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King’s estate to transfer £100m into ethical funds after bona vacantia revelations
  • No one is suggesting it's a good thing, but trying to make out a correction on the scope of the problem (UK vs a subset) is an attempt to justify it, is an emotional overreaction or an attempt to pick an argument where none exists. Cool your jets son.

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    King’s estate to transfer £100m into ethical funds after bona vacantia revelations
  • There are 8 current dukedoms https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_dukedoms_in_the_United_Kingdom

    And about 3 times that many historical dukedoms. So 2 of 8 is a small number 2 of 28 an even smaller number.

    By eyeball the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancashire are less than 5% of the land mass of the United Kingdom and maybe 10% of the population tops, so "only" meaning a small portion would be fair.

    Having said that, from context I think you're inferring the wrong meaning of "only" - I would read that as singling out the two impacted areas (regardless of comparative size). In other words "of all the UK specifically (only) these two areas are affected.

    I'm not OP so could be wrong of course. Often am.

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    What’s in a name?
  • It's a real word. And used correctly in context so unlikely to be a typo.

    https://www.dictionary.com/browse/backronym

    https://www.wordnik.com/words/backronym

    Acronyms were very rare prior to about mid 20thC.

    A number of words sound like they should be an acronym or people searching for an explanation of them make backronyms out of them.

    Posh and rap being turned into acronyms as per the first like are good examples of a backronym.

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    Some Walmart employees say customers are getting hostile at self-checkout — and they blame anti-theft tech
  • Yep this is exactly why I refuse to do the scan as you go, it ends up seriously frustrating. Self scan at checkout is fine if you don't have paracetamol or alcohol, otherwise you're waiting ages for assistance.

    It's definitely an overall worse experience

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    Maybe it will implode?
  • There's no technological barrier to starting it now we have all the capabilities, there's only a financial constraint.

    SpaceX has significantly reduced lift cost into space but it would indeed cost trillions. Current lift capacity isn't saturated but they would definitely need the additional capacity of their next gen rocket to service it and then multiples of those. Unless Boeing and Blue Origin get their shit together.

    Lift capacity becomes less critical if metals mining and refining in the asteroids gets up and running, then you can much less expensively move material from asteroids to the space hotel. That's def decades away though, there's tech issues with that still unresolved

    TL;DR start project in 2027 ? Sure if they can find the money, definitely take decades to finish with currently planned lift capacity though. Needs asteroid mining to be viable

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    LMDE 6 “Faye” – BETA Release – The Linux Mint Blog
  • Ubuntu is derived from Debian.

    In linux there are 3 "popular" parent trees (plus a couple more obscure ones)

    Debian tree, RedHat tree and Arch tree.

    Debian is "parent" to Ubuntu is parent to Mint (standard versions)

    LMDE applies Cinnamon and Mint tools to Debian.

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    Well, fuck you too.
  • I would like to point the RWNJs finally got voted out in Oz last year (federal and most states). Of course Murdoch and co. are working hard to reverse that, but semi sane leadership is in place for at least a year or two more.

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