pheasant.bsky.social
Random likes and rebleets of politics, science, climate, computing, and history. Trying to be pleasant.
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OP 'forgot' to link the original content creators and instead decided to to then off for internet karma bsky.app/profile/wate...
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Shame you couldn't link the source bsky.app/profile/wate...
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@waterfordwhispers.bsky.social is the source
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Satire: @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social
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They know who you are connected to, and they connect that to their Facebook profiles and web browsing
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Switch to Viber. It also has ads, but at least the parent company is decent.
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So,as a little thought-experiment, tell me something about the United Kingdom that works well and is actually quite impressive. I am not trying to sound like some boosterish politician. I just genuinely believe that making people believe that all is lost is a convenient pretext for shady characters.
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What the research actually shows is that if that percentage actively takes part (e.g. showing up to protests) it's an indication that there are enough other things going on to overthrow authoritarian regimes. The protests give strength to the opposition
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We defend the rights of others because it's in our best interests to do so.
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cogink.com/cleese/
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Op account is notoriously unreliable. Yet another social media influencer unconcerned with the truth.
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He casually glides over the Crimean war like it doesn't count 😤
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A society gets the police force it deserves. If there's something wrong with your police, it's because there's something wrong with your society.
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I've tried with Viber. It's a pretty good app with similar functionality to WhatsApp - still uses your data for ads but they're more honest about it. But it's hard to get people to shift.
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The article doesn't mention WhatsApp. Is WhatsApp affected too?
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When I lived in Australia, 40 years ago, school uniforms were standard. I suspect the cultural impact of the British empire may explain some of the trends we see.
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The problem with calling it AI instead of what it is, a large language model.
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This is a great social history of the topic: www.waterstones.com/book/everyth...
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Mistral le chat. I also use copilot that's built into Bing. Haven't tried Poe - looks interesting!
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Money is more mind bending than most people realise.
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The moral here is that you shouldn't ask the people you are protesting against whether or not they like your protest.
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I doubt that would make a difference. In fact it could make it worse because what the owners are doing is trying to protect the wealth of themselves and others like them.
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Broadcast media is already regulated. Though that doesn't seem to work for GB news
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It comes from a lack of diversity of content. Everything is full of us politics.
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Pretty sure this is Australia. Accents and uniforms look Australian.
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Hey @davidallengreen.bsky.social What's all this is about private prosecution for harmful speech? How is that even possible?
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Just one, sceptical page on the wee6k documented civilian victims: Hundreds of Yemeni civilian casualties were reported after the U.S. intensified strikes, according to the Yemen Data Project, an independent monitoring group. Centcom said it was conducting an inquiry
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So, no deals have been cancelled, the nations allegedly reconsidering amount to around 1% of the value stated by OP, and it's not breaking news but from March. People are such suckers to upvote this nonsense
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I bought an ST in 1988 because it was considerably cheaper than the Amiga!
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Tons of stuff here too bsky.app/profile/did:...
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All the trucks are burning so they were clearly set to self destruct
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I have a vision, in which companies make TV productions which you watch through your preferred channel, like films. Channels compete on quality of service to the customer, not content.
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You probably could put a laser that powerful on a truck. But that seems overkill if the target is drones
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Activists attach DVDs to balloons and float them over. But it causes diplomatic problems
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Because the laser in the truck would not have that power.
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Why do they wear body armour and carry assault rifles?
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Always interesting to see which of the many studies from ASCO cut through to the news. This is a great study, but the drug itself has been used successfully for many years in this and many other cancer types. A breakthrough, yes, but an incremental one and similar to many others.
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Yes, but. This is a drug invented and sold by a US company and the trial was run from the USA (though with locations throughout the world, including the UK).
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The laser shown melting through steel plate was certainly not the one in the truck.
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To test and improve their weapons in a real conflict
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There's no additional paperwork because it's automatically available to those on pension credit. In fact, that's less bureaucracy. Even better, restricting it to those on pension credit led to a huge increase in pensioners applying for the credit they had been missing out on.