dewclin

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by dewclin 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_propaganda_during_Ru...
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by dewclin 2y ago
> Russians understand how the Western societies work and how they can be broken Do you not also think the West understands how Russian society works and how it can be broken? I find it interesting how we're ignorant of our own propa
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by dewclin 2y ago
> without having to shed a single drop of american blood And 10's of thousands of Ukrainian dead and wounded, lives and families destroyed, is a small price to pay for American hegemony.
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by dewclin 2y ago
Both sides use propaganda.
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by dewclin 3y ago
> the U.K. government could use existing powers to require that the company meet surveillance capability demands as a condition of making a product or feature available. > If the government’s demands are not met, the company may have
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by dewclin 3y ago
> Don't degrade your product. If it gets worse, chances are I won't buy it, no matter for what price you sell it. Completely agree: recently I wanted some peppermints, and I noticed the sugar had been replaced by "glucose
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by dewclin 3y ago
I'm in the UK. Looking at my bill, per kWh electricity is 3x more expensive than gas: electricity: 30.823p gas: 9.756p It's much cheaper to heat my house with gas.
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by dewclin 3y ago
> The Tories are obsessed with weakening privacy and data protection laws. Labour pledged to "toughen" the "weakened and gutted" online safety bill (now the act) [1]. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/te
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by dewclin 3y ago
> Child safety is what is pushed in the press For example, in yesterday's Guardian [1]. Meta introducing encryption "will let child abusers ‘hide in the dark’". [1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology&#x
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by dewclin 3y ago
This should get more coverage, as it's a worrying development. The tone of the letter is disturbing. Surprisingly enough, the mainstream media haven't covered it at all ...
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by dewclin 3y ago
> If UK citizens don't want such laws, they can always protest, at the voting booth or in the streets. Protest has been restricted [1], and neither the Conservatives or Labour offer different positions. For example, Labour have pled
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by dewclin 3y ago
Interestingly (?) earlier this year Kit Klarenberg was also held at Luton after getting of a plane from Belgrade ... https://thegrayzone.com/2023/05/30/journalist-kit-klarenberg...
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by dewclin 3y ago
... and here's the Fairlight in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0mF9soHA8M
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by dewclin 3y ago
Similar story (no pun intended) in The Guardian [1]: > UK ministers seek to allay WhatsApp and Signal concerns in encryption row Nothing to see here folks, just a minor dispute between the Gov and two companies ... [1] https:/&#x2F
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by dewclin 3y ago
> For a political party that likes the cliché "tough on crime" Labour also likes that cliché too [1]. They're all the same. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/sep/27/labour-ev
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by dewclin 3y ago
> Criticising the current PM doesn't automatically make it a partisan issue IMHO. In hindsight I was wrong to say that; it was a bad choice of words. I agree with you. Thanks.
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by dewclin 3y ago
Returning back to the OT of surveillance and oversight, and as you're making this into a partisan issue, what would Labour do differently? "Authoritarian" concerns were expressed last time Labour was in government [1], and th
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by dewclin 3y ago
> And when was the last time you saw a high-top soccer cleat? Interestingly (?) early football boots were very much ankle-length [1], and this style continued well into the 1950's [2]. [1] https://www.footy-boots.com&#x2F
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by dewclin 3y ago
> Not on major media either… Guardian have something: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/18/surrey-and-s...
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by dewclin 4y ago
Also (possibly only amongst bankers in London): - "Yard" - £billion (derived from the french "milliard")
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by dewclin 4y ago
> What I'm hoping comes out of this is some backstop for the ~4 million Brits with no bank account in our increasingly cashless society. Izabella Kaminska (ex FT-journalist) had a good take on this on her podcast or website [1, 2] (
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by dewclin 4y ago
> we don't need everything in a plastic wrapper I bought a celeriac the other day, it was in a vacuum wrapped plastic cover. What a waste of resources.
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by dewclin 4y ago
> the Green Party (which was founded as direct result of the Chernobyl disaster) Chernobyl was 1986 and the West German green party existed before that: > Alliance 90/The Greens ... is a green political party in Germany. It was f
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by dewclin 4y ago
A feature, not a bug.
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by dewclin 4y ago
I'm sorry to read this, I also have a similar same situation with my father. He's in his late 70's and a year ago bought himself an iPhone. He now spends ~4 hours a day reading a tabloid newspaper app, which has endless conte
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by dewclin 5y ago
Thank you.
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by dewclin 5y ago
I'm wondering if someone can help, re low FODMAP diet, as I'm finding some contradictory information about which foods are low FODMAP. For example, at [1], Chickpeas are listed as low FODMAP, but at [2] they're listed as &quo
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by dewclin 5y ago
Along the same lines, I recently reviewed a junior engineer's design document and pointed out to them a diagram showing the actors, their roles and interactions would have saved two pages of dense, complex text, and made the solution c
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by dewclin 5y ago
I've really enjoyed using clubhouse [1]. [1] https://clubhouse.io/vs/jira/
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by dewclin 5y ago
My experience has been very different: I update the quota in the console and it's approved very quickly.

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