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[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

50-60 is OK I think I know what I'm doing now, can I go back to being 20 please?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm old enough to remember when that was the fancy new thing the kids were doing.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Most Americans either voted for the orange moron or didn't care enough to vote against him. And there was plenty of evidence about what he was going to do; there was his first term, and there were all his speeches about what he was going to do, and is now doing.

So there is no excuse. Most Americans approved this, either implicitly or explicitly, because they did not vote for the alternative. Honestly I'm surprised Harris couldn't win simply with the message "I'm not Trump."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Any company that does that needs to be sent on a mandatory awareness training for failing an obvious fake phishing exercise. It's far too easy to whitelist that and send it to an "ignore" folder.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Wait till you see what "yank" means in vi and emacs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Quint, because some of the keys double up as joystick buttons.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Where presumably it will be perfectly OK, putting the boot on the other foot so to speak, to discuss making Scotland part of England.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I asked AI for an anime style circle and got this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Oh, I didn't realise the only kilts in existence were the ones you'd personally inspected.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (4 children)

The first kilt I wore (UK pipe band) was an Irish saffron kilt - just a single colour.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

As long as it Just Writes(TM) I don't care. I want to pick it up, and I want to write. I don't want to try writing only to find it's dried up and I have to scribble on some other bit of paper before it comes back to life. Now OK if I've left the lid off then that's my bad, but if I haven't then it should just flipping work.

 
 
 

This relates to the BBC article [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66596790] which states "the UK should pay $24tn (£18.8tn) for its slavery involvement in 14 countries".

The UK abolished slavery in 1833. That's 190 years ago. So nobody alive today has a slave, and nobody alive today was a slave.

Dividing £18tn by the number of UK taxpayers (31.6m) gives £569 each. Why do I, who have never owned a slave, have to give £569 to someone who similarly is not a slave?

When I've paid my £569 is that the end of the matter forever or will it just open the floodgates of other similar claims?

Isn't this just a country that isn't doing too well, looking at the UK doing reasonably well (cost of living crisis excluded of course), and saying "oh there's this historical thing that affects nobody alive today but you still have to give us trillions of Sterling"?

Shouldn't payment of reparations be limited to those who still benefit from the slave trade today, and paid to those who still suffer from it?

(Please don't flame me. This is NSQ. I genuinely don't know why this is something I should have to pay. I agree slavery is terrible and condemn it in all its forms, and we were right to abolish it.)

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