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RedFrank24

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  • Math is not a democracy

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  • Technically it can be, since PEMDAS is not an immutable law, it's convention so we can communicate maths and come to the same answer.

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  • Yeah, and Israel can't pretend they aren't choosing to bomb hospitals. It's almost never "Oops we didn't intend to do that", it's "Well there was a Hamas bunker under that. They were using those playing children as sandbags, we simply had to blast through them!"

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  • I'll be honest, I'd rather the best engineers be there to create weapons that are extremely precise. The weapons are gonna be made regardless, but I've seen photos of what happens to cities when bombers are dropping unguided munitions. Back during WW2, if you wanted to hit a factory in London, you didn't just drop 1-2 bombs, you dropped hundreds of bombs, you flattened absolutely everything in the area because that was the only way you were gonna hit your target.

    At least with precision munitions, if you're doing war 'nicely', you only hit what you intend to hit, not your target + everything else even remotely close to said target. With precision munitions, you can't 'accidentally' bomb a hospital, so when you inevitably do bomb a hospital, you don't get to go "Oh oops no it's not my fault it's the bombs' fault!". The sights are crystal clear, the plane/drone moves exactly where you want it to, there's nothing interfering with the guidance, the bomb locked onto the target you wanted to hit, and you dropped it, all thanks to engineers making those systems. You had everything going for you as a bomber to know exactly what that target was, and you dropped the bomb anyway.

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  • Last time I went to Warhammer World in Nottingham, I left with £120 worth of Lord of the Rings Miniatures, all because the guy in the store told me all about Glorfindel and how cool he was. I didn't even buy Glorfindel! This was £120 worth in 2005, mind, so that's about £214 today.

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  • The only retail workers I've seen that appear to be enjoying themselves are people working in Games Workshop. If you express even the slightest interest in Warhammer, they'll be talking to you for an hour gushing about lore, and it's a remarkably good sales tactic because I've only ever talked with a GW employee once without buying something.

  • Welcome to our town :) …now leave

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  • You say that, but then there's the coastal towns in the UK that used to get all their money from tourism, then tourism dried up and now they're all shitholes because there's nothing else going on there.

  • Welcome to our town :) …now leave

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  • I wonder if you could get away with some kind of payment for locals in tourist heavy locations, like the Canary Islands are HEAVY tourist locations. Stick a tourist tax on hotels, holiday rentals etc. and a large property tax on villas owned by foreign companies and non-Spanish citizens, and then distribute that money to any local working and living on the islands as a flat "Dealing with the tourists" payment. Couple that with lower/no taxes for locals that are employed on the islands (not just those that own property and rent it out) and that might make things seem nicer for them.

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  • Fetuses don't pay taxes either and yet the GOP are really interested in making sure they have rights.

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  • Under that argument you could grind up the dead and use them for fertilizer. I guess if you're being 100% practical it makes sense, but humans have a certain sentimentality for their loved ones, dead or otherwise, and so don't tend to like it when you use the corpses in a way contrary to the wishes of the estate.

  • Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!

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  • My guess is they're going to do what Microsoft do (or used to do until about 6 months ago) when you want to sideload anything on their consoles: They charge you. You buy dev access for your account and use it to unlock your phone.

  • Seems a great many of you need this.

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  • Technically that's down to Imgur. Basically the UK government told Imgur to stop selling children's data to advertisers and Imgur was like "No, we're going to keep doing that and you're blocked".

    But, OFCOM basically said "Okay sure you can block the UK and that will stop you selling any children's data going forward, but you still sold children's data in the past, so the fine still stands" and now it's kinda in limbo because Imgur doesn't have a UK office so there's nowhere to extract the money from. However, even if Imgur did introduce age assurance (which is increasingly likely given that Imgur is based in California and California is flirting with age assurance requirements too) and therefore would be in compliance with the Online Safety Act, they would still be fined because they failed to protect children's data in the past.

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  • I would have thought a 10 would be "Kill me, right now. I am in so much pain I would much rather be dead than spend another minute like this" and anything below that depends on where the pain is, like if it's your arm I would consider a 9 to be "This hurts so much you can get out the hacksaw and chop off my arm because at least then the pain will be gone".

    So... Not so much "How much does it hurt?" as "How far are you willing to go to stop it hurting?"

  • What does that even mean?

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  • Does the hand gesture mean anything?

  • What does that even mean?

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  • It's a reference to Chappelle Show about how Rick James disrespected Charlie Murphy by getting his muddy boots on his white suede couch, and Rick James is like "Fuck yo couch! You're rich, buy another one! Fuck yo couch!" while spreading mud on the couch. It's about disrespecting you, but also dismissing complaints rather than actually admit you did anything wrong.

  • What does that even mean?

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  • Then explain it! What does 6-7 mean? Because even though people might use it wrong, "Fuck your couch" actually means something.

  • ‘It smelled of onions and mustard,’ Border Patrol officer hit by sandwich in DC testifies

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  • Aww diddums

  • Meanwhile at Microsoft

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  • How the hell do you fuck up the task manager, an application that hasn't needed to be touched in decades? At best, you stick a new skin over it to match the aesthetic. The core functionality of the task manager should have remained untouched going back to... What, Windows 3.0?

  • If a Great Depression happened again, would people still stand together like they did during the penny auctions?

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  • Absolutely not, there'd be some TikTok influencer that would be like "Broooo you can get land so cheap!" and buy it all and sell it for massive profit.

  • An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’

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  • If he made a Christian AI, it would be shut down within a week for being too woke.