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The settlers were greeted by English speaking native Americans who had been working the shipping trade.

"makes it easier to socialize ... even though alcohol is bad in many ways"

Isn't this justification you bring your activities into harmony with conscience?

Don't give up on the GCHQ idea. As a large public (in the business sense) organisation they will be hot on "reasonable adjustment" and possibly interested in the diversity of thought/opinions resulting from your horrible attack.

Love the western bias here.

The Dark Ages was a time when the christian west consciously stopped learning. Fortunately the muslim world carried the banner for intellect for a century or two.

Will the new dark age posited be western only? Or wealthy middle-class only? And will some other group develop as we stagnate on a feed of AI generated listicles?

2FA, NHS, gov.uk reminders, a large %age of my social group...

WhatsApp is a closed protocol owned by Facebook. It has its uses but relying on it is a mistake.

Gosh, never look at C. You'd break ribs.

...then you didn't read it. Try again, it's a brilliant reflection of human nature and really digs into the dystopia / utopia thing.

An app? You just need DropBox and a text editor. Both are pretty ubiquitous.

I used to find myself moving between random terminals so used curl webdav instead of DropBox.

"Tommy Robinson is not allowed to open a bank account"? What? After multiple frauds and also declaring himself bankrupt he might have difficulty finding a bank willing to take him as a customer but I'm unaware of anyway of anyone banning him from opening one.

I keep having this argument with my boss but he refuses to let me write machine code.

It's lightweight, it's flexible, it's hackable and it's very orchestrate-able. I've had dashboards showing summary stats for IoT devices, the VMs they're talking to and the hypervisors the VMs are running on with very little effort.

IMO the Nokia E7 was the perfect phone in all dimensions. Modern phones are impractically large. Man, I'd love to see some innovation in phone design. How did we go so far backwards?

Dan Simmons Shrike books have the same epic scale of Ian M Banks' scifi with the slightly more prosodic style of Ian Banks' standard fiction.