without sending spam, your business shouldn&
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by M2Ys4U 6mo ago
Yes, but there are a lot of gullible investors out there so calling themselves that will jack up the value of their shares.
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by M2Ys4U 6mo ago
>(Does base 4 have a name?) Quaternary
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by M2Ys4U 7mo ago
(2024)
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by M2Ys4U 7mo ago
Submission URL should probably be changed to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2... as the current link is to a draft of this article
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by M2Ys4U 8mo ago
>We don't have landmass to facilitate the output waste in the UK Yes, we do. It really doesn't make that much space to store the waste. The biggest problem is people being irrationally scared of it.
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by M2Ys4U 8mo ago
>The first point already exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societas_Europaea SEs are public companies, and must have at least €120k in capital during formation. The proposed EU Inc. will be for private compa
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by M2Ys4U 8mo ago
The last time pan-European private companies (SPEs) were seriously proposed (2008) opposition from the German government blocked the proposals, the idea limped along until finally being ditched in 2014 after disputes in the European Parliam
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by M2Ys4U 8mo ago
>The ultimate aim is to create a new truly European company structure. We call it EU Inc., with a single and simple set of rules that will apply seamlessly all over our Union. I hope this is an indication that the Commission proposal wil
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by M2Ys4U 8mo ago
Worse, the rule became to reverse the victim and offender,[0] and belittle those calling out the behaviour as "woke" or "suppressing free speech".
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by M2Ys4U 9mo ago
>Imagine you have an AI button. When you click it, the locally running LLM gets a copy of the web site in the context window, and you get to ask it a prompt, e.g. "summarize this". but.. why? I can read the website myself .
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by M2Ys4U 10mo ago
>During that period, it was accessed 43 times by 32 unique IP addresses I find this an implausibly low number. It was all over Bluesky, X etc., not to mention journo Signal and WhatsApp groups.
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by M2Ys4U 10mo ago
Inflation in the EU is at 2.5% (2.1% in the Eurozone), that's hardly "rampant".
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by M2Ys4U 10mo ago
They're part-way through setting up a Belgian non-profit entity (AISBL) which will be the main organisation. From https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/the-future-is-ours-to-... >A vital aspect of our rest
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by M2Ys4U 11mo ago
The UK was never in the Schengen Area, though.

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