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  • What RSS feed are you subscribed to/can recommend?

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  • The implicit part of OPs question is ".. that I might want to read.".

    The correct answer to OPs question is to provide a full listing of something like feedly's RSS feeds. Millions and millions of them.

    This is why one frames a question (gives constraints) so that the answer is immediately useful to the questionnaire.

  • DIY methanol detector for drinks

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  • The need for such a device depends where you drink. And life skills.

    Ever bought any illicit drugs? Taken or done anything that could enhance your life? Own a gun? Thought about using it for a split-second?

    Do you see yourself a potential Darwin Award winner? Are you in training?

    Everything is a risk-reward balancing act. If your day-to-day analysis of that continuous series of balances is repeatedly flawed then best not go. Best not step out of your house. Or room. Or Bed. Depending.

    Vietnam is lovely. Went a few years ago as part of a group thing. And I checked today: I am still alive. I prefer the north to the south: people with nothing will share and engage with you, the south provides you with all the opportunities to buy stuff from curbside ventures you could ever wish for (read between the lines).

    They will bombard you with details of the 'American war' which as a British bloke was rather sad. Maybe some of you know that history.

  • EU alternative to Intel, AMD and Nvidia

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  • No, they carried on innovating but followed the money because only major sources of capital outside EU would back their ideas.

    Shame on us Europeans.

  • What RSS feed are you subscribed to/can recommend?

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  • Same question in 20th century: recommend a book.

    If you can't see the problem with this question, .. Sheesh! ..nvm.

  • NSFW

    I don't understand referring to sex as "screwing"

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  • Is it a pattern for right-wing people to attack films, series and animations with protagonists from minority groups? Or is this an exaggeration?

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  • "Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.” -- G. Michael Hopf

    If I am left wing and the body-left moves left then I am right wing. Extreme Left wing circles around to become extreme right and then moderate.

    They call it history. You spell it P-R-O-P-A-G-A-N-D-A, and the most well read of you think that it's a small country in east central Africa.

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    One in 15 Americans has witnessed a mass shooting – study

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  • This isn't news. Since the second amendment's Inception, it has never been used for its intended purpose.

    There was an invasion of 'Mercan Government buildings in recent years and no-one took guns. Had they believed in the second amendment, that wouldn't have been true.

    I make no judgement as to whether that invasion was right or wrong.

    Biden served out his term as expected as a person deep in dementia; a lesson about 'Merca to the whole world. That second amendment is just for school kids to shoot each other in school corridors, because someone cut you up in traffic or so one drug dealer can steal drugs from another drug dealer.

    I write as a Brit being fucked over by an authoritarian Marxist government. Somehow we got infected by Woke from 'Merca (anyone else getting the irony there?) and all sides of our legislative bodies caught it.

    But the icing on the cake is finding out that, as the world watched Russia invade Ukraine to help recreate the USSR, Trump is a Russian asset but in the different way that Biden was.

    Where is your second amendment now, Mercans? Answer: same place it always was.

  • Trump claims US is being ripped off by Europeans and ‘globalists’ as markets dip

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  • I'm curious. The US is bankrupt: the national debt is far higher than they can ever repay. Who is lending them this money, and isn't this the same course of action that the US took during the second world war? The UK only paid off their lease-lend loans from 1940-50 very recently.

  • What is the minimum number of words needed to communicate

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  • Presupposes that you've used some of my other five words.

    Reserves an Honourable mention, though.

  • What is the minimum number of words needed to communicate

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  • Five.

    1. Beer
    2. Taxi
    3. Restaurant/Food
    4. Train/Airport
    5. Hello

    Extensive research conducted all over the world. I love Asia but am awful with the language(s). French/France is my favourite place.

  • Is anyone else constantly paranoid wearing light coloured clothing because they're afraid of getting stains?

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  • Clothes are meant to be used

    Only if you're not the one doing the frigging washing and ironing.

  • Is anyone else constantly paranoid wearing light coloured clothing because they're afraid of getting stains?

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  • The (apparent but elusive) hole in my bottom lip and Spaghetti Bolognese are the primary cause for my disquiet.

    Context: am old fart from the time of white work shirts and still like white or pale colours today. Wtf are dark suits and dark shirts about? That's clubbing clobber.

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  • Flip a coin.

    Not because it's anything to do with the coin, but because, by the time it lands, you will either be trying to rationalise the way it landed or be happy that it landed that way.

    In other words, you'll have already made up your mind what to do by the time it lands.

    The coin only represents the finality of being good with what you've chosen; some might say the urgency element.

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  • This.

    Old fart here. Loyalty doesn't figure in business anymore. That's not a cynical position, it's a true position, especially in relation to staff.

    Loyalty actually stops you doing what's best for the company because you will be disinclined to present momentum which might undermine (accidentally or otherwise) someone to whom you are loyal.

  • Microsoft research finds Microsoft AI products may never be secure

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  • Because Microsoft were always really privacy and security focused.

  • Why build for tomorrow when it's someone else's tomorrow, someone who would never build for you?

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  • Yes, pretty sure no-one is going to (be able to) look back on Gen Z and remember their achievements, except maybe in a negative way.

  • What's the underrated quote that will stick with you for life?

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  • "Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.” -- G. Michael Hopf

    "If you want justice, go to a whorehouse. If you wanna get fucked, go to court.":: Primal Fear

  • At what point in the relationship should I move in with my girlfriend?

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  • When your wife says she's ready to move to the next level.

  • Suggestions to switch a daily laptop to linux.

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  • Upvoted with caveats

    I choose clean OSs with minimal additional code and settings added by distro maintainers. Fedora is fairly good. ArchLinux is excellent.

    ArchLinux actually makes quite a good first distro if you're willing to learn GNU/Linux. If you grew up with the early non-NT (DOS) Windows then you're more than used to trying to squeeze the most out of Windows by learning how it works. That was a long time ago now.

    I moved from Windows to Linux just after the turn of the century because Microsoft were making it more difficult to use your own OS on your own machine.

    After Fedora Core 4+ I ended up using ArchLinux for the longest time. It's early adoption of systemd was a factor, as was the rolling nature.

  • Are there historical examples of countries or kingdoms that did a complete 180 on their old allies - not counting vassals or similars changing one master for another?

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  • USA on Ukraine.