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I guess the Florida surgeon general thinks that "do no harm" thing is overblown. What's it matter if some kids die from easily preventable diseases?
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I guess the Florida surgeon general thinks that "do no harm" thing is overblown. What's it matter if some kids die from easily preventable diseases?
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Shitty revival band cashes in bigtime
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I'm sure Spaniards are weeping over one million less tourist scum.
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Another brand rises from the dead to give the illusion of choice. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Blame airlines for packing people in like sardines.
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Amazed Argos is still going. Must be getting crushed between online stores like Amazon and cheap chains like Home Bargains
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Personally I'd rather the experience. If you just stay at stupidly opulent hotels with fawning staff the experience likely all blurs into one.
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The numbers might be pennies but even billionaires should think of how memorable a place is rather than just gaudy trappings and obsequiousness of somewhere like this or the Ritz, Savoy etc
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The safest gun is one that doesn't exist. But I could see how in the demented world of America where people leave them around on coffee tables for kids to find and play with (and kill people) that some safety might be appropriate.
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I don't understand why even "high net worth" people would waste £1400 a night on some gaudy hotel. London is full of affordable boutique hotels which would cost a fraction of this and still offer an amazing experience.
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Looking forward to stories about idiots caught out by system whining they wouldn't have voted for Brexit if they'd known this would happen.
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Ladies go wild for neck wattle. Also money.
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I would say most Irish men, considerably more than 99% in fact, have not won an acting prize at Venice.
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Also means we can have more mysteries where the train goes through a tunnel, the lights briefly go off when they come back on the person opposite has vanished.
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They're after something but it's nothing biological
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Yeah those meanies in Europe spoiling his "peace by capitulation" plan
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RFK jr is withdrawing vaccinations for serious communicable diseases against all science or sense. People will die because of this. How is this anything less than murder?
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There's always another day
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Every country has these dumb incorrigible lunatics. Perhaps courts need specialist intervention to snap them out of their beliefs. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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My dog goes berserk every time an animal of any sort appears on TV. Not sure I'd want him or other dogs anywhere me if I'm paying to watch a film.
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I'd love to see some Irish wines. As absurd as it sounds the climate could probably support some varieties. The UK has some excellent vineyards so why not?
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Google need to downrank recipe sites that don't get to the point. Spewing a recipe over 10 or 20 pages means it's about fake ad impressions and not food
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RFK jr is killing children and adults through misinformation and wilful neglect. He is not an expert, he is a mass murderer.
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Where "agenda" is killing men, women and children with medical misinfo.
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I doubt many people would even recognize somebody speaking Hebrew
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This fucking guy is a psychopath
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"I can't be bought" says guy who shat out lazy sequels to Alien and Gladiator presumably for lots of money.
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He will count as one of the biggest mass murderers of this century.
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It's hard to see what RFKjr is doing as anything but systematic murder. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I suppose also then the question "do I have space for it?". I have a bread maker and the thing is enormous but then I make GF bread with it so it's a justifiable thing to own but I couldn't say the same for an ice cream maker for example.
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Some gadgets are worth it, some are complete garbage. You can normally tell one from the other by questions like "is this thing easy to clean?", "will I use it much?", "would a chef use it?". If the answer is no then it's probably junk that will live in the cupboard forever.
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YouTube: Here are some shorts, Me: Show me fewer shorts, YouTube: Lol here are some more shorts, Me: Show me fewer shorts, YouTube: Lol this will never go your way and we will shove this shit down your throat.
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Tony Blair's "institute" is basically payola bullshit that neither he nor it deserve the time of day from anybody. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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I wonder what RFK jr's body count stands at now.
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If only there were some way to avoid ruinous libel lawsuits.
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A backlash because some terrible chain slightly modified their terrible branding
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Hope the deal includes capital investment because Afghan torture prisons must already be at capacity and they'll need some more.
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Apple will wow the crowd with more of the same - expensive, behind the curve, locked in products with built-in obsolescence.
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"Taken by storm" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
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What's with all these scam tai chi ads on YouTube? I swear they don't give a fuck what ads they host because it's all money to them
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Nick is more than happy to take their money and be the apologist for their worst behaviours.
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Some concern bought up all the WH Smith highstreet stores and rebranded them as TGJones rather than buy the rights to the name. I'm sure that's a smart move that won't have any negative consequences whatsoever.
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All these fractional stock trading things are scams. When you buy stock from a broker, it's your stock, not the brokers. You can vote, receive dividends directly, move brokers etc. Not so with fractions which belong to the platform.
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Buy a 1st class train ticket with a similar itinerary, stay at the most luxurious hotels and dine at the best restaurants. It would still cost less than this bullshit.
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She was probably going to be sent to some cushy low security prison anyway.
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Sovereign citizen / Freemen of the Land nutcases exist everywhere. Most use absurd pseudo-legalese to dodge taxes, steal land and avoid other laws they don't like. Keep an eye on them because they may seem harmless but they're not.
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And shouldn't need to be said that the only people who make money are the lawyers. Once when I was in the US daytime TV ads were spamming ads non-stop about mesothelemia / asbestos class actions.
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I've been sent letters saying I'm a participant in a class action and believe me, if you see a penny it will be so pitifully small you won't even care. I've received USD cheques which are so tiny that it would cost more to cash them into my bank than the amount written on them.
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I'm guessing they ask people to show up in person from time to time and can detect people who flew in and out around the time of this happening.
