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Actually it would be exactly that — when it mentions butter it’s highly unlikely that it is referring to clarified butter.

This is actually a great reference. The Roman festival of Parilia was celebrated by offering millet and milk to Pales, followed by drinking wine mixed with milk. This event eventually became Rome’s birthday celebration :)

I feel like this is glancing over various points. Specifically that cows aren’t the only source of milk: sheep, goats, buffalo and horses have all been milked throughout history, and would have been the main source for milk in Rome. And it wasn’t historically looked down upon: major Abrahamic faiths venerated milk consumption. For some reason yogurt is also glanced over even though Oxygala (or something like it) would have definitely been consumed almost daily.

It seems like this is a fairly Eurocentric view. Not even that, really, but a specific-period-of-time-in-Rome view.

The Romans didn’t like butter… that’s about it. And they didn’t like it because it spoils too easily in their environment. Expanding that to dairy in general is quite a reach.

Looking at what someone eats and picking on them for it still takes place in 2021 — try sending your kid with a whole cucumber to school.

The US is a very non-ideal country, but it's a working one.

In many cases it definitely has strong democracy baked into it, much more than the faux-democracy presented in almost every other country in the world. But I wouldn't call it "working." The US has significant, deep-rooted problems from housing to safety -- and US foreign policy, even towards US citizens, is rotten to the core.

The Greens do not support civil liberties. Opposing a single piece of the puzzle (digital surveillance, for now) doesn't change the ongoing assaults that the Greens party has been carrying out since their inception. The whole coal dependence Australia has is a direct consequence of the Greens rejecting alternatives like nuclear[0].

The entire political position of the Greens starts and stops at the 'think of the children' line and regularly makes deals with the major parties even though they have hostile positions. This is most clearly demonstrated in the ongoing attacks on trivial things like recreational fishing and the extremist positions the Greens takes on firearms ownership. Keeping in mind that this position on firearms includes supporting draconian-level surveillance powers being given to police, which essentially vetos their at-face position against digital surveillance today.

Some of their other positions include wanting to tax fast food, additional taxes on alcohol and forceful reacquisition of private service providers. This goes as far as giving the UN powers over Australian legislation and directly reducing Australia's sovereignty -- even for military defence[1]. Again -- hardly interested in civil liberties.

[0] https://greens.org.au/policies/nuclear-and-uranium

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-28/lapkin---the-greens27...

Wix gave my personal contact information to a literal criminal (as in someone who physically attacks people) after I reported him to Wix for scamming on their platform. I still have a copy of the voicemail where he was yelling that he's "going to find [me] and kill [me]."

Their support basically told me to fuck off when I asked why on earth they gave him my details, and the CEO just ignored me.

Great company.

Lebanon is quite possibly the worst example you could give, not only due to Israel playing a key role in the country's instability[0] but also to the fact that the areas that were shielded by Israel and the West were immediately experienced economic and political stability[1].

Israel in and of itself is a "basketcase" country that continues to operate the world's largest open-air prison, flaunting every international directive with complete disregard for the UN and operates an apartheid-like system that sees it constantly at war with almost every other nation in the Middle East. It has been entrenched in civil war since its inception but somehow that's not enough to be considered a "basketcase" -- apparently.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_occupation_of_Southern...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Fence

Considering that the only metric for supporting a Middle Eastern group is that they have to be pro-Israel, of course Israel becomes the natural choice. It’s not about stability considering that Israel is a constant powder keg. That in itself is just the catch-22 of US foreign policy in the Middle East.

The right decision - if you had the best interests for the US and the region - is to completely withdraw. Any other decision leads to more conflict and hostile and opportunist groups (Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Russia, et al) growing in influence with every passing moment.

No, sorry, you don’t get it to lump the Jewish people into this. It’s incredibly dishonest on your part to even go in that direction and you should feel embarrassment for trying to steer it towards that.

That's ridiculously short sighted and bordering on racist.

Let's bomb all of Israel's infrastructure, arm various militias in the country and put economic sanctions on them for 20 years that limits the country to a grain-for-food programme and you'll quickly see Israel join in as a regional "basketcase."

From memory, his nephew had passed in a similar way to the person in the flight. It may be the same case. I don't think he was running away from paying a settlement, I think he was running away from the guilt he felt that he had facilitated his own nephew's death. It was immediately after that that his downhill spiral began.

Wired suggesting it was a financial move is just lowbrow journalism.

Most of what you're saying is misleading at best.

I saw more people wearing masks on Sydney trains at zero cases than I did in a US supermarket at the peak

That's because NSW had legislated the wearing of masks on trains until a couple of weeks ago. It wasn't voluntary, it was either wear a mask or get fined. And since the mask mandate was taken off -- surprise, surprise -- the overwhelming majority stopped wearing them on trains.

