plunged_ewe

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[–] plunged_ewe@lemmy.world 37 points 6 days ago (7 children)

Actually, in a case like this, 'he' refers to the topic of the sentence. Since the sentence is about Flynn's excuse to not meet Trump, Flynn is the topic. I do agree that it is somewhat ambiguous, but that is the English language. The world does not revolve around Trump.

[–] plunged_ewe@lemmy.world 64 points 6 months ago (3 children)

For the Brits, it's a Vauxhall Corsa.

[–] plunged_ewe@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You're absolutely right. I was trying to be concise and in turn made it sound pretty accusatory.

There has been a number of investigations by both the British and Indian governments since the famine. The general consensus is that it was caused by bad management and unresolved socio-economic issues over any purposeful acts of cruelty.

I personally don't think Churchill actively encouraged the famine in India, but he was an ardent supporter of maintaining the empire by any means necessary.

Stalin, Pol Pot and Mao Zedong have all committed atrocities far worse. And I do agree that Leopold belongs on that list too.

[–] plunged_ewe@lemmy.world 57 points 8 months ago (9 children)

During WW2, the Bengal region of India was suffering from a poor harvest. Despite having reserves, the British did not release those thinking they may be needed for the war (they were not).

The British also did not acknowledge any famine and provided no relief.

The resulting famine killed somewhere between 800k to 3.8m (according to Wikipedia).

[–] plunged_ewe@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

west midlands

[–] plunged_ewe@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

What about Intel Fab 34 in Ireland? According to Intel they're doing "Intel 4" (assuming its a TSMC 5nm equivalent node). Either way it should be better than 16nm.

[–] plunged_ewe@lemmy.world 34 points 11 months ago

Never thought I'd see a Cunk on Earth reference.

[–] plunged_ewe@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Actually, there's a better one for Europe. The Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) is an EU directive to allow payments to be done through APIs exposed by the bank. It's essentially a wrapper for a bank transfer. Most new payments companies are just unifying these APIs.

Some counties do it better than others. The UK is very good (with the exception of starling bank). I remember Hungary being a pain.

[–] plunged_ewe@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

😂 is the most used emoji in England, Wales, and Scotland. In Northern Ireland it's ♥️ yet this is also the most used in the UK. So either the data is wrong or Northern Ireland is pumping those numbers UP.

[–] plunged_ewe@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Tiny11? I'm using win 11 pro on my desktop (gaming). It's been a while, but there's also some URLs to block in your hosts file which disabled telemetry, just in case windows enables it with an update.

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