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Amsterdam bans public adverts for meat and fossil fuels

bbc.com
22 points·by mr_toad·2개월 전·1 comments

British laser weapon downs drones off coast of Scotland

ukdefencejournal.org.uk
16 points·by mr_toad·8개월 전·0 comments

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mr_toad
·12시간 전·discuss
> hepped could also just be "hopped" as in "hopped up on X"

Another Simpsons reference.
mr_toad
·16시간 전·discuss
Myths don’t have natural or human causes. Instead you have wars caused by divine rivalry (e.g. the Judgement of Paris).

Maybe Troy was actually destroyed by the Sea Peoples, but that probably wouldn’t make as much at the box office.
mr_toad
·16시간 전·discuss
If invaders appear out of ‘nowhere’, it’s usually by boat or on horseback.
mr_toad
·16시간 전·discuss
The people of that era would have thought so. The Iliad and the Odyssey (if they have any basis in reality) might be examples of that period seen through a lens of mythology.
mr_toad
·어제·discuss
> LLMs in general just love to hear themselves talk!

Because that’s what’s in the training set. Reticent humans don’t have blogs.
mr_toad
·3일 전·discuss
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VBRG_in_Paris_Domenj...
mr_toad
·3일 전·discuss
> European society loves to

The idea that there is a single European society is laughable to anyone who has visited more than one European country.
mr_toad
·3일 전·discuss
> The us is a phyle of choice

Well, except for the people who didn’t have any choice.
mr_toad
·3일 전·discuss
German citizens didn’t evolve in Germany. Any attempt to delineate ethnicity based on how long you ancestors have been in a country is just a veiled attempt to argue that you belong and they don’t.
mr_toad
·3일 전·discuss
It’s amusing that the word German is an Anglicisation of a Roman word for a variety of tribes that the Roman Empire couldn’t be bothered to distinguish between.
mr_toad
·3일 전·discuss
> Permanent residency is a business deal between two entities: an individual and a state.

I doubt that Germans see it that way.
mr_toad
·3일 전·discuss
> for most everyday tasks

That’s true, if you’re in Paris you can get by with very little French.

But don’t be too surprised if Gendarmerie aren’t particularly lenient just because tu ne comprends pas le français.
mr_toad
·3일 전·discuss
Step 6 is entirely missing in the EU. The parliament doesn’t form a committee to debate and perhaps refine the law, it just votes on what is put before it.
mr_toad
·3일 전·discuss
To start your car please look into camera and repeat: "Doritos™ Dew™ it right!"
mr_toad
·4일 전·discuss
> The userspace libs don't have a stable ABI at all, and this is a widely discussed problem.

And DLL hell isn’t? Or the shambolic mix of 32 and 64 bit libraries on Windows?

Anyway, desktop binaries are increasingly rare for business software.
mr_toad
·4일 전·discuss
> 3rd Reich was effectively becoming a big European nation

Even then the US might not have done much if the Nazis hadn’t kept attacking US shipping.
mr_toad
·5일 전·discuss
The Council might be involved, but it’s the commission that drafts legislation, and they’re unelected.

Either way, drafting legislation should be the responsibility of the legislature (i.e the parliament), not the commission or the council.
mr_toad
·6일 전·discuss
The power of the European Commission to propose legislation needs to be curbed or removed entirely. Executive agencies shouldn’t be writing legislation. It’s far to easy for them to propose laws that benefit the the European Commission, rather than benefiting Europeans.
mr_toad
·7일 전·discuss
> spatial distortions

Acoustic distortions. The universe was small and dense enough for sound to travel through ‘space’, which was filled with plasma. The theory is that inflation blew up these tiny distortions to the scale of the structure we see in the universe.
mr_toad
·10일 전·discuss
If only it took as long to close a ticket as to open one.