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Does that assume that you're able to perfectly time the investment with the market bottom?

What relevance does your quote have here? The area in question has no civilians to speak of.

Why would there be a privacy-respecting free option? The content is not free to produce.

I don’t believe the courts would rule such a loan to be a disposal given the trend towards judicial activism in the UK.

I think a loan of the Parthenon Sculptures within the next few years is more likely than you think. Both Kier Starmer and George Osborne are keen for a deal, and the majority of th…

Both. I have to look at a GUI to use it.

It’s probably excluded because TFL don’t classify it as an Underground line. Similarly, hovering over the DLR will produce a tooltip but the line is excluded.

> I believe in reality a not guilty verdict is, we didn't have the evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt this person committed the crime. That’s a description of the Scottish…

I don’t see King’s Road as being a good example. King’s Road has a lot of traffic and the pedestrian experience is very poor.

>Let's not criticise Japanese law without acknowledging that US law is also fucked up. This doesn’t need done at all. This is just whataboutism. This story does not involve the USA…

That’s just not true. The violent crime rate in Russia is many times that of any Western European country, and their intentional homicide rate is slightly higher than America’s. In…

> But it’s still investing in oil companies and giving them more money. Buying shares on the market from third parties does not give the company more money.

My observation has been that the comments on high engagement TikTok posts are generally quite pleasant, whereas the comments on high engagement Instagram posts feel like a KKK meet…

It’s a flawed democracy, but it’s on a consistent upward trajectory.

>consumer rights only kicks in when you "take ownership" of something No they don’t. Consumer rights law in the UK applies to services too.

>NSDAP were in power for over a decade before the first concentration camp was ever built. The first concentration camp, Nohra, opened in 1933, the year the Nazis took power. The m…

>if someone saw my laptop and a mac laptop left alone in the same room, they would try to steal the Mac, making my laptop even safer by virtue of not being from Apple. That might b…

That’s more of a problem of a lack of cases brought by the government than a problem with the courts. The courts have generally seen through such things quite well when the governm…

I think the parent comment was saying that Iraq was invading a sovereign country in the Gulf War. I can see how the comment could be parsed as saying America invaded the sovereign …

>I'll stop you right there because the major producers of greenhouse gasses aren't third world countries. Historically, the majority of greenhouse gasses emitted comes from industr…

The consent form situation did not get this bad until GDPR was passed. Prior to GDPR cookie-consent forms were simple "Yes" or "No" buttons without all the insane pages of toggles.…

>one of whom was the Chief of Staff the army Vitaly Gerasimov was the Chief of Staff of an army (41st Combined Arms), rather than the Army. The similarly-named Valery Gerasimov is …

>Same UK that said it would back Ukraine if Russia invaded? The UK was always very clear that the backing to Ukraine would be in the form of the supply of weapons to Ukraine and sa…