eachann.bsky.social
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Irony and sarcasm generally depend on tone of voice to be detected. It takes a lot of writing skill and effort to mimic that in plain text. The OP didn’t make that effort.
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Given that the USA is usually quite sue-happy, I’m very surprised that there hasn’t been a class action suit against the manufacturers over this.
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The panic is setting in. Platform shift is always brutal to the value of the previously dominant platform, as we saw with the MySpace -> Facebook shift.
And it’s not just loss of monetary value, it’s also about the loss of influence.
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Well, somebody has to click on all those ads.
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Denial of the result fails to confront the real issues. Your problems as a society go much, much deeper that something as simple as election fraud.
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If I remember correctly, the last time the USA tried sending troops into Canada, you guys went down and burned the White House to the ground.
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He was keeping that for later.
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Dog yoga.
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Because we don’t have a vaccine for stupidity.
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If Kemi Badenoch is the Conservative’s “Prime Minister in waiting”, they will be waiting a very long time…
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Or just replace the current dogs-dinner of a taxation system with a very simplified system like Denmark has, which avoids most of the tax loopholes rich people abuse to avoid paying their share.
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The meshing of the arcade cabinet in particular shows no understanding of the subject matter. It’s literally made of flat panels.
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Damn. It’s so long since I read /am reading/ will read the books I had kind of forgotten how funny he really was/ is/ will be.
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I swear that some people’s only purpose in life is to try to stop others ever feeling any joy whatsoever. And the same people voted for Donald Trump.
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My whippet is the same, hates going out in the rain, but loves powdery dry snow - so long as he has all his jackets on.
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The problem with an edit feature is that it is open to abuse- gain lots of likes so a list is trending, then change the meaning of the post. So any edit feature skilfully need to come with at least an edit history, and a ‘report malicious edit’ feature.
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Do you have a tailwind cycling championship as well? Because honestly, that sounds much more fun. 😬
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Labour still want PFI deals that have huge long term costs for short term benefits. When the SNP gained power in Scotland it cost them an absolute fortune to buy out the previous Labour PFI deals, but has been a huge benefit long term. So no, Labour have not learned anything.
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If you are using social media posts to go by, 99% of the internet killed the healthcare dude.
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By boycotting the impeachment vote the People Power Party will be seen to have effectively endorsed the failed attempt to impose martial law.
It’s such a shortsighted move. They risk huge long term damage - even destruction - to avoid short term pain. Political incompetence of the highest order.
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Honestly I’m absolutely fine with it, I just assume they are talking about England when they say UK. It doesn’t feel like Scotland is really a part of it anymore. Once folk get used to that, independence is a certainty.
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Quite deliberately so. The browser companies (and website designers) - Google in particular- are funded by advertising, and advertisers want tracking. It has been designed to be as awkward as possible an implementation of the GDPR requirements, to create user pushback against privacy regulations.
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Straight out of The Lady and the Tramp.
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But what variety? What variety?
Baked potatoes vary from outstandingly good to dire, depending on the variety you select. And pretty much anything from a supermarket is moderate at best.
You need floury, high-starch, low water content ,and for the love of the gods do not wrap it in silver foil.
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And that’s Google’s carefully selected examples of the absolute best it can come up with, especially for PR purposes, so imagine how janky most of the stuff is.
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Need, not knew. Doh.
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Unfortunately, it’s going to be the year of the scammer for the next 4 years.
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We knew a new term for AI generated images. I suggest stochastic-heuristic art, or “shart”.
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The facts would seem to disagree with that statement.
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The health insurance industry in the USA does not want people to know the truth about universal, publicly funded health care, because if they did they would want that system.
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Looks like he has bravely managed to adapt to his new life of luxury!
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I don’t believe that BBC management are powerless, they are complicit. It just keeps happening again and again, with a blind eye being turned until it spirals beyond the level it can be ignored.
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That’s what the BBC do - leap to the defence of their ‘talent’ instead of investigating.
As a taxpayer funded corporation, it’s well past time an independent body was set up to investigate complaints about the BBC. They have shown too often that they cannot be trusted to investigate themselves.
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Agreed - the risk is being overplayed by those who wish to have their view on the subject imposed on others. Most system have plenty of safeguards to address the ‘outside pressure’ issue.
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Absolutely, I don’t think it is necessary, just an example of how those who fear being ‘forced’ into it could have those fears addressed. And they may regret it, but at least it’s their own choice they regret, and they had the freedom to choose.
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Not that difficult, surely. Have a fully safeguarded national register you can opt into if you fear you might one day be pressurised, that removes you right to assisted suicide permanently and irrevocably. Allow others to retain the freedom of choice over their death.
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Yet still received more votes than under Starmer, so what does that say about the current Labour Party manifesto?
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And here we have Kier Starmer cosying up to Farage, like big pals.
It’s all a game to them - poverty, a crumbling NHS, loss of freedom of movement and the single market.
All a game, ‘cos they’re sorted on an MP’s pension and a second home, courtesy of the taxpayer.
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Labour under Jeremy Corbin actually received more votes (10,295,912) in 2019 than Labour did in the last election (9,708,716); and only very marginally less vote share ( 32.2% vs 33.7%). Labour did not really win the election, the Conservatives lost it- mostly due to the Reform party taking votes.
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LNER, Northern, Southeastern and Transpennine Express are under the control of the DfT, having been taken over as “operator of last resort” because of problems with the franchises that previously operated these train services.
We have already been saddled with the debt.
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Well, with the exception of Northern Ireland, and it’s very much on the wane even there.
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The UK does not have anywhere near the level of radicalised, fundamentalist Christianity that the USA does.
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Don’t use Google for search. Google is no longer a search engine, it’s an advertising engine.
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Joan Rivers left an estate worth around $150 million. How disappointingly greedy she was.
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Norway, yes. But you have to remember how financially poor the country was before the oil industry came.
Iceland, Finland and Denmark do not have particularly significant oil/gas reserves. Denmark had some but not hugely significant in overall economic terms for the country.
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Watching a model train.
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Sealion? As imbecile-lion?
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Sadly the only bookshop near me is Waterstones, which did to our local independent bookshops what Amazon are doing to them.