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Do you think the Trump administration really gives a damn about wildlife? There is of course some danger to wildlife but compared to things like planes, cars and boats its pretty m…

They could absolutely moderate this at scale. They would just make less money so they have no incentive to do that.

It's really not the same thing. The coating is significantly thicker and more closely resembles real chocolate.

So your argument is that they could have won in an alternative reality where it was worth paying a much higher cost for victory, therefore they didn't lose?

Eisenhower would be considered a woke commie by today's administration

If you set out to achieve an objective, but the enemy prevents you from achieving that objective, you lost.

Hydro has the benefit of being available at night when you're unlikely to be using your car.

In fairness Norway does have ludicrous levels of hydro per capita which makes electricity very cheap.

StatCounter is a joke.

Two of my most commonly used apps are my personal nutrition and workout tracking apps. Vibe coded and hosted on a Raspberry Pi. They're exactly customised to my usage pattern so in…

Those things are at least well intentioned, and honestly the lane keeping has once or twice saved me from accidentally leaving my lane when distracted, which might have saved my li…

Yeah it was a disaster really.

Funnily enough it was Infantino who lead the introduction of the Nations League.

Most Irish people (save a few in Dublin) are basically Americans.

This post would make sense if we didn't live a world where the head of the most powerful country in the world says climate change is a scam. Also, plenty of middle class, comfortab…

I would say ignore them. It was well written an informative. Some people have just gone insane and see LLMs everywhere.

"It lacks psychological, emotional, political and ethical depth. Its narrative structure is gimmicky. The writing is abysmal. None of the characters has convincing motivation for t…

Wait 'till you hear about the special criminal court...

Countering the nonsense prevalent in a lot of evolutionary psychology counts as a big positive in my book.

If you thought Afghanistan was a disaster, Iran would be at least 10 times worse.

The guy watched Citizen Kane and his takeaway was "what a great guy and what an incredible life he lived."

Curious how you are responding to this? Are there viable alternatives you are moving budget to or are you just hostage to their new tactics?

I've stopped installing software updates to my car. They never seem to do anything useful and often will cause things to break or get reset. I no longer see the upside.

Cool, so what have you personally done to reduce your co2 emissions? How do your co2 emissions compare to the global average? Or are you just pretending the problem is other people…

Building the nuclear power plants should solve the problem in about 50 years...