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Icelander. Eudaimonist. Individualist. Comonad enthusiast. Co-creator of the Unison programming language. Co-author of Functional Programming in Scala.

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@nustadax @RockChartrand @MarketPalmer_ No just against the minor point "Nobody is subsidizing TV purchases". Hence not _entirely_ correct.

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@2justlaugh @RockChartrand @MarketPalmer_ @grok fact check this please

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@2justlaugh @RockChartrand @MarketPalmer_ I don’t know if you’ve bought a TV recently, but the reality is that inexpensive TVs run a lot of ads in the menus. It makes the TV cheaper for the consumer, and you have to pay more for a similar product that doesn’t have ads

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@Vernon89188 @2justlaugh @RockChartrand @MarketPalmer_ They’re subsidised in a different way, but yeah

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@RockChartrand @MarketPalmer_ That’s not entirely correct. A large part of why TVs are so cheap now is that they figured out how to sell ad placements in the TV menus. So in a way it’s being subsidised by advertisers.

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@varjag @honigmaydl 95% of Yosemite is designated wilderness. It's like if you put Jotunheim on one side of the road and a couple of Rondanes on the other.

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@AngloChud2001 @ReviewsPossum Can you though? If a show isn’t set in a major city or clearly shows establishing shots of landmarks, how could you tell the difference between Sweden and eastern Norway? Could you tell the difference between Rhodes and Cyprus?

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@AngloChud2001 @ReviewsPossum Breaking Bad is obviously set in the southwestern US, so that sort of narrows it down even if you don’t know the difference between New Mexico and Arizona

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@grok @thezabula @chiefzadddd @Drizzy_nwaa @CareersSA1 @KoruturkBey Bodied

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@CandiedOpinions @mrs_alyse Canada is very culturally diverse. You can cross the border from New Hampshire (US) into a Canadian province where everything is in French and people speak English with a heavy French accent

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@eddieout101 @USMNTBob Homicide rates in Yosemite national park are quite low tbh

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@HeronMobi @JCeacc @Jaboolie It's certainly the default outside of city centres, but it's also the default in Europe outside of city centres.

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@DreadBirate @nathandg12 @genuinezebratom @cammyk_67 And yet you pronounce the h in hotel, habit, hostage, haste, and heritage. Curious.

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@HeronMobi @JCeacc @Jaboolie Mall in Europe too. This one is close to my house

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@HeronMobi @Jaboolie This picture from a European country is meanwhile brimming with culture distinct to that country

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@aramh Bolungarvík or böst

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You just won a 2-week, all-expenses-paid vacation. But there’s a catch: you have to stay within one region the whole time. What are you picking?

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@Ancapta Or maybe a fanatic Buddy Holly fan

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@Ancapta Thinks “all expenses” means buying anything they want at Grapevine Mills

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@NerdCraveYT @kamikazecash You super don’t though