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"Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven!" - William Wordsworth "O Liberty, what things are done in thy name" - Madam Roland

Climbing The Mountain.
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@durandalcomplex He is a dishonest grifter, but in this rare, rare instance... he is correct. There is not enough information in the picture to uniquely answer the question without introducing additional assumptions not stated in the question.
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@Alphafox78 That's an apex predator telling its prey it isn't in the mood just now and it'll see them around.
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@MikeIrvo Day 36: It got Phillips yesterday. I am the only one left. The lights are beginning to flicker again. It can't be long now.
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@historyinmemes These Japanese trains are getting crazy.
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@Based_Mr_L Trick is to be the side who decides.
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@billybragg How many more times will Billy Bragg and his followers find themselves fighting on the same side as Nike, BlackRock and the US military before the penny drops?
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@FAFO_TV The trick with boats is generally to keep most of the water out of the boat. When it's inside the boat, you are gonna have a bad day.
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@extradeadjcb Spanish Civil War?
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@growing_daniel Momma bears really enjoy if you play hide and seek, taking one of her cubs with you while she comes to find you. If the cubs are really small, I put them in my pants pockets and we have a great old time with momma chasing us until we all roll on the floor together.
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@FAFO_TV He should probably have stayed on the board and slid down the handrail.
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@1000waystod1e Never work in a place the looks like the location of the final confrontation of a straight to video Terminator knock-off.
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@WelshLabour Nobody knows how the first black Welshman arrived in the valleys.
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@historyinmemes The forces involved in this are ridiculous. The payloads that can survive this are surely pretty limited?
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@greentexts_bot He's missing "confidence of Zeus in hitting up random women for the vagene"
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@CasiMueren I'm no doctor of flebotany, but I don't think they cheated death there.
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@robisraelart You should change your name to Bob Palestine.
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@Babygravy9 Is this a retreat for former Buzzfeed journalists who were unable to keep up with the raw physicality of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's exercise regime? My testosterone dropped watching it. I now have the ick with myself.
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@DillyHussain88 This is very true. The British economy's dependence on Afghans is hard to understate.
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@CreepyOrg You keep reacting this way to autopsy photos. Maybe you should stop looking at them?
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@soh_toa @durandalcomplex You can do it with less if you go with silly box arrangements.
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@wayotworld Somebody made them an offer they couldn't refuse.
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@extradeadjcb That guy must have arms like an orangutan.
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@TheOtherPaul2 I'm reliably informed that the working class in mid-century England had the politics of Portland lesbian bookshop owners... They were just mad keen on Andrea Dworkin and vegan lattes.
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@TheGreenOldDill It's normal. Some women shave their faces, some tuck, some have prominent Adam's Apples.
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@espiers @Steve_Sailer Ada Lovelace paved the road for nothing. She was a rich patron of a genius, that is all. Later computing was not based on his work. He allowed her to write some trifles. The idea that she was "the first programmer", or significant beyond funding Babbage is ridiculous cope.
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@kirtipatelmd Weird thing is, as feminist paradise approaches, female happiness and life satisfaction continue their long decline and female mental health continues to deteriorate.
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@nikicaga But it's completely out of keeping with the location. "Monstrosity" is the standard word for such things. Is there something about the holocaust that renders basic rules of taste inapplicable? If they placed a massive concrete turd there, would we have to pretend it looks good?
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@Rothmus This is incorrect. Lots of lesbians look far more masculine than Samoan KD Lang on the right there.
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@FAFO_TV This is actually the optimal strat if you want to speedrun the cave. Angles are kind of precise, that's why he does that weird wiggle. He then pause buffered throwing his arms back and doing a one-frame ledge grab. If he's got it right, he'll clip through the bottom of the cave.
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@lporiginalg Repeat after me: I am not smarter than Ted Kaczynski I am not smarter than Thomas Carlyle I am not smarter than Enoch Powell I am not smarter than Maurice Cowling I am not smarter than Joseph de Maistre But I am less wrong than Hasan, Vaush, Destiny, Keffals and Hinkle.
