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This is my first time hearing of Bikini Kill. I know this is a stupid question is there any connection with the Cramps song of a similar name? Probably just a coincidence but I'm wondering if they might have been an influence.

2025-11-09 06:30:41 UTC

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Yeah, I know, some people discount people just because they came from a monied background (as happened with L7) but no matter your background... bricks are heavy.

2025-11-07 03:12:34 UTC

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If the inevitable crash also happens to bring down all the other car manufacturers *as well*, it might be worth it.

2025-11-06 08:32:57 UTC

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(speaking of bubbles, though, wasn't one of the UK's motorways laid out by using soap bubbles?)

2025-10-26 01:48:37 UTC

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The thing I like about Pascal's Wager is how do you know you've bet on the right god?

2025-10-13 05:17:12 UTC

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Where's Pauline Black?

2025-10-12 02:51:11 UTC

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Ant you glad it's not another orange story?

2025-10-09 10:51:16 UTC

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For those that don't know, the area of a hectare is a 100 metres square and 500 hectares is half a kilometre square (eg, 1,000 metres by 500 metres).
(not directly relevant to farm size above, but just for readers who might not be familiar with the metric units)

2025-10-06 07:34:25 UTC

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It functioned exactly right. I take it that these 5 companies had a monopoly in different areas? What did you expect was going to happen?

2025-09-30 15:01:13 UTC

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TIL Prussian Blue can be used as a treatment (antidote?) for Caesium-137:
Accidental ingestion of caesium-137 can be treated with Prussian blue ([formula elided]), which binds to it chemically and reduces its biological half-life to 30 days.‍[21]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesium-137

2025-09-24 01:49:06 UTC

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The thing that strikes me most about this Rapture thing is that it's only evangelical Christians that seem to believe it. I haven't really been bothered to research it but there seems to be scant justification for it in the Bible. There might be stuff in there to support it, sure, but it's probably tucked in somewhere in Revelations? Not the most canonical, reliable or mainstream of sources?
Then again, there's also Prosperity Gospel, Mormonism and the whole history of Christianity.

2025-09-10 03:12:05 UTC

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Today from @npub1fdr…lvhs : https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/09/germanium-valley/#i-cant-quit-you
"The conservative future, folks: jobs you can't quit, politicians you can't vote out of office, husbands you can't divorce, and pregnancies you can't prevent or terminate."
I'm a guy but I don't want to take away anything from that. I want to frame this for other guys. If you/we tolerate treating women like this, that's not the end. They're coming for everyone.
Removing bodily autonomy for women is a way to bring back slavery.

2025-09-02 02:11:09 UTC

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Punting this... the reason for Brexit was to prevent sunlight from shining on England's "arcane" system of recording ownership of properties and companies...

2025-09-02 01:30:19 UTC

(another song)
Hit the, Road Monterey Jack!
#CheeseAMovieOrPlay
#HashTagGames

2025-08-30 03:39:59 UTC

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so you're an advocate of "peace through superior firepower?" Sucks to be you, I'm sure.

2025-08-30 03:36:18 UTC

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So why haven't you risen up against tyranny?

2025-08-23 15:28:18 UTC

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Is "crate" meant to imply a box that's open on one side? As in, eg, all vertical lines wouldn't satisfy the criterion because one of those sides is missing, assuming the open side is at the "top" (or bottom)?

2025-08-16 03:17:20 UTC

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Now draw the rest of the owl.
Wait, let me start again.

2025-08-12 23:51:02 UTC

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"fiduciary duty to shareholders" is usually used as shorthand for companies being legally obliged to maximise shareholder profit. There is no such obligation.

2025-08-12 22:28:19 UTC

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"fiduciary duty to shareholders" is a nonsense. At least legally speaking. It's a myth.

2025-08-08 16:10:18 UTC

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I get what you're saying. I might have misread or misunderstood what you were saying about the foreseeability of stagflation. Also, on the second point, I was hoping that you might have gone on to broader topic, such as, as you say, social dimensions.
I guess that when one writes an article, you have to have a particular reader in mind. This just wasn't one for me.

2025-08-08 14:07:14 UTC

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Maybe I was missing some nuance in the article but the impression I got was that you're just presenting the economic orthodoxy. I don't think that the bank vs Rachel Reeves angle elevates the article in any way.
I guess I shouldn't be so surprised an economist writes an article and looks at issues purely through the lens of economics... somehow in this case, though, I was.

2025-08-08 01:10:17 UTC

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Hmm. Ah, I see, you're a professor of political economy. I get it now.
I guess you'll profess to be ignorant of MMT and a lot of other things too in the coming months and years.
Ah, and you're the author of the linked article... nice.

2025-08-03 01:34:06 UTC

Thinking about religion a lot tonight. One of my favourite topics there is "Pascal's Wager." Yer man's point was, effectively, if there is something beyond death, shouldn't you hedge your bets? My answer to that is, well, fine, but how do you know you've picked the right God to (pretend to) follow?
Anyway, we're all on the same deathscalator... just some of us choose not to believe your nonsense...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXXhv_r8XG0
#Religion #PascalsWager #Philosophy

2025-07-30 23:36:22 UTC

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Fascinating stuff. The Kepler stuff is beyond me but many years ago I came across some quaternion stuff via Doug Sweetster. I've forgotten most of it but this presentation is bringing various bits back.
Anyway, what Wikipedia says about SU(2): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_unitary_group#The_group_SU(2)

2025-07-30 00:12:05 UTC

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unless it's weapons or "dual use" components...

2025-07-30 00:11:28 UTC

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Fuck you, Ireland and Italy.
On second thoughts, maybe we should team up and improve trade between ourselves and cut Israel out of the equation?

2025-07-25 00:52:46 UTC

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I dunno... is there anything at all to be said for standing on one leg atop a pole?

2025-07-06 21:50:24 UTC

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Not mentioned in the article, but related... it seems that everyone in Japan could end up with the same surname in the (not too) distant future: Satoh.
https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h02036/