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Messages - Frenzie

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DnD Central / Re: The twits on Twitter
Quote from: jax on
Anyway, X is turning out pretty unusable, so I too have jumped over to Bluesky. Twitter was kind of ridiculous, but had two major selling points, data and news. News are not really there (yet), but there is a growing group of data producers interacting.
I suppose I'll have to follow eventually. Unfortunately someone already snatched my preferred username, and to my annoyance the website enforces Javascript.
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DnD Central / Re: The future of the past
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An experiment led by Bertolino in central Italy showed that coypu posed an extra risk to birds by crushing eggs when they clumsily sit down for a rest in nests.
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DnD Central / Re: What's going on in Benelux?
Wilders posted this at 6:03. It doesn't seem that anybody used the word pogrom prior to that.
Quote from: https://twitter.com/geertwilderspvv/status/1854751655591350331
A pogrom in the streets of #Amsterdam.

We have become the Gaza of Europe.

Muslims with Palestinian flags hunting down Jews.

I will NOT accept that. NEVER.

The authorities will be held accountable for their failure to protect the Israeli citizens.

Never again.
6:03 AM · Nov 8, 2024

At 7:23 the word was then also used by Isaac Herzog.
https://x.com/Isaac_Herzog/status/1854771676891791407
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DnD Central / Re: What's Going on in Science?
Japanese researchers have launched the first wooden satellite.
Quote from: https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/worlds-first-wooden-satellite-developed-japan-heads-space-2024-11-05/
Decommissioned satellites must re-enter the atmosphere to avoid becoming space debris. Conventional metal satellites create aluminium oxide particles during re-entry, but wooden ones would just burn up with less pollution, Doi said.
"Metal satellites might be banned in the future," Doi said. "If we can prove our first wooden satellite works, we want to pitch it to Elon Musk's SpaceX."
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DnD Central / Re: What's Going on in Science?
It's nice to see the math, but the word misleading sure is some oddly clickbait writing. I'd have been very surprised indeed if they'd said it was likely within merely a few billion years.
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DnD Central / Re: Everything Trump…
Quote from: ersi on
Last thing first, interest is not supposed to be profitable, so Hanson does not know how bank loans work. He is, to say, not even wrong. He is totally off his rocker.
I don't quite understand what you're trying to say here. Interests are the primary source of income on loans. But of course whether a loan was paid back is wholly irrelevant in determining whether there was fraud involved.
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Hobbies & Entertainment / Re: Travelling and such
It took me a second to realize that by "against the traffic light" they probably mean "when there's no traffic" and not to randomly walk in front cars who might be waiting to go.
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DnD Central / Re: Interesting German public opinion poll results?
I don't hold nearly as negative a view, but Germany hardly needs to be a movie villain to be a threat to overarching concerns shared by other European nations and their worldwide allies.

I'm inclined to think the border behavior, rather than taking the wind out of certain sails legitimizes what they're saying.
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Hobbies & Entertainment / Re: Food
Quote from: ersi on
In contrast, in USSR workplace canteens were normal. There was hardly a workplace without it. Also, it was normal that meals in those canteens were cheaper than cooking at home, different from capitalism where cooking at home is cheaper than eating in a cafe/bar.
That's why the mealcheck system was originally introduced: so that those without a canteen at work would have the same benefits.
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Hobbies & Entertainment / Re: Food
"toothpaste and tea"

One of those is food, the other isn't, so it's a bit unclear what the intended reading is here. Meta doesn't consider tea food? Or that this employee bought toothpaste thinks the fact they also bought food at the same time should be a mitigating factor?

The system sounds somewhat similar to what we have here in Belgium, except for me mealchecks pay for most of my groceries. The way it works is most places that sell food take mealchecks but if you buy food and a toothbrush at the same time only the food goes from the mealchecks.[1] I assume the problem with the abuse is mainly that it might get Meta into trouble with the IRS.
1 Here they translate it as meal vouchers: https://businessbelgium.be/meal-vouchers/↵
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DnD Central / Re: Climate Change and You
If glass didn't have certain obvious issues they'd simply use it at festivals. Regular glass is used in cafés and restaurants, and everyone prefers it over a plastic cup. But indeed it must be cheaper than stainless steel or aluminium cups. I believe some festival regulars are known to take those along themselves.