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This is largely true of European languages:

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/language.gif

That Norman invasion was a big deal.

Thai largely is, although memorising the tone rules makes this rather more challenging.

> The UK government isn’t allowed to

This is reasonably misleading, as nothing at all stops a new government with a parliamentary majority from simply scrapping that law.

I’m struggling to find more info about this anywhere, do you have a link?

I’m not sure I can envisage any situation where I wouldn’t be chipping away at point totals like a particularly needy Product Manager

I’m close to some aid workers in this part of the world. There appear to be a bunch of wide-eyed technologists desperate to foist blockchain on the whole crisis, from recording health records to this. That the “Rohingya are turning to it” rather than a few people are Really Excited About Blockchain is not well supported.

Beta blockers have been a great SSRI top-up for me after I lost a year to a benzo problem

I have an enduring memory of being a child in Bangkok eating “Super Hawaiian” pizza, which was a Hawaiian with Thousand Island dressing

I think that’s in Florence

> The rules aren’t meant to be bent

British law is full of opportunities for rules to be bent in the pursuit of justice and common sense.

> if Lucas made a mistake in filing the wrong paperwork, it absolutely makes sense for the consequences to follow

Do you pay British tax? I think you’d be hard-pushed to find even the most ardent anti-immigration Britisher saying they thought this was a good use of their tax pounds and the Home Office’s time.

> the law was clear, and any emotional appeal should be invalid

Said no jurisprudence scholar, ever. There’s a reason that strict liability crimes are so limited in number, why judges in the UK have considerable leeway in sentencing, and so on.

It shouldn’t be any surprise that the successor to the mighty TURBOSLAV empire was progressive.

It was a Mac on a Mac, which I believe is also officially supported

I had a client give me a meaty Mac laptop, and had no desire to carry two laptops. I imaged their install, and then formatted the machine, and ran their image in a VM, and treated the underlying machine as my own. Worked well for a little while

> Our understanding of gravity is pretty much the same as Newton's in how we can utilize it

I suspect anyone from Newton’s day would be surprised to see an A380.

This is also why quite a few pubs do Thai food.

> Batteries are limited by the physics of our universe

Right, but our ingenuity and understanding of the physics may well not be perfect. Didn’t Moore’s law continue on well past it’s sell-by-date?

I feel there is a huge difference between being in a position where the state actively opposes your bondage, because you’re a human in the eyes of the law, and the state seeing you simply as someone else’s property.

Slavery as a state-sponsored endeavour pretty much is, though.

I feel like slavery was orders of magnitude worse than Apartheid. Neither is in the least excusable, but still, apartheid was theoretically about separation and discrimination, rather than classing people as property.

Ah, this seems like comparatively a huge reach to me, and I think it does a massive disservice to compare the enslavement of Black Americans to penal servitude, even given the outsized representation of African Americans in the US penal system.

> [the former slave] died there in 1921, at the age of 67.

From a linked article. Especially as a Britisher, where 100-odd years seems pretty recent, it’s incredible to me that there were slaves so recently in the US.

Somehow that makes it all much more shocking.

Excessively shitty grey weather?

I think as well this misses the point that an election target can be life or death. If the US elects a Putin-unfriendly government in the near future, one would expect some serious fire-and-brimstones reprisals from the Americans (and European allies) for previous election interference. I’d be amazed if those don’t focus on bringing about regime change in Russia, and it seems unlikely that can happen with the current leadership getting away unscathed.

Whether or not this is a good thing is left as an exercise for the reader.

It’s been a bizarrely good talking point with dates who make it back to my place, too.

#engineering

But also: consumers with Powerwalls and other home storage options.

Mine provide a stereo service and control my aircon and lights, housewide

Personally I’d aim for the $1,000 iPhone, but I’d definitely consider the Apple Watch too.

“in establishing the rule of law, the first five centuries are always the hardest.”

The Brits used to be

> passionate, melancholy, romantic, and tearful

https://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/thomas-dixon/british-stiff-up...