stevenjohns

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by stevenjohns 5y ago
Actually it would be exactly that — when it mentions butter it’s highly unlikely that it is referring to clarified butter.
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by stevenjohns 5y ago
This is actually a great reference. The Roman festival of Parilia was celebrated by offering millet and milk to Pales, followed by drinking wine mixed with milk. This event eventually became Rome’s birthday celebration :)
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by stevenjohns 5y ago
I feel like this is glancing over various points. Specifically that cows aren’t the only source of milk: sheep, goats, buffalo and horses have all been milked throughout history, and would have been the main source for milk in Rome. And it
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by stevenjohns 5y ago
> The US is a very non-ideal country, but it's a working one. In many cases it definitely has strong democracy baked into it, much more than the faux-democracy presented in almost every other country in the world. But I wouldn'
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by stevenjohns 5y ago
The Greens do not support civil liberties. Opposing a single piece of the puzzle (digital surveillance, for now) doesn't change the ongoing assaults that the Greens party has been carrying out since their inception. The whole coal depe
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by stevenjohns 5y ago
Wix gave my personal contact information to a literal criminal (as in someone who physically attacks people) after I reported him to Wix for scamming on their platform. I still have a copy of the voicemail where he was yelling that he'
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by stevenjohns 5y ago
Just before you do, have a read through who Mozilla is in 2021[0] > "Mitchell Baker, Mozilla's top executive, was paid $2.4m in 2018, [...] Payments to Baker have more than doubled in the last five years." > "Mozil
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by stevenjohns 5y ago
Lebanon is quite possibly the worst example you could give, not only due to Israel playing a key role in the country's instability[0] but also to the fact that the areas that were shielded by Israel and the West were immediately experi
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by stevenjohns 5y ago
Considering that the only metric for supporting a Middle Eastern group is that they have to be pro-Israel, of course Israel becomes the natural choice. It’s not about stability considering that Israel is a constant powder keg. That in itsel
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by stevenjohns 5y ago
No, sorry, you don’t get it to lump the Jewish people into this. It’s incredibly dishonest on your part to even go in that direction and you should feel embarrassment for trying to steer it towards that.
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by stevenjohns 5y ago
That's ridiculously short sighted and bordering on racist. Let's bomb all of Israel's infrastructure, arm various militias in the country and put economic sanctions on them for 20 years that limits the country to a grain-for-
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by stevenjohns 5y ago
From memory, his nephew had passed in a similar way to the person in the flight. It may be the same case. I don't think he was running away from paying a settlement, I think he was running away from the guilt he felt that he had facili
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by stevenjohns 5y ago
Most of what you're saying is misleading at best. > I saw more people wearing masks on Sydney trains at zero cases than I did in a US supermarket at the peak That's because NSW had legislated the wearing of masks on trains unti
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
They use vosotros in Colombia as well, specifically in Medellín and a couple of other places in the "coffee axis," i.e as far out as Manizales.
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
There is lots of truth to this. Some ORMs like Django perform joins in very unsuspecting ways. A simple example is, say, foreign keys. Trying to access the foreign key of an object by doing `book.user.id` does an additional query for the us
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
It was one of their 2016 election promises to introduce gay marriage to a postal plebiscite. The day after the results, a gay Liberal Party member introduced the proposed legislation amendments. It was an LNP election promise, an LNP plebis
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
I'm really not sure what you're trying to show here. They are left-leaning centrists and your comment doesn't challenge that. The fact they introduced gay marriage, divorce legislation, doubled public healthcare spending and
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
> Our current PM is a fairly hard religious conservative No he's not. He's a left-leaning centrist, like both major Australian parties. Trying to apply American-flavoured extremism to the Australian political spectrum is exactl
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
The word used for "heart" in the text continues today in Arabic (لب) and Mandaic (ࡋࡉࡁ࡛ࡀ) -- and I imagine other Semitic languages -- with the same context/usage maintained.
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
Part of the reason why Enums weren’t originally added to the stdlib was because if you get ten developers in a room there will be eleven conflicting expectations from an Enum class. Personally I’ve never needed to use the Enum class, ever,
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
Entirely anecdotal, I believe the immune system is already working at high capacity to stop you from becoming sick from the dozens of fungi, bacteria and viruses you come across on a daily basis. The biggest metric I have for this is that w
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
I don't believe that happened the way you describe it. Blue Coat was illegally on-sold to Syria from a UAE-based distributor and that company received a 200% fine of the sale price.
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
I'm willing to go one step further and say that NSO Group is operated by and is a core part of Israeli intelligence. It just has layers of deniability baked into the business structure like any good limited liability entity. What it co
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
Since this will continue to be misunderstood, it's important to emphasise that the article explicitly mentions that there is 1. No evidence to support the idea of strains that have any impact on infection 2. No evidence to support the
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
Considering other groups, at the time, were circumnavigating the world, forging steel and blasting each other with gun powder it’s not hard to believe that an equally intelligent and able group of people that put their attention to somethi
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
So what you're suggesting is that registrars should be exempt from the standard that we hold literally everything else to? This isn't a subjective topic. These are criminal syndicates stealing credit cards and using them to buy se
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
There needs to be a bipartisan political will for it which is hard to capture. Australia tried to follow the same model only for a more conservative government to get in, claim that it was too expensive, butcher the plans (fibre to the node
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
I don't even care about being ethical -- just don't literally facilitate and turn a blind eye to crime. I moved to, among others, Porkbun.
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
Namecheap is another dumpster fire of a registrar. While GoDaddy seems to generally carry a low bar, Namecheap on the other hand completely turns a blind eye to their service becoming the number one platform for stolen credit cards buying t
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
A few things. 1. Sunlight isn't on the list he's citing. 2. Sunlight can't be measured by kilos, so it can't be compared against. 3. Sunlight is the consequence of the sun's nuclear reactions. So fusion nuclear ener

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