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thomas 79 points 2 years ago

As a non American, thank you. The headline made zero sense without that context.

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thomas 59 points 2 years ago path: 0 11330211 11330936, hotness: undefined, score: 59, children: 10
thomas 49 points 9 months ago

This is exactly the reason why collecting data about race and religion of people is illegal in France since WWII.

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thomas 48 points 2 years ago

In theory yes. In practice or will require enormous resources to build a case against the army of layers that Google and the other giants can afford. I believe only the government now is big enough to do it, with the antitrust law.

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thomas 48 points a year ago

This is the good old time that the MAGA folk want to bring back.

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thomas 39 points 3 years ago

As he said, it doesn't work in English ... until enough people does it that it becomes acceptable.

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thomas 38 points 20 days ago

Japan has a very homogeneous population, so xenophobia and racism are quasi indistinguishable.

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thomas 36 points 3 years ago

Louis is the "same name" as Clovis. I mean by that it is how the name evolved as the dynasties changed their language from Frankish to Latin to then French.

Clovis was the first king unifying all Franks, so many Frank kings are named Clovis ... and later ones are named Louis.

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thomas 35 points a year ago

was

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thomas 31 points 3 years ago

As is every war.

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thomas 30 points a year ago

Innocent until a jury decides otherwise.

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thomas 26 points 2 years ago

Most people will think traffic behave like water that you need to send through a network of pipes. It is not, traffic is made of humans and humans reactions will make traffic behave wildly differently than waters in pipes.

  • Some people and businesses will move next to the new highway for its supposed ease of access, creating traffic
  • some people might change their habits and go shopping to this place instead of that place, or getting a job far away from their home (or a home far away from home)

The exact reasons for the increase in traffic is complex and my example could be totally off. But we don't need to know the exact reason for the increase in traffic, we know it happens because it has been observed on every road enlargement projects in the last decades.

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thomas 26 points a year ago

Allegedly

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thomas 25 points 3 years ago

Well that's disappointing. I understand why this is not the headline. Not click-baity enough.

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thomas 24 points 2 years ago

Furthermore, it completely defeats the purpose of sovereigns citizenry. Aren't they supposed to not recognize the government's authority ? If their plate was issued by the DOT, it means they entered a contract with them. Or something like that, not 100% sure about the (lack of) logic here.

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thomas 23 points a year ago

What we call raw ham in Europe is just a method of preparing ham without cooking. It is salted and dried for month. Very safe.

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thomas 19 points 3 years ago

In French, we have different synonyms for that :

  • "machine à laver", which is female
  • "lave-linge", which is male
  • "laveuse" (Québec only), which is female

Why do they have different gender for the same thing ? Because, insert your favorite expletive word, that's why !

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thomas 16 points 2 years ago

Replace Japan with Germany and I'm in.

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thomas 16 points 8 months ago

You mean, killing the new born by throwing it over the cliff, Sparta-style ?

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thomas 15 points 2 years ago

Yeah, but fort that you had to finish the game. That was HARD as hell back in the days. I believe neither I nor anyone in my elementary school knew Samus was a girl because nobody managed to finish the game.

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