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andrewducker- The U.S. Catholic Church is facing an unprecedented wave of sex abuse investigations
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- Remainers shouldn't assume EU leaders will welcome another Brexit referendum
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- What listening to cricket on the radio is like
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- The OnePlus 6T Review - looks amazing, and if I didn't get a OnePlus 6 recently I'd be getting one. Ah well, next year!
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- Archaeologists find 300,000-year-old stone tools in Saudi Arabia
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- Majority of British public support legalisation of cannabis
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- I would feel sorry for the children of these parents. If I wasn't planning on copying several of them...
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- UK budget takes £400 from poorest and gives it to richest
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- Humanity has wiped out 60% of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles since 1970
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- Europe's centre is not holding. People are abandoning it for the far left and right.
- This is what you get when standards of living fall, of course.
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Date: 2018-10-30 11:49 am (UTC)https://jonworth.eu/the-european-parliament-election-and-brexit-delay-not-a-major-headache/
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Date: 2018-10-30 12:10 pm (UTC)Or possibly we won't!
The OnePlus 6T Review - looks amazing, and if I didn't get a OnePlus 6 recently I'd be getting one.
Date: 2018-10-30 01:46 pm (UTC)Unluckily, they're not accepting orders until next Tuesday, and presumably you will then have the usual fun and games of delivery times for a brand new just-launched product. It'll be a long wait making do with a phone that I decided was so broken and slow that I needed to replace it two years ago.
But hopefully worth it.
* I am not experiencing it as entirely good fortune.
Re: The OnePlus 6T Review - looks amazing, and if I didn't get a OnePlus 6 recently I'd be getting o
Date: 2018-11-03 03:57 pm (UTC)And that it lives up to the reviews.
I don't actually have a backup phone at the moment. I'd need to make a very quick trip to CEX or similar to get something temporary.
Re: The OnePlus 6T Review - looks amazing, and if I didn't get a OnePlus 6 recently I'd be getting o
Date: 2018-11-09 07:45 am (UTC)First impressions: my life but it's better than the terrible broken old phone I was using. More seriously, it is a little bigger than the 3T, and a little speedier, and the screen is a little better and seems way bigger. (Which it is, in terms of viewable area.) I'm not totally convinced by the notch (this is my first phone with one), although I've set it up to ban apps from it and it works nicely as notification bar since that populates from the sides anyway. The fingerprint sensor hidden in the screen works, but it is very noticeably slow to activate compared to the 3T's, such that I've set up location unlock for home and work so I don't have to do it so often. Also, I've realised that the standalone sensor served as a physical prompt for where the back, home and overview buttons are. This will probably be less of an issue when I've got used to where they are on the current phone, but it may be that they're more often hidden by the screen which won't help with that. I've not done a lot of photography yet, but it seems fine, although the shutter delay seemed annoyingly long in low light, which is not great considering most of my photos are of children and the cat indoors. The quality of the photos is superb, though. And this is a very nippy modern phone.
If my old 3T hadn't broken, I don't think the 6T is enough of a boost to make it worth the money for me. But given that it has, it's a very nice phone indeed for the price point.
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Date: 2018-10-30 02:33 pm (UTC)I noticed a few fellow Canadians on my Facebook friendslist switch to a Campaign Against Antisemitism frame for their profile pics after the Pittsburgh mass murder in US. I clicked through to the page, and the Campaign seems to specialize in bashing UK Labour and Liberal Democrats.
Should I perceive the CAA that's not Canadian Automobile Association as a UK Tory front, or are they just independent weirdoes with an active social media team?
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Date: 2018-10-30 03:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-10-31 09:13 am (UTC)'A distant “pock” noise. The sound of thirty people saying “tsk,” sorrowfully.'