elthran

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by elthran 11mo ago
Your phrasing of the last sentence caught my interest. Is the other reason fresh chicken meat, or is there another benefit to keeping them that I can't think of?
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by elthran 1y ago
"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV new
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by elthran 1y ago
We were running late for our train in winter - the Sapporo underground system let us walk to the station so much faster than trying to navigate ice, snow and road crossings
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by elthran 1y ago
Have a third! https://www.londoncentric.media/p/picturehouse-central-cinem...
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by elthran 1y ago
Ah, you must be a Clacton resident then
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by elthran 1y ago
UK pensions are subject to income tax, if you're receiving more than the annual tax free allowance.
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by elthran 1y ago
Team Fortress 2 had crates/keys before CSGO was released - but the blame definitely falls on Valve's shoulders in this timeline (I'm sure if Valve didn't create them in the popular form, someone at EA would have)
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by elthran 2y ago
At least in the UK the license plate lets you know when the car was registered, so it's simple to tell if they bought the Tesla before Elon went off the cliff fully. I'm not going to begrudge anyone who doesn't sell their car
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by elthran 2y ago
The process is super common in the big UK supermarkets - and it's absolutely my preferred way of doing a larger shop. You can use whatever bags/containers you like (or even none at all and just keep things in the trolley/cart
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by elthran 2y ago
Nothing to prevent them giving you an "F U quote" of say 6k for a year though - they've offered to insure, you've declined their price (speaking from UK perspective)
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by elthran 2y ago
It doesn't necessarily show that at all as an isolated statistic - it could be telling us that Germany has less people who are convinced an AI startup is a sensible business decision, or any other number of population based factors
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by elthran 2y ago
Monday Night Combat gave me such good times at University in our LAN gaming society, It was such a breath of fresh air compared to the other games we were playing, I don't think it got nearly as much love as it deserved.
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by elthran 2y ago
Agreed - I've been unable to get at sensible meaning in my head for "AI safety" that isn't "to prevent ultron/skynet/the matrix"
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by elthran 2y ago
Online ordering and delivery I'd assume
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by elthran 2y ago
Yeah, it's definitely seems it's this from my perspective. The companies reformulated and reduced our full-sugar options, all so they didn't have to put their prices up, at the cost of the tastes of their products and consume
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by elthran 2y ago
"Cambrian Chronicles" is a great example of this on Youtube - the channel is primarily about Welsh History, but often ends up as an academic exercise of starting with a reference on Youtube, and following through sources, often ba
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by elthran 2y ago
now you just hire them to seize unreleased trading cards https://www.dicebreaker.com/categories/trading-card-game/new...
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by elthran 2y ago
It's also the language/dialect where you can basically used any phrase ending in -ed to mean "drunk". The classics being pissed, plastered, wankered. But if someone came up to me and said "I got (wardrobed|hadron-co
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by elthran 2y ago
As someone that always makes guacamole immediately before eating it - what do you say changes with the flavour profile by letting it sit?
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by elthran 2y ago
> While the Big Mac doesn't use chicken At least in the UK, they've sold a "Chicken Big Mac" as a special menu item twice now
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by elthran 2y ago
And then you get the ones that don't have one at all, or they have a website but refuse to put a menu on it
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by elthran 2y ago
It's present day WB - I'm fully expecting a worse cash grab than the third hobbit film. Maybe we'll be lucky and they'll decide to cancel it for the tax write off.
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by elthran 2y ago
Londoner here - with our fare evasion stats at this link https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/transparency/freedom-of-informa... None of the articles I've seen ever seen to address why NYC has such a high rate of far
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by elthran 2y ago
Unfortunately you missed this bit >Frey launched Appointment Trader, an online marketplace for people to buy and sell reservations—everything from private shopping experiences (the Hermès store in Paris), doctors’ appointments (a hot com
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by elthran 2y ago
Non-Jewish and British. Personally I really enjoy just slathering it in good butter as a snack - I'd often end up eating a box at a time this way as a growing, ravenous teenager. Not massively healthy, but definitely satiating. Rakusen
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by elthran 2y ago
Interesting - I did try to find more information about how these work, since I apparently did not understand how they function - but everything I could find mentions "facial recognition algorithm" as the mechanism for determining
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by elthran 2y ago
As someone that came through London Heathrow this morning - most of the time it's because half of the gates are switched off, seemingly for no reason as far as I can tell. Combine that with the fact that US, EU and UK passports can all
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by elthran 2y ago
Definitely - just did this. Last trip was in 2019, when I got 110 Yen for my GBP. This trip, all the Yen denominated prices were essentially the same, but I got 180 Yen/GBP - so everything was nearly 50% cheaper, resulting in a much mo
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by elthran 3y ago
> I'm too out of touch to analyze that further You're not out of touch, it's the kids that are wrong!
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by elthran 3y ago
Apple Cynic/Windows user here with a genuine question - why is this interesting? I'm currently looking at my wife's old corporate-issued windows laptop, which is running 2 external monitors as well as it's own display -

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