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by cam_l 5d ago
I imagine almost all other bread tastes awful to German taste buds. And imho the British kind, especially, does not even deserve to be called by the same name.
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by cam_l 7d ago
Hell, just block all emails mentioning Norton 360. Wouldn't be any great loss to the world. But what I don't understand is MS letting these through the spam filter but randomly, in a thread between myself and another person both u
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by cam_l 24d ago
>In fact, they may literally not understand the gentle ribbing and might respond poorly. That, IMHO, is what makes it so delicious.
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by cam_l 26d ago
Americans buy beef in a roll? I had to look this up. In oz I have only seen this kind of packaging for pet food or lunch meat (colloquially 80/20 in this case would probably refer to the meat to sawdust ratio). Otherwise prices in Aust
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by cam_l 1mo ago
Ooh, fact cherry picking.. From wiki.. "The number of murders in Atlanta was 80 in 2009, 92 in 2010, 88 in 2011, 85 in 2012, 82 in 2013, 93 in 2014, 95 in 2015, and 111 in 2016." [0] In fact, 2016 is also a blip and then it goes b
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by cam_l 2mo ago
The issue in oz, is that energy investment by power companies is locked in with decades long contracts - raising power prices for everyone. But investment by individuals is subject to bait and switch. Most people bought in with the expectat
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by cam_l 2mo ago
It is probably not what you are taking about, but apple itunes deleted my entire music collection, first on my iPod, then on my hard drive, as I tried to sync one to the other. That was around 20 years ago.. when I stopped trusting tech. So
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by cam_l 2mo ago
Not only that, I used to use businessname@mydomain.com for setting up aliases to interact with different businesses. On more than a few occasions I had some very confusing back and forth until realising the issue, when they asked which depa
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by cam_l 3mo ago
To be fair, barilaro called himself 'pork barilaro'. I don't think anyone shed a tear for him being run out of politics. I certainly don't think it has anything to do with this.
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by cam_l 3mo ago
Fwiw, most mould is caused by buildings. Poor ventilation, leaks, no waterproofing, substandard building materials. Yes, you can avoid mould in older buildings by carefully airing out rooms and keeping things dry and away from walls. But no
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by cam_l 3mo ago
I never got into rebelle, though this demo is pretty cool. I used to use expressii, and always thought it was one of the most under rated painting apps. Has a very natural feel to it. https://www.expresii.com/
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by cam_l 3mo ago
Behind every ideological move is a rich man trying to get richer. That is to say, ideology may do some heavy lifting, but the buy-in to actually translate that to action requires a profit motive. Reading current events is a whole lot easier
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by cam_l 3mo ago
Seems like with this kind of carry on, they could possibly end up in breach of their supplier agreement with Lego itself. Crazy that they would risk that for a little spat. I guess they thought strong arm tactics would silence the story. Th
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by cam_l 4mo ago
>It means even if your total income for the year is low enough that your normal tax rate should be 16% or 0%, the government steps in and forces a flat 30% tax on the asset sale anyway. From the budget: "Recipients of means-tested i
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by cam_l 4mo ago
I honestly get that, architecture is such a time intensive degree. It is drilled into you to produce results more than to care about the process.. and to spend more time on exploration and resolution than on learning. I do think though, tha
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by cam_l 5mo ago
I remember being asked in class what we all thought was the message of 1984. I was like, obviously it was about the danger of giving up your power to other people and the corruption of that power. My classmates were pretty convinced it was
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by cam_l 5mo ago
Agree, and funny also that the author shows the F91W. It has a thriving hacker community built around it. You can get a new arm motherboard with a breakout for a sensor board. Sensorwatch have released a temperature sensor and an accelerome
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by cam_l 6mo ago
I also mostly use only my thumbs and index fingers, but probably only up to 60 words a minute because that is how fast (or slow) I think. I always thought I was a touch typist because I rarely look at the keyboard. But then I got a keyboard
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by cam_l 6mo ago
Again, it is kind of crazy to take polar opposite views on this. We mostly all grow up starting off with very few personal liberties and gaining them as we get older. We routinely take them away from people of they show they cannot be trust
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by cam_l 6mo ago
Why does it have to be either/or? Why not just ban the thing you don't want and just criminalise the whaling?
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by cam_l 6mo ago
>This was the greatest act of political courage and decency of our lifetime. What a frighteningly hyperbolic thing to say. I think you have been watching too much sky news. It was a cynical play at retaining gov in the face of what was s
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by cam_l 6mo ago
I have seen them fall off their bikes in the middle of intersections on more than one occasion, hit people riding on the footpath, more than a few try to bully me off the road, doing dumbarse stunts in the process. One I saw got taken to ho
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by cam_l 6mo ago
and fuck.. pinochet? arden is indefensible, but you like pinochet? your barometer for a good right wing government improving the quality of life is an actual dictator who tortured and murdered thousands of people? and.. fuck pinochet.
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by cam_l 6mo ago
Well for a start, he outright lied about the introduction of the GST. Not once, but twice. First that he would never introduce one, second that it would replace other sales taxes to simplify the system. Well, neither of those were true, and
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by cam_l 6mo ago
Howard may have talked a lot about decreasing the size of government, cutting red tape, and reducing legislation and the cost of government. But all these increased under his terms. Most of the early economic gain was due to the opening up
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by cam_l 6mo ago
I dunno about that. I bought a Casio at a garage sale in the late eighties for 20 cents, and sold it to a mate 10 years later, give or take, for a couple of bucks. It was still running, still keeping time. Expensive watches are way closer t
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by cam_l 7mo ago
The cost of doing more complex designs is analogous to the cost of doing more complex builds. If you can afford the extra cost for someone to figure out how to build the blue sky designs that nano banana spits out, maybe you can afford some
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by cam_l 7mo ago
>Why is it the responsibility of private industry to support a “living wage?” Because if they don't, they are externalising the true costs of labour to the government, or the community. Which is fine, by the way, but they cannot the
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by cam_l 8mo ago
Ditto for windows. Source: Personally (like the other poster) I have got both into a state where it became a huge headache to update.
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by cam_l 9mo ago
Just because he is playing 4d chess, doesn't mean he is good at it. Hanlon's razor is wrong to suggest an either or scenario when it is just as often some mix of stupidity and malice.

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