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@uMarhobane Those small villagers weren't grifting for charity money.
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@stillgray That must have been a wild experiment to get through the ethics board. "So, we are going to divide the children into two groups. The first group will be shouted at for 5 minutes three times a day. The other group..."
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@PhysInHistory This seems like a culturally corrosive framing.
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@MoltonAllan The thing is, Labour despises the actual views of the working class. The working class have always been socially conservative.
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@GPrime85 @theobtainedmage I read that in Antonio Banderas's voice.
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@pmavgaz1 Until 1828/1829, even dissenters and Catholics weren't able to become MPs. Are you proposing we return to something like that to exclude other faiths?
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@hayasaka_aryan Imagine how much you have to screw up, the lengths you have to go to in order to alienate your mostly young, sexually frustrated male audience, to get to the point where hot lesbians making out don't sell...
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@Sargon_of_Akkad For the good of the colony, climb that tree and spread the fungus. Spreading the fungus is what makes the colony special. The fungus is your friend. For the love of the colony, enemies of the fungus must be defeated. The fungus only wants the best for the colony.
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@OrwellNGoode Amazing that things have come so far.
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@paleonormie Reminds me of an old Lenny Bruce bit about a Jewish mother complaining her son just can't find the right girl... such a good kind boy... always trying to help others... he brings sailors home every night with no place to sleep and they beat him up and take all his money.
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@lporiginalg This is all kinds of wrong. She's Pakistani, not an Arab.
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@0xAlaric One can just imagine the heterosexual men, who have always dominated fashion, hatching this plot.
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@aqualover420 @TZSA_ He does not, at the gut level, believe in the danger. He is processing intellectually things that his brainstem needs to be processing. At every step, he assumed it was a misunderstanding. We are all reasonable people, after all?
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@SerenaJB3 @DAaronovitch No, he thinks it would be racist if his fellow whites thought that way.
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@revpaulwhite This sounds like the kind of thing that can be gamed. There MUST be agencies who will train you to ace these kinds of tests in the same way they will write your CV for you.
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@historyinmemes At least it's not Nickelback
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@SerenaJB3 @DAaronovitch He doesn't think much of your concerns.
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@FinTwitGL @historyinmemes If they fly in it, they are going to end up the consistency of toothpaste.
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@KylePlantEmoji I find saying something like "I will light a candle for you" evokes some of what you are looking for.
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@LazlosGhost Norm's capacity to take an interaction to places nobody was comfortable with,, where there felt like there was real risk and then land it where ever he wanted was stunning.
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@OGRolandRat One of the things I haven't heard mentioned in your talks is that one of the defining points of Churchill's youth is his involvement in the 2nd Boer War. Smuts described that as the beginning of the end for Empire. Everything he was involved in left Britain weaker.
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@AlexDol26295181 @ChazakielDoremi Probably easier than padlocking himself into a bag.
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@077065082S @OneTopicAtATime It very clearly and obviously does not mean validating whatever anybody wants to do or be. He told people to "sin no more", he didn't tell them to live how they chose and all was cool. He forgives the sins of the prostitute, he doesn't say what she has been doing wasn't a sin.
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@Berlinnaeus Maybe bringing in unprecedented numbers of foreigners with the inevitable conflict resulting from that wasn't a good idea? You can feel that doing that shouldn't cause conflict all you like, but people have been pointed to these problems and why they happen for centuries.
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@jewjewjewjewje I feel like you are trying to say something here, but I'm not clear what.
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@Klaus_Arminius Well, well... the shoes have come home to roost on the other foot.
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@tezilyas I think you misunderstand. It's not about not being able to empathise, or not knowing what it's like to feel uncomfortable. It is about rejecting being blamed for that discomfort and rejecting resolving Nihal's discomfort by making the majority of the country uncomfortable
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@wavyphd @ninabegus Western civilisation was,to a significant degree, made by people who had read the Iliad and thought it was foundational. It's significance goes way beyond what ever truth there may be in the story.
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@TheBlackHorse65 She puts that on the Internet, approaches his mom.... and he's probably still... "I don't know if she's into me".
