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Comment · 5 months ago
The reason is roughly that there were devastating food shortages in the world wars, and avoiding that happening again has been an important force in Dutch politics since.
Comment · 9 months ago
I don't believe UK social housing has any work requirements, it is just massively oversubscribed, such that you need to be very vulnerable to realistically be offered council housing. You do have to pay (below market rate) rent, so you probably need to be searching for work or have been declared to have limited capability for work or work related activities to get a benefit to pay for your social housing. I think there's some state where they've decided no one will hire you for minimum wage, but you're otherwise able so you have to do some kind of volunteering.
Comment · 11 months ago
I believe 4chan is taking ofcom to court for trying to restrict their first amendment rights rather than blocking the UK, at least I'm still able to access it without a vpn.
Comment · 1 year ago
70% is by most measures, pretty close to 66% (2/3)...
Comment · 1 year ago
The point is not about whether video games should be exempt, it's about being able to tell whether they are covered by this law or not
Comment · 1 year ago
An atmosphere reduces the amount of fuel needed to land, because you can use aerobraking to slow down rather than carry fuel to do it. See the Apollo return capsule, which landed without any rockets, only parachutes and a heat shield.
Comment · 2 years ago
Do pre-paid plans not exist in the US?
Comment · 2 years ago
No one had built a nuclear bomb before the Manhattan project either.
Comment · 2 years ago
I've heard from a clinical psychologist and also from a bunch of people on the internet that the symptoms of BDP are often presented by (especially female) traumatized autists, and they run a high risk of being misdiagnosed with BDP. and based on the diagnosed (entirely AFAB) autistic people I know socially none of them show any signs of being unaware of or unmotivated by social validation.

Also there is a high overlap between autism and ADHD, many people have both characterizing them as opposite ends of a spectrum sounds like a stretch.

Comment · 2 years ago
I got a certificate error you might want to look into: > Web sites prove their identity via certificates. Firefox does not trust this site because it uses a certificate that is not valid for www.iso100mm.com. The certificate is only valid for the following names: img.iso100mm.com, iso100mm.com
Comment · 3 years ago
You can't halve the temperature of something by halving its measument in Celcius, because the celcius starts at some arbitary point above absolute zero.

50 degrees celcius is 86% as hot as the boiling point of water, not 50%.

Comment · 3 years ago
There have been some studies recently screening older people who grew up with more restrictive diagnostic criteria for autism that suggest that increasing rates of autism diagnosis are likely purely the result of changing diagnostic criteria and increased awareness rather than increased prevalence of austism.
Comment · 3 years ago
You can't copyright a recipe, the thing reason it doesn't make sense for Pepsi to make an exact duplicate of coke is that Coke is better at selling Coke that Pepsi is, and it's better for them to be a niche alternative some people prefer than to be an undifferentiated competititor. Reverse engineering trade secrets is perfectly legal if you haven't agreed otherwise.
Comment · 3 years ago
40 crashes per million flights has still got to be better than current road safety, at a very rough calculation the US for example had 128 road deaths per million people, which I'm admittedly not sure how to convert to make a fair comparison.

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