If you want to purchase ethically then buy European owned and made as far as possible.

If not, then European made by foreign companies that weren’t actively working against the transition to EVs (yes I’m looking at you Toyota) such as Nissan Volvo and Stellantis (the latter 2 are part Euro but not fully).

Only if you can’t do that buy Toyota or Korean. Chinese as a last resort.

EU governments migrating off Amazon/Microsoft/Google and onto EU providers would go a long way towards supporting them…

I could be wrong but I think you’ve misread it. In context they’re saying it’s crazy to exclude a microwaved caesar salad (the section about hot vs cold). I.e they think a microwaved salad SHOULD be included.

Now realistically what I assume they meant was microwaving the chicken before putting it in the caesar shouldn’t make it not a salad (fair enough) but it’s not what they actually said.

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"This is actually a pretty strange definition. It includes things like a plate of mixed nuts, but excludes a caesar salad which you stuck in the microwave for two minutes.

While people might object to serving a hot salad, it certainly seems bizarre and objectionable to exclude it from the definition simply based on temperature.

We conclude that this definition does not meet the necessary rigor for a proper salad definition, "

If you google Tankard-Reist you’ll find it’s not a conspiracy theory - she has actively tried to block queer representation at every level in every way for decades

I stopped at the line where they said

"This is actually a pretty strange definition. It includes things like a plate of mixed nuts, but excludes a caesar salad which you stuck in the microwave for two minutes."

Anyone who puts lettuce in a microwave is an abomination - you will end up with a slurry of slimy fibre and some hot water. I’d rather eat pond scum.

A product recall has a specific legal meaning in Australia (and the US).

A recall means the manufacturer and the distributer have a legal obligation to promptly make available a fix and to do so at no charge.

Tesla in the US has also addressed 99% of their recalls with over the air fixes. They’re still federally mandated recalls

Edit to add - and failure to promptly provide a fix in Australia means the customer is entitled to a full refund of orginal purchase price - even on many year old goods - which gives the manufacturer a strong incentive to not faff around

TL;DR meme is wrong. It’s not the communication of information but the invention of specific technologies that allowed it

Space tech was well and truly developed decades before the internet was anything more than a curiousity.

Rockets are the primary underpinning tech of space exploration - invented centuries earlier but refined enough in the 1930s and 1940s for the Germans to put them into space en route to blowing shit up.

If you’d said “computers” it might be a better argument: while the first peacetime spaceflights were calculated by humans with pen paper & slide rule / log tables, primitive computers were soon brought in and helped in accelerating progress.

Same with exploration, it wasnt printing press in 1500s that expanded exploration (books had been around for several millenia before 1500AD), but the invention and widespread use of the sextant and accurate clocks allowed more precise navigation

Yep VZV or HSV is most likely culprit (although there’s a few others)

Edit Not likely toxoplasmosis because it’s not usually necrotising, it’s retinitising and lesions, but also not an opthamologist so what do I know either lol :-)

You can strike off toxoplasmosis as well.

Most likely a virus although fungal infections could also do it

https://eyewiki.org/Acute_Retinal_Necrosis

Fantastic news.

Biden had a week. Trump has had 6 months. Trump campaigned on releasing it, Biden was hurriedly trying to get too much done in too little time.

If there’s Democrats on the list they should rot in hell with Trump and Epstein.

But pointing the finger at Biden is straight up deflection to protect Trump. There is no other way to view it.

Trump & Bondi have the primary culpability here. Whataboutism really only protects the Fanta Felon

There’s a clash between the tweet saying jan 2024, and the reddit post saying jan 9th 2025.

Will have to confirm

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Dept of Justice declassified them on Jan 9th this year. He was a little busy that week doing a massive pile of other things, besides Trump had promised to release them, why would he prioritise something no one was asking for ahead of things like student debt relief and pardons for non violent drug offenders ?

https://old.reddit.com/r/50501Movement/comments/1m6l94x/why_didnt_biden_release_the_epstein_files_a/

Sounds like it.

Prescott was also involved in the plotted Nazi coup (of the US the “businessman’s coup”) iirc, oh and didn’t he found the CIA ?

Well ackhshually - a neighbourhood with wood fired pizza & craft beers is definitely better in my book than one without. It’s just quality of life innit ?

France has already mandated PV placement in parking lots. I think you may be confusing “instead of” with “as well as”

This is an industrial site with no aquatic life in the pit to save. Yes rehabilitation would be great, but at least positive environmental use is being made of an otherwise dead site

I was always under the impression that most Arch-derived distro were not really user friendly.

Installing Arch from scratch is user unfriendly. Arch via a bundled distro (Endeavour, Garuda etc) is no different to install than the majority of Linux distros (ie pretty straight forward).

Usage wise the “user friendliness” once installed will more come down to what desktop environment (DE) you choose than the underlying distro. The only “heightened degree of difficulty” attached to Arch is that it is rolling release so the flow of updates is constant and you are expected to be aware of the implications of what you are updating (which in practise for me comes down to being subbed to the arch-annouce email list) and practising good backup hygiene so you can rollback if needed.

Well I’m glad the article was updated to add the “stay in your vehicle” advice, I was shocked the original grauniad article didn’t have it.

I’m sure everyone on here knows but I’m starting to think they should hand out pamphlets at the airport saying something like

“Driving in the bush without adequate preparation kills tourists. If you don’t know what adequate preparation is you’re going to FUCKING DIE, so find out before thinking it’s just like driving to Paris via the Ardennes”