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Comment · 2 years ago
"French prosecutors say Telegram CEO freed from custody, will appear in court"

No, he won't.

Comment · 2 years ago
And that explains the not-in-the-EU affected computers how?
Comment · 2 years ago
I don't think that anyone before, in or after Roman times would run gold wire like that through the holes. Why scratch up the work? Why abrade away gold flakes? Is there gold residue on the artifacts? It would've been noted.
Comment · 2 years ago
Wow. The companies I've worked at only kept old emails if there was a litigation hold. Otherwise, the email retention policy was enforced. It seems to me a double edged sword that slightly favors the deleter.

I think that you will find that your industry is an outlier.

Comment · 2 years ago
Most Fortune 500 companies have (I am extrapolating wildly here since I haven't worked at all of them) email retention policies that specify that emails will not be kept past a certain time after reception. So when an opposing lawyer requires the emails that were sent a year ago ... well, those were deleted as per policy. It's weird that if the companies had a policy to immediately delete them it would be "bad" but if they delete them after 30 days due to "storage" reasons and a clear, global, openly stated policy, it's OK. It doesn't stop someone from stuffing old emails in a folder.
Comment · 2 years ago
What if this is the basis of "magic"? The secret power of curses that were burnt or cast into a lake or cave that "worked" by diminishing the anger in the caster rather than cursing the target.
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Comment · 2 years ago
"The Library at Mount Char" by Scott Hawkins.

His first novel. Very original, not quite sci-fi, not quite fantasy. Some rough edges. Excellent.

Comment · 3 years ago
Concise Co. of Japan still makes slide rulers albeit only circular ones (https://www.sliderule.tokyo/products/list.php).

One prominent industry that still uses slide rulers is aviation. They use "flight computers".

Comment · 3 years ago
OK. Assume that the evidence is strong and true. That still doesn't mean that there's been continuous habitation. It could be evidence of a failed colonization followed by crickets.
Comment · 3 years ago
Seems like someone may have the pleasure of becoming interested in the matter and going further. Perhaps they may resurrect Maledicta, the journal of verbal aggression. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maledicta. I remember going through the collection of issues of the journal at the Perry Castañeda library at the University of Texas-Austin many years ago. I highly recommend it. Read about things like Spanish potentiation of insults (like raising to a power), and other things I forget. The only reason I can recall Spanish potentiation is that I speak Spanish and I never realized such a thing existed.

There was, of course, an article (or issue?) dedicated to "your momma" jokes. The most memorable one was an Italian one that goes:

If the streets were paved with cocks, your momma would walk on her ass.

Comment · 3 years ago
Everyone has known that the instant Russia felt threatened that the dam would (probably) be destroyed. The consequences are horrible for Ukraine but not so much for Russia. They have known that the counter offensive would be coming. Why not lay down some propaganda now for something that someone else should take the blame for in the future? With the help of a корисний ідіот of course.
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