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firebaze
·23 天前·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
·23 天前·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
·23 天前·discuss
Yes, by far.
firebaze
·23 天前·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
·3 個月前·discuss
ChrisArchitect likes to have a word with you
firebaze
·3 年前·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
·3 年前·discuss
Sure, but to be frank, most of it deserves to be flagged (blogspam, tutorials, App-Store promo links and so on).
firebaze
·3 年前·discuss
Doesn't look like having been flagged at the moment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38412049
firebaze
·5 年前·discuss
In other news: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/11405
firebaze
·5 年前·discuss
China has made alliances with a lot of african nations. If the shit hits the fan I - at least - wouldn't exclude the possibility that china is better positioned in a semi-post-nuclear scenario than the US (russia, africa, china are the most relevant rare-resource exporters, to my knowledge)

And I personally wouldn't count a bit on saudi arabian allegiance in a scenario like this. I wouldn't be surprised if they just follow the "strong wo:man" in the world, which right not still is the US.
firebaze
·5 年前·discuss
Don't know why this was heavily downvoted at the time of this posting. No sources, sure, but most of it is common knowledge with a few unsourced opinioned edges - fair enough to me, and I think an interesting viewpoint.

Especially the part regarding china (or russia, or north korea, or iran, for that matter, in order of decreasing confidence) seems to be just true to me.