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Just going to lol at this from the last threadNotJustANumber99 posted:To be fair there wasn't any social media when it was written. Mate, Usenet was social media. It would not surprise me if it came into existence before you did. 'Like theres a difference, and I would expect different laws to exist governing their usage, between the first few automobiles trundling round at 3 mph and our current road network even though you would be right to say we had cars all throughout this time period.' - what's the difference, exactly, between Usenet and Twitter? Lay it out for us.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Maybe you should read this thread first Lol if you think posting on usenet was hard? if 18 year old college students and your nan with an AOL cd could do it, anyone could. That's kind of where the whole 'eternal September' meme came from in the first place.
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Feb 1, 2022 12:37
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Regarding your edit, I refer you to my previous suggestion. Just out of curiosity, how old are you? Were you around and an adult for when Usenet was a thing, as in like mid-late 90s? If not, I suggest you clam down and listen to your elders who were, in fact, around for this poo poo.
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Feb 1, 2022 12:39
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Guavanaut posted:The big difference is that less than 9% of British homes had access to the internet before 1998, compared to well over 90% after 2018, and it was even more demographically biased. Can't just look at homes, though - there's a reason I mentioned universities. Just saying, usenet was widespread enough in society in the 90s that it's perfectly reasonable to talk about it as 'social media', not something only the sweatiest of comp sci students knew about.
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Feb 1, 2022 13:10
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Bug Squash posted:I visited Cambridge a while ago and they had this exact set-up. So badly signposted and completely unexpected that I missed it and just drove through the buses only bit (luckily it wasn't enforced in any way). Until you get the fine in the post. Cambridge is a bit notorious for that.
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Feb 2, 2022 19:58
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jiggerypokery posted:Loads of energy companies went bust last year, was this because they were capped on how much they were allowed to charge and had to pay way more wholesale? I wasn't paying much attention Yes. Or had locked in fixed price contracts not realising how prices were going to shoot up so they were losing money on them. Fixed price contracts go both ways, if fuel gets cheaper you're paying over the odds, if it shoots up and you're already in a contract then the energy companies lose money.
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Feb 4, 2022 15:30
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I liked the US office but not the UK one and I'm not sure Ricky Gervais is capable of playing anyone other than his actual self.
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Feb 5, 2022 21:35
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goddamnedtwisto posted:It's amazing how little they seem to get the concept of monarchy, once he's got the big hat on Charles can give her the title Empress Of The Moon and force everyone to give her any spare buttons they have on their person when they meet her because that's what happens when you have monarchs. The Glorious Revolution would like a word with you, mate.
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Feb 6, 2022 12:30
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goddamnedtwisto posted:but then America also had a reason deeper than Special Relationship/Cold War stuff to ensure that former Spanish colonies didn't get the idea they were entitled to Spanish-claimed territory. America's initial reaction to the Argentine invasion was to tell Britain to suck it up - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Events_leading_to_the_Falklands_War#Shuttle_diplomacy_and_US_involvement . Then we sort of pointed out that yes, this is the Cold War, we are half the letters in the GIUK gap, and you should probably actually pony up to your side of the 'special relationship' for once.
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Feb 7, 2022 15:30
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Yes, that's it! I am younger than you and my first computer was a ZX Spectrum (tape drive storage), and my second an Atari ST (single sided floppy disc, 720k)  I didn't have a computer with a hard disc til 1996 and that was a 486 with a 1 gig drive, dual booting Windows 95 and Linux ;p
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Feb 7, 2022 15:47
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Mega Comrade posted:It can be fun to make fun of the people losing money. But yeah, its not all middle class tech bros. I should very much like to see a cite or evidence of some sort for this '23% of all black US citizens own crypto' thing. Bearing in mind that includes, y'know, 5 year olds and also 90 year olds I find it a little hard to believe.
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Feb 10, 2022 18:07
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Guavanaut posted:It was reported in USA Today sometime last year. The actual data appears to be here - https://theharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Harris-Poll_Speculative-Investing_Data-Tables_March-2021.pdf On average, people (not just black people, people in general) have 44% or so of their total investments in crypto? 36% in NFTs? 35% in 'meme' stocks? Really? This sounds like the sort of poll where the only people who actually reply to it are the crypto nutbars.
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Feb 10, 2022 18:24
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keep punching joe posted:This guy is gone now Well, 'gone'. They can wait a couple of weeks for it all to die down and then restore it. Meanwhile, Corbs is at a year+ still...
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Feb 11, 2022 15:06
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Gonzo McFee posted:Scotland should immediately declare independence, we'll never get a better deal than with Irish Joe. *cough* Scotland and (Northern) Ireland do um have a bit of a History, you know. It's not all the same place.
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Feb 11, 2022 15:07
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ThomasPaine posted:Lmao, it's actually extremely problematic that we still have captured swastika flags in our museums, in order to be truly woke we must return these to the descendents of their original owners. Minnesota got it right - https://www.twincities.com/2017/08/20/minnesota-has-a-confederate-symbol-and-it-is-going-to-keep-it/ 'You want it, come and take it back, we shot you last time we'll do it again'.
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Feb 12, 2022 12:39
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I wouldn't be so sure (and I can guarantee NATO commanders aren't so sure) about that. NATO hasn't fought a war without undisputed air supremacy... ever, really To be a little bit pedantic, the Korean War, the brave Soviet aviators of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64th_Fighter_Aviation_Corps and their comrades in the Chinese People's Army's Air Force would like a word, here.
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Feb 12, 2022 12:49
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ThomasPaine posted:I can't imagine a war in Ukraine would be very popular in Russia tbh, people still remember them being united in the Soviet Union and there's so many cross border family connections etc. I guess that didn't stop them annexing crimea though The eastern bit of Ukraine is full of Russian speakers who largely consider themselves Russian - this was a Whole Thing politically in Ukraine before the Crimea thing, basically you had the 'Ukrainians party' and the 'Russians party' in elections. Annexing eastern Ukraine is easy to paint domestically as liberating Russians from Ukrainian domination. Some of the locals might well even agree.
