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  Rolling out a new version?

  by MeanMrMustard in

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  i figure you are doing what all real devs do - develop and test in production.

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  hope it's going ok....

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  Simon

  That wasn't the exact cause but it is related - I was blocking some spam bot requests but I am hoping to get a new version released soon that will make it easier to block unwanted traffic and bring the UI up to date.
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  Probability of Earth and life being how it is

  by ballistic in

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  there are some things we don't know about existence and whether the earth is a simulation or even a creation.

  but we can do some statistical analysis on it.. the probability of a planet like earth existing in the goldilocks zone and having a moon that perfectly eclipses the sun is extremely low, but it's not impossible.

  the habitable zone (or goldilocks zone) around a star is the region where a planet could potentially support liquid water on its surface.

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  Every puddle is a marvel - the whole it's in exactly matches the shape of the water!

  No life could ever exist in an environment that didn't suit it, so the environment will always appear to be an amazingly low probability.

  Same as when we are born - the chances of us being "us" exactly is extremely low, and yet billions of people walk the earth.

  It's a trick of math more than anything else.
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  Simon**Can You Fix This?

  by Atlantis in

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  2. friends

  when member (vintage) told me that my private messages were not working, i thought a mistake was made.

  but it seems he or she are correct.

  my private message option is "not" working, so i was wondering if that could be fixed.. .

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  Simon

  Can you be clearer on what "not" working means?
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  Trump Tariffs started today, Some Countries Caved in early morning.

  by liam in

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  2. current

  usa politicians in charge of the economy for the past 50 years were too stupid to understand how the economy works.

  this just proves my theory, that an education on the top tier universities just sucks and means nothing in the real world, unless its in the stem education.

  for 50 years usa had zero tariffs on other countries.

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  Simon

  Some background on the "carefully crafted" tariffs on remote islands

  For those that have a clue ... if they didn't put tariffs there, what do you think would happen?

  Someone owns it, and someone could register companies there ... to bypass the tariffs.

  So no, it's not as silly as you try to make out. It's crossing the T's and dotting the i's.
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  Trump Tariffs started today, Some Countries Caved in early morning.

  by liam in

  1. social
  2. current

  usa politicians in charge of the economy for the past 50 years were too stupid to understand how the economy works.

  this just proves my theory, that an education on the top tier universities just sucks and means nothing in the real world, unless its in the stem education.

  for 50 years usa had zero tariffs on other countries.

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  Simon

  Canadians pay too much for dairy because of the protectionism due to lobbying by the dairy industry.

  Then they gaslight people into thinking it somehow benefits them or makes them "team canada" for overpaying ...

  They rely on people having zero knowledge of trade economics ... which is why the government wants to be in charge of "teaching" your kids. The biggest risk to them is an informed populace.

  It's OK not to be informed, but don't come here just blindly repeating the gov propaganda and that reality isn't what we can all see.
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  I think I may be becoming an X-X-JW

  by joe134cd in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i think i may be moving on shortly.

  i officially joined this web-site 12 years ago as pimo about to exit the organisation.

  i had spent about a year before that, as just a none commenting member.

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  Happy onward journey ... becoming an ex-ex-JW should be everyone's goal.

  You once belonged to a club, but don't anymore. Don't make it your life and entire community.

  That said, it's nice to pause to give a hand to the people behind you on the climb, like those before helped you.
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  Ukraine - Nato - US crisis

  by mikeflood in

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  don't understand....but this crisis in ukraine seems to be getting out of control....i mean, everybody knows how to start a war..... by the way, as always, people at the borg are having a field day.....

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  Simon

  It was a phoney manufactured war to enable massive amounts of money laundering. It's only gone on as long as it has because people could profit from it. Money flowed back to members of the Biden administration and his crime family - so many dem politicians with kids working for Ukrainian companies despite no relevant expertise other than their relation to politicians in power, what are the chances ...

  Stop the crime and you stop the war. Arrest the democrats and there is no crime.
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  U turn on LGBT

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

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  feb broadcast they have a drama about someone who works with a colleague who is gay.. they actually make it sound like the jws are the only ones who support him and is tolerant of him and everyone else is against him🤣.

  after all these years they try gaslighting and saying we are the ones who are tolerant and everyone else is not!!!.

  you couldn’t make this up.. after this monumental u turn now, what about all the gay people who were born in’s who have been shunned by their own family?.

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  They haven't read the room very well - all the DEI pandering that were required for NGOs to get funding is going the way of the dodo.
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  American Primeval and the Mormons

  by Simon in

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  2. entertainment

  just finished season 1 on netflix.. holy crap, i had no idea of the history of the mormons!.

  i always thought they were like the jws, or the quakers, but they were full on fascists committing massacres.. i'm sure they are hating having more people be aware of their past, but i gotta say, it is more event-filled than the jw history..

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  Just finished season 1 on Netflix.

  Holy crap, I had NO IDEA of the history of the Mormons!

  I always thought they were like the JWs, or the Quakers, but they were full on fascists committing massacres.

  I'm sure they are hating having more people be aware of their past, but I gotta say, it is more event-filled than the JW history.
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  News of fires out of control in California

  by ballistic in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hope everyone near to the region affected in california is ok. it's shocking to hear of the destruction.

  these affected areas are some of the places i visited when i came on a tour of the us.

  malibu, santa barbera, la, santa monica, hollywood and so on..

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  Simon

  The more you hear the more it seems like whacky Californian politics played a huge part in this.

  Lots of DEI hires - how many fire chiefs can be lesbian women, really?

  A push to get rid of white male firefighters ... who were they replaced with?

  Fire services massively defunded.

  Hydrants and reservoirs emptied.

  Brush not cleared due to environmentalism.

  Lots of left-wing nut jobs starting fires.

  How is this anything todo with Trump? Unless you didn't hear, he's not the president yet ... Biden is (still). And this is a state issue and California is the model of 100% democrat control.

  One way or another, when the dems are in charge, lots of things burn to the ground.