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The urban scarecrow is the last folk art of the empire. He descends, through many generations, from the colonial bureaucrat: once stood in khaki on a Bengal platform supervising the construction of a railway, he now stands in hi-vis in Croydon, supervising a hole
Daily @Altium improvement, day 2: netlabels beginning with a lowercase 'n' now are drawn with an overline -- previously, the only way to achieve this was by adding a backslash after every character in the label.
I'm not used to interacting with people taller than me, so it's always jarring when I do actually get heightmogged
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If democracy is going to survive, we need to find a way to make it possible to build physical structures again. Because if you let the public have a say, they will say "no" repeatedly until we all live in caves.
The bureaucratic rot in the University of California is staggering; it's the most Kafkaesque system I've ever had the misfortune of interacting with.
My student org has 5+ unique IDs, and gets ping-ponged between at least 3 people every time we want to book a conference room.
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Clicking "add to cart" on the Chinesium trailer hitch sets off a chain of events culminating in Alec losing a finger
The French were using donkeys to haul coal out of mines since they eighties; they are backward in a distinct, deeply continental way
‼️ French lawmakers voted for an internet traffic tax that the makers of VLC say would cost them more than €1M a year.
Content providers would pay €0.055 for every gigabyte sent to French users, as counted by ISPs. Its Socialist authors expect €10B a year.
The government opposed it, warning that about half the bill would fall on smaller providers, many of them French.
It passed 11 votes to 10, with 35 of 577 deputies present.
The great unwashed in the flat beneath me are screeching like birds after a lightning strike knocked out the power. Their forefathers have never been more disappointed.
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Pharmacists are so annoying, just put the controlled substances in the bag lil bro
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Sadly, California is the only state in the union that prohibits insurers from pricing based on how people actually drive.
So in Tesla's largest US market, the state prevents Tesla from giving heavy FSD users the insurance discount their lower risk warrants.
The result: @CDInews, under @ICRicardoLara, taxes road users who actively use life-saving technology to subsidize those more likely to kill or maim.
