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Re:France's Basque Region Creates Its Own Currency on Saturday April 20, 2019 @01:14PM (#19707630)
I was kind of hoping this was about the entire basque region using it's own cryptocurrency ;)
it obviously depends on the context, but China is homogeneous enough that 'chinese' is often used to mean more than just nationality
it won't stop people getting multiple sim cards and registering those under different names
Re:Mastodon and Keybase on Monday April 15, 2019 @10:07PM (#19670558)
it's basically twitter when you're not following very many people and all the people you are following share your political views.
now all the creeps will have to lie and pretend to be under-13 when they want to befriend or send gifts to your daughter :(
Re:People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day on Friday March 08, 2019 @03:06PM (#19341669)
I guess this means the 'meat maximalist' carnivory diet will eventually 'die off'
>Almost all engineering programs I've seen, practically don't have any English requirements.

This is certainly true if you're a rich international student paying international student fees.

I don't think you would ever lose a concept like 'aboveness' - even if that word didn't exist in our language, we would have found away to express the same idea, perhaps in a less abstract way like 'closer to the sky'
this happens to MMO servers too, I used to play the game DOFUS years ago and it was one of my favorite places on the internet when first started but then people left the game as they grew up and it was gradually taken over by bots and scammers until it got merged with another server
Re:Everywhere and Nowhere: A Journey Through Suicide on Friday February 15, 2019 @06:14PM (#19175641)
and also 3: The fear of death is extremely difficult to overcome for most people, even when it's objectively their best option.

on this topic, there's an excellent blog post called 'Who by very slow decay' which I think would change most people's minds if they read it. https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who-by-very-slow-decay...

suicide, if done right, is one of the best ways to die.

Re:This person does not exist on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @06:37PM (#19158257)
With some of them you notice it straight away like the woman with something sticking out of a hole in her cheek: https://fb.pics/image/38yjt and the woman with the mutilated left ear: https://fb.pics/image/380UC and the child with the adult eye bags: https://fb.pics/image/38Jva One thing it almost always does wrong is glasses. https://fb.pics/image/38NNu And apart from pictures of young children, most of them have strange vertical wrinkles under the eyes, even when everything else is relatively convincing.

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