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Entrepreneur magazine are famous for this too.

The Rwanda ECHR injunction was followed, which is one reason why no migrants have yet been sent to Rwanda despite nearly two years of harsh rhetoric.

How did you survive before 2020?

I always do, but increasingly I'm finding places don't even have one to give me.

You forgot "restaurants that no longer provide printed menus and expect you to view the menu on your phone instead". Dear fucking God I will go to my grave complaining about how mu…

So? 25% doesn't mean it can't happen. I wouldn't cross the road if there was a 25% of being hit by a car. The real way to measure predictive accuracy is to find _all_ the times the…

If we're talking about spelling, the biggest source of English's orthographic oddness is the Great Vowel Shift: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift

> we are the champions of how to write something easy most difficultly, and crank weirdness of pronunciation to 100 Wurs than Inglish? I hav my dowts.

Cigarettes kill you slowly over decades, fentanyl can kill a first-time user with a single dose. Moronic analogy.

Why do you say it's not working out in Portugal or Amsterdam? I frequently hear those two places cited as an example of where drug liberalisation has been a big success. Is that no…

As dang explains in one of the linked posts, it's because if they don't do it, the discussion usually becomes "how is this on the front page when it's 2 days old?" instead of discu…

But is that old man wrong?

So much nostalgia in this thread!

I lived in Southeast Asia for a few years in my 20s - not teaching English, mainly just scraping together a living through random Internet bullshit, but I had lots of friends who t…

Yeah, it's quite hilarious that this article's only critique of the OSB is to quote someone saying that it doesn't go far enough.

Here we go again: Alex Jones is being a dick? Disgraceful - we need to censor the internet. Cloudflare is protecting a Neo-Nazi website from being DDOSed? There's no such thing as …

Interesting. I don't think I've ever seen it here in Britain. Some smaller businesses might insist on a £5 minimum spend if you're not paying cash, but even that has become very ra…

Who are you to decide what other people should consider essential?

Google "canadian trucker protest"

Maybe we should also mandate the USDA to bake same-sex wedding cakes.

You do understand what the word "addiction" means, right?

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.” - Anatole France

Okay, then let's not force businesses to make their buildings wheelchair-accessible either, because most customers can walk. If some customers can't shop there anymore then the mar…