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by an9n 4y ago
The Guardian sold out to corporate interests a long time ago.
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by an9n 4y ago
So how would you explain the fact that hardware is still in demand?
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by an9n 4y ago
> Any level headed person, forget a politician, would want to experiment first, see the results, gauge and then expand selectively. That is common sense. > I guess when you are a dictator ish government and you rule the country with a
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by an9n 4y ago
If there's one thing the government will protect more jealously than pretty much anything else, it's their monopoly on violence, and preventing the government dipping its beak comes a close second.
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by an9n 4y ago
Here's hoping they avoid death by IMF.
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by an9n 4y ago
It's going to be interesting to see how well that spirit holds up when the temperature is below zero, and the German economy is bankrupt.
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by an9n 4y ago
Surely Alastair Campbell would never lie /s
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by an9n 4y ago
'The first casualty of war is truth'.
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by an9n 4y ago
> ~90% vaccination rate And all deaths within 28 days of a positive test are 'covid deaths', even if they got run over by a bus or actually died of cancer.
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by an9n 4y ago
Of my neighbours, colleagues and family, those that took the vaccine are those that are also getting ill with covid over, and over again.
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by an9n 4y ago
It's been a while since I'd visited! Always amusing.
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by an9n 4y ago
I just don't want it to involve React
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by an9n 4y ago
Well indeed, but they say you should take this before you start drinking! An hour or two before you want to stop, perhaps.
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by an9n 4y ago
The only possible upside to this is that the poor Sri Lankans will breathe a little more easily for a while - I remember that the pollution in Colombo was pretty appalling (not that that's their fault). I really feel for them, as in my
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by an9n 4y ago
Surely the whole point of drinking is not to have the alcohol break down more quickly?
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by an9n 4y ago
> The artists and scientists in the study were nominated by panels of experts before being validated as exceptional based on objective metrics Hmmmmm
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by an9n 4y ago
Something like that. It really is tragic. Our 'leaders' seem to have no ideas beyond a relentlessly expanding, relentlessly interfering state.
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by an9n 4y ago
A smart government would incentivise the population to invest in British industry, which would develop the economy and reduce this ridiculous industrial-investment-killing monster in the shape of the property market. But, this is England: a
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by an9n 4y ago
> Even with landsat as free competition, the cost of remote sensing data is exceptionally high. And yet strangely enough remote sensing companies apparently struggle to make a profit, at least as I understand it.
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by an9n 4y ago
It took me literally a few seconds to find this: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/16/skunk-cannab... 'Smoking powerful skunk cannabis triples the risk of suffering a serious psychotic ep
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by an9n 4y ago
The trouble is that skunk is now prevalent and much, much more powerful than standard weed or hash - and the stronger it is, the more likely that it will trigger serious mental health problems like schizophrenia in a percentage of users. Al
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by an9n 4y ago
What could go wrong?
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by an9n 4y ago
There is not a snowball's chance in hell that these texts are not archived on a server somewhere. So if we do not see them, it's because 'they' do not want us to see them.
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by an9n 4y ago
This really is jumping through hoops to excuse the fact that a citizen of the EU has no way of directly removing these people via their vote.
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by an9n 4y ago
I'm sure there's nothing dodgy happening here. Let's just trust the experts and not let trifling matters - such as Pfizer having not that long ago received the largest fine in history for a healthcare company - could our judg
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by an9n 4y ago
In certain sectors in the UK e.g. defence they absolutely love certs.
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by an9n 4y ago
Here in the UK the authorities very quickly stopped publishing the raw data when it rather inconveniently started undermining their narrative that the vaccine is the best thing since sliced bread, makes you funnier, sexier and more intellig
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by an9n 4y ago
Anecdata: the people I know that keep catching COVID very much seem to be the ones that took the gene therapy being misleadingly described as a vaccine.
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by an9n 4y ago
> Russia is blockading Ukraine grain exports Russia say that it's Ukraine refusing to demine the waters that it, Ukraine, mined in the first place. I've also read that the impact of the (lack of) grain exports is drastically ov
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by an9n 4y ago
Couldn't agree more. I'm in the UK and in the process of installing underfloor insulation in a house built around 1890. It is a flooboards-up job involving a windproof one way moisture permeable membrane above the joists, with hyg

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