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  1. You've had the vaccine for longer then almost anyone, what's happening?
  2. You think people are buying up Chips designed to go in to Toyota cars?

    Surely they're beyond worthless to anyone but the manufacturer and Toyota themselves?

  3. Could have not started the illegal war in the first place...

    Could have invaded the actually bloody country responsible for 9/11 instead of a central Asian backwater.

    Could have reigned in your massive military industrial complex which essentially demands wars for profits....

    What am i kidding... 'MERICA!

  4. Not sure how Reddit is worth that much... Are the 50 power mods in charge of 90% of the top subs selling access to state propaganda departments? Actually don't answer that, its painfully obvious.

    $ per user revenue is pathetic compared to most social media platforms.

  5. Someone should really look in to that....
  6. From the FBI's own definition:

    International terrorism : Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups who are inspired by, or associated with, designated foreign terrorist organizations or nations (state-sponsored).

    Struggling to see how the CIA isn't a terrorist organisation at this point.

  7. If that were true then the entire education industry globally is a scam which i simply can't believe.

    Have you never had a great lecturer who can deliver information in a way which makes more sense to you then just reading it off a website?

  8. Religion plays very little role in English politics.

    I doubt many people in North East Somerset considered this mans faith before voting for him.

  9. If you live in a modern western country? Nothing.

    The asparagus season might be a few weeks shorter, you may pay 3-5% more but ultimately no one is going to starve.

    The best thing to do is prepare for slightly higher outgoings.

    If you are in Sub-Saharan Africa continue doing what you're already doing, get on a dinghy and point it at Europe.

  10. You don't, you hold the dumb, over priced stock as a reminder for future, better informed investing.
  11. I love seeing these issues reverberate around the internet.

    This time i think /r/sysadmin pegged the issue first, great sub.

  12. I think Reddit might be fundamentally flawed because of its voting system and its need for high moderation to make it workable. Mods influence so much power over what people are and aren't allowed to talk about. You use the example of CasualUK which is indeed a very good if slightly "police state" sub but it only exists because the other UK subs became unviable.

    The old defence has always been "if you don't like it go away and make your own sub", unfortunately with so many obvious subs being squatted its difficult to get exposure to newer communities.

    From memory we have:

    /r/unitedkingdom - Mostly teenage lefties, often resembles a 6th form common room, mostly dislike the UK.

    /r/ukpolitics - Similar to above, slightly quicker on the banhammer.

    /r/england - cybersquatted and shutdown for years by a power mod, just opened back up but the power mod won't give top rank over to active mods.

    /r/scotland - A borderline anti-English hate sub, harsh group think in most threads.

    /r/baduk - The less said the better.

    I don't know what the solution is because as i said, reddit is flawed at a base level. The only positive change i can think of is to cap active participants in a sub to a specific small number.

  13. You could start by not funding an expansionist apartheid state?
  14. One unnamed company is still struggling to secure a print spooler after most of a month. I don't have the optimism you do.
  15. I recall a conservation with a pilot in a bar. He claimed they could pick their routes to an extent and had more flex the longer they had been there.

    He was particularly keen on the London - Australia double header, apparently he made bank on that route.

  16. Ok, that's fair enough but it still doesn't solve my original problem.

    I still end up with more of the same asset with no intrinsic value.

    I assume they aren't paying me out in GBP or freedom bucks?

  17. I have a long standing issue with crypto that's starting to bug me...

    When i buy stock i'm hoping for two things. first that it increases in value but also that i get to collect some dividends because i own a tangible piece of a company.

    When i buy ETH or XLM my only goal is to sell it on to someone else for more, i get nothing while i hold it and can't actually use it for anything. All i'm doing is searching for a bigger idiot to buy it off me.

    What am i missing?

    Edit: I get crypto is emotive and a lot of you guys are balls deep in the cult but it'd be nice to get some answers rather then my post just getting hidden.

  18. Does safety factor in to it? As long as the profit is enough to outweigh any death or liability payouts then the company doing it is golden.
  19. 10bn in the scope of this joint project between the US, Europe and one other group (Canada or Japan?) is a rounding error over 20 years.
  20. Fact boy covered it a few weeks ago:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CowU0QK0Pjs&ab_channel=Megap...

    From what i remember this project has been running since around the time of Hubble

    Still.... Can't wait for it to get up there, money and time well spent!

  21. You don't sound like a typical person. Not many people go to their chickens when they want an egg.

    Lots of us work from rather small homes and haven't been allowed outside much in 18 months.

  22. My commute is 20ft, this increases by as much as 30% if i get out the other side of the bed.

    I get a 30 minute walk every day in lockdown but you can only trudge aimlessly around the same grey/brown industrial estate so many times before losing the will.

  23. I've bought and sold crypto in the UK for years, this is categorically false.
  24. We have a weird situation in the UK where the green party oppose nuclear power and public transport development in England but are all for an independent Scotland reliant on north sea oil to stay solvent.

    I expect very little from our political class but these ones are especially bizarre.

  25. Cash makes up less then 15% of transactions in my country. It would be less disruptive to just close the store.
  26. How would you propose recording electronic payments and linking data back to restock/procurement while offline?
  27. Is it easy dealing with the hate from everyone else in your org?

    I understand why security is important but the majority of staff (particularly non-technical) see you as a blocker.

  28. Some of those comments are straight up nightmare fuel for sysadmins

    > We are severly fucked. Up to 2100 endpoints are infected right now, most are desktops but also servers.

    > We have been hit as well 1000 endpoints. What is your plan of restoration?

    Happy 4th of July weekend everyone.

  29. Because its a massive conflict of interest.

    Its the same reason you wouldn't let a Defence contractor CEO be secretary of defence, or why you shouldn't let a telecoms lobbyist run the FCC.

    Oh wait...

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