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  • Two more cases of more transmissible mpox detected in UK

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  • Quick! Let's shut the country down for a year, spend £250 billion on things that have no intrinsic value and then act surprised when we get a shit load of inflation and a cost of living crisis.

  • As a bike rider, I forget this is a thing. Asked my neighbor, he pays $350/month in insurance alone 🙃

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  • Cow farming was just one example of work that can only really be done in rural locations. Presumably you're not against the farming of vegetables?

  • Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

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  • It's not about the size of the number, it's about presenting information in a way that the average reader can understand. The best way to do that is to present it in the way that they're accustomed to and I don't think I've ever seen scientific notation used to refer to a sum of money.

    It's great that you and I understand scientific notation, but it's worthlesss when you're trying to get the average person to understand what you're writing if they don't know it themselves.

    To make myself clear, I'm not saying that scientific notation isn't useful, I'm just saying that most people don't understand it.

    For extra credit, 74,500,000,000,000,000 aka seventy four quintillion, five hundred quadrillion.

  • As a bike rider, I forget this is a thing. Asked my neighbor, he pays $350/month in insurance alone 🙃

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  • Let's all abandon the countryside and move to the city rather than improving transport links for rural communities then.

    IDGAF about how farmer Jones is going to get to his farm at 5am every day to feed the cows.

  • Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

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  • Not really. Most people aren't familiar with scientific or engineering notation. Writing £1,000,000, one million pounds or £1Million is a lot clearer than writing £1×10^6.

    My cars odometer says 91,584, not 91.584×10^3

  • As a bike rider, I forget this is a thing. Asked my neighbor, he pays $350/month in insurance alone 🙃

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  • Maybe it's different in your social circle. I work with engineers and technicians and keeping an old car going is respected not derided.

    I wouldn't want to hang around with people that look down their noses at me because I drive a car with 100,000 miles on the clock.

  • As a bike rider, I forget this is a thing. Asked my neighbor, he pays $350/month in insurance alone 🙃

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  • Sure, I'll sell my nice house in the countryside and use the money to buy something not even half the size in an urban centre so I can have the privilege of being able to use a bus. No thanks.

  • The kitty lying in the sun

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  • Helmut? Are you a KvS fan?

  • What do you secretly judge people for?

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  • I just checked it out, very boring /s

    I judge people for being gate keepers of music, I used to be one and no one likes it. People have different tastes and it's horses for courses.

  • What do you secretly judge people for?

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  • They've probably just never been in the correct head space to listen to it because they've been conditioned to listen to mind numbing pop chart shite.

  • What do you secretly judge people for?

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  • What's your favourite band?

  • Vladimir Putin hosts Brics summit to show West pressure not working

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  • I keep hearing about all the tankies here, but I've never actually encountered one.

  • The Map Men play GeoGuessr. Loser has to travel to their wrongest location!

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  • I wish I was wealthy and unemployed haha

  • What are some popular criticisms you see about any show/movie/videogame that you strongly disagree or you just don’t think it’s really a bad thing?

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  • I liked it. I'm not going to pretend it was the best TV media ever or anything like that, it was just a bit of harmless fun.

    You'd think all the haters were forced to watch it against their will. We live in an age where you can watch anything you want whenever you want. I think some people just like a good moan.

  • Vladimir Putin hosts Brics summit to show West pressure not working

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  • I don't think that liking the ideals of communism means that you want to bury all Putin related news or even that you support Putin at all. Russia hasn't been communist for a very long time.

  • Vladimir Putin hosts Brics summit to show West pressure not working

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  • Why is this getting downvoted?

  • ‘You are not my king,’ Indigenous Australian senator yells at visiting King Charles

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  • ‘You are not my king,’ Indigenous Australian senator yells at visiting King Charles

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  • The royal family costs the UK tax payer 77p per year, most people aren't outraged by that.

    It can be argued that they attract a considerable amount of tourism, people that travel to the UK to see the Tower of London, the King's guards, Buckingham palace and all the rest of it. There is also the "soft power", people around the world are for some reason obsessed with the UK's royal family and it does help with influence whether you'd argue that is for better or worse.

    I understand that the obscene wealth they hold during a cost of living crisis is an image problem to say the least and I don't defend that. Such obscene wealth is awful no matter who you are and according to the times rich list, there are at least 257 residents in the UK that are more wealthy than the Royals, some of them considerably so.

    For the record, I'm not for or against the UK monarchy, I'm somewhere in-between and see validity in both sides of the argument.

  • ‘You are not my king,’ Indigenous Australian senator yells at visiting King Charles

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  • I think everyone knows it's ridiculous.

    For some the monarchy is a living museum, they don't have to like it, they just find it interesting.