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@GreeneMan6 The thing that jumps out at me is that she expressed her complaint in liberal language, using liberal concepts.
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@extradeadjcb The Reconquista is the first thing that comes to my mind.
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@Baezantium @annakhachiyan In the Iliad, Achilles ties the body of Hector to his chariot and drives it around over and over and over in front of the tomb of his friend who died because Achilles wouldn't fight because Agamemnon had taken for himself some woman Achilles had kidnapped from a nearby town.
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@Sargon_of_Akkad It could be that she is some kind of transing succubus.
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@shagbark_hick It's like any niche hobby. The film Sideways came out, the whole thing got swamped by casuals and the original pioneers were driven out of the very thing they had helped to define.
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@feelsdesperate What kind of a person would write an article like that about themselves?
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@TheNewReview2 It's the biggest shill meme on the Internet. It frames the entire interaction in the way global capital, who wants to do mass migration, wants. 19th and early 20th century British socialist opposed exactly this.
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@BladeoftheS That seems like rather a crude measure of "how rich you are". A strong pound benefits some things and hurts others.
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@OrwellNGoode Do they have synagogues in Vietnam?
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@AuronMacintyre What do you mean rewritten? There is no George Orwell's "1984" and never was. You mean "Julia" by Sandra Newman.
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@stillgray Send them to Malaysia.
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@Sargon_of_Akkad Weird, Owen turns out to be a free-market capitalist who believes in global labour arbitrage.
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@fillypepper @wi_naura @Nigel_Farage This is where the universalism of liberalism that went into socialism, and went into laissez-faire free market capitalism causes both to treat people the same. All peoples are assumed to be interchangeable, to have no legitimate reasons to want to preserve their distinctness and
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@Rainmaker1973 That's no satellite...
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@lporiginalg Jon Robson let himself go.
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@Rainmaker1973 Does anybody know how to remove glue from a phone port?
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@thenickoftime90 @Babygravy9 There is a school of antinatalist thought that comes from utilitarianism that believes sentient life is a utilitarian net negative.
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@AuronMacintyre I played all the Bioshock games, so I'm something of an expert on the modern Right. The reason they focus so much on protecting children is because of the valuable Adam they believe they contain.
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@superxtianmario It kind of does. It's not like one day two humans were born and then they and their descendants only bred with one another.
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@soh_toa @durandalcomplex It depends what level the question is aimed at. If you assume it's 7-year-olds you get one set of answers. If you assume it's aimed at 16 year olds in a mathematics class you get a different set. All answers other than 51 involve some kind of trick.
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@extradeadjcb It doesn't. Most things east of the Elba only exist as low-resolution bitmaps. The geometry of the terrain is supposed to prevent you from getting out that far. Romania doesn't even have collision. If somehow you managed to get out that far, you'd fall through to the death plane.
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@MaximuSure @OliLondonTV Oh, no... the people of the Middle East who had been peace-loving pacifists living in an Eden-like sanctuary for millennia without number had war brought to them by the cruel invader.
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@GreeneMan6 It reminds me of the family guy episode where they end up in a Disney cartoon that is wholesome and wonderful, until the Jewish neighbour looks in.
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@CitizenNill Sean Bean yelling at him to HOLD THE LINE, while a young Michael Caine walks about with his hands clasped behind his back. A cannonball bounces off Wayne's head, he barely notices.
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@ikariiprince @memeticsisyphus This is not controversial. It was so ubiquitously understood that the whole plot of When Harry Met Sally is playing with this exact issue.
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@AndyPlumb4 I too get my politics from rebellious teenagers from 50 years ago.
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@Rainmaker1973 It looks like if you are going to hit it hard, 150Mph is the sweet spot to minimise the impact. Good to know.
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@MAstronomers It looks like an effect from a cheaply made sci-fi movie from the early 50s.
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@man_adamantium Which group do you think the bugs are a metaphor for?
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@ramzpaul Just outsource weapons development to China. Make it their problem.
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@wayotworld Breaking: Actor says thing that the people who pay actors want actors to say.
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