lagolinguini

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by lagolinguini 3y ago
> Car infra takes next to nothing to plan and build. Trains, trams, metro, anything big at all really, takes decades, riddled with corruption, environment destruction, landscape change. As opposed to building highways, parking lots, mass
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by lagolinguini 3y ago
My cat was missing for a few days about a month ago. It was really stressful. Currently, I’ve put an AirTag on her which works okay since she’s an outdoor cat but I still get paranoid when FindMy hasn’t updated in a while. I would really lo
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by lagolinguini 3y ago
First prototype is great anyway. Could be made smaller over subsequent iterations!
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by lagolinguini 3y ago
> I don't particularly like vscode. It's heavy and slow and janky, particularly on older laptops. I don't like being sucked back into the Microsoft ecosystem after spending years getting away from it. But ultimately, I wan
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by lagolinguini 3y ago
No it’s not the same. One of them is an institution conceived through organisation of people, laws, traditions and customs, the existence and membership of which is a choice. The other categories are associations made by accident of birth.
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by lagolinguini 3y ago
Correct me if I am wrong as I am not a physicist. I see a point that is important to consider, that you have potentially overlooked. First, you assume that dissolution of salt is a completely reversible thermodynamic process, which is fine.
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by lagolinguini 3y ago
I think the subtle difference is that alcohol not for human consumption must be denatured, and can be synthesised.
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by lagolinguini 3y ago
IIRC you can still buy iodine free salt, you just can’t advertise it as table salt. It has to be explicitly advertised as pickling salt or rock salt or the like. This is the case in many countries, not just India. It is arguably one of the
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by lagolinguini 3y ago
My concern with some of these endavours is the opportunity cost to rescue services. Obviously, there is no question that if anyone is in danger in a remote location we should try our best to rescue them, but the corollary is that as a respo
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by lagolinguini 3y ago
Not an expert on submarine design, but if it's comparable to aircraft, each pressurization-depressurization cycle actually increases the stress on the vessel. Just because it worked once doesn't necessarily mean it will always wor
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by lagolinguini 3y ago
I think you’re right. The more I think about it the more I feel like Reddit to me is the comment section for thinks that either don’t have a comment section or have a bad comment section.
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by lagolinguini 3y ago
> We do not vote for Presidents in India. The fact that they are elected by electoral college does not make them non-democratic or non-elected. We live in a representative democracy. > As a fellow NRI, this is counter to what I hear f
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by lagolinguini 3y ago
India is very much like Turkey, though perhaps no where as close to China or Russia. State governments in India are not powerful, and they never have been! The constitution of India grants much more power to the Central Government than it d
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by lagolinguini 3y ago
I'm sorry, but OPs comment is not an inflammatory opinion. Congress does not stand opposed to the core founding principles of the republic.
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by lagolinguini 3y ago
> "We do not vote for Presidents in India. The president was selected by the ruling party" The President of India is voted by electoral college. We live in a representative democracy. Just because the President is voted by ele
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by lagolinguini 3y ago
I'm sorry, I don't understand why the other commenter thinks they are write and you are wrong? We live in a representative democracy. The Prime Minister is elected by proving a majority in the Lok Sabha, and the President is elect
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by lagolinguini 3y ago
Sadly this is the line that the BJP and their followers have taken. Any criticism from outside India is "western propaganda". Any criticism from within India is "anti-nationalism", "pakistani" or "tukde-tu
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by lagolinguini 3y ago
Some of us are Indian and aren't too happy about the authoritarianism...
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by lagolinguini 3y ago
> It's not like other parties have any morals in the first place. This is the line of thinking that has led to the BJPs success. The fact that people have been convinced that the opposition is not a viable alternative is a shame. Wh
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by lagolinguini 3y ago
It is relevant because the PM is touting the new parliament building as ushering Indian into a new age of democracy, calling the building a temple of democracy; while dissenting voices outside are being stifled as the wrestlers are being ar
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by lagolinguini 3y ago
The truth came out too late anyway. The fact that it's been fact checked doesn't matter. People wo want to believe in a certain agenda have already got the misinformation they need, and it's not like they're seeking out
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by lagolinguini 3y ago
The sad thing is they will probably win again in 2024. The damage that 15 years of BJP has done to the social fabric of India, and the undermining of the core founding principles of the republic will last for generations. It's hard to
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by lagolinguini 3y ago
The inauguration of the new Parliament building where: - None of the major opposition parties attended - The President and other constitutional heads were not invited - The protesting athletes were arrested - One religion was in the spotlig
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by lagolinguini 3y ago
As someone who grew up on playing AOE and AOE2, I remember people said the same thing about AOE3 when it came out. In the end I never got into it myself but then when AOE4 came out it felt like a breath of fresh air. They way I see it is th
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by lagolinguini 3y ago
Age of Empires 4 is not the same as Age of Empires Online and is a a full fledged game in the Age of Empires Series incredibly similar to AOE2 with some learnings from AOE3 added in.[1] It very much plays like it’s predecessors. It is highl
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by lagolinguini 3y ago
Matchmaking and the gameplay experience in general. I spend a lot of time playing AOE4 and I also like the direction that game is taking.
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by lagolinguini 3y ago
I don't mean to disparage other people's experiences but I find a massive disconnect between what other people are feeling and how I feel about this game. Actual AOE is still alive and kicking through the Definitive Editions and n
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by lagolinguini 3y ago
I explicitly said the Nazis were evil. But please do not underplay the suffering of the colonial subjects of the allied powers. That is a despicable act.
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by lagolinguini 3y ago
The points I am trying to make is that it isn't black and white as "resisting attack", and that the history that is taught shouldn't be whitewashed. The Indians fought in the 2 world wars for the freedoms of others while
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by lagolinguini 3y ago
> given the copious evidence that the US did not enter WWII intentionally to make money for industrialists The USA started selling weapons to the allies long before it entered the war.

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