youngNed

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by youngNed 2mo ago
i remember years ago reading a tweet, i'm paraphrasing but it went something like: "I love how men go from 'I'm gonna conquer the world!!' to 'im gonna sit here and paint my model figures'" I think ab
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by youngNed 2mo ago
for me its the abilty to 'switch off' I play Euro Truck Simulator 2 (ets) and its my happy place, its just zen, Sometimes i will have a plugin that will get me local radio stations and i will cruise through italy and greece listen
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by youngNed 3mo ago
> They actual made actual progress, and thus are hated by many calling themselves progressives. Y'know.... i dunno man, i'm not so sure its the 'stopping' that makes them hated by those calling themselves progressive
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by youngNed 3mo ago
Exactly this. But unfortunately this is all causing quite the distraction into those foreign crypto donations
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by youngNed 3mo ago
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make here. My point is this, none of these people ever make a point of how much freedom they had, because after a couple hundred years they stopped, quite like the the brits like to. It'
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by youngNed 3mo ago
Compared to its contemporaries, only Portugal transported more African slaves across to the America's. But hey, they stopped doing it, after a couple hundred years so let's everyone give Britain credit.
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by youngNed 3mo ago
Eric Williams: “British historians write almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it.
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by youngNed 4mo ago
> Now, true virtue signalling is saying X to change the perception but yet doing 100 evil things in the background. No, thats hypocrisy.
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by youngNed 4mo ago
There are. But also.. so much drama. Like soooo much drama I'm going to edit this: much of this is rails, we know why that is, so apologies to rubyists
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by youngNed 4mo ago
Nah, I live in the UK, prices are higher than eu, public service is much worse, but public are voting for the party with members that brought this about. Humans are weird.
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by youngNed 4mo ago
Ok, just waiting on some Indian lad whose parents didn't work for ussr state software engineering to chime in, and put this guy in his place, and i can write my post-post-python class decontruction.
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by youngNed 4mo ago
nostalgia is a wonderful thing. Its actually not a wonderful thing, its a weird human condition that seems to have been converted into a psy-op by shady facebook accounts that have gone from posting 'who remembers white dog-shit and s
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by youngNed 5mo ago
They are chasing the same waterfalls though jeff
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by youngNed 5mo ago
I'm a big fan of raspberry pi, I have many, in fact I have so many I have: ``` alias findpi='sudo nmap -sP 192.168.1.0/24 | awk '\''/^Nmap/{ip=$NF}/B8:27:EB|DC:A6:32|E4:5F:01|28:CD:C1/{pri
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by youngNed 6mo ago
> where there was apparently no issue with safety culture Narrators voice: there was, in fact, issues with safety culture at nasa between Kennedy's speech and the moon landing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apol
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by youngNed 7mo ago
> you can see the reasoning here you can see what mullvad , the company selling a product here, say what the reasoning was. As i say, smacks of marketing campaign. Did clearcast give the marketing team a gift, or did the marketing te
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by youngNed 7mo ago
Conflating 'Advertising' with 'Speech' doesn't really work here i feel. It is possible to restrict one without the other. The UK, can quite easily stop an advert from saying things like: >> A paid-for Meta ad
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by youngNed 7mo ago
Can i ask: Why do you think its been banned?
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by youngNed 7mo ago
FWIW - I don't think this ad has been banned. But i stand to be corrected https://www.asa.org.uk/codes-and-rulings/rulings.html?q=mull... This smacks of viral campaign to me.
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by youngNed 7mo ago
what very thread would you rather we justified it in?
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by youngNed 7mo ago
No. You avoid having companies, who can swallow the bill, making whatever claims they like without having to much to worry about other than a slap on the wrist - Their claims are already out. J&J, P&G, Unilever et al - you may trust
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by youngNed 7mo ago
Approval for advertisments has been in place since 1961.
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by youngNed 7mo ago
it is absolutely wild to me that you would allow companies to air adverts without pre-approval. Then when you add in the ability to advertise prescription drugs? Well, what could go wrong?
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by youngNed 7mo ago
> I wonder if I could distinguish in a blind taste test I find it genuinely baffling that that would be the point.
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by youngNed 9mo ago
I hadn't planned on spending my evening googling the pay grade of government officials, calculating the time taken to change a font on Microsoft Word and extrapolating that over a year. But I'm game if you are? Jupyter notebooks
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by youngNed 9mo ago
> they need more than a sans serif typeface, Agreed. So... why are the administration going in the opposite direction? > Official departmental paperwork shouldn't look clownish. Oh. It's about looking clownish. Right. OK.
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by youngNed 9mo ago
Performative? The one that you read about. The one that had a press release, the one that had articles on social media that you are commenting on. Meaningful? The one that looked into which font was more readable, for the most people
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by youngNed 9mo ago
But.... and this is important, it's not funny. "Here is a thing that makes a slight difference, with no cost, to a small percentage of people" "Nah, woke. Let's make it worse for them." There is nothing funn
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by youngNed 9mo ago
There is picture of a cyclist. He is holding a stick. The cyclist puts the stick between his spokes. The cyclist lies on the road, cursing the government, for causing this.
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by youngNed 9mo ago
When they spelt neighborhood, when the kids rode around the block. When they said they live in a country where a police force follows kids on bikes The clues were all there.

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