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br3d

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    Comment #40814164

    I, too, am nervous of banning things, but we need to take a holistic evidence-based view. As part of this, we should be looking at the hidden subsidies that support UPF manufacturi…

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    Comment #40768782

    Your experience sounds eerily similar to mine, especially the hacky workarounds to preempt smartphones (I peaked when getting online by Bluetoothing a Clio to a Sony Ericsson). You…

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    Comment #40021288

    You seem to have linked just the thumbnail here. Got the full size?

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    Comment #39505073

    Adam Rutherford's book "How to Argue with a Racist" is all about this.

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    Comment #39486119

    Hmm, I'm now struggling to remember basic developmental psych, but there's definitely a phase at which linguistic children struggle with things having two names (it can't be both "…

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    Comment #39485994

    I think what's way more interesting is that dogs can master class inclusion: they can understand that this toy is "Mr Shakey" and this toy is "Elephant" but they can also understan…

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    Comment #39318621

    In seriousness, this doesn't sound very different from some of the replies I got when I gave Google's Gemini a quick test yesterday. You should have seen the ticking-off it gave me…

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    Comment #39318620

    In seriousness, this doesn't sound very different from some of the replies I got when I gave Google's Gemini a quick test yesterday. You should have seen the ticking-off it gave me…

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    Comment #39155541

    Perhaps even more crudely, something like "You claimed you crashed your car because the sun was in your eyes, but it was morning and you were heading west...."

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    Comment #38663222

    OP meant "can't afford them" in the sense of "couldn't afford the full price of". There are lots of people here in the UK on medium incomes driving around in £80,000 cars using thi…

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    Comment #38566353

    Sorry if this is obvious, but have you tried the options in Settings to avoid the OS killing certain apps? On my Pixel it's Settings > Apps > App Battery Usage > (choose app) > Unr…