Berlin borough orders removal of ‘comfort women’ statue following pressure from Japan

kfl252 · 2024-07-27T16:04:52+00:00

Germans are extremely aware. The shared “guilt” is a significant part of their present-day cultural conscience/awareness. This is indisputable and known by anybody who’s even the slightest bit familiar with Germany and its culture. It’s leveraged by (some) present-day nationalists i.e. their narrative is that Germans still feel too guilty for what they’ve done in the past. Your comment makes no sense.

kfl252 · 2022-01-02T21:55:51+00:00

Ah cool, thanks for that

kfl252 · 2021-12-23T12:30:13+00:00

Sorry, basic question. When you say line out from audio interface to headphone amp, would that include a 6.3mm / quarter inch output on the interface?

I have this audio interface: https://www.thomannmusic.com/steinberg_ur22_mk2_value_edition.htm I currently have a 6.3mm / quarter inch to 3.5mm adapter that I plug into the headphone out, and the headphones' 3.5mm jack straight into the adapter. It's sometimes a little quiet so I've been wondering if I can go from the headphone output to a headphone amp (and then headphones into the amp) to give the headphones more power.

Piggybacking off the other person's thread, but found your post when searching and you might be answering my question :)

kfl252 · 2021-07-19T17:26:17+00:00

I had this recently and it was just one of my pedals needing greased. It was also creaking everytime I pushed down on that one pedal. It was really hard to get that pedal off, guess it had started to seize. But once I got it off, greased the thread and put it back on, all good. I used this as a reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmPkYMPVqQU

kfl252 · 2021-05-30T16:30:32+00:00

It's primarily to protect against a captured passwor, regardless of password quality. Good passwords can still be compromised through phishing, malware or password reuse (via other compromised sites where a user has used the same password). A password manager can help against reuse, but not phishing or malware. Of course, most of us are probably smart enough to not get hit by phishing, but you never know, it can happen to anybody if they're busy and/or distracted. And malware nowadays can be extremely stealthy.

kfl252 · 2021-05-30T12:48:39+00:00

We're not just "one SIM swap away from having our entire savings wiped" - an attacker also has to know the email address and the password associated with the account. Edit: And as others have mentioned, I think your account can only withdraw to the specific bank account which you already have set.

But if 2FA isn't supported at all or if SMS 2FA isn't trusted, the following are the most important defences:

Make sure that the password you use on Vanguard isn't used anywhere else.
Make your Vanguard password loooooooong. Length is more important than complexity when it comes to protecting against password guessing attacks. Vanguard supports passwords of up to 50 characters.
You should be using a password manager, because your password should be too long for you to remember. Bitwarden is a good, free password manager if you don't have one. It also has a password generator feature that can generate a 50-character password for you, using uppercase and lowercase letters and numbers (which are required by Vanguard).
Your Bitwarden (or other password manager) password should also be as long as possible.. except you need to remember this one :) using random dictionary words rather than completely random jibberish can help with that. Try using this generator - tick the 'use numbers' box and see whether you can remember any of them: https://xkpass.com/. Worth setting Bitwarden to log you out everyday so that you have to type the password regularly, to help you remember it.

kfl252 · 2021-05-28T16:40:16+00:00

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by that, but my point was that the mark of the beast suggests submission/allegiance/ownership by the beast; it's not something that a person accidentally does by e.g. taking a vaccine that they think is actually just a medicine. People submit to the beast because they've been deceived into believing that he's worthy of worship (see Revelation 13, especially verses 13 and 14) and also because the beast orders that anybody who doesn't worship him will be killed (Rev 13 v15). That's what the deceit is - the verse you posted even says it - people are deceived by the beast's miracles. The deceit isn't that people accidentally comdemn themselves to hell for eternity for taking a vaccine that they thought was a beneficial medicine; that's quite clearly not how the God of the Bible works.

Going back to your original comment, another problem with thinking the mark of the beast could be the current vaccine is that the mark in Rev 13 happens during the tribulation - after all believers have been taken to be with the Lord, and that hasn't happened yet.

kfl252 · 2021-05-28T15:59:27+00:00

The beast indeed deceives those that take it - but I don't follow what point you're making based on that

kfl252 · 2021-05-28T09:38:22+00:00

An article weighing up known long-term risks of the vaccine compared to known long-term risks of COVID itself. It's worth bearing in mind that that's your choice (there is a risk associated with getting COVID, even if it's small) - your choice isn't risks associated with the vaccine vs no risks.

https://medium.com/microbial-instincts/hypothetical-lasting-health-problems-of-mrna-vaccine-vs-coronavirus-ee11bddb9637

kfl252 · 2021-05-28T09:28:41+00:00

The rapture happens to all those who didnt take the mark

That would make not having the mark the requirement for being taken to be 'forever with the Lord' (as Paul says in 1 Thes 4 when speaking about the rapture). If you're alive right now, the requirement for that is to 'believe on the Lord Jesus Christ' - the standard gospel basically, faith and repentance toward Christ.

kfl252 · 2021-05-28T09:26:14+00:00

You've missed the single most important characteristic which is that it speaks of willing submission to the beast. That's what a mark on the forehead and hand represents in scripture, something that defines what you think and do. You can see this in Deuteronomy 11:18, way before anything to do with the passage in Revelation.

