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Knowledge for its own sake is great, but it's worth noting that many "useless" fields of mathematics turned out to be very practical in the long run. Number theory was long thought…

Yes but it's always advertised as "$12/MONTH" in big letters with billed annually written somewhere small and non-obvous.

Regulation is a good thing for big, established incumbents who can afford expensive lawyers. It keeps them safe from competition.

Yes but that didn't happen in the Americas. They didn't settle or leave any lasting impact.

They briefly visited, they didn't "conquer"

The president of the European Commission is “elected” through a thin pretence of democracy that the people of Europe have effectively no control over, and mostly pay no attention t…

Maybe an ESL thing? "Potatoes" are literally called "earth apples" in some languages (e.g. pommes de terre in French; Erdäpfel in some German dialects.)

Max Planck published the same paper in multiple journals in the 1940s, which was common practice at the time. He also published a second unrelated paper that happened to have the s…

Then it's perhaps not the best name, given what happened in the end to the empire's eastern border.

https://xkcd.com/2151/

The UK government has just create an upsurge of interest in digital privacy, so that might be why

It's here: https://codeberg.org/rickoooooo/BannedBookLibrary/src/branch... For the curious, the "banned" books are (it's a short list): - Call of the Wild - Jack London - The Adven…

Yeah I had the same reaction. From the title I was expecting to find out what the "future of email" is. I'm still waiting.

US had net negative migration in 2025 for the first time in decades: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/01/14/immigra...

Which led to a British journalist holding an "offensive poems about Erdogan" contest, which was won by Boris Johnson: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/19/boris-johns..…

In the UK, employers pay a stealth tax of 15% (recently increased from 13.8%) on top of the quoted salary minus the first £5k (recently decreased from £9,100.) So your "£50k" salar…

See also: Germany's leader filing hundreds of criminal complaints against people who insult him on social media: https://rmx.news/article/germany-chancellor-merz-quietly-fil...

Don't forget Futurama's: https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Old_Freebie