RobotToaster
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- Comment on Can you also do this with languages that use the Latin Alphabet? 14 hours ago:
I think it sometimes works for technical terms.
The one that comes to mind is microphotography (taking very small photographs) and photomicrography (taking photos of very small things)
Similarly, historical cartography is maps of history, while cartographic history is the history of maps.
- Comment on "Science isn't political!" 1 day ago:
I can’t tell if this is supposed to be for or against glyphosate?
- Comment on "Science isn't political!" 1 day ago:
They also have to continually convince politicians and other politically minded people to give them money, and risk having it taken away if their results are politically inconvenient.
- Comment on Transgender girls told to leave Girlguiding groups by September 6 days ago:
It’s always seemed odd to me that the boy scouts had to accept girls, but the girl guides didn’t have to accept boys.
- Comment on London Mayor Sadiq Khan calls on Labour Party to reverse Brexit and rejoin EU at next election 1 week ago:
I just realised, the computer part is ironic since traditional fractions are a binary series. In binary 0.1 is 1/2, 0.01 is 1/4, 0.001 is 1/8, etc.
- Comment on Revealed: The internal police guidance on chanting ‘death to the IDF’ 1 week ago:
A rare outbreak of common sense.
It does worry me that “Zionism” could be considered a protected belief though. Surprised they didn’t go that route. I guess they didn’t want to risk a court ruling on if Zionism “conflicts with the fundamental rights of others”.
It confirmed that correspondence exists but refused to release any information, saying it would prejudice the department’s ability to offer “free and frank” advice in the future.
They should appeal to the ICO, it’s surprisingly easy. If an idiot like me can win there anyone can.
- Comment on London Mayor Sadiq Khan calls on Labour Party to reverse Brexit and rejoin EU at next election 1 week ago:
you end up with decimals of an inch
tbf engineers were using decimal inches (as thou or mil) basically forever.
- Comment on If we cured all forms of cancer with the ease of taking a pill, what would be the next thing medicine would put the biggest focus on? 1 week ago:
Alternatively they would at least have a vested interest in not having the planet turn into a fireball.
- Comment on If we cured all forms of cancer with the ease of taking a pill, what would be the next thing medicine would put the biggest focus on? 1 week ago:
It appears it isn’t complete nonsense ar.iiarjournals.org/content/44/9/3725
- Comment on If we cured all forms of cancer with the ease of taking a pill, what would be the next thing medicine would put the biggest focus on? 1 week ago:
Dementia, Alzheimer’s, Atherosclerosis.
Aging in general.
- Comment on London Mayor Sadiq Khan calls on Labour Party to reverse Brexit and rejoin EU at next election 1 week ago:
It’s those kind of problems that makes me think it’s unlikely to happen.
Metrification alone practically caused a constitutional crisis.
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- Comment on GB News faces complaints after commentator claims ‘genocide’ against white people in UK 1 week ago:
I doubt it will go very far, there’s been a court ruling that GBnews is allowed to host “current affairs” programs, and that impartiality rules don’t really apply to those. www.judiciary.uk/…/GB-News-v-Ofcom.pdf
- Comment on GB News faces complaints after commentator claims ‘genocide’ against white people in UK 1 week ago:
You don’t even have to go further than the article:
Approached for comment, Corbett-Dillon replied with a lengthy statement in which he said he stood by his comments. He compared his support for England to preserve its “historic English character” with his backing for Israel’s right to be a Jewish-majority state, or Japan to be a Japanese-majority society.
- Comment on 'We are getting punished for being self-employed' 2 weeks ago:
There’s paid maternity leave for the self employed in the UK, this is just sexism.
- Comment on High court claimant was fed answers through his smart glasses, judge finds 2 weeks ago:
Since he obeyed the judge’s orders it may have been difficult to prove contempt.
Courts also seem to take the view that a right to a fair trial includes the right to fuck up your own trial.
I imagine the solicitor coaching him via the glasses will be getting a lengthy complaint to the SRA, which could see him struck off.
- Comment on High court claimant was fed answers through his smart glasses, judge finds 2 weeks ago:
In conclusion she rejected Jakštys’s evidence “in its entirety” and found for the defendants.
Given this was a high court case, that will not be cheap.
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- Comment on What the fuck is going on with Iran and what will happen next? 2 weeks ago:
Some of the more Libertarian ones are rallying around Thomas Massie. He seems like one of the few American politicians who are actually somewhat honest.
- Comment on Is there a way out of an NDA after signing? It just seems people are so affraid of breaking it 2 weeks ago:
Need to know what country and state. Generally reporting something to the police is protected by the common law defence of necessity.
- Comment on Vast scale of overseas human remains held in UK museums decried by MPs and experts 3 weeks ago:
This is pretty shoddy reporting
UK museums hold more than 263,000 items of human remains from around the world, including whole skeletons, preserved bodies, such as Egyptian mummies, skulls, bones, skin, teeth, nails, scalps and hair.
So, to be clear, they aren’t distinguishing between an entire mummy and a lock of hair.
37,000 items of human remains are known to originate from overseas
Experts said the findings contradict a claim made by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in its 2005 guidance that said “the vast majority of human remains in UK museums are of UK origin
37,000 / 263,000 ≈ 0.14 or 14%. Am I wrong to think that 86% qualifies as a “vast majority”?
- Comment on Can one use someone's previous argument against themselves in a different legal case? 3 weeks ago:
It will have a lot more weight if they win, since it potentially sets a legal precedent (at least in common law countries like the US and UK)
- Comment on British female athletes forced to pay for sex tests to compete 3 weeks ago:
Yes, that was my point.
If they have to pay “out of pocket” for existing tests it’s at-least consistent, if unsavoury.
- Comment on British female athletes forced to pay for sex tests to compete 3 weeks ago:
Genuine question, do they have to pay for their own drug testing?
Also they’re using cheek swab testing, is that even guaranteed to pick up xx/xy chimerism?
- Comment on Leak from secret UK meeting on US attacks on Iran an ‘absolute travesty’, says Lammy 3 weeks ago:
These are the people who want to spy on all our private messages.
- Comment on Is "dark humor" generally acceptable or is it just my parents/culture more sensitive towards jokes? 3 weeks ago:
Dark humour is like food, not everyone gets it.
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 3 weeks ago:
It would be ridiculously expensive for every rural and suburban area to have frequent reliable public transport.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 4 weeks ago:
It’s not shown, but the MRLP actually contested this, they got 159 votes.
So the conservatives only received ~4 times the votes of the actual MRLP. I think I’d quit.
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- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 4 weeks ago:
I expected it to be close but they were demolished
