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TBH I am sick to death of this website and am therefore clearing this comment. Apologies to the commentor responding below - I posted a response to your comment in a previous edit …

From what I can find on the internet the origin is with Portuguese Sephardic Jews who fled to the British Isles in the 16th century.

> the Indian food in Britain is the best in the world Got about a billion people here who'd like to disagree. In fact, of all the crimes against humanity the British visited on Ind…

As Gyles Brandreth said, she was an interesting cross between Mary Berry and Jeremy Clarkson [1]. [1] https://youtu.be/PKva9CAPygQ

Why shouldn't Uber give them anything? Also, who's them?

Awww, there go all my favorite panel shows.

When Ambani's driver went to jail in place of his son his family got crores. I wonder how much Uber's gonna give this person and/or their family?

I find a lot of Americans display a belief that 'democracy' can only refer to a direct democracy and 'republic' is the accurate term to refer to representational democracies, but w…

Are you talking about Bose's government? Ceremionally and legally, it's 1947, surely.

How come they don't sell batteries on the train no more? I guess it's cause the iPod came out.

It's amazing how many people have swallowed the line that stopping anthropogenic global warming is mostly about individual choices when there is clear evidence to show that the ver…

I don't know about whether this is an accurate summation of the source material, but the source material is a pretty good definition of fascism (Umberto Eco's writing on ur-fascism…

I don't live in the US either. But this website is primarily US-focused, and most people on it readily assume the context for everything is the US, so I conform to the same habit. …

Most of the devices have a switch for the microphone that is supposedly implemented in hardware rather than software. And the vast majority of smart home devices do not have camera…

IMO the GP is being downvoted because irrespective of one's personal feelings regarding 'smart home' devices, it's difficult to see how someone could genuinely have never encounter…

I would say between 10-20 of my friends have some variety of smart home device? Most are Alexa, with a few Google Homes. They span the spectrum from tech-savvy to the opposite.

> What's more fascist than using violence to force your belief on others? Many things. Using violence to spread your beliefs is not the sole preserve of fascism and is not the prim…

Perhaps you could do some research on the amount of time it will take to count mail in ballots and the relative difference between likelihood of mail-in voting for both parties. Or…

You don't seem happy with it, I'll desist I suppose.

Oh, it's you again? I suppose Penguin can't be trusted when they say one of the reasons they withdrew the book was the safety of their employees? Great job manipulating language to…

Nope, just when I have no desire to engage with someone who believes there's a conspiracy to defame and destroy Hinduism. In my experience 'Hindu pride' is like 'white pride' in th…

> In fact, the only successful Asian states i.e. Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, S. Korea, and Hong Kong - were established and reformed by Anglo-American powers. I think that says enoug…

Wow, I knew the company that scammed me recently was a lazy rip-off of some other company, but hadn't bothered finding out which. (InstallMonetizer).

Sorry, you think the (colonial) British spread the usage of the term 'Swastika' to defame Hindu culture? You are aware that the Nazis started using the swastika as part of their oc…