isoma.bsky.social
I don't drink and I don't know everything.
There are those who call me Tim
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(it's risky, because China are also credibly accused of genocide, but as a tactic it could be smart geopolitics)
I quite like the current count of world wars, so I hope China don't do this, tactical or not.
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Imagine a world where China did that, not America.
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You may be right about pretrained transformers.
Are you also right about every other technology these newly rich companies can afford to invent? Are you so sure, that we can discount the risks entirely?
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It doesn't really matter about the pace of progress.
It's like playing with fire and calling it heating: if you're risking setting the city alight, nobody should question whether it will take days or weeks or months to start the inferno.
That's entirely the wrong detail to dwell on.
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I think the reality of direct participation in genocide is much more grim than blocking people from social media.
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I really doubt it.
First, find your pro genocide liberal. They are really rare.
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The defence attorney may look for evidence that the victim had owned a handgun, spent time around people who own handguns, or had watched movies featuring firearms.
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Путін-хуйло?
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It's from the cancelled US remake of Cannon Fodder. Pretty sure on this 😉.
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The last time Labour tried to lead an all-in digital transformation, the initiative went so far beyond its budget that the overrun became hard to measure.
The key question is: why will this time be different?
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Do you need a P?
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I think billionaires mentally divide problems into two categories: "problems I can spend money to make go away", and "expensive problems". Mostly they try not to face the second kind
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Sure, they are. Yes. Avonmouth isn't Bowburn though.
Avonmouth, it's a massive car and other goods import terminal with some housing attached.
Three turbines at any height are hardly out of place, especially with all the other nearby big infrastructure.
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Is it Valentine's already?
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(this isn't "abolish them", just that preserving a particular model in aspic isn't what I want)
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I'm not sure the UK needs universities. Further and higher education yes, the specific "university" model no.
Steelmaking, I don't support the "we need this because war" argument. Maybe the UK doesn't need to make any steel above blacksmith scale.
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Which party looks easiest to fix?
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You say that, but I don't live in the county.
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I don't get it. Turbines are great, but any factory or distribution business asking to put up one big turbine right where it suits them won't impress locals.
And these things really can go somewhere else; it's not like the story with nuclear or coal power where finding sites is genuinely hard.
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It's not the freshwater supply side that people are complaining about, it's the foul water treatment.
Thames are bad at both, but charging people to not treat sewage is what stinks.
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Wind turbines are great, but so is town planning. Imagine the UK with wind turbines plonked wherever people with money wanted to put them—it'd be Spindletop with fan blades.
No thanks. Plus, investing in lowering demand is better for the UK than building more supply (eg, home insulation).
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I think rejection at planning is likely, but not foregone.
If Amazon do get it through, it will be down a lot to Hesseltine-era changes that let a wealthy business threaten to bankrupt local budgets with the cost of an appeal. I can't imagine Amazon not making that threat.
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Why put it in their back yards?
There's plenty of space in the rest of the county, and Mr. Bezos must be able to afford the rent on that extra land if he tries hard.
Alternatively, it could be shorter (say, 50m not 140m).
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(sorry)
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Ah, I was looking for something that helped people with disabilities (per thread).
I guess all of those help a bit if you happen to be, eg, disabled and also trading with the EU, but that wasn't really what anyone meant.
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თქვა, რომ ადრე დროებითი ბარ მართავდნენ. თუმცა, ადგილმდებარეობის შესახებ არავინ იყო დარწმუნებული.
I heard they used to run a pop up bar but nobody could be sure where it was.
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For my part, I already decided I wouldn't visit until the US returned to democracy and justice — I made that decision in 2002, when they opened Camp X-Ray.
I do hope this current US president dies from natural causes and not from murder; I also hope it happens tomorrow if not sooner.
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I think there's a huge and mostly undersupplied market for this kind of space, especially if they offer good amenities (lockers? showers? a colocated gym?)
Plenty of people would choose to walk or run or cycle to "work" at least one day a week, maybe five.
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That's part of it, but also:
• informal gatherings are hard, so help make them happen
• make the gatherings have purpose; "we're going to hang out" is a purpose, but "we are putting you all in Seattle for a weekend" is not
• there's no water cooler, so help people find other ways to connect 1:1
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We still don't have a better term for these; "concentration camp" started out as a euphemism.
A place where you enslave civilians. What should it be named?
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Mr Olmert is still right to call it a war crime.
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[citation needed]
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Hmm, this makes the Israeli government look like people committing crimes against humanity.
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Hmm, I tried searching for one of the Mail's top stories and Google didn't list that on the first page of results. Not the second page.
Was there at the foot of the third page. The trouble for the Daily Mail is that it is a long way to the right of reality.
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Automated vehicle speed enforcement?
So old, the person who invented it not only is dead, they died in the previous century.
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If any public official condones this kind of violence, and this arson takes place, and harms any person, the official is liable to be tried for torture (maximum sentence: life).
I hope Reform brief their councillors.
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Are bread slicers still legal?