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I obviously meant sewn by hand, using a sewing machine. Not by a robot. The fabric is cut and passed through a machine by a human.

I just don't see how it holds water at all to say that Christianity was what caused the abolition of slavery, when just as many Christians were in favour of it.

Yes, socks, but nothing else is: underwear, t-shirts, jeans... all sewn by hand.

But if these things are because of Christianity, and it is often implied that western modernity is present in it from its beginning, almost an unavoidable consequent of it... then …

The interesting question is whether the West is succesful because of or inspite of our Christian base. There's no denying the place of Christianity in European history, but that do…

I wonder what this will cost to build and how often they break. I doubt it's going to be able to compete with the price of human labour anytime soon. So it's either for going place…

Sounds low. None of the companies I've worked for would have existed without open source.

People like you are ruining the internet.

Brain drain means you have great politics, gotcher.

And that has happened again. Changing the colours is "improving UX".

It's not more complicated if you know the language. Language is a tool. People will use their language for what they need it for. If there isn't a word they'll make one up or steal…

We know alot about how English has evolved. Word forms develop along certain paths, sound changes follow laws that linguists have described, and the "fuuuug" in refugee does not be…

Etymology is a science. This is random guesswork, and it's not even very precise (deriving refuggle from refugee is definitely objectively wrong). Maybe I'm coloured by having spen…

Fyllipig is derived from "fyllan" and "pigge" and means "descriptive of something that is both full/abundant and pig-like." Terryjambled means "mixed up in a confused or disorderly…

Thinking about that picture from a (UK?) hospital breakroom with the sign that said "Please turn off the Echo before discussing sensitive patient information."

Can you give me some concrete examples of where Euro uber-government is negatively impacting my life?

The world would be much better without much of what American venture capital has created over the past twenty years. Ad tech mass surveillance, Uber eating labour protections, "Uni…

No, but the French and German governments just gave you an excellent code base to start from!

Are they undercutting businesses or creating new ones? Running and supporting an instance of a suite of open source tools can be a business.

When your health sector is being shaken down by foreign monopoly for software licenses whose prices increase for no reason, making your own word processor suddenly doesn't seem ver…

Software licenses are certainly a major expense for all levels of the Danish government. (Cloud infrastructure, too, increasingly.) They've started complaining, especially since pr…

Is it just me or has this been a year or two off for at least a year or two now?

If you keep doing it she's sure to get it eventually.

Isn't this exactly what you'd expect from an Uber for (somethign)? Garbage company, garbage culture, garbage business model.