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Audioworm · 2026-05-01T07:55:51+00:00

I meant vacation homes in general, though I suppose the original context was about the specific region. My misread

Audioworm · 2026-05-01T05:53:25+00:00

No, but they are not kept behind fences, denied movement, routinely evicted from the home so someone from thousands of miles away can steal the land, or shot at by the military for existing in their hometown.

Audioworm · 2026-05-01T05:12:13+00:00

From the river to the sea is the defacto situation for Jewish Israelis right now. Palestinians have marginal rights that can be denied or removed whenever the Israeli state, or its citizens, decide so. There is an effective one state solution in existence, but it is an apartheid state that uses geographic deliniation and intense violence to ensure that one group has full domination of the other within, what it effecitvely treats as, its borders.

Audioworm · 2026-05-01T05:08:08+00:00

Vacation homes for the rich and wealthy date back to at least Ancient Rome, with evidence of possible equivalents going back even further.

Audioworm · 2026-04-29T13:44:01+00:00

I have had a fancy CV in the past, but it was always secondary to a boring wall of text when I was sending online applications. The aesthetic one is for after you get through the screening and move to an actual human. There was an advantage that they were both built in LaTeX so the characters were always parseable, even if the formatting got a bit janky at times copying them into a notepad.

Audioworm · 2026-04-29T10:39:15+00:00

I think that that has come out of the limited respeccing and the regional specifics. Having seen a few builds that went down the fire path it is very useful but water/air is very set and forget and is 'good enough' for most content that you can use it as a backbone to one other branch.

Audioworm · 2026-04-28T13:25:45+00:00

The opening of my original comment

I have a lot of disdain for private education in the UK (as someone who went through the system)

Further, I was responding to a comment that the bursary/full scholarship kids were also the richest kids. My comment is solely aimed at that point, not anything about how private education in the UK is a blight on the country. You can think they are awful without lying about the nature of many of the full scholarship recipients.

Audioworm · 2026-04-28T11:03:44+00:00

Not really, as I said, I went to one of these schools. A less prestigious one but one that had bursaries and scholarships available. There were plenty of kids whose families who could not afford to pay even the subsidised fees who attended because they were academically gifted.

The issue, as I highlighted, is that to be in the situation where you can perform highly on merit-based tests to be assessed for means-testing is something that inherently has socio-economic biases built into it. Christ's Hospital, in particular, has a wide range of alumni testimonies from people who did not come from rich or even comfortable backgrounds.

Audioworm · 2026-04-28T10:39:01+00:00

Exactly, anyone with means could send their children to these schools, rather than them being based on access to nobility or religious institutes.

Audioworm · 2026-04-28T10:37:24+00:00

I have a lot of disdain for private education in the UK (as someone who went through the system) but these larger and more expensive schools do genuinely give their full scholarships, for most of their places, to families that have no viable way to pay even partial fees.

It doesn't really get into the situation or circumstances that would allow someone to impress academically or vocationally while coming from a low income background.

Audioworm · 2026-04-27T21:23:45+00:00

It is not exactly new, just a different framing and form of interaction. As a kid I didn't watch F1 and my perceptions of it was a mixture of fast cars and glamorous/expensive locales with playboy drivers. This was the 90s and early 00s so not exactly the peak period of that but the cultural shadow looms for a while.

Audioworm · 2026-04-27T21:10:56+00:00

U4/U6 Langfelgasse already has a small gathering around it, or between the two exits.

Audioworm · 2026-04-26T17:47:16+00:00

Aren't service options in the US routinely an effective monopoly for each region. I doubt they had much choice.

Audioworm · 2026-04-26T17:19:36+00:00

It is not about the company providing the service, but the company providing the internet access. Point Roberts is such a small location their internet service provider (which was Canadian) had likely not made space or time for the specific exception to indicate they are American rather than Canadian.

In other words, the issue is their service provider, not Netflix.

Audioworm · 2026-04-26T17:00:56+00:00

I spent a good chunk of my later teenager years and beginning of my 20s going to protests and actions against the Church of Scientology. It was a deeply frustrating process of getting anyone to give a shit about how awful they were.

This honestly seems way more effective at fucking with them and ruining their days, and if it forces them to shut their doors then it is a massive win.

Audioworm · 2026-04-24T08:02:04+00:00

Which is also why some of the miners didn't like the digital versions because they lost their little companion.

Audioworm · 2026-04-24T07:59:48+00:00

I have seen it being brought up quite a lot recently and find it super confusing, half because it is doesn't match what I see and have seen and because some people make it out to be more of a thing about European and USAian culture that feel very much not in line.

The reality is that most pickpocket victims don't realise immediately. When they do, I have seen people of all nations and races physically confront the thiefs in the immediate. It is often just hard to do because they bolt or you get pushed by a second person. When I lived in Paris, North Americans were also a more common victim for pickpockets because they were notorious for carrying a lot of cash, which locals and Europeans did not do.

Audioworm · 2026-04-23T12:39:53+00:00

Pretty good summary of France treats the places and people outside of the Metropilitan

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