benlumen

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by benlumen 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Dependencies
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by benlumen 4y ago
What are you talking about, "new narrative"? We're not all narrative-driven bots, you know. I've been reading about Elon Musk since before anyone else I knew had even heard of him and have always admired his endeavours.
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by benlumen 4y ago
This is fascinating and exciting to me, to be honest. Like a lot of people around here I'm sure, I've spent a lot of time thinking about Twitter's influence on our society and I can't say it's positive. The degree t
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by benlumen 4y ago
Are you saying that because for the SaaS company, $100 in income can service $20,000 in debt?
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by benlumen 5y ago
I meant of the situation now. He's literally exiled in Russia when he could have been working to protect us against Russia.
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by benlumen 5y ago
What sort of response is that? I'm sorry but yes, it is. You can very quickly look this up. Small island nations and city states aside, there are only a handful of major countries more populated than England.
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by benlumen 5y ago
They spent 100 billion pounds on lateral flow tests alone. I enjoyed the free test kits as much as everyone else, but think of the infrastructure that could have paid for.
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by benlumen 5y ago
The Ruble has devalued against the Euro by almost exactly the same amount. What am I missing?
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by benlumen 5y ago
It is, isn't it? https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2020-05-08-the-much-more-p...
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by benlumen 5y ago
Call me old-fashioned but I could argue that "everyone" benefits from a world where we can still economically isolate genocidal regimes. We do away with this power at our peril.
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by benlumen 5y ago
To whom? Lawless despots?
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by benlumen 5y ago
That's a 50% currency devaluation in a fortnight while the country's main export is still barely in the crosshairs. Russia might really be done.
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by benlumen 5y ago
If you don't yet believe this is a thing - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ivan+kuliak&ia=web
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by benlumen 5y ago
Not that high compared to where? The whole of England itself is statistically one of the most densely populated countries on earth. Interesting that you mention Oxford - Oxfordshire's towns and villages are being transformed by soulles
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by benlumen 5y ago
Most people understand, if they're being honest, that we're not a xenophobic nation in the slightest. I think the UK's anti-immigration sentiment is basically driven by chronic overpopulation in the South East. House prices w
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by benlumen 5y ago
Russia's word is worth less than nothing. It feels like they'll stop when we stop them, at this point.
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by benlumen 5y ago
Too right, they did. As a peak-oiler at the time I paid close attention to the run-up to $150 and the financial crisis that followed. And now fear we're in for a replay.
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by benlumen 5y ago
I still keep a pair of CRTs around for light gun games. Time Crisis 2 on system link (2 TVs, 2 PS2s) is particularly awesome.
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by benlumen 5y ago
And to think - he was perfectly placed to be on the right side of this thing, doing national cybersecurity. As an idealistic, naive teenager, I agreed with him and thought him a hero. I've gotten older and changed my views. Yet he&#x27
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by benlumen 5y ago
Without looking up the World Service bands, I wonder why Shortwave and not Mediumwave, for better propagation?
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by benlumen 5y ago
Demonic possession?
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by benlumen 5y ago
Maybe it's my surname, but it just looks like a population map.
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by benlumen 5y ago
Back in the day, Rockbox was the way to play FLAC on your iPod. I never found it to be as responsive or stable, though. Would be tempted to update my old Classic to solid state but keep the official firmware.
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by benlumen 5y ago
Wish we had this in UK towns and cities. So many people tolerate so much noise intrusion from a handful of imbeciles doing it deliberately.
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by benlumen 5y ago
Do you live in the UK? We had harsh, cruel, extended lockdowns. Like - no talking to friends on the street lockdowns. For like months at a time. Johnson, who subjected us to this, was having house parties the whole time. Most Brits would pu
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by benlumen 5y ago
You don’t give it 28 years? In the early 2000s I was in the “fast crash” camp, too. Not anymore.
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Mysterious aircraft spotted at Area 51 in satellite image(thedrive.com)
240 points by benlumen 5y ago|148 comments
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by benlumen 5y ago
I don't know about everyone else, but I usually bookmark to read later. I built a simple bookmarking webapp for this while in university over 10 years ago, pre-Pocket, even. The thing is, I usually don't read it later. Next time y
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by benlumen 5y ago
Humanity will surely survive one way or another - when I say apocalypse I don't mean complete and total extinction. Civilisation adapted to covid because we had power and communication. It simply won't survive the instantaneous lo
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by benlumen 5y ago
Couldn't agree more. I'm particularly upset that it's turned our journalists into click-farmers who experience no consequences for the damage and division they're causing. That has been a huge, huge blow to our society i

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