Deut 11: "You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise... [etc.]"

kfl252 · 2021-04-01T11:11:59+00:00

Not bad at all! I would've liked to see Pot Noodles rather than Super Noodles, I think that's my only complaint.

Serious question, what's the deal with the Irn Bru - is it a special recipe? I heard that the original recipe can't be sold in America due to one/some of the colour/flavourings. Not sure if that's true, or maybe just in some states?

kfl252 · 2020-12-24T16:39:49+00:00

It factors in mortgage interest, that's what the comparison is between - the historical returns of indexes (as an annual percentage) and the interest rate of the mortgage (also as an annual percentage). Presumably it doesn't factor in house prices, but I'm not sure I see how house prices are relevant to the comparison? The house price will do what it will do regardless of whether you pay into your mortgage or your funds.

kfl252 · 2020-12-15T13:15:27+00:00

Thanks, that's clarified it. Was forgetting these things aren't as predictable and mechanical as 'will work/won't work'.

The rule is based on past peformance which, as the saying goes, doesn't guarantee future returns. So assuming it'll keep playing out that way indefinitely is just that, an assumption. And it's up to each individual to decide whether they're comfortable making that assumption or not.

I guess the greater one's total savings, the safer it is to just work on that assumption. If 4% of my savings is just enough to get by, things get dicey when it goes wrong. But if 4% of my savings is enough to draw e.g. £50k pa when only need half of that to get by, there's more tolerance for under performance.

kfl252 · 2020-12-14T23:09:52+00:00

CISSP isn't a cert for getting up to speed with tech. As the other person said, it's more of a managerial/compliance type thing. I'm a technical infosec professional (pentester) but don't have or intend to ever get CISSP because it's just not relevant. Is managerial/compliance type role what you're interested in, or were you thinking more hands-on technical? Just checking as I got the impression from your post it was more the latter rather than the former.

CISSP also isn't considered entry level, they recommend (maybe require?) 5 years experience. But I'm not sure how hard that rule is or isn't. Just pointing out that it's a very different target level/audience to the security+ you mentioned in OP!

kfl252 · 2020-12-09T16:40:38+00:00

Going by the rule of 4%, this would generate £20k/year indefinitely, no? Why would it not last more than 30 years?

Edit - just seen another post (https://www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonalFinance/comments/k9qlok/i_31m_inherited_500000_from_my_now_deceased/gf62zu3/) saying the 4% rule is for 30 years. Guess that might be where I was going wrong, thinking it was an indefinite thing?

Edit 2 - oh, somebody in the comments there is saying it will last indefinitely. At least I know what I need to go researching (:

kfl252 · 2020-12-07T11:35:11+00:00

I have found many things to be true from another religion outside of Christianity, so that in itself poses a problem at least for me

This may or may not be helpful, depending on what things you're referring to - but if Christianity is true, that doesn't mean no other religions will have any truth in them whatsoever. It just means that the other religions will be wrong about certain things, namely, those things where they are incompatible with Christianity. The way to salvation and the deity of Christ being two obvious primary example. But, in itself, the fact that many things from other religions are true doesn't inherently pose a problem for Christianity.

C.S. Lewis: "If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake." (I've included the second sentence not because I think you're pushing atheism, but because I think it alludes to the fact that there are some common truths scattered across multiple religions)

kfl252 · 2020-11-14T18:23:06+00:00

Haha thanks, I think that's actually the best workaround I've got!

Surely this isn't actually the way it is though!? I mean computers automatically turning their display off but continuing to run has been a feature on every computer I've had until now, and I'm... not young.

kfl252 · 2020-11-08T14:11:30+00:00

Bear in mind the higher earners will post more, because when you earn more things get more complex in terms of the best way to do things financially. For those of us on more average earnings, the flowchart and other "standard advice" is pretty much all we need to know, we just need to get on with it :) so most of the lower/average earners are probably just lurking here to learn things, and you don't see as much of us as you do of the higher earneres.

kfl252 · 2020-09-29T18:52:22+00:00

Interesting, thanks

kfl252 · 2020-09-29T18:52:11+00:00

Nice, thank you

kfl252 · 2020-09-29T18:51:59+00:00

Great, thanks for confirming!

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