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Come on, that's not an accurate depiction of what happened to ethnic Germans in Eastern Europe. It is the neo-Nazi party line though.

> Who would be responsible if a child developed alcohol addiction? A nicotine problem? Any other addiction? The government literally actively prevents people selling all these thin…

I experienced the mirror stage twice in my life: once in real life and once in Duke Nukem 3D. Took me ages to realise why I couldn't kill the enemy in blue uniform behind the weird…

It's not about mustache twirling villains though is it. There are also a large number of people there who sit at desks and handle the logistics of moving people who are entitled ei…

I believe it was the subject of the test who could make the polygraph reading show whatever they wanted, even though it was being administered by an experienced operator.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/20/parents-o...

One of the creepiest aspects of this is that the 'thirsty content' is mainly mainly AI-generated pictures by spammers who know what they are doing, but also includes 'correlated' p…

You wouldn't mind, but Facebook would mind though.

I believe it was somewhat like that at large cigarette companies in the heyday of smoking. An ashtray on every desk and throughout meeting rooms. Free packs of cigarettes you could…

Heard of Carnegie? He controlled coal when it was the main fuel used for heating and electricity.

SQLite is tested against failure to allocate at every step of its operation: running out of memory never causes it to fail in a serious way, eg data loss. It's far more robust than…

Selling for a negative price is completely different from buying, because the flow of 'goods' is in the other direction.

I mean if the capacity has outpaced people's ability to use it, to me that's a good sign that a lot of the future improvements will be making it easier to use.

If you don't believe in the power and corruption of the military procurement industry and the military itself, then your comment is so unrealistic as to be deluded. If you do belie…

This result is out from the article by a factor of pi/3. This is the multiplicative difference between his inner integral with all the sins 24pi^2 and the GP's observation that 3 p…

I think it's fairly straightforward to adapt your method. Given circle center c you just need to multiply by 2 pi c to get all the circles. int 0..1 2 pi c int 0..(1-c) (2 pi r)^3 …

It says this but the numbers in the article actually show flatlining after 2013 with a huge drop off after 2020. 2022 8th grader cohort missed much of 6th and 7th grade. 2024 cohor…

It seems like perhaps the game is not for you, rather than that it is objectively deficient.

'Grimm' is a homophone of 'grim', 'Grizzly' is a homophobe of 'grisly', 'Scarry' is a homophone in US English of 'scary', 'Gorey' is a homophone of 'gory'. 'Gory', 'grisly', 'grim'…

Looks like Croydon, Wandsworth, Brent, Lewisham, Hackney and Harringey are all boroughs which don't have tree databases or don't integrate the data with the GLA. Most of these have…

A couple of interesting anomalies on the map of London highlight complexities in our system of local government. Hyde Park shows as an empty space. Hyde Park does contain trees, bu…

You have surprising faith that the system is well designed. Malicious actors don't get as stressed as normal people who don't want to miss their flight about the long series of obv…

London underground looks awesome, but I can't imagine it having even the vaguest utility in terms of knowing when to leave the house.

How about Staten Island next?

We're not talking about what he believes, we're talking about a) why he didn't get a promotion and b) why he was dropped from syndication.