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Feb 12, 2022 12:56
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ThomasPaine posted:I just don't get it, if my grandparents had moved to France from Britain and I was born in France and raised in France and spoke French, I'd be French, perhaps with British heritage, but definitely French. This doesn't seem very controversial to me, but would apparently be incomprehensible to lots of people, who seem to think that there's some permanent immutable distinction between 'nationality' tied to blood. Bizarre take. Well, in the specific case we're talking about here, it's like you were raised in France and spoke English and mostly spoke to other people raised to speak English and spent your time down the local greasy spoon pounding soss and mash and bitching about the locals. So I guess basically eastern Ukraine is Benidorm?
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Feb 12, 2022 13:38
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ThomasPaine posted:Well yeah, but you're only doing that because you have the weird ingrained idea that they're somehow 'different'! I get that new arrivals from Russia would be like that but it's incredible that even after generations they basically didn't assimilate at all. I feel like the great grandchildren of even the most gammony family moving to the Costa del Sol would be turn out pretty solidly Spanish, but who knows It isn't 'great grandchildren' though, is it? Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union until about 30 years ago, well within my living memory for instance. There are plenty of people living there now who moved there from Russia proper when it was all the same country, and plenty of people who were already living there when it was all part of the same country but happened to speak a slightly different Slavic language/have different customs within that same, unified country.
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Feb 12, 2022 14:54
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suck my woke dick posted:Yes and reducing Russia to a poo poo tier power that can't strongarm them into being its henchmen/buffer zone would be loving amazing for many of its neighbours I mean, the neolib 'economists' the US sent over there in the early 90s sure had a go. But ultimately, Russia had nukes in 1991 too, there's a limit to how far anyone could have done to 'reduce' them.
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Soo. Omicron does not look likely to kill us all. East London Goon Meat in Stratford at the gaming pub my abortive D&D game had session 0 at? (Sessions 1+ derailed by global pandemic). Maybe I dunno *draws times out of hat* Saturday March 5th 6pm? https://www.escapebars.uk/stratford Here iirc. I am double jabbed plus boosted, probably doesn't need saying in here but I would hope nobody with objections to vaccination is likely to show up.
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Feb 18, 2022 14:55
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Aipsh posted:Did this place change name? I think I've been there a few times but it had a name like the knight's throbbing halberd or something It was the Escape Bar 2 years ago, last time I met goons there  before that, I can't say.
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Isomermaid posted:Just toast the cut side the outer side goes weird and dry otherwise. You would be welcome. Like I say, I met up with some folks from here just before Covid hit with the aim of starting a D&D game, Twisto for one, and Camrath. You can check with them and make sure I'm not scary 
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Feb 18, 2022 15:28
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OwlFancier posted:There is that one specific cartoon of the beardy guy in a big coat holding a cartoon bomb that basically looks like me yeah. Replace bomb with a pasty or something. Now I want to make pasties for dinner. Top crimped.
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Feb 18, 2022 15:43
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Camrath posted:Every time I think about going to Empire (friend of mine is trying to get a group going in the League) I go to the faction Facebook page, see people bickering about whether kit is ‘too 1600s’ or whatever and promptly reevaluate things ;p I assume this is a LARP thing. As a 1600s-knower, tell me more.
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Mega Comrade posted:Haha I came to post this. I was reading the interview without looking at the name attached. The initial questions on trans issues seemed tame enough and made sense as Atwood's opinions on the issue are hard to pin down but when she kept going at it I scrolled up to check and actually laughed out loud when I saw it was Freeman. Ugh. Of course it was. I remember when she used to write fairly harmless columns about fashion in the Graun like a decade ago but she really has gone full brainworms hasnt she?
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Feb 19, 2022 15:58
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I see. Well google said they were the same but I guess from what you say actually tater tots are just hash browns Tater tots are, like, half an inch long. You can use a croquette, I have making tater tot casserole over here, but no they are not the same. Just like 'Canadian bacon' is not the same as proper British bacon despite what you would think stop saying that Americans.
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mediaphage posted:‘american cheese’ isn’t even the most popular cheese in america, lol I'm afraid to tell you your regular supermarket cheddar isn't much cop, either. Neither is our 'mild' but it's easier to find proper, crumbly (you know, cheddared!) mature cheddar here. Though I gather things have improved somewhat.
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Feb 20, 2022 14:46
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fuctifino posted:even then, I think the West would back down as they all know that they would most likely lose against Russia. ...it's not 1965 any more, dude.
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 If it ever came to that this tiny island is getting blanketed with nukes end to end and we'll get at best 4 minutes' warning of it - they're not going to drop just one. We're all dead. The only places not getting a direct hit are like the Yorkshire Moors and the Highlands and then enjoy starving to death before you die of radiation poisoning.
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Trickjaw posted:I need a new phone because my motger binned mine, Glad.Have you considered a tablet that is alsoa phone? I mean that sounds very Dom Joly Edit: re laptop does it have an ssd and maybe a ram upgrade? feedmegin fucked around with this message at 02:31 on Feb 26, 2022 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:It's an SSHD (500GB) 4GB ram. That's not a lot of RAM these days, it's probably worth at least doubling it. 64 bit OS?
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Bobby Deluxe posted:^^^ I wonder how politely the armed men are 'asking' the civilians. I mean, quite, but on the other hand if someone no longer has food (because the previous soldiers took it) they no longer have food, they can't magic it up, if Russia is seriously bad enough at war they can't actually supply their troops then that's going to hamper them.
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