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Unicorn cake
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A small business like a bakery is still within a community. Massive corporations are not.
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Unicorn cake
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A small business like a bakery is still within a community. Massive corporations are not.
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What's something you no longer buy due to intrusive, insidious technology being added into it?
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What kind of forms require that? If you are at work your employer should provide it.
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"are you a man or a woman?" 🙄
If you find out please let me know
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Why building inspiring alternatives is necessary to counter authoritarianism
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Heavy rain is often mentioned, that doesn't explain the sewage dumping during periods of drought.
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Why building inspiring alternatives is necessary to counter authoritarianism
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My problems are the sewage company keeps dumping sewage on the beach. But it is illegal for me to start shooting execs in the company until behaviour improves. Our local MP voted to make it easier to dump sewage on the beach and people voted to keep her in.
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They’re expensive because it’s the last one you’ll ever need ofc
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My partner got me a water bottle in the late 2010s, its still going just fine. Few scratches on the paint now and minor dents in places but that is it.
Could do with an insulated flask that can hold strew. Boil some veg/stock in the morning and pour into the flask, it cooks during the day and can have it as my lunch at work. Similar to cooking in a slow cooker or haybox.
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BIFL Mobile Phone
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My last android was abandoned by it'd manufacturer by the time I walked out the shop. I'll just go without updates if I have to.
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the $8K microcar from CHINA
Finally some competition for the Citroen Ami?
I do wonder how low the price of things like that could be. Like a scooter with a plastic frame around it, under £1k?
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BIFL Mobile Phone
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My fairphone was 5 years old when I bought it second hand, see no reason it can't last more than 0-2 more years.
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BIFL Mobile Phone
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Since finding out about over ear headphones I have been less bothered with wireless. They are far more secure, even cycling around not once had them fall off.
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AI giants learn what everyone else on the modern internet already knows
Lol get absolutely fucked. I hope it costs them a fortune.
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No. You need permission from the (local) government to live anywhere. Houses come with this permission, but if you buy a field or woodland it does not. Fuck all chance of getting it outside of some very special edge cases.
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"Nothing is stopping you" - actually not true, you need government permission and they will just say no.
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What would you do with this old PC if you had €0 to invest in it?
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The RAM makes it harder to say get a new PC though.
If you don't need the RAM then a mini PC of some form (latte panda?) might be a better choice, very low power consumption on some of them.
But another thing to consider is if the server isn't running 24/7 then power usage is lower too. Depends what you actually do with it. It has storage, backups? For that it only needs to turn on for a few minutes/hours a week and then shutdown again.
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Does the UK need air conditioning?
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People largely have double glazing instead of triple because people don't replace their windows very often so they will be using something older. Triple is getting more common for new installs but how often do you replace windows?
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Yep. Everything is designed to force individualism. You need to buy a house, illegal to live in a tent even if you own land which is comparably cheap.
So I can legally buy an acre of woodland for under £20k, possibly £10k at a push though they usually charge more per area for small patches, depends on location. I could also build several cabins or put up multiple tents, so far all legal.
The moment someone lives there, illegal. The government can now seize the property. They have done so in the past when people have tried.
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The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public
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I live next to a beach. I don't think I will ever visit the popular areas again if these things become common.
Fortunately you only need to walk 60 seconds east/west of a car park to get away from most people and the coastline goes on for miles.
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Deathbulge #445: "See, there's a working theory in there!"
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At least that is something you normally mix with water as you use it
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The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public
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The cameras have copper in them too. Probably.
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Self of Theseus
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But none of them are continuity, only replication.