t0mpr1c3

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by t0mpr1c3 1mo ago
In reply to user well_ackshually: > Are you disagreeing just to disagree?
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by t0mpr1c3 1mo ago
I've been using Ubuntu since around the time you needed an invite to create a Gmail account. Back then it was a breath of fresh air, because the install was batteries-included and Canonical's help forums were genuinely useful. Ubu
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by t0mpr1c3 1mo ago
Wheel barrows were known to the Han Chinese 2000 years ago. It's not bicycle science!
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by t0mpr1c3 1mo ago
The Montgolfier brothers preceded the Wright brothers in human flight by 100 years. Cayley had essentially already invented the modern aeroplane by 1799, and was flying gliders by 1804. Trevithick patented the screw propeller in 1815 (altho
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by t0mpr1c3 1mo ago
Grok 4.5 made Cartman a frog.
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by t0mpr1c3 1mo ago
Where I grew up farmers "muckspreading" would occasionally foul the locality. It was gross but after a day or two it would be back to normal. I've been to Phu Quoc. One or two of the villages had that amine smell. It was like
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by t0mpr1c3 1mo ago
He feels vindicated. What a sociopath.
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by t0mpr1c3 1mo ago
That's just the usual US marketing bollocks. Whether it is cured with nitrates or with celery extract, bacon is definitely cured. If it is not cured, it is not bacon. I am more sympathetic to the term "turkey bacon" than &quo
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by t0mpr1c3 2mo ago
Free for who
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by t0mpr1c3 2mo ago
We should have been bringing home the bacon. Instead we brought home thebacon.
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by t0mpr1c3 2mo ago
The USA prefers soft annexation. Annexation lite. A kinder gentler annexation. Preferably somewhere with a suitably powerless population like Greenland or Gaza. Randomly shooting up small boats also demonstrates our lawless intentions at li
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by t0mpr1c3 2mo ago
Yes, lime kilns use the reverse process -- heating chalk to drive off the CO2.
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by t0mpr1c3 2mo ago
Who can decide the precedence of a louse and a flea?
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by t0mpr1c3 2mo ago
Carbon capture is already done at scale because CO2 is commercially valuable. The proposed carbon storage is permanent in the form of carbonates. This is a variant of the Solvay process used to make washing powder. Chalk cliffs were once th
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by t0mpr1c3 2mo ago
You don't necessarily have to bury the plants to sequester the carbon. A lot of oceanic carbon just sinks to the bottom and is eventually covered over, especially near estuaries that spew silt.
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by t0mpr1c3 2mo ago
The vast interior of the world's oceans are a nutrient desert. It has been proposed to grow algae by spreading silt, the same way that Saharan winds do.
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by t0mpr1c3 2mo ago
It's almost like you cut the head off a snake, and it grows back a slimier and more poisonous head.
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by t0mpr1c3 2mo ago
And attempted to hive off the best teams into a super league, even though this would have destroyed national leagues across the continent.
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by t0mpr1c3 2mo ago
Then you would have two corrupt organizing bodies. Something similar happened with FIDE (chess) in the Kasparov years. I believe FIDE is still headquartered in a dodgy dictatorship in Central-asia-stan. And I've lost count how many glo
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by t0mpr1c3 2mo ago
Yes, it's a stretch to believe that UEFA is objecting strictly on a point of principle. UEFA seems to think people have forgotten that they tried to buy off top teams from the national organizations into a European super league. In eff
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by t0mpr1c3 2mo ago
Right, IIRC they basically banned everybody in Trinidad from FIFA and relocated the HQ. It didn't help that Chuck Blazer just looked like a pedophile. Not sure if it's a coincidence that he lived in Trump tower. He had two apartme
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by t0mpr1c3 2mo ago
Even in the festering pit of slime that is FIFA, Infantino stands out for his festeringdom and slimitude.
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by t0mpr1c3 2mo ago
Yes, and when Blatter was investigated for corruption both he and Platini, president of UEFA, were banned. This was barely 10 years ago, it's not ancient history. Platini is still suing Infantino now.
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by t0mpr1c3 2mo ago
This is UEFA we are talking about. Remember that when (FIFA president) Blatter was investigated for corruption, (UEFA president) Platini was also banned.
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by t0mpr1c3 2mo ago
FIFA has been spectacularly corrupt since at least thd 1970s, and UEFA is not far behind. When Blatter was kicked out of FIFA for corruption, the USA provided a legal venue for the investigation. Between Infantino and Trump you would think
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by t0mpr1c3 2mo ago
To be fair, China and Russia participate in the fantasy.
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by t0mpr1c3 2mo ago
Europe is where all the money is made in football. UEFA just want more of the pie. FIFA is a repulsive pit of corruption but UEFA isn't much better. Remember Blatter and Platini?
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by t0mpr1c3 2mo ago
The way that the Iran team was only allowed into the USA on match days was a disgrace. Refusing entry to a Somali referee on the spurious grounds of links to terrorism was a disgrace. The overturning of Falorin Balogun's ban was a disg
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by t0mpr1c3 2mo ago
Maybe the way that Infantino nakedly advanced political favors for Trump (the f×××ing peace prize, Folarin f×××ing Balogun) and now wants a fat slice of payback?
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by t0mpr1c3 2mo ago
FIFA has been monstrously corrupt since at least as far back as the 1970s (Havelange). I backslid this year, but did completely boycott watching in 2018 and 2022. Russia is a pariah state and should never have been allowed to host, and Qata

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