TheOctonaut

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[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz -3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Imposes?

You just not use it right?

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The point is that no branch was ever called a slave branch, just as no audio copy was ever called a slave copy. One does not direct the other in the same way that master and slave implies. Usually quite the opposite.

Oh and master-slave usually refers to hardware infrastructure, not programming. Where, as you mentioned, client-service is the equivalent, or parent and child.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Master in branch meant the same as the master of an audio track or video. We haven't all stopped saying "remaster" or "masterpiece".

As it turns out, there are software developers from outside the country with people whose grandparents-grandparents were chattel slaves, and they name things without the same baggage. It's Gulf of America stuff, but for the 'good guys'.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, you've spent 75 years arming your own government to the point of making this impossible. In the name of "security". Do you feel secure yet?

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 66 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Level 35 Steel Armor (Female)

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I can't remember if it's an official Asimov book or not, but one of the Foundation books set far beyond even the main series has an archaeological mission finding thousands of ceremonial hard white ceramic bowl-funnels and speculating on their significance to these incomprehensibly ancient peoples.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Unless there were earthworms in your ass, that's not how parasitic worms work

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 points 6 months ago

I've put hundreds or thousands of hours into every Civ game since Civ 2. I'm so fucking sad that I don't care about this new release. I'm Irish and I can't even enjoy Britain being relegated to DLC because somehow Ada Lovelace is a leader? Who is this game for?

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 2 points 6 months ago

They vomited chalk/calcium carbonate from marine invertebrates.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 8 points 6 months ago

No, not every purchase is taxed, and not every purchase that is is taxed at the same rate.

These rates are set by individual countries (because "Europe", lol) and can change year to year. For example Ireland doesn't tax books, basic food staples, children's clothes, medicines. Heating fuel is taxed but was set to a reduced rate during the cost of living crisis. Other countries will have different priorities.

VAT ensures that even those who have a large amount of wealth accumulated without "income" also contribute to society.

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