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firebaze
·il y a 21 jours·discuss
How does the US president change the view of the UK? Trump is a moron, reminds me at times of Idiocracy, esp. with UFC cage fights. However, the link to the UK eludes me
firebaze
·il y a 21 jours·discuss
It's the world leader in disguising it, yes, just after Belgium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Dutroux

Almost no-one talks about that anymore. It's still mostly unsolved.

Children matter, right?
firebaze
·il y a 21 jours·discuss
Yes, by far.
firebaze
·il y a 21 jours·discuss
The UK genuinely has become the most scary country of all western democracies to me. I can't comprehend how this happened, and is still happening.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_sexual_abuse_cases

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Savile_sexual_abuse_scan...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploit...

(This link list is just the tip of an iceberg)

And now they changed lanes to fully protect themselves against people who may uncover such cases.
firebaze
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
ChrisArchitect likes to have a word with you
firebaze
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
I know, not reddit, but I simply can't resist:

> Pick was originally implemented as the Generalized Information Retrieval Language System (GIRLS) on an IBM System/360 in 1965 by Don Nelson and Dick Pick [...]
firebaze
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
Sure, but to be frank, most of it deserves to be flagged (blogspam, tutorials, App-Store promo links and so on).
firebaze
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
Doesn't look like having been flagged at the moment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38412049
firebaze
·il y a 5 ans·discuss
In other news: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/11405