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His lack of common sense was terminal
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America clearly doesn't want tourists, or foreign workers, or entertainers / artists, or even people on trips doing business. Better avoid the place entirely.
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Intentional or not he saved at least one comrade.
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My local curry house offers 20% discount on orders over €50. But our house order is normally €41 so I slap in bottles of coke or extra starters because it still works less than if I didn't order them.
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The problem is looking at "exceptional" stories and creating a survivorship bias from it. More mundanely, chances of survival will depend on seating position, seatbelt, proximity to exits, evacuation procedures and so forth.
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"In the Chinese culture, money is often given to others [covertly hidden in a empty bag of chips] in a gesture of friendship and gratitude. [And also as a bribe.]"
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Drone deliveries should have restrictive rules but not outright banned. They have vital uses but at the same time, having them fly over people's houses delivering pizza, Amazon packages or whatever should be banned.
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Only if someone wanted to opt into filtering and it's not transparent. Somebody has to install root CA for the DPI proxy. It would only be necessary if a site was hosting 18+ and < 18 content from the same domain but different paths.
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But people not wanting the NHS is nuts. As bad as the NHS can be some time, one look at other countries would show private is no solution either and can be disastrously expensive if allowed to run amok like in the USA.
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Bupa is a thing too. But Bupa gets more expensive the older you are, & more claims / conditions you have. This is unlike other countries with hybrid private / public models, where insurers typically charge everyone the same for the same plan, but have more plan levels to compensate.
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There is more they could do here, like deep packet inspection. But even at filtering's worst it would still be better at protecting kids, than punishing adults. And better than farming out responsibility to random websites around the world, many of which won't care.
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I'm sure Trump will get a very warm reception
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I have N26 and Revolut. N26 is less flashy but more or less the same from a banking experience. Perhaps the biggest issue is Revolut (finally) has an Irish IBAN whereas N26 is German and there are some stupid situations where this has been a problem.
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Definitely seems to be a problem everywhere. Even online gambling doesn't drive these flea pits out of business. I bet addicts of one kind are very easy to transfer onto something else.
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The sane option, that they chose not to do is require ISPs to provide parental filtering for families who want it with tools to turn it on/off. It would be more effective than requiring random websites around the world and now VPNs to age verify because of some stupid law.
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Buying branded products where an own-equivalent exists is nuts. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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What I really *love* is people who fail to understand context and go straight in with the insults.
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That's every high street isn't it? There is always one end which is filled with phone repair & charity shops and bookmakers / gambling.
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Well yeah of course kids are going to use VPNs. Because the legislation was stupid. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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60% chance his shade of pan stick is called "chocolate momma"
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The US thinks its sticking it to renewables. In reality it's just ensuring the future belongs to China.
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And also, "while I'm down here is there anything else I can do that would give you pleasure dear fascistic overlord?"
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Unless you're a dog in which case you go to a groomers
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Many countries have mail-in / proxy voting because not everyone is in a position to vote in person. Maybe they're overseas, or invalided, or incarcerated (not necessarily convicted) or whatever the reason.
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Imagine buying lipstick, makeup or any other crap off Shein for kids. I'm sure it won't contain lead or carcinogens right? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Airbnb has its place but it should be onerous and expensive for individuals to operate in places where there is rent pressure or housing demand.
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It's not a kindle, it's a kobo
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What happened is the realisation I can carry an entire library on a single device. Not only that but I can borrow them from a library while I'm sat by some pool in another country.
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He's only clever if his master plan was to flunk out on purpose.
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Since owning an ereader I don't have much interest in paper books any more. I think I've bought 2 or 3 in the last 10 years. Much easier to pack a few hundred books on a device and read that.
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For all you know Art and Craft both work there
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I looked up a school bully and discovered they died 10 years ago. My only regret is not knowing sooner.
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Reform twat says the quiet part out loud. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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ChatGPT has no intelligence behind it. It is a crank handle - give it a set of input tokens and it will randomly select a token from those most likely to be next. Rinse and repeat.
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Putin absolutely will "mess around" with him. And has been doing it continuously because Trump is predictable and easy to manipulate. www.bbc.com/news/live/c2...
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Pretty woeful. And people wonder why the economy yo-yos when the price of fuel goes up and down.
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Doubtless wired to catch any interesting conversations
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As the windowcleaner or the woman he's seeing undressing?
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Going to go out on a limb and guess the chances of dying in a collision from not wearing a seatbelt are considerably greater than being shot during a carjacking.
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Definitely looks like the ones on the bow were goners. I think the collision was softer than hitting an immovable rock but people must still have been flung about.
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I hope future administrations try and work out the body count of this administration when these assholes are out.
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Napoleon stood above the average dictator for being enlightened in many ways as well as being a brilliant commander. But he basically reshaped revolutionary France to be royalist again, just centred around himself and installed his brethren to do likewise in countries France conquered.
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Putting backdoors in apps might move some criminals onto more secure platforms like Signal. From a technical standpoint Whatsapp has end to end encryption for individual (not group) chat so if cops wanted a backdoor it would have to be in the client before or after a message is encoded.
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America has Dollar General, Dollar Tree etc. There is absolutely nothing exceptional about Poundland. Except that most things no longer cost a pound. That's probably why its stores are closing down because the value has disappeared.
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Goat goats cheese
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"Massive sale". GAME will move all the valuable stock elsewhere and be getting rid of the dross that's left.
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But everyone loves that time in the evening when a band takes a break from their recognisable hits and plays a tune from their new album.