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> I'm not a Christian but I'm pretty sure I'd still need to deconsecrate a church before knocking it down What makes you think that? If you own it, it isn't a listed building, and …

Ah yes, conception. The magical moment a body gets 'ensouled'. Wanting to protect literal embryos is considered a rather extreme view outside of Gilead though.

> That's clearly already a child and I will object. Not your body, not your choice. Late stage abortions in order to protect the live of the pregnant woman happen. Unviable pregnan…

In the Netherlands this boils down to the 'system banks' (the big ones like ING, ABN AMRO, Rabobank, etc.) which grudgingly offer hardware devices for people who won't or can't use…

> and many only support iDEAL Actually, look closer when you pay using Ideal (as we all do). You will notice that usually there are several payment methods, and these almost always…

As an experiment this might be interesting to observe. I strongly suspect that a subset of the children will rapidly move to trying to harm the bot, just to see how and if it respo…

> I miss seeing machines that would bend a 12oz can of soda for 25¢. Those were the days. A bending machine?

> In some cases borders may overlap without making it an incorrect tagging. It may be result of agreement between countries to administer area together or to mark areas not control…

The basic sets are still there; look up the Lego Classic line. And for creativity at a good price the Creator 3in1 sets are gold. Don't be misled by all the franchised stuff (Star …

LeoCAD is really nice and smooth to work with, and on Linux a much better experience than Lego's own Bricklink Studio. Unfortunately, for instructions you can't really get away fro…

It's a skill, but it's not too hard to get decently good at it. It's mostly a matter of actually building your model in the real world and iteratively improving your digital model …

Or 'drone accident scapegoat'.

> I could only find 4 names: They haven't published the full list of the 34 researchers accepted so far: > Namen van de 34 bursalen maakt NWO niet bekend, aldus een woordvoerder, o…

I don't really think it's primarily the CoMaps devs and contributors warning others about OrganicMaps. It's mostly OpenStreetMap contributors (e.g., mappers) like myself who follow…

Quite. At least Google delivers some value to society, despite being mostly evil. Klarna is exclusively parasitic, getting people needlessly into debt and pushing a buy now pay lat…

> How did these people live through COVID and never encounter a QR code they had to scan with a phone? Was that a requirement? I got through it without scanning a single QR code. I…

It definitely reads as a 'fuck you' to me. Is there a group of people that responds well to that last sentence?

Why refuse Adolf Hitler, but allow Vladimir Putin? I mean, it's not a race, but if you're going to draw a line in the sand (labelled 'no admittance to utter cockwombles' or somethi…

> […] but then we'd have to make sure we get every single saved game for all the various games moved over […] Every single game save? Why? I get it if you are deep into a month lon…

Does it say 'don't bother with a regex beyond checking it contains an @ surrounded by arbitrary pieces of text?' This still sounds like it is leading developers to conclude that th…

This all old hat, unfortunately, and also a thing which will be gotten wrong by developers for years to come. Just shouting 'give me a regex for validating email addresses' will ma…

The classic 'those guys did something bad, so I am going to go with the guys who are absolute assholes doing several orders of magnitude more bad things now instead' response. That…

Outsourced stuff is late and expensive too, just not directly the responsibility of the minister or secretary of state because of the magic piece of paper in between. IT is hardly …

“This year's Eurovision winner: Tommy, Käärijä, and Joost, the Euroboys!” “Huh. Israel hardly got any votes this year.”

It's an unfortunate Dutch way of doing things. The firm believe that the market will solve it if you have a contract that says thing will be solved. Write a tender, pick the cheape…