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gedhrel

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  • We Need to Talk About Pedocon Theory

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  • "..the barrel." Apples don't come in bunches, but at the time the saying was coined they were carted around like that. (Also it only took one, not a few.)

    (I suppose the modern version is "one nazi spoils the bar.")

  • Is every action a reaction?

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  • Even the standard formulation of newtonian dynamics admits nondeterminism. (This requires a non-Lipschitz setup to work; and in any case it doesn't describe the world we live in. Also it's a mathematical description, not the real thing.)

  • Former head teacher arrested under terror laws – for holding up Private Eye article

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  • https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mnnje4wlro

    "One of the officers was taken to hospital with injuries to her back and has since been discharged, while the other officer received medical treatment at the scene after being struck on the back of his legs."

    If you're going to take direct action, then you do so and if the police turn up you get arrested and go through the system; that's kind of the traditional "British way" of doing direct action - it's still pretty polite. So the six arrested here sound like right arseholes, Samuel Corner not the least (see https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20l0vzpn1mo). Having said that, I can't read "assaulted people with sledgehammers" without conjuring up images of life-threatening and life-changing injuries. So I think that whilst he's a knob, this sounds like a scuffle rather than the picture that immediately springs to mind. I guess there'll be more detail in November.

    That being said: that was a year ago. The recent prohibition immediately followed someone spray-painting some planes, and that's the thing in the public mind. I think most people associate that sort of thing with chucking soup over the frame of a painting - there's not been a direct line drawn in the media between the burglary last August and the recent activities. I don't think there's been a claim of further assaults by P.A. or that it's their general MO. Certainly the thing that hit the press recently appeared to be "victimless" in that regard (we'd have heard about it otherwise).

    So the public outrage is at the outlawing of an organisation that probably summons a mental image of the Campbell Soup brigade rather than a kneecapping; that and some well-publicised awkward policing is what is behind the protests. I don't think that anyone protesting this would be anything but appalled at thuggery.

  • In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison.

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  • There appears to be something of a rebrand to "Yvette Cooper".

  • Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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  • I'm not quite sure why you fetishise a bit-for-bit over semantic equivalence. Doesn't it turn "it works on my machine" into "it works on my machine as long as it has this sha: ... "?

  • Cyberpunk 2 director says "mature games" used to mainly be about killing and sex, but The Witcher 3 was part of a "broader process" to change that as devs grew older

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  • Yes. Any normal person would be in it for the Gwent.

  • Keir Starmer confirms No 10 is offering concessions to Labour welfare rebels

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  • Concessions, or sinecures?

  • What's a random line from a movie that fans of it will instantly know?

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  • I am no messenger.

    But I do bring you a message:

    the message - of death!

  • "See everybody? I'm not on drugs!"

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  • If the claim is that his obnoxious behaviour is nothing to do with his drug habit, I'm prepared to accept that.

  • Live long enough to see yourself become the villain

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  • Now you mention it, the Mars thing was - and continues to be - another unscientific pipedream. The examples I gave were all plainly stupid and/or disgusting at the time.

  • Live long enough to see yourself become the villain

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  • Sexually harassing his employees hit the headlines in 2016; rumours before that. Inserting himself into the Thai cave rescue and the "pedo guy" slander was 2018. Hyperloop was 2013. No Lidar on Tesla. If you've been paying attention he's been outing himself for a long time.

  • [ On | No ] syntactic support for error handling

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  • It'd be nicer to see tagged unions first, with the machinery for those, and then take steps to provide a semantic fix for error handling.

  • I'll just take the bus

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  • The "satisfaction" is probably novelty. UK/EU, nobody thinks about it.

    I think there's a kind of fetishisation of manual transmission in the US. Like your emergency scenario: I guess if you need to accelerate away from 30-50 feral hogs then you might welcome it.

  • I'll just take the bus

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  • "Lead with the foot that is going down" is missing from this.

  • I'll just take the bus

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  • You typically learn to feel the accelerator and brake with one foot but just engage the clutch (ie, all the finesse is letting the clutch out). But you know this. All your muscle memory works like that. When you switch to automatic, just use the one foot and it works much better.

    You have probably already worked that out but it's handy advice if you're a passenger in an automatic with a first-time driver who is used to manual.

  • So you don't have a doctor's note?

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  • Yeah, there's no need to trade insults!

  • So you don't have a doctor's note?

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  • I think that's the point. It doesn't stop the occasional chancer from trying, but no this side of the pond at least you'll get short shrift if you do.

    The whole thing is about limiting liability to the company. (In the pregnancy case I think there's an increased risk of thrombosis at late-stage.) Their policy says no paperwork is required, you say that applies to you; if something goes wrong after you lie then the onus is on you.

  • So you don't have a doctor's note?

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  • I think by-and-large it's easier to get a positive response from someone face-to-face than over the phone, but on the whole people are pretty nice.

  • So you don't have a doctor's note?

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  • It's less the person and more the company policy. I've total sympathy for the person on the phone/behind the counter who's probably had a long and thankless day; I'm not rude or aggressive to people.

    It annoys me no end that often, offers and services are gated behind "new subscriber" conditions - which is basically a tax on being conflict-adverse. You have to go through a cancellation process to get someone who can "look to see if there's anything they can do" and get the thing that's plainly available.

    But I'll joke about it on the phone to whoever I'm talking to - the last time this happened (changing mobile phone contract) the chap and I were laughing about "come the revolution" at the end of the call.

    Previously I've had someone on the phone claim that water being three feet higher at one end of a drain than the other wasn't due to a blockage; some people will "go the extra mile" for their employer. I think I got as far as "if your company's position is that basic fluid statics is wrong I'd be happy to take it to court, but you don't have a leg to stand on, so it'll be cheaper for everyone involved to just send the drain guy out," which is about as annoyed as I get.

    There's no reason for someone in a phone zombie role to actually give a shit one way or another, but some kind of human connection helps. Even a sarcastic response can be delivered in a disarming way - attack the blatantly stupid kafkaesque nonsense, not the poor schmuck who's not paid to care.