kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io
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Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
Joined May 2019
A NSA retiree? 😁
The distinguishing feature of British landscape, barbed wire is loved by everyone. The freedom-loving nation laboriously plants thousands of kilometers of barbed wire literally on every patch of the land, enjoying beautiful Gulag-like landscapes at all seasons.
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Linseed everywhere (Shiplake to Dunsden, where fresh beer awaits)
It is! This is what is visible from the public footpath but there's whole lot more shown on the Chilterns OS map
Nature is beautiful 🤩
May is the traditional satellite dish breeding season in Berkshire. As seen on the photo, the young ones are out of their underground dens, cautiously investigate the surrounding environment
The report of the German "ethics commission", which, in 2011, recommended a quick nuclear phase-out, did not conform to proper academic standards. 🇩🇪
Hat die Ethikkommission zum Atomausstieg Grundregeln der wissenschaftlichen Unabhängigkeit verletzt? Das zumindest behauptet der renommierte Stuttgarter Professor André Thess in einem offenen Brief an seine Kollegen, die der Bundesregierung damals die Zustimmung erteilt haben.
I spent quite a lot of time living in Eastern Bloc but haven't really noticed such a careful design feature. Trees were usually the same age as the blocks.
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Also: don't buy into the Greenpeace scare stories about half of Ukraine being like post-apocalyptical forbidden zone. There's plenty of research into how the exclusion zone became a paradise for biodiversity and wild life. I was just planning a trip with kids to Pripyat last spring, unfortunately the pandemic happened...
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@porsupah @thamesynne For what it's worth, it's not just archaic jargon - "begging the question" is a poor translation of a questionable translation. It started in Greek with Aristotle's τὸ ἐν ἀρχῇ αἰτεῖσθαι , which meant "postulating/assuming the original (point)". This got translated into Latin as "petitio principii", where "petitio" had a jargon meaning of "postulate" but a broader meaning of "beg, beseech, request" (hence "petition"). And when that was translated into English in the 16th century, "petitio" became "beg" and "principii" became "question" in its meaning, now largely lost, as "a subject under consideration" (e.g. "To be or not to be; that is the question").
So it's easy to argue, in fact, that people who are "using it correctly" still aren't using it correctly!
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To anyone interested in the #Pinephone, or even the #Librem5 and #Linux #smartphones in general, we owe a huge debt of gratitude imo to #Megi.
He's not employed to do this, but donates hundreds of his own personal hours helping to get the hardware working, increase battery life (over and over) and generally make a huge amount of the smartphone progress we've seen, happen.
I'm personally extremely grateful and encourage everyone to donate at the bottom of his page here:
https://xnux.eu/contribute.html
Older buildings have very low energy efficiency so they result in huge CO2 emissions during their operations. High energy efficiency standards would increase the cost of investment, so it would make more sense to keep them for longer to get better ROI.
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The geopolitical implications of home office — by Shift Print
https://shiftprint.writeas.com/the-geopolitical-implications-of-home-office
#writing
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#psa No matter your opinion of #GMO and #nuclearpower they both useful tools to resolve the climate crisis they are not instrument of #capital , they can exist in a post-capitalist society , they have not intrinsic negative values, except the one that you project that’s why a lot of #communist and #leftist reject them while they should embrace them .To believe these two are the evil product of capitalist is pure ideology
#nuclear #science #scienza #nucleare #energianucleare #gmo #ogm #science
Each year I'm humbled by the view of this rocky, yellowish Berkshire soil sprouting with fresh cereals. Respect to the farmers ✊
I can imagine the dramatic dilemma Russian state media are now facing: quote Bellingcat unironically and enjoy failure of US army, or stick to the "fake news" label and miss the opportunity to enjoy the failure of US army 😂
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Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
Joined May 2019
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