Interesting Links for 10-09-2018
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andrewducker- The NYT “Part of the Resistance ” piece is strategic conservative propaganda, not self-promotion.
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- "Cuts in income tax, business tax, capital gains tax and stamp duty plus an 'expeditionary force' to the Falkland Islands - a glimpse of Rees-Mogg's post-Brexit vision of Britain
- (tags: UK conservatives OhForFucksSake europe )
- "I decided then and there: I would build a battery-powered machine to play podcasts at the bear until the peaches ripened"
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- UK’s worst-selling map: The empty landscape charted by OS440
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- The remarkably quick death of telephone culture
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- Heinlein’s Fan Mail Solution
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- A rising far-right is not the big story of Sweden’s election. It’s fragmentation
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- 4Chan are trying to get black people arrested or killed
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- Hard Evidence: Do we become more conservative with age?
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- Why Can’t Apes Talk?
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- How WhatsApp causes lynchings in India
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- Amazon has patented a system that would put workers in a cage, on top of a robot
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- "A family friend shares their experience of explaining nanotechnology to Boris Johnson."
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- "Things I Never Knew About Las Vegas Until I Ran a High-Roller Suite" (Definitely just the tip of the iceberg)
- (tags: gambling casino LasVegas )
- myeu.uk - see what the EU has done for your area
- (tags: Europe maps )
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Date: 2018-09-10 01:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-09-10 01:58 pm (UTC)I agree. It would be nice to get the major ones highlighted, whereas this is clearly a dump of EU data with no human processing. But there is a point that while swimming pools are nice, the EU giving contracts to local companies also makes a huge difference.
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Date: 2018-09-10 03:08 pm (UTC)A partial list of saboteurs of human civilization
Date: 2018-09-11 01:28 am (UTC)Certain people in 4chan (whom I suspect know of me, despite my plans to never visit their forum at all)
Boris Johnson
Sweden Democrats
It's incomplete.
Why doesn't anyone answer the phone anymore?
Date: 2018-09-12 09:41 pm (UTC)(1) People genuinely have their phone just vibrate, and not play a ringtone, when they're called. I thought this was just a dramatic effect that Netflix liked.
(2) People get called on their mobile by robots. This just does not happen to me.
Am I weird / lucky?