blackshaw

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by blackshaw 3y ago
Entrepreneur magazine are famous for this too.
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by blackshaw 3y ago
The Rwanda ECHR injunction was followed, which is one reason why no migrants have yet been sent to Rwanda despite nearly two years of harsh rhetoric.
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by blackshaw 3y ago
How did you survive before 2020?
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by blackshaw 3y ago
I always do, but increasingly I'm finding places don't even have one to give me.
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by blackshaw 3y ago
You forgot "restaurants that no longer provide printed menus and expect you to view the menu on your phone instead". Dear fucking God I will go to my grave complaining about how much I hate this trend.
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by blackshaw 3y ago
So? 25% doesn't mean it can't happen. I wouldn't cross the road if there was a 25% of being hit by a car. The real way to measure predictive accuracy is to find _all_ the times they gave something a 25% chance of happening. I
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by blackshaw 3y ago
If we're talking about spelling, the biggest source of English's orthographic oddness is the Great Vowel Shift: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift
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by blackshaw 3y ago
> we are the champions of how to write something easy most difficultly, and crank weirdness of pronunciation to 100 Wurs than Inglish? I hav my dowts.
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by blackshaw 3y ago
Cigarettes kill you slowly over decades, fentanyl can kill a first-time user with a single dose. Moronic analogy.
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by blackshaw 3y ago
Why do you say it's not working out in Portugal or Amsterdam? I frequently hear those two places cited as an example of where drug liberalisation has been a big success. Is that not true? I ask from ignorance.
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by blackshaw 3y ago
As dang explains in one of the linked posts, it's because if they don't do it, the discussion usually becomes "how is this on the front page when it's 2 days old?" instead of discussing the topic at hand. Of course
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by blackshaw 3y ago
But is that old man wrong?
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by blackshaw 3y ago
So much nostalgia in this thread!
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by blackshaw 3y ago
I lived in Southeast Asia for a few years in my 20s - not teaching English, mainly just scraping together a living through random Internet bullshit, but I had lots of friends who taught English, and I've seen what a good springboard it
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by blackshaw 3y ago
Yeah, it's quite hilarious that this article's only critique of the OSB is to quote someone saying that it doesn't go far enough.
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by blackshaw 3y ago
Here we go again: Alex Jones is being a dick? Disgraceful - we need to censor the internet. Cloudflare is protecting a Neo-Nazi website from being DDOSed? There's no such thing as neutrality - we need to censor the internet. Journalist
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by blackshaw 3y ago
Interesting. I don't think I've ever seen it here in Britain. Some smaller businesses might insist on a £5 minimum spend if you're not paying cash, but even that has become very rare since the pandemic.
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by blackshaw 3y ago
Who are you to decide what other people should consider essential?
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by blackshaw 3y ago
Google "canadian trucker protest"
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by blackshaw 3y ago
Maybe we should also mandate the USDA to bake same-sex wedding cakes.
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by blackshaw 3y ago
You do understand what the word "addiction" means, right?
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by blackshaw 3y ago
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.” - Anatole France
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by blackshaw 3y ago
Okay, then let's not force businesses to make their buildings wheelchair-accessible either, because most customers can walk. If some customers can't shop there anymore then the market will take care of that problem too, right?
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by blackshaw 3y ago
That sounds like treating the symptom rather than the problem...
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by blackshaw 3y ago
Wait, is it common in the US for brick-and-mortar businesses to charge you extra if you pay by card? That doesn't happen in the UK.
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by blackshaw 3y ago
Let's think about who wouldn't be fine in a cashless economy: * Elderly people who struggle with technology. * People fleeing coercive situations like domestic abuse where their abuser controls their finances. * People with ment
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by blackshaw 3y ago
https://blackshaw.substack.com/ Here are two recent(ish) posts I was proud of: https://blackshaw.substack.com/p/desert-island https://blackshaw.substack.com/p/the-great-reset-is-to
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by blackshaw 3y ago
Must have been tough if you rolled out this system in Indonesia.
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by blackshaw 3y ago
The "posh" one is commonly repeated, but there's no evidence it's true: https://www.etymonline.com/word/posh#etymonline_v_18515
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by blackshaw 3y ago
They unbanned some controversial accounts (Trump being the most famous by far, although he hasn't posted anything since being unbanned), but it's pretty hyperbolic to say they allowed "all the banned users to come back"

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