Australian’s have made sacrifices for the greater good of all in the past (giving up guns for example)

"Giving up guns" never happened, what did happen was the forceful buyback of self-loading weapons from law abiding people who followed the law and turned them in. The people who didn't follow the law -- that is, the people who are actually responsible for the violent crime in the first place -- kept their guns and that's why self-loading firearms continue to be seized today from drug dealers and gangsters.

For some general statistics:

1. The number of homicides (and all violent crime) went up after the 1996 firearms buyback[0] and didn't go down until the police took actual action against crime in 2001

2. We have more firearms in 2021 than we did in 1996[1] and, surprising only some, less crime

The major difference in the Australian mindstate is how both major parties are centre-left so it's rare for major issues to be politicised, instead we just have politicians supporting the same things and bickering over otherwise trivial implementation details.

[0] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/AUS/australia/murder-h...

[1] https://www.smh.com.au/national/more-guns-in-australia-now-t...

They use vosotros in Colombia as well, specifically in Medellín and a couple of other places in the "coffee axis," i.e as far out as Manizales.

There is lots of truth to this. Some ORMs like Django perform joins in very unsuspecting ways.

A simple example is, say, foreign keys. Trying to access the foreign key of an object by doing `book.user.id` does an additional query for the user table to get the ID. It's less known that the id is immediately available by just doing `book.user_id` instead.

I've spent time optimising things like text searches down from 2000+ queries to about ~4, and one of the more noticeable things to me isn't actually the number of joins, rather the SELECT's that take place. Many of these ORMs do a SELECT * unless you explicitly tell them to otherwise, and when dealing with large-ish datasets or on models that have large text fields this translates into significant time taken to serialise these attributes. So you can optimise the query and still have it take a long time until you realise that limiting the initial `SELECT` parameter is probably more efficient than limiting the number of joins.

It was one of their 2016 election promises to introduce gay marriage to a postal plebiscite. The day after the results, a gay Liberal Party member introduced the proposed legislation amendments.

It was an LNP election promise, an LNP plebiscite and an LNP piece of legislation. It was LNP through and through and the credit is theirs.

I'm really not sure what you're trying to show here. They are left-leaning centrists and your comment doesn't challenge that. The fact they introduced gay marriage, divorce legislation, doubled public healthcare spending and introduced additional standardised taxes indicates they're not bible-thumping conservatives as the parent comment tried to indicate.

Saying "they're pretty far right" and the parent's comment suggesting the PM is a "fairly hard religious conservative" when there is overwhelming evidence to the contrary is literally just political propaganda. Trying to say "but they're not [far] behind" a party headed by overt racists is exactly the type of entirely fabricated, exaggerated American-type political b/s that we need to get washed out of mainstream Australian political thought ASAP. It's entirely the type of cancer introduced by state-funded rags like ABC who make it seem like anyone who isn't a brown vegan lesbian is literally Hitler.

Repeat after me: Australia is not America, Australian politics sees no reflection in American politics. The two political systems are entirely different, the political atmosphere is entirely different and the two parties that dominate are closer to classical socialists in every way more than they are right-wing religious conservatives.

The day that the Australian Liberal Party compels you to pay tithings to the Church, removes the socialised healthcare and bans abortion is the day you can start to argue that they've gone "far right." Until then you're going to have to face a cold, harsh reality: Australian politics is not that interesting. 95% of the political goals have bipartisan alignment and the disagreements are only about the implementation details, not about the policies. Sucks, I know.

Our current PM is a fairly hard religious conservative

No he's not. He's a left-leaning centrist, like both major Australian parties. Trying to apply American-flavoured extremism to the Australian political spectrum is exactly why getting rid of bubblegum news is a good thing.

For those playing at home, Scott Morrison the "hard religious conservative" who famously said[0] "the Bible is not a policy handbook, and I get very worried when people try to treat it like one" also happens to belong to the party that:

* Outlawed general access to firearms

* Legalised gay marriage

* Introduced GST (VAT)

* Introduced women-centric divorce law

* Gave people free money for having more children

* Made healthcare for pensioners free

Ad nauseam. None of these actions are "conservative" in the slightest, unless you're comparing them to literal communists, of course. The Australian Liberal Party is probably more left leaning than the American Liberal Party.

[0] https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2012/february/1328593883...

The word used for "heart" in the text continues today in Arabic (لب) and Mandaic (ࡋࡉࡁ࡛ࡀ) -- and I imagine other Semitic languages -- with the same context/usage maintained.

Part of the reason why Enums weren’t originally added to the stdlib was because if you get ten developers in a room there will be eleven conflicting expectations from an Enum class.

Personally I’ve never needed to use the Enum class, ever, in the last five years of Python development. It takes barely any time to implement a custom replacement if you need one, but for 99% of my use cases a dictionary or tuple has been enough.

Entirely anecdotal, I believe the immune system is already working at high capacity to stop you from becoming sick from the dozens of fungi, bacteria and viruses you come across on a daily basis.

The biggest metric I have for this is that when I am genuinely sick - with a cold or fever - it seems my body stops keeping things like HPV at bay and I start to see remnants of things like warts I haven’t seen for years start to pop up again - and of course disappear again along with the fever.

I don't believe that happened the way you describe it. Blue Coat was illegally on-sold to Syria from a UAE-based distributor and that company received a 200% fine of the sale price.

I'm willing to go one step further and say that NSO Group is operated by and is a core part of Israeli intelligence. It just has layers of deniability baked into the business structure like any good limited liability entity.

What it comes down to is that with NSO group:

1. Israel has access to the best 0-days it needs

2. The knowledge to develop further exploits is maintained within the Israeli intelligence apparatus

3. Israel is able to dominate the digital intelligence apparatus of autocratic regimes and, as a consequence, be able to defend itself against those tools

4. Israel is able to use it as a back channel for establishing and maintaining relationships, as well as exerting power and leverage on those nations

Given that it is an Israeli-government entity, much like the rest of the Israeli government, it is politically untouchable and buried under layers of denial. It's a direct, toxic exploitation of the relationship that Western countries maintain with Israel.

Since this will continue to be misunderstood, it's important to emphasise that the article explicitly mentions that there is

1. No evidence to support the idea of strains that have any impact on infection

2. No evidence to support the idea that the strains will resist the vaccines or weaken vaccine efficacy.

This is not a "strain" in the sense of the flu, COVID-19 hasn't fundamentally changed in any meaningful way that lets us do anything other than track the pandemic's spread.

Considering other groups, at the time, were circumnavigating the world, forging steel and blasting each other with gun powder it’s not hard to believe that an equally intelligent and able group of people that put their attention to something else could figure out how to get high from a plant.

Perhaps this is due to European destruction of the native history of the Americas - they’re seen as primitive groups with little social complexity. I think that if their histories were better preserved we’d be less surprised that they had an understanding of the native plants around them.

So what you're suggesting is that registrars should be exempt from the standard that we hold literally everything else to?

This isn't a subjective topic. These are criminal syndicates stealing credit cards and using them to buy services from Namecheap for the explicit goal of creating deceitful websites to defraud people.

Namecheap has an Acceptable Use Policy section[0] in their TOS specifically for these situations yet uniquely refuses to enforce it. Enforcing it is an explicit requirement in the ICANN registry agreement[1] that Namecheap is required to follow to be an accredited registrar.

Allowing this to take place, even after it is reported, is potentially a criminal act in and of itself.

[0] https://www.namecheap.com/legal/universal/universal-tos/

[1] https://newgtlds.icann.org/sites/default/files/agreements/ag...

There needs to be a bipartisan political will for it which is hard to capture.

Australia tried to follow the same model only for a more conservative government to get in, claim that it was too expensive, butcher the plans (fibre to the node instead of to the premise) to "save costs" the country was left with a more expensive half-baked product that still incorporated a lot of copper.

What's worse is that because there was a "government fibre" model it meant that private industry that wanted to lay its own fibre started facing various endless legal issues[0], which, funny enough, is entirely supported by the originally less conservative political groups that pushed for the rollout in the first place. So now we're left with a bad network and legal structures in place to stop it from being privately superseded.

[0] https://www.itnews.com.au/news/tpg-calls-for-nbn-protectioni...

I don't even care about being ethical -- just don't literally facilitate and turn a blind eye to crime.

I moved to, among others, Porkbun.

Namecheap is another dumpster fire of a registrar. While GoDaddy seems to generally carry a low bar, Namecheap on the other hand completely turns a blind eye to their service becoming the number one platform for stolen credit cards buying thousands of domains for international phishing scams everyday.

They double down on this by putting their “legal” team in Eastern Europe and make it seem like actioning their TOS against scammers puts them in a position of violating free speech (or something equally as stupid).

I wouldn’t be surprised if the majority of Namecheap’s income comes from domains registered for phishing scams. It’s that rampant and they just do not care.

A few things.

1. Sunlight isn't on the list he's citing.

2. Sunlight can't be measured by kilos, so it can't be compared against.

3. Sunlight is the consequence of the sun's nuclear reactions. So fusion nuclear energy might be comparable, but until then, fission is as close as we get.

I am not worried that Amazon would shut down all of AWS any time soon.

Can you honestly say it would be a complete surprise, however, if Google announced an EOL for GCP?