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I'm not sure any of those things (curry, reggae, tea) are examples by themselves of cultural appropriation. The first two are artefacts of groups who came to Britain and became par…

This seems rather blatantly anti-british? Feels like you're taking your point too far the other way. How exactly is Britain not a country good at designing things for longevity? It…

I'm not American, so I'll admit I don't exactly subscribe to your american-centric ideas of what the global pandemic was about (operative word: global). You haven't really explaine…

You're describing contact tracing, that is not vaccination. If people were less afraid of vaccinations, invasive practices like contact tracing would be less necessary. Arguing aga…

What does getting the COVID vaccine have to do with surveillance or grocery shopping? Where I live I simply queued up at the local vaccination centre, got vaccinated, and left. I p…

Using a very common utility in the standard library is to avoid reinventing the wheel is not "clean code"? defaultdict is ubiquitous in modern python, and is far from a complicated…

Just to clarify this as well, while sixth form (17~18 years old) is optional in the UK, education is still compulsory until you're 18. you have the option to do this at an apprenti…

What are you talking about? The US has the 2nd heighest emissions behind China, almost double India's. The only countries higher than it per-capita are Canada, Australia and petro-…

That's just elitist though isn't it? These games are enjoyed by players from all over the world, including massive numbers of players in countries with far less average disposable …

This is a naive take. Of course these developers already permaban cheaters. Firstly many of these games are free to play so "getting another license" is a non issue. They're doing …

Riot games use theirs (Vanguard) to improve detection of cheating software. basically the idea is by being on from the moment the computer is booted up it can validate the environm…

It is only "anti-white" in the sense it's criticizing white men from over a hundred years ago who were doing pretty horrible things in the name of colonialism. And the fact they we…

The article is talking about how his stories inspired real world colonial technocrats in France at the time.

The article is just correctly identifying that late 1800s french colonial technocrats were predominantly white males. The article isn't really making a particular point about this,…

looks like they were playing around with getting gpt to write some code to render the particles

You dismiss a lot of modern technologies as "unnecessarily complicated", you advocate for reinventing the wheel coming across with a very "I know better" attitude. For example you …

Clearly a bad faith argument. someone with your passwords can do a lot more damage than someone with your DNA. I think DNA is probably sensitive on the level of someone knowing you…

https://www.metabunk.org/threads/claim-ancient-egyptians-cou... Here's a nice compilation of evidence showing it's completely explainable how they could have made them.

I didn't mean they literally descended from the scythians, but that they both derive from the indo-europeans from the eurasian steppe, and so cultural memory of this could influenc…

Well the (Celtic) Scots did descend from roughly the Scythians. although afaik the Picts are thought to possibly be non-celtic. The Celtics though were all Indo-European, and so or…

It's a really minor thing, but decorators are really not a new python feature. The RFC is from 2003, decorators existed in python 2.

You state that "a drop in overall intake as more students realise it likely isn't worth the money". This is completely unfounded and not supported by statistics at all [1]. Univers…

it was precisely the 10th century when the concept of English emerged, with Athelstan being regarded as the first king of England. the ideas of a unified Anglo Saxon people started…