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This has nothing to do with opposing gambling. It has everything to do with, say, opposing gamblers poisoning horses to win bets.

Bertrand Russell has been dead since 1970. I think he'll be okay. Or no worse off.


> they were expecting it to be big, hundreds of millions of users.

No reasonable person shared this expectation. It was Juicero-tier delusion.


> Without that distinction, what is the difference between a long term resident and a citizen?

You fall into an edge case. Irish citizens have special status in the UK as a result of the countries' shared history. In this particular case the biggest difference is that you can't get a UK passport as an Irish citizen.


I’m acutely aware I’m an edge case - I hoped I made it clear above that I am cognisant of it and that I think of it every time I exercise that privilege

> in this particular case the biggest difference is that you can’t get a UK passport as an Irish citizen.

Sure, but I’ve also been here long enough to naturalise - it’s a decision for me, not something I need to do anything more to be eligible for.


> Two thirds of new American homes are in some sort of community association, typically homeowners’ associations, but also co-ops, and condominium associations, and 30 percent of American homes overall. Buyers opt into these associations, pay annual fees in the thousands of dollars, and suffer their annoying restrictions and demands because they create amenities: quiet, cleanliness/tidiness, safety, or things like public pools and parks.

Uh... People "opt-in" to homeowners' associations because two-thirds of new builds impose them. Municipalities don't want to accept new roads, so developers can get things built through privatization.


The _state_ isn't alarming, it's the rate of change. The transition is happening on a scale of human lifetimes instead of geological time.


Yeah. The XKCD "Timeline of Earth's Average Temperature" is, I'm pretty certain, the most frightening chart I have ever seen.

https://xkcd.com/1732/


Precisely. Humans can adapt to almost anything but we can not do it fast enough with 8 billion+ people.


Cambridge, MA.

After the city deactivated the existing cameras, Flock got caught putting more up. The city terminated their contract with Flock for material breach.


They wrote a memo saying they could.


not saying you’re wrong, but we have to get in the habit of sourcing our claims! whistleblowers testified to Congress about this memo that began circulating around mid-2025.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26499371-dhs-ice-mem...


Some people also need to get in the habit of researching a claim by themselves.


Pretty sure doing your own research turns you into a conspiracy theorist; so I don’t think we’re supposed to do that anymore.


Haha that's a good one. Maybe just do a "@grok is that true?".


No it doesn't. Conspiracy theorists don't actually do research. If they did, that might risk invalidating their theory.


At least some conspiracy theorists do selective research.


Selective research is an oxymoron.

The word for it is cherry-picking and it is better classified as a fallacy.


IMO, the problem is that you must learn what "research" actually entails before attempting it, so that you don't fall into the trap of that fallacy.

Most people… eh. I don't know about the rest of the world, and my experience was in the 90s, but for me GCSE triple science was a list of facts to regurgitate in exams, and although we did also have practical sessions those weren't scored by how well we did Popperian falsification (a thing I didn't even learn about it until my entirely optional chosen-for-fun A-level in Philosophy; I don't know if A-level sciences teaches that).


Your claim is not a source, so downvoted.

The people who replied to you provided the source: upvoted them.


> passive thermal management

I lived in an almost passive house for about a year. When the HVAC system stopped working* in July, I didn't notice until the middle of November.

* Air handler was running, compressor was off.


> It is insufficient to simply state that previous versions are not supported, they are aggressively not supported but I was not to be deterred.

Amen. The time I've spent building old versions of MAME. I have a mountain of Donkey Kong replay files from top players. Game replays are only guaranteed to run under the version used to record them, so get ready to build binaries if you want to watch old replays.


Can't you just download old binaries?

https://www.mamedev.org/oldrel.html


Those are all windows binaries.


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