melesian

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by melesian 4mo ago
Every single one of the predictions of the Brexiters has been exploded: migration, taxation, funding the NHS, better public services etc. The cost of implementing customs controls ALONE amounted to more than the sum total of UK contribution
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by melesian 4mo ago
Your condescension and arrogance is amusing. The British discoverer of the metal, Sir Humphrey Davy, named it aluminum, which Americans still use.
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by melesian 8mo ago
Patronizing rubbish. The EU builds plenty of EVs, rockets and fighter jets and has far more subway systems and public transport than the US. Europe is already great. It's why hundreds of thousands of Americans moved here in 2025. As fo
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by melesian 8mo ago
You can be very sure that millions of Europeans and large numbers of businesses are finding alternatives.
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by melesian 8mo ago
The absence of war in Europe is more down to the EU than the US. Polls do not consistently show anything of the sort.
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by melesian 8mo ago
The UK itself lost one third of its land area in 1921, following yet another insurrection in Ireland (always a coerced part of the UK subject to genocidal rule and expropriation). The last straw for the Irish was summary executions of the i
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by melesian 11mo ago
Oh look, an ignorant begrudger. I don't know many banana republics with a well-educated workforce let lone the best educated workforce in the world. Perhaps you'd like to compare Ireland's position in the Human Development In
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by melesian 11mo ago
Ireland started by not leving tax on income from writing on writers for specific cultural reasons -- to support and encourage writers. It's a cultural norm. Extending it to other generally penniless artists is too. When universities in
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by melesian 1y ago
On the contrary, the EU is the solution.
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by melesian 1y ago
Blinkered nonsense. Yes, of course Europe doesn't have any US laws but to suggest that it doesn't have legislation about accessibility is simply wrong. Guess what... the legislation generally applies to buildings and construction
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by melesian 1y ago
If American companies don't want to pay taxes in Europe they can easily avoid doing so by staying home. If they prefer to earn profits in Europe they can comply with the law. As it is they do everything they can to avoid paying taxes,
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by melesian 1y ago
I want a Linux phone based on open source hardware. I gave up an iPhone for Android then switched to Pixels. My current Pixel 7 will be my last Google phone. I want out of the surveillance economy. I want AI assistance as badly I want a hol
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by melesian 1y ago
> The fact that most research participants and their families are unaware that they are part of a vaccine trial, leaves no room for justice or compensation. What an absolute load of tripe. Straight from disease surveillance being a bad t
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by melesian 2y ago
National economic statistics -- GDP, GNI etc. only tell you so much. Measures of human wellbeing I'd argue tell you more. Ireland is ahead of the UK on every metric, from child mortality to longevity and everything in between -- and th
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by melesian 2y ago
French and Germans were not depicted in English publications as apes. The Irish were coerced into the UK and were officially British citizens, that is ostensibly, co-nationals. They weren't treated as such because those in power regard
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by melesian 2y ago
Dumping things that aren't up to standard for sale in the EU is routine since the UK left the EU single market. The EU implemented full customs controls and goods inspections on day 1 after the UK left. To date the British still don&#x
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by melesian 2y ago
If you visit any store in the EU selling new phones or tablets you will find only USB-C devices for sale. No enforcement required. What the Chinese do with cheap products sold on AliExpress isn't important. Obliging big manufacturers t
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by melesian 2y ago
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/books/232/
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by melesian 2y ago
You don't appear well informed about the EU or about the consequences of Brexit for British manufacturers. If you're implying some kind of EU civil servant driven influence over decisions in the UK I suggest you acquaint yourself
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by melesian 2y ago
Perhaps you should inform yourself by reading the DMA. You won't find in it anything about Apple or anyone else hindering developers from selling elsewhere. What the EU is regulating is fair competition for very large platforms, define
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by melesian 3y ago
Typical BS from a house journal of those who know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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by melesian 3y ago
It's not simply about what you SEE. It's about tracking what sites you visit, where you are, what information can be collated to profile you in any and every way: your political preferences and likely interests can be gathered wit
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by melesian 3y ago
This is naive. Read https://www.eff.org/wp/behind-the-one-way-mirror . There's nothing wrong with traditional advertising. That's not the world and surveillanace economy we now live in, where you don't ha
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by melesian 3y ago
Not self-hosting. Linking by identifying key fields. Currently just using password login.
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by melesian 3y ago
I help run a small non-profit that has managed data in a number of spreadsheets. Grist made it v simple to pull the data into a web site linking it together with a variety of different scrollable views. Came across it while looking for lo-
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by melesian 3y ago
What does this do that broot doesn't?
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by melesian 3y ago
100%! It's an employee-owned company that is ethical and responsive. I've been with them for years and their service is outstanding both technically and in terms of support. Vastly preferable to the UI shambles that is Gmail and e
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by melesian 3y ago
Arrant nonsense. The Irish rejected the Lisbon Treaty. It was then amended to address Irish objections and then approved, not just by the Irish electorate (whose approval is constitutionally required for all constitutionally significant leg
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by melesian 3y ago
It appears you don't understand the role of the directly elected EU parliament. It can and has fired the entire Commission in the past, and it must approve EU legislation. Much more fun to subscribe to a conspiracy theory about all-pow
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by melesian 3y ago
The EU is a democratically constituted association of democracies committed to collective action in shared interests. Your assertion that it is a propaganda machine and use of hyperbole like supreme irony is juvenile nonsense. You don'

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