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Yes, Ukraine is a democracy, but also one that still contains some unsavory elements
And you think getting rid of those 'unsavory elements', replacing them with an authoritarian, warmongering Putin led puppet government would be an improvement for the world?
What utter drivel.
Oh dear.
It would be laughably easy for the Russian command to disprove (and thoroughly discredit) the Ukrainian reporting if these reports are false.
But the Russians can't.
The Mapatazi?
An increasingly rare thing these days.
The artist shall utilise the bank notes to visually reproduce a specific artwork
More amusing if the artist burnt the money and used the ashes to create an artwork.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Qu...
" K Foundation Burn A Million Quid....... compiles stills from the film, accounts of events and viewer reactions, and an image of the brick that was manufactured from the fire's ashes. A film consisting of a static three-minute shot of the brick, "This Brick", was shown at London's Barbican Centre prior to Drummond and Cauty's [The K Foundation] performance as 2K in the same year."
When I learned about that interior camera in my Model Y
Wait, Tesla cars video their users? Seriously?
I'm gobsmacked users tolerate and agree to this.
K Foundation's money-as-art works, "Money: A Major Body Of Cash"
You cannot mention this without also mentioning "K Foundation Burn a Million Quid".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Qu...
And yes, they really did do it. (This was the same blokes who, at the top of the UK charts, as an artistic statement deleted their entire music back catalogue, meaning you could no longer buy their music. In 1992, that really did mean no more sales of their music and no more profit for them.)
The "don't be easily annoyed" rule is increasingly needed.
Interestingly....
I recall a post on here where a bloke got very indignant about the innocent use of the term 'Chinaman'; something this Englishman (sharing an office with two Frenchmen, an Irishman and a Dane) found rather odd, especially considering the complainant was not Chinese themselves.
I think this was my introduction to the idea of the 'modern' internet user being far too easily offended (on somebody else's behalf to boot!), coupled with a modern desire to engage in culture wars and internet virtue signalling. This has certainly not lead to rational and healthy discourse.
As long as we hold onto the USENET tradition, that all posts pointing out a spelling or grammatical error must themselves contain such an error. Including punctuation.
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I live in the UK. It's bizarrely barely news.
Seconded.
I'm willing to bet only Private Eye readers (where to story broke and who continue to demand justice) are aware of this debacle and the shear scale of misery it has caused; all due to software being considered infallible.
+1 for Private Eye.
Real investigative journalism, holding politicians to account, all whist taking the piss in classic British style.
If Private Eye hadn't investigated this, who would have?
I suspect the modems will be around for a very long time.
No they won't.
'Dial up' modems need a PSTN line to work. The roll out of full fibre networks means analogue PSTN is going the way of the dodo. You cannot get a new PSTN line anymore in Blighty. In Estonia and the Netherlands (IIRC) the PSTN switch off is already complete.
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You have just outed yourself as American!
I'm surprised you think otherwise.
"Ordinary" antennas are completely passive, just a bit of metal. It's the maths for data recovery and trilateration (not triangulation!) that is processor heavy.
Amusingly, Scottish Wildcats are rare, going extinct because they are interbreeding with feral domestic cats.
Your very post (and Wikipedia link) undermines the argument you are tying to make.
Not really. We teach children how to cross the road and children don't generally take a dump in the neighbours flower beds.
In the UK, the life expectancy is not that different, there are no large predators
No, but there is traffic and plenty of people who take objection to cats fouling their gardens and will happily leave out a saucer of antifreeze.
If you live in an urban area, the kindest thing to do is keep you cat indoors.
For those that want to follow, what are good online shopping alternatives?
In Blighty, Argos.
No counterfeit stuff (which frankly, should be a given), same day delivery and a good network of bricks'n'mortar shops (with pick-up and drop-off) if you need it.
Gotta love the never ending hunt for things that are uniquely human.
To be fair, I've never seen any other member of the animal kingdom drunkenly light their own farts.
I suggest such actions (a combination of drug use, mastery of fire, intellect (however limited) and social bonding) define our humanity.
In other words, calling a multi-million pound property a “cottage” would rankle an American ear
To this British ear.....
Plenty cottages sell for multi-millions (including many in my village, unfortunately). Please take your semantics elsewhere.
Along similar lines.... When presenting at a conference, our research group would always pick a word that everybody had to sneak into their talk, or else buy everyone a pint.....
....though, I was once at a conference where for a split second, a bloke flashed a slide showing a chimpanzees arse. We recon he had a similar bet going.
The RSPB themselves have said.....there’s no evidence this is affecting decline
The RSPB know which side their bread is buttered. They are a charity who get their donations from "animal lovers", inducing cat 'owners'. They certainly won't say anything which might prejudice this source of income.
It's odd to me that there's such a contrast between attitudes towards cats roaming in Europe
Plenty of people here in Blighty despise roaming cats leaving turds in their gardens and killing the local wildlife.
I have been ranting and raving that surveillance capitalism is the worst thing to happen in the modern world
Seconded.
Our defence is the GDPR. It makes gathering personal data a liability, not an asset.
It's amusing how many HN'ers (based in the US) will rant against the GDPR in an effort to defend their own scummy surveillance capitalism business models.
No pleasures in life are worth exchanging for a few extra years in a nursing home in Clacton-On-Sea.
FOURTH GRADE
What age(s) is this? (We don't have 'grades' in Blighty)
after a few years of Reddit, I started calling this kind of thing "internet advice"
Reddit "kama" is a popularity contest and has nothing to do with factual accuracy or genuine advice.