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I’ve been in that situation with the 1% manager, and it still doesn’t end well. The manager resigned on my behalf after getting “drunk and sad”, which I had to rescind, then that s…

Actually it would be exactly that — when it mentions butter it’s highly unlikely that it is referring to clarified butter.

This is actually a great reference. The Roman festival of Parilia was celebrated by offering millet and milk to Pales, followed by drinking wine mixed with milk. This event eventua…

I feel like this is glancing over various points. Specifically that cows aren’t the only source of milk: sheep, goats, buffalo and horses have all been milked throughout history, a…

> The US is a very non-ideal country, but it's a working one. In many cases it definitely has strong democracy baked into it, much more than the faux-democracy presented in almost …

The Greens do not support civil liberties. Opposing a single piece of the puzzle (digital surveillance, for now) doesn't change the ongoing assaults that the Greens party has been …

> Australians have got it too good to care about this sort of thing. Like western society and climate change, taking any kind of action gets in the way of enjoying the fucking week…

Wix gave my personal contact information to a literal criminal (as in someone who physically attacks people) after I reported him to Wix for scamming on their platform. I still hav…

Just before you do, have a read through who Mozilla is in 2021[0] > "Mitchell Baker, Mozilla's top executive, was paid $2.4m in 2018, [...] Payments to Baker have more than doubled…

Lebanon is quite possibly the worst example you could give, not only due to Israel playing a key role in the country's instability[0] but also to the fact that the areas that were …

Considering that the only metric for supporting a Middle Eastern group is that they have to be pro-Israel, of course Israel becomes the natural choice. It’s not about stability con…

No, sorry, you don’t get it to lump the Jewish people into this. It’s incredibly dishonest on your part to even go in that direction and you should feel embarrassment for trying to…

That's ridiculously short sighted and bordering on racist. Let's bomb all of Israel's infrastructure, arm various militias in the country and put economic sanctions on them for 20 …

From memory, his nephew had passed in a similar way to the person in the flight. It may be the same case. I don't think he was running away from paying a settlement, I think he was…

Most of what you're saying is misleading at best. > I saw more people wearing masks on Sydney trains at zero cases than I did in a US supermarket at the peak That's because NSW had…

They use vosotros in Colombia as well, specifically in Medellín and a couple of other places in the "coffee axis," i.e as far out as Manizales.

There is lots of truth to this. Some ORMs like Django perform joins in very unsuspecting ways. A simple example is, say, foreign keys. Trying to access the foreign key of an object…

It was one of their 2016 election promises to introduce gay marriage to a postal plebiscite. The day after the results, a gay Liberal Party member introduced the proposed legislati…

I'm really not sure what you're trying to show here. They are left-leaning centrists and your comment doesn't challenge that. The fact they introduced gay marriage, divorce legisla…

> Our current PM is a fairly hard religious conservative No he's not. He's a left-leaning centrist, like both major Australian parties. Trying to apply American-flavoured extremism…

The word used for "heart" in the text continues today in Arabic (لب) and Mandaic (ࡋࡉࡁ࡛ࡀ) -- and I imagine other Semitic languages -- with the same context/usage maintained.

Part of the reason why Enums weren’t originally added to the stdlib was because if you get ten developers in a room there will be eleven conflicting expectations from an Enum class…

Entirely anecdotal, I believe the immune system is already working at high capacity to stop you from becoming sick from the dozens of fungi, bacteria and viruses you come across on…

I don't believe that happened the way you describe it. Blue Coat was illegally on-sold to Syria from a UAE-based distributor and that company received a 200% fine of the sale price…

I'm willing to go one step further and say that NSO Group is operated by and is a core part of Israeli intelligence. It just has layers of deniability baked